i love this guy that says he was elected because of his "communication skills". you elected him RNC head because and only because he is black. you thought that he would be an equalizer to Barack Obama. however, barack obama is an intelligent, competent person. this guy is not.

Someone from the party of George Bush said this? Really?

Oh please please please don't let them dump Steele before he humiliates himself on Colbert.

First Palin nominated to be V.P. of what is still the most powerful nation on the planet, and now Steele in charge of the RNC.

The circular firing squad that the Republicans have become would be much more amusing if they did not keep appearing on TV and making me change the channel.

You couldn't pay me to be RNC head right now. That'd be like taking the captain's chair on the Titanic. Noo thanks.

Michael Steele has a terrible political record. In Maryland, he was treated as something of a J.C. Watts styled joke almost instantly, and then, when Lt. Governor, performed dreadfully.

The GOP has, of course, learned no lessons from their drubbing. Steele's qualifications as a fund raiser are slim, as an elected official slimmer, and yet there he is, a stop gap RNC head. He was not put in that position for his abilities, but because the GOP could not settle its own house and decide whether a "Barrack the Magic Negro" redneck or a lily white patrician was the way to go.

The "Southern Strategy" was a Faustian bargain from the start. By embracing the worst, most savage, most uneducated, and most ferociously anti-intellectual side of America, the old blue blood plutocrats had strapped Caliban to their backs. They planned to never actually feed him. Now, though, their traditional base of money is a fraction, and a despised one, a Hooverite class, and Caliban roars.

If they take one Janus face, they lose the other, and so they went with someone with an appealing skin tone and asked no more questions than that.

They think that they can now repudiate themselves and call it a conversion and thereby reclaim the tax-hatred position. It's not working yet, but their next head will be someone libertarian, because that's the only cohesion they can get between their parts.

A GOP Night of the Long Knives!

Ya best get smokin cause yur shit is broken.

I have always thought that one of the strengths of the Republican party was that they had the ability to stay on message and stay focused on their "core principles" (as it were). The inverse of that is the inability to adapt to change with the times, to modulate their message. The sheeplike behavior of the other leading Republican bloggers and guiding lights (Malkin, et al) during this flap has been quite interesting: not one person defended Steele, not one person had the guts to seriously look at any possible relevance to what he'd said about Limbaugh. They just gathered up their stones and began throwing.

I wonder why so much time is spent on GOP problems. Who cares? They lost the last two elections for very good reasons. Yet everyone seems to be hanging onto their chairs wondering what Zippy the Pinhead alias Rush Limbaugh said yesterday or gosh what he might say later today!! We'll sure keep you informed about who next will kiss his fat ass!! Yea, right...

Is this part of the "keep your eyes on the enemy" viewpoint as in keep your friends close but your enemies closer? That might work with the Mafia but going over and over what these right wing thugs may or may not do or say seems like a waste of time. All it does is pollute the general discourse.

As 2010 approaches I am sure the Pubs will really crank out the toxic waste they so indulge in in an ever increasing amount but how does hanging onto every possible angle of these crooks make any difference? We should be talking about the President's policies with details and how superior these policies are to anything the Pubs could come up with. Keeping folks informed is the way to shed some light on what we are facing not hashing and rehashing what some right wing moron is up to.

Then maybe Rush Limbaugh is right, and they should all go out and commit seppuku.

The Stockholm Syndrome describes the captive who identifies with/loves the captor in order to survive. Clearly Michael Steele suffers from this syndrome. It is not logical for any black American to identify with the conservative Republican party except as a result of this syndrome. The "solid south" became Republican in the 1960"s because a Democratic administration (LBJ) passed civil rights and voting rights laws that trumped "Jim Crow" laws of the South. The core of the GOP today is the "solid south" and all of its racism. If Michael Steele cannot see that, then he must be afflicted by this syndrome. This would account for his inability to perform in public situations that aggravate is conflicted relationship with his "captors".

They must be subscribing to the idea that bad publicity is still good. Like spoiled children that act bratty just so their mothers will pay attention to them. Keep it up. Attack thyselves. After dragging out Steele for a few more weeks of battering, then elect the guy that belonged to the "Whites Only" country club. Give us Katy Dawson. And make sure to try to obstruct everything. When we turn it around, everyone will remember the republicans didn't help and tried to stop us from fixing their mess. They will be gone for a generation. When the republicans finally realize what Rush did to them, he better flea the country because they will be after that pig with pitchforks, pulling off pieces of his fatty flesh and eating his succulent tenderloin.

I just want to say, that was a very eloquent comment: "By embracing the worst, most savage, most uneducated, and most ferociously anti-intellectual side of America, the old blue blood plutocrats had strapped Caliban to their backs. " - great description!