California Conservative

Using his Limbaugh Letter, Rush Limbaugh is shining the white-hot spotlight of truth on Chuck Schumer’s DSCC. That isn’t a place I’d want to be in.

In his latest must-read “Limbaugh Letter,” Rush writes that the media is continuing a cover-up of the scandal. Limbaugh notes that despite Schumer’s denial of any involvement, his organization is picking up the $400-an-hour tab for the pair’s attorney. The Senator from New York “has presided over a genuine scandal the Old Media has ignored,” Rush reports. “In a dirty tricks scheme worthy of the infamous Watergate ‘plumbers,’ two of Schumer’s DSCC staffers took their opposition research assignment to the max: preparing to smear Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steel, a Republican candidate for Senate.”

Limbaugh’s reporting on this in the Limbaugh Letter guarantees that the Agenda Media won’t be able to ignore this scandal anymore. The fact that the Agenda Media hasn’t covered this scandal for this long is nothing short of being a scandal in its own right.

Limbaugh’s speaking out on this in his letter means that he’ll likely talk about it during Tuesday’s show, which will trigger an entire wave of reporting on this. Don’t be surprised if Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly start sticking their noses into this. I suspect that the networks will grudgingly start reporting on this story but I’ll also predict that their reports won’t be informative and will focus on trying to distance Sen. Schumer from these lawbreakers.

I suspect that the RNC will jump on this, too, with Chairman Mehlman issuing a statement saying something like “We deplore these DSCC employees digging into the confidential credit history of Michael Steele. We are disappointed that they would stoop to such levels to dig up dirt on a conservative black man who has served his state well and who is running for the United States Senate.”

Alot of questions will be asked of Schumer, starting with what the DSCC is doing paying for their attorneys, why he hasn’t fired them outright, why they didn’t issue a statement on their crimes back when it happened. I hope that they’ll ask him if he had anything to do with this, too. I won’t get my hopes up too high on that last question, though.

Steele is seeking to fill the seat of Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes, who is retiring. Democrats are hoping to increase their Senate numbers in 2006, and losing Maryland’s “safe” seat to Steele could spell disaster for that plan.

There’s a bit of misinformation in that statement, considering that Democrats would have to win a net of 6 seats next November. That won’t happen, considering how many Republicans are running in solidly red states and how many open and vulnerable seats the Democrats are defending.

That statement is right, though, in saying Steele’s getting elected would be a disaster, not just to the Democrats’ plans but because Steele’s winning election, coupled with the possible election of African American Republicans Kenneth Blackwell and Lynn Swann as governors would be a dramatic seachange in America’s political landscape.

Cross-posted at BoxerWatch

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