The "End of the McCain Era" was declared by Rush Limbaugh earlier this week following Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner's defiant response to President Obama's disingenuous request for bipartisan input on the health care impasse. Limbaugh lauded the Republican unity against the disastrous health care bill and noted that only a year ago, the liberals had proclaimed the Reagan era was over. Limbaugh is correct on so many fronts of this issue. Boehner's brazen rejoinder to the President's thinly-veiled insincerity was surely a refreshing break from the McCainian instinct to immediately reach across the aisle. The Republican Party has...