Limbaugh: I'll Move to Costa Rica if Health Reform Passes

Limbaugh vowed to move to Costa Rica if health reform passed

(NEWSER) - The final stages of the battle for health care reform have been dramatic, so you could be forgiven for forgetting about Rush Limbaugh. He recently said he'd to move to Costa Rica if "Obamacare" passed. Now that it has, one website is soliciting donations to make sure he keeps his word. A Ticket For Rush is taking $1 donations to pay for a ticket—first-class, of course—to Costa Rica. If Rush declines, or if the take exceeds the price, the website operators will donate the extra to Planned Parenthood, the Huffington Po st reports. More»

Limbaugh's pledge on Costa Rica raises eyebrows

(NEWSER) - Remember when Rush Limbaugh promised to go to Costa Rica if the Democrats’ health care reform bill passes? Well, good move Rush, because Costa Rica’s health coverage is rated as “excellent” by the American Journal of Public Health, and its life expectancy is second only to Canada in the Western hemisphere. There’s just one problem, Bloomberg notes: It’s one of the longest-standing government-run systems in Latin America. More»

He pulls back as Steny Hoyer and Robert Gibbs blast ex-congressman

(NEWSER) - Rush Limbaugh says the mainstream media has it all wrong about his opinion of former Democratic congressman Eric Massa. “They think I'm a big supporter,” the talk show host said today, perhaps because yesterday he promised to make Massa’s ordeal “a national story,” reports Politico . Unflattering stories about the Democratic party are great, but "I’m not a champion of his," said Limbaugh. "Anybody who embraces this guy is in big trouble." More»

Health care reform is too big for a party-line vote

(NEWSER) - Barack Obama came to office on the promise of a post-partisan world, but he's about to jam through a monumental health care bill in the most partisan way imaginable, writes Charles Krauthammer. The president insists reform is popular because people support individual items in principle. Of course they do, writes Krauthammer. But they also balk at the enormous collective cost, a fact that Obama conveniently ignores. More»

(AP) - A Democratic official rebuked Rush Limbaugh today for suggesting a health-care proposal will be named in memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer. On his radio show, Limbaugh said President Obama's proposed revisions will be championed by "the liberal lion Teddy Kennedy. Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill." More»