Martin Eisenstadt’s Blog

Just crawling back from long night at the Gridiron dinner in DC. All the media elites there. Curious Obama missed it, but Joe Biden very funny making fun of him. I guess it’s not as “funny” as Leno. Still, seeing Susan Page as Ann Coulter was a hoot. Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer battled it out for best tuxes. (white tie, natch). As for me, I’m still trying to get the Peter Orszag’s grenadine stains out of my lapel. There was an incident at the bar with Tim Geitner.  Let’s just hope the rental place doesn’t deduct my deposit, otherwise, I’m asking Tim for a bailout.  The Renaissance bar open late fortunately after the show. And yes, Donna Brazile still knows how to knock them down with the best of them.

 ”Rush Limbaugh is a corpulent brute who’s making money off the self-destruction of the GOP… about 3 hours agoRush Limbaugh is a corpulent brute who’s making money off the self-destruction of the GOP. How does he sleep at night? Right: Oxy.”

That’s what I twittered a couple hours ago over an Irish coffee while watching FoxNews. Clearly, that’s an incendiary combination.   Was I too harsh on Rush? Hard to say yet. But after Rush bullied Michael not-so-Steele into apologizing to him - all for the sake of Rush’s precious ratings, then that’s the only conclusion a fair-minded member of the grown-up wing of the Republican Party can come to.  A warning to all GOP members of Congress: the “R” after your name stands for “Republican”, not “Rushin.”