VIDEO-- Michael Steele: I agree with Rush Limbaugh

By GottaLaff

One thing you can say about Michael Steele: He's dependable. You can always count on him for some ridiculous quotitude:

Steele's Republican party is increasingly inhospitable to its moderate members. Asked on NPR's All Things Considered if other moderate Republicans with similar voting records - including former Sens. Chuck Hagel (NE), Gordon Smith (OR), and John Warner (VA), would be "left of [the] Republican Party today" - Steele suggested that was the case. "They are to the left on some very critical issues that are fundamental to our- some of our core beliefs," Steele said.

Indeed, when Congress passed the Recovery Act with the support of Specter and Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Steele threatened to retaliate against them the next time they were up for reelection. Snowe wrote yesterday in the New York Times that in response to such threats from Steele and litmus tests imposed on them by the right wing, moderate Republicans often "get the distinct feeling that you’re no longer welcome in the tribe."

That must have been a slip of the tongue. I'm sure Snowe meant to say "no longer welcome to the tripe".