When you Google “Rush Limbaugh bust”…

...Missouri Speaker of the House Steven Tilley's current plan to add Limbaugh's likeness to the Missouri State Capitol's Hall of Famous Missourians isn't in the top three hits.

Or the first five pages.

What one does get, though, is a litany of hits (mostly from 2006 and 2009) about Limbaugh being busted for Oxycontin and being caught on his way back from the Dominican Republic with Viagra issued under an assumed name.

I mention this not because I'm in a particular hurry to moralize about drug use and abuse -- I'm not -- but because the legislature here in Missouri is very much in that business.

So it's not unreasonable that I should be surprised to hear of this particular bit of future statuary, right?

Then again, NARAL gives Missouri an F on reproductive health issues, and rates us 48th in the nation in terms of access to family planning services and education. So maybe I shouldn't be surprised that Tilley says he plans to go ahead with the bust regardless of how a certain Conservative ideologue chose to refer to a woman as a slut and a prostitute, and demand that she produce a sex video for having the audacity to testify that her health care coverage should, you know, cover her basic health care needs.

Limbaugh, a Cape Girardeau native, is indisputably well known. But really, is this who we want to see when we walk between the chambers of the House and Senate? Is this someone we want to be inspired by? Tilley seems to think so.

Me, I could not disagree more vigorously. Which I why today I called and e-mailed Speaker Tilley -- you can find his contact details here -- to tell him that I think he needs to scrap plans for the bust.

Limbaugh is not a role model, and he's done Missouri no great service. In fact, right now he seems to be doing his level best to disgrace himself on the national stage. By honoring him in the midst of that, we bring that same disgrace upon ourselves. I am not okay with that.

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