I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is internal... That word 'payback' is not mine, [but] it is exactly how I think Obama looks at the country: It's payback time... There's no question that payback is what this administration is all about, presiding over the decline of the United States of America, and doing so happily.

Liberals accused Bush of all kinds of things during his two terms in office -- stupidity, arrogance, incompetence, mendacity. But they never accused him of treason, nor of a deliberate campaign to destroy the country.

You might argue that Limbaugh is an entertainer, not a serious political commentator. And I'm sure that's what Limbaugh will argue when some crackpot picks up a gun and decides that it's his patriotic duty to shoot the President of the United States.

But I fear that what we're seeing here is the same climate that produced the Oklahoma City bombing: a daily torrent of apocalyptic lunacy and conspiratorial rubbish, refreshed daily by an opportunistic gang of sunshine patriots. And it's aimed right at the most radical and unstable elements in our society.