In 1993, Bill Clinton went after Rush Limbaugh, and it proved a failure.

Between people claiming that it was in assault on free speech, and the absolutely bizarre spectacle of a sitting president going after a political shock jock, it flopped.

Well, times are different now, and the Republican party really does take its marching orders from him now, and there’s also the fact that he’s a drug addict and a sex tourist too, and that he’s no longer the new flavor of the week.

So, Democrats are bring up Rush again, but they are not going after him, so much as they are Rush Limbaugh is the intellectual voice of the Republican party.

This makes a lot more sense, because Rush Limbaugh can be relied to say something mind numbingly scary to 70% of the American population on a weekly, if now daily basis.

Unfortunately, the ‘Phants can’t walk away from him, because those 30% dead enders are something like 70% of the Republican party, just note Rep Phil Gingrey’s (R-GA) abject apology to Rush after he made a fairly innocuous comment defending the House and Senate leadership, and Limbaugh sicced His Evil Minions^&trade on him.

It was reminiscent of the confessions at Stalin’s show trials, and Rush Limbaugh now owns the Republican party.

Pass the popcorn.