Rush Limbaugh: 'For the First Time in My Life I Am Ashamed of My Country

"Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life I am ashamed of my country," Rush Limbaugh said Thursday. "To be watching all of this, to have my intelligence – all of us – to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it's being, is -- it just makes me ashamed."

The conservative radio host's ire was the result of the sequester, the looming federal spending cuts set to automatically go into effect at the end of this month unless Congress and the White House can reach a deal. He called it "deja vu all over again" and ripped President Barack Obama for keeping himself above the fray and painting himself as a Washington outsider "even though it was his idea."

"Here we get worked up over $44 billion – that’s the total amount of money that will not be spent that was scheduled to be spent this year," Limbaugh said. "And in truth we’re going to spend more this year than we spent last year. We’re just not going to spend as much as projected. It’s all baseline budgeting. There is no real cut below a baseline of zero. There just isn’t. And yet here they come, sucking us in, roping us in. Panic here. Fear there. Crisis. Destruction. No meat inspection. No cops. No teachers. No firefighters. No air traffic control.

"I’m sorry, my days of getting roped into all of this are over. We have the media play along with all of this, the ruling class – both parties – play along with all of this," he continued. "It’s insulting. I don’t know how else to describe it."