Raving egomaniac Rush Limbaugh has something called Operation Chaos. Basically it’s a ploy for Republicans to briefly switch parties so they can vote for Hillary in state primaries, thereby extending the Democratic in-fighting. The more Obama and Hillary fight each other, the better for McCain. If you don’t know about Operation Chaos, El Rushbo is happy to tell you, over and over again.

It’s possible that this “operation” is having effects, but probably not as much as Rush thinks. The most likely cause of the Democratic debacle is the identity politics problem. The reason why the donkeys can’t get it together is because there is no such thing as a unified Democratic party, but a party composed of different factions fighting for their own agendas. Probably best expressed by the comedy PCU, you have feminists, minorities, environmentalists, pro-choicers, gun control advocates, and socialists all fighting one another for supremacy. This is the main reason why Hillary is still in the race (well that, and the fact that she’s a power-crazed maniac).

El Rushbo and Operation Chaos actually makes us think of Butters from South Park, and his Professor Chaos character. Like most of what Limbaugh says, instead of feeling threatened, you just think “oh, how cute!”

It’s also interesting that he chose the name Operation Chaos, which was a domestic espionage CIA operation:

CIA director John McCone was assigned to the DOD in order to setup espionage operations on the uprising of college student protests against the U.S. government’s Vietnam foreign policies. Two new units were set up to target anti-war protestors and organizations: Project RESISTANCE, which worked with college administrators, campus security and local police to identify anti-war activists and political dissidents; and Project MERRIMAC, which monitored any demonstrations being conducted in the Washington D.C. area. Local police departments also worked with the CIA by monitoring student activists and infiltrating anti-war organizations. Some of their assignments involved initiating staged burglaries, illegal entries (black bag jobs), interrogations and electronic surveillance. When Nixon came to office, all of these domestic surveillance activities were consolidated into Operation CHAOS.

Did Limbaugh really want to name his little stunt after this?