I've worked with addicts for many years and I always want to commend anyone willing to take the step to get a handle on the damage they're doing to themselves and those close to them.

I'm not without a heart and I sincerely hope Rush Limbaugh gets his very serious-sounding addiction under control.

However....

I find myself trying to balance that sentiment with what I think is his monumental hypocrisy. As I understand it his "admission" was triggered by a police investigation into his drug procurement activities, not by an internal coming to terms with his situation. It seems that his sudden decision to enter rehab was a pre-emptive strike against arrest and the resultant bad publicity.

This is a man who has accumulated fame, wealth, and a not- insignificant amount of power by taking a moralistic stance against the kind of people he was paying to get his drugs for him and the people who sold them to support his addiction.

I'd like to think that Limbaugh will put 2&2 together and see his own hypocrisy but I doubt that will happen. I expect he will complete rehab in a month and return to his show a sympathetic hero for doing so. A self-made man re-made by his own determination and strong will. And then there are those drug addicts and welfare mothers....