Rush Limbaugh: Brad Sherman "A Dolt!"

Rush Limbaugh: Brad Sherman "A Dolt!"

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh referred to my congressman, Brad Sherman, as "a dolt" for harping on private jet use by bailed-out bank CEOs by asking if their companies still “own or lease” private planes. Only one (Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankenfein) out of eight did not raise his hand.

SHERMAN: I’d like you to raise your hand if your company currently owns or leases a private plane. Let the record reflect that all the hands went up except the gentleman from Goldman Sachs. Gentleman, we know that it’s extremely expensive to operate the planes. You could sell them and generate capital for your company, and that capital could be used to repay taxpayers immediately.

Limbaugh pointed out that achievers are being singled out and that capitalism in general is under assault by liberals. He also pointed out that jobs are created by companies who manufacture private jets, their engines, their maintenance and come up with new technologies for improving private jets. Sherman doesn't seem to understand the basic fact that the "little guy" is gainfully employed for these services.

Sherman seems to think that he and fellow congress members can dictate to banks what they can or cannot do because they accepted bailout money. Well, they can easily point out that it was Democrats in Congress who forced them to extend mortgage loans to people who had no realistic means to pay off the loans. Congress put these financial institutions into this position.

Sherman is worse than a "dolt," he's a grandstanding imbecile.