Pass the popcorn please, this is just too entertaining...

This is great. Hold on, let me make some popcorn.

I give it 15 mins until Steele releases his public apology and butt-kissing:

Pleeeeeease, Pleeeeease, o' great rotund one, do not punish me! I know not what I speak of. please, please tell me what to do and say next, o' master!

Hey MTV, how about a Celebrity Deathmatch special?

This is just lovely. While as Democrats we have also had our fair share of political infighting it was hardly as funny.

I think Rush represents the most conservative fringe, but that fringe overpowers and overshadows the more center-right Republicans--which I suppose is sad, if you are a Republican.

And this fringe group also has a huge chunk of representation in Congress. I think while most in the Republicans Congress would be grovel at his feet, most Republicans actually hate him. After all they are a United States Representative who has to get permission from Radio Personality.

It's as if President Obama would need to call Paris Hilton to get permission to sign a bill.

Just sit back and enjoy the show, ladies and gentlemen.

Steele will not leave. Please revisit what Limbaugh just said, "I'm not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don't want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I'm in charge of the Republican Party in a sad-sack state that it's in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it's in, I would quit." Which is short for Limbaugh and his other "water carriers,": there are "republicans" and then there are "conservatives."

John McCain is a Republican but, according to Limbaugh, not a conservative. Romney is only partly conservative, even though he is a republican.

Conservatives are part of some "holier than thou" sect of politics, filled with litmus tests, pregnancy tests, purity tests, ideology tests, but sadly no history tests, no science tests, no logic tests, no civics tests.

The "republicans" want to keep Steele around. The conservatives want to remake the party as something else, and therefore don't need Steele. They need Gingrich, Palin, Romney, and the most polarizing people to take over (mount an insurgency?) the party.

Today's Big Number is Nine.

That's the number of times Rush said he was giving his "First Speech to the Nation."

That's not counting the one time he said it was his first International Speech to the World.

In case you missed it, here was an especially inspirational part of Rush's 90 minute speech for those attending CPAC.

(Note: Before he starts speaking, he wipes the sweat from his Orson Wellian face for at least the 9th time -- I didn't count that)

"For those of you watching at home, I'm not nervous it's just really hot in here. These people are wired.

"We got out of the 1980s recession with tax cuts. Do you know that President Obama, in six weeks of his administration, has proposed more spending than from the founding of the country to his inauguration?

"Now, this is not prosperity. It is not going to engender prosperity. It's not going to create prosperity and it's also not going to advance or promote freedom. It's going to be just the opposite.

"There are going to be more controls over what you can and can't do, how you can and can't do it, what you can and can't drive, what you can and can't say, where you can and can't say it. All of these things are coming down the pike, because it's not about revenue generation to them, it's about control.

"They do believe that they have compassion. They do believe they care. But, see, we never are allowed to look at the results of their plans, we are told we must only look at their good intentions, their big hearts.

"The fact that they have destroyed poor families by breaking up those families by offering welfare checks to women to keep having babies no more father needed -- he's out doing something -- the government's the father, they destroy the family. We're not supposed to analyze that. We're not supposed to talk about that. We're supposed to talk about their good intentions.

"They destroy people's futures."

Remember this is from the mouth of a guy who just said that the Dems are governing with fear.

I'm with brookeb on the Celebrity Death Match Special FightNight Edition: The GOP Gasbag, Rush "El Rushbo" Limbaugh vs. Michael "Slum Love" Steele. I can picture it easily. I would pay money if it were on HBO and invite friends over. HD would be awesome.

He's a tool, but I'd still root for Steele.

Kick his ass Rush!

This is so good I feel kind of guilty watching this for free lmao!

One thing that is really funny is that insanity and cooter must be fit to be tied. Lush is sucking up all the oxygen associated with the lunatic fringe and insanity and cooter aren't getting any air time. Too funny. You can hear the screaming to their pr people already. They just can't top the insane ranting of the lush, no matter how hard they try.

I love this, but believe Rush is the better communicator, if a nutcase. Notice today how he claimed President Obama has been "in charge" of economic policy the last 6 months, or how he "came up" with the TARP plan? Then he ascribed the stock market losses to the President. He lies and twists (as Sen Al Franken accurately outpointed years ago), but he's very powerful. His Saturday rant was typical. Like any demagogue, though, he goes to far and he has this time, rather like Speaker Gingrich (remember him?). This Steele is a milquetoast compared to Rush. This feud only helps us. Dittos, Rush! Keep it up, fatso!

I'd like my popcorn with butter, please... ;-)

I saw a recent issue of US News & World Report where there was an article about America's health crisis; one map showed the states (in red) where America's most obese people live. I looked at that map and said... hmmm... that pattern looks REALLY familiar! Yep: you got it... America's "Obesity Belt" is almost exactly the same as the Nov. election's "Red Belt." So, yeah, ol' Rush is the perfect leader of this regionalized party of super-sized voters. Demographically they've got the worst education, the worst domestic violence, the worst homicide rates, they're the least healthy, the highest divorce rates, they're the least "family values" oriented place in the country... but, by gum, they've got Rush. Steele's toast.

It's even better than professional wrestling...now if Anne Coulter were to show up...I think they'd give ESPN a run for its money...

Rush, honey, loosen your corset. You look like you're going to pop.

Ah, the circular firing squad. A sure sign of a party in decline.

Hurry, hurry, Republicans, be the first on your block to play the new and exciting political game 'LIMbaugh-O' -- and just see how LOW you can really GO!

It's happening too quickly. The end result is that Steele will be out as RNC chairman, and he's the gift that keeps on giving.

Gibbs during a presser this morning was pushing the reporters to ask every Republican in office where they stood on Rush Limbaugh, with this rant, you can be sure every GOP politician will be asked to weigh in on Steele vs Limbaugh.

We can only hope Steele's ego matches Limbaugh's and that he holds on to the chairmanship by any means necessary.

If Steele is however ousted, would the SC racist get the nod coming in second place or would they need to have another election? Steele never took on a deputy Chair, saying he didn't need one and didn't want somebody getting in his way.

Ahhhhh:

who actively wants the stimulus and other policies to fail so that conservative orthodoxy can survive?

Fixed that last part for you.

So, what does Joe the Plumber have to say about all this? Whose side is he on? Hey - wait a minute. I thought the republican base was the evangelicals. Where's the brotherly love? Who do the Christanazis side with? Dang - someone needs to make up a score card for this funness.

LMAO!!!!

Rush, Steele, Joe the Plumber, Palin, Jindal-this cannot be happening for real...someone, anyone please don't wake me up..

Rush Limbaugh, exhibit one of the "sad sack" state of the Republican Party, and consensus GOP national leader, drug addict and sex vacationer to third world countries, a shining example of the party of morality.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0706062rush1.html

shuster had the wyoming republican senator on to talk about rush's expressed hope that obama would fail. that guy danced circles around shuster in efforts to avoid saying 'rush is wrong'; he would commit to 'i hope the president succeeds because that means america succeeds'. it was hysterical to see; shuster made a valiant effort, but the guy just would not say that limbaugh was wrong.

THIS