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“No one’s as smart as Rush Limbaugh!”

"SNL's" send-up of GOP leadership is so funny, it hurts.

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A great way to end a bizarre week: Watch “Saturday Night Live’s” hilarious takedown of congressional Republican leadership. Dan Ackroyd returned to play John Boehner with Darrell Hammond as Mitch McConnell, and together they lead a debate over who’s smarter, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, ponder whether to impeach Obama now or in April, and plot a creative line of attack against Sasha and Malia Obama, noting, “The whole country is waiting to see those Obama kids taken down a peg!”

Enjoy:

 

By Joan Walsh

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