Michael Steele not only apologizes to Rush Limbaugh for criticizing him, but in the process he admits that he doesn't know what he's talking about, that he's inarticulate, that Limbaugh is the leader of the GOP, and that he'll wash Rush's car for a year (I wish that more than one of those was a joke). Wow, that guy probably would have apologized for 9/11, the Lindbergh child kidnapping, and the Janet Jackson Super Bowl show if you'd let him. Someone must really have lit a fire under his fanny, that's for sure.
It's a shame because if Steele had gotten away with it, the GOP would invariably be stronger for it. The left doesn't really have a Limbaugh figure--ironically, the closest we have is Paul Krugman, a Nobel Laureate (as opposed to a dude who didn't finish college). But there really isn't a taboo among liberals to criticize Krugman, as I did when confronted by his irrational behavior during the primaries and as the Obama team has done repeatedly. The fact that Krugman isn't considered like the Oracle of Delphi among Democrats is probably for the best, as he is a world-class economist, though he's not infallible and his understanding of politics is lacking. He is well-intentioned, though, and his instincts are sound. That the left lacks sacred cows (and that is a dig at Limbaugh) of Limbaugh's magnitude (zing!) is probably why the left isn't in a state of collapse now--the GOP was often complimented for its internal cohesion back in the old days, but that sort of hierarchy has its downsides as well, as we are seeing here. Put simply: those who cannot bend, break.
