rush limbaugh accusing the never-mad barack obama of being mad about, i don't know what, exactly. but that the republican party has aligned itself with the rush interpretation of, hey, you never need context, just use any words you want at any time. >>, grab anything you can possibly use in a political context, no matter if it's what he actually said, no matter if he was quoting john mccain, it really doesn't matter if it benefits us political. i mean, that's the mentality. and the thing that i think is strange here is the concept that we benefit as a nation from our institutions, from our infrastructure, from having an education system. that's not a particularly controversial concept. but i feel like republicans have taken a sort of basic understanding that we used to have in this country about the fact that those things are good, about the fact that when we pledge, when we decide to spend money and we have to increase the debt ceiling, that's what we're going to do. about the fact that, yes, we should have a department of education. they've taken all those things