Is Rush Limbaugh’s Country Gone?

[JHB]

15. The one he grew up in? With high taxes on the wealthy, stong unions, regulation of business?

If that's gone, it's because he helped beat it to death.

The "country" he's moaning about was always just part of the picture, and an airbrushed part at that. It's the part that considered John Wayne a war hero because he put on a costume when all of his competition wore real uniforms. It's the part that could look away from the harsher realities and pretend reality worked like a storybook... or a TV show.

But most of all, he's moaning because he didn't get his way -- which he's very used to getting -- and long ago atrophied any skill he ever had of dealing with it like an adult.