Having Fun With Rush and Mikey

TW: With the market heading into due south, the Bulls and Hoosiers scuffling, and world peace constantly in peril, it is nice to have guys like Rush and Mike Steele to amuse us. We have some fairly significant problems and this is the best they got? Actually I predict the next Republican leader will be the one that publically and shrewdly challenges Limbaugh without backing down, Romney being the most likely one to do so.

From Josh Marshall at TPM:
"I mean, I'm not sure how else to put it. This guy has to be about the worst, most embarrassing party chair we've seen in recent memory. It's embarrassing enough that Steele is like, what? ... the third Republican to criticize Rush and then make it less than 36 hours before being forced to undergo the 21st century Republican version of a Maoist self-criticism session. It's sad for the Republican party that no one can criticize Rush without having to be hauled out for this sort of humiliation a day or so later. But for Steele not to have realized that or not to have been sufficiently in control of his mouth to avoid saying this just shows once again that this dude is really, really not ready for prime time."

And more from Marshall:
"Dems gloat after Rush awards himself sole custody of Steele's testicles."

From Andrew Sullivan:
"Comrade Steele dutifully apologizes to the Great Leader and offer his regrets to his fellow comrades in the movement. Re-education camp will follow shortly.This climb-down marks the end of establishment Republican resistance to the Poujadist pontificator. It's Rush's party now. So why shouldn't he run for president in 2012? Make Palin his veep - and be done with it" [TW: that is a ticket I would pay to see]

And also on Sullivan quoting Andrew Breitbart (Drudge's go to correspondent)
"Anonymous liberal commentators, the rabid pests of the new media, sought out the most popular conservative blogs to flood the zone with familiar Rush Limbaugh slanders. Their goal: To demoralize the right with layer upon layer of media domination. Only talk radio with its emphasis on Socratic debate over raw emotionalism and with Mr. Limbaugh in the driver’s seat has escaped the left’s clutches of pure media dominance," - Andrew Breitbart, who appears to have lost his mind. "
[TW obviously in addition to losing his mind as Sullivan says, Breitbart apparently does not watch Fox, CNBC, etc.]