Here's what Rush said yesterday right before I face-planted my keyboard:
We have three senators running, and that ought to tell you. We haven't elected a senator as president in this country since 1960. Now it looks like we're not going to have a choice. We're going to get a senator, and those people are megalomaniacal. They have egos like you cannot believe. There are only 100 of them, and they all think they should be president. Now these three are out there acting like they should be and they're running for the office. You know, senators, they're a different breed than governors. They're not executives. They don't delegate things. I mean, they delegate things within their staff, but they are very, very, very hands on because of their ego and their power. Like a governor, for example, hearing about problems at the DMV is not going to go down there and give them a lecture or a pep talk and say, "Look, I'm getting in here." He's going to send somebody from the office, from the Department of Transportation, to go down to DMV and say, "Shape up." A senator will go to the DMV, especially an Obama or Clinton. They'll not only go to the DMV; they'll go to the emissions test center to see if you're polluting the planet and destroying global warming, and they will do it themselves. But I think one of your reactions here is because they're all three coming from the Senate. (sigh) Oh, here I go. I'm just jumping in more trouble and every time I open my mouth on this. Well, somebody name for me the last United States senator that inspired a national movement on anything!
The only one I could think of was JFK and the space program, but that was after he became president. Senators have not typically been our better presidents, to the extent that sometimes I think we should amend the Constitution to explicitly disqualify them for that office -- not just while in the Senate, but after they leave it, as well.
