The nays of Texas are upon us

UPDATE: Wouldn't you just know that the cranky Republican congressman who yelled "baby killer" while Rep. Bart Stupak was talking last night was from....Texas? He's been outed as Randy Neugebauer," but he's now in the apologetic mode. He says he directed that screech at the agreement reached on the bill by Democrats, which, of course, directly involved Stupak,a hard-line pro-life pol from Michigan. I guess the question now: Is there anybody at all in charge these days deep in the heart of Texas?

MORE: A Christian radio broadcaster, who happened to arrive on my car radio scanning for some decent music, , was insisting to his audience that Stupak was a Marxist or socialist who supported ultra-liberal legislation, anti-abortion notwithstanding. But the minister reassured the listener that he personally didn't care about capitalism, but only the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ.

FINALLY: Has anybody seen anything about Rush Limbaugh heading for the airport to emigrate to Costa Rica, which he promised to do if the health-care bill passed? And Rush never lies.

May we call this the "banana split"?

YOU'VE DOUBTLESS heard that Rush Limbaugh, the clownish malcontent with Cadillac health care of his own, has vowed to move to Costa Rica if the health care reform bill passes. Regardless of his disconnect that Costa Rica has universal health care, there is more to his eagerness to become an expatriate, I'm told. Limbaugh wants to buy that country and convert it into a plantation with a private, male-only golf club while staging annual banana-eating contests by the natives to amuse his Wall Street guests. You think I'm kidding?