Michael Steele Hand-Delivers His Own Rear End to Rush Limbaugh

It must have amused Rush Limbaugh to open the gargoyled front gate of his Florida mansion last night to find Michael Steele's rear end gleaming on a silver platter.

Especially when it was hand-delivered by Steele himself...

Two days after calling Rush Limbaugh a mere "entertainer" with an "incendiary" talk show, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele apologized and acknowledged the radio commentator as a "national conservative leader."

"I respect Rush Limbaugh, he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice," Steele said in a statement late Monday. "I'm sure that he and I will agree most of the time, but will probably disagree some as well, which is fine...

To the extent that my remarks helped the Democrats in Washington to take the focus, even for one minute, off of their irresponsible expansion of government, I truly apologize."

Steele's self-immolation reminds us all that wherever there might be a $400 million man blubbering about mistreatment, the Republican Party leadership will come running with gifts. And although Rush was probably annoyed at first that this eleventh-hour gift didn't contain any fine French cheeses or wines, one can assume that he'll accept Steele's manhood as a consolation prize.

Because the way Rush sees it, Bill Clinton already has the mayor of Los Angeles as his "shoeshine guy." By that logic, shouldn't he, a personality of Clintonian proportions (in a body of Taftian proportions), at least be entitled to the RNC chairman as his personal bitch?

As long as that chairman is Michael Steele, the answer is yes.