"We need to be finding candidates that can win in different parts of the country ... not forming circular firing squads, especially when our numbers are so small."

You can say that twice, Cornyn, cause your days are numbered. Texas votes more Democratic with each succeeding election cycle. My state is turning blue again in my lifetime - sooner rather than later.

Depend on it.

Dear Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins:

if the GOP won't have you, we'll take you.

So, am I the only one who thinks this GOP intramural fight sounds oddly familiar? There's a lesson here about what happens to parties that impose rigorous purity tests on their politicians in this country.

Not saying it's bad to target the worst of the worst, like, say, Heath Schulyer or Quisling Joe Lieberman, but it's a dangerous game precisely because success tends to cause the movement types to look for fresh game. Eventually, what should be an exercise in excising malignancies becomes prophylactic amputation of healthy limbs. Next thing you know, your party end up like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Senator Cornyn was talking about "how small our numbers are." Republicans are also statistically more likely to have small members, if you know what I mean, at least in terms of the male members members. Much of their jingoist rhetoric is overcompensation for this well-known and scupulously documented fact.

Please don't complain about Steele! The only thing better would have been that clown from SC. or Blackwell as head of the RNC. Steele is on a "pissing off tour" and don't slow him down! It won't be long ,if this continues, the Republican base will be Sc, Ga, Al, Ms, La, Utah, Idaho, and Ar. They keep pandering to the religious nuts and the 'permanent Republican majority' will do a "180."

I wonder how Steele and Jindal played to the racist portion of the party.

"In other news, a fistfight broke out at the meeting today of the Conservative Political Action Committee when one member accused another of 'letting the black guy in.' Film at 11."

As a Mainer, I would think that by 2012 Snowe might have had enough. There would be plenty of wingnuts lined up to take her place. A sane person can't win a GOP primary anymore. That'd be cool.

Please pass the popcorn; this train wreck is mesmerizing!

Olympia Snowe ought to walk away from the GOP now. If Lieberman can be re-elected as an (I), then surely Snowe can be re-elected as a (D).

I'm pretty sure that Snowe and Collins politely reminded Steele that the Dems only need 2 more seats to get to 60 and render the GOP completely irrelevant in Congress.

If these three "moderates" had any spine they would tell Steele to cram his fascistic party and go Independent. Party first, however- and such a wonderful political party to be associated with. A most disgusting display of personal cowardice, in my opinion.

A hypothetical scenario: if Roland Burris went ape-shit, so to speak, and starting shrieking and jumping up and down, and ripped off Nancy Pelosi's face, would the Senate eject him? I can't think of anything less that would make them get rid of that disgraceful clown, can you?

She approached Steele about his comments and asked him bluntly: "You didn't really mean that, did you?"

To which Steele responded: "Come on... do I mean ANYTHING I say?"

If I were Snowe, I'd start the meeting with Steele by saying "please explain to us why we're better off in the Republican party than as Blue Dog Democrats."

That should get a very interesting conversation going.

A hypothetical scenario: if Roland Burris went ape-shit, so to speak, and starting shrieking and jumping up and down, and ripped off Nancy Pelosi's face, would the Senate eject him? I can't think of anything less that would make them get rid of that disgraceful clown, can you?