It helps me understand my position on the chess board.

Yah. Three moves from checkmate. Might as well resign now, buddy.

Shorter Steele: I meant to do that.

I dropped a steak knife on my foot. I wanted to see where the blood would splatter.

Steele seems to be players checkers on a chess board. He's making it up as he goes along. A lot of iron - not irony - is needed to make Steele. He is displaying a spine made out of jello. And let's test his future comments with the standard he has laid down. This Steele will rust, since he is not stainless.

This will either be the cleverest thing he's ever done or we're in for so many laughs we'll need to keep oxygen tanks handy.

I'll get the oxygen tanks.

It took him that long to come up with that excuse? Wow!

"Steele cancelled media interview and decided to running the RNC for a while"

Need to fix this

Steele may in fact be the Maxwell Smart of 21st century politics - "And loving it!"

I understand his strategy, "I meant to do that chief!" -Kevo

"i'm going to act like a bumbling fool to see who calls me a bumbling fool." pretty cool plan, huh?

Respect ma authoritaa!

Kinda like baseball without the three outs rule. I want to live in Steele's world.

...he said "it'll be the plan" if God directs him to run ....

Am I reading this right? Is Steele saying that whatever he does, he does it because it's "God's plan?" Does extrapolating this mean that all the stupid stuff that Steele's done is because of God? That Steele's mistakes, gaffes, stumbles, and FUBARs are somehow God's doing --- God's fault?

Has anyone thought to let the Religious Right in on this little gem? Because Steele, in his "infinite wisdom," has just handed us the very weapon with which we can destroy him---forever....

Steele went on to say that we all better be nice to him because when he was a kid he saved Hulk Hogan from drowning at summer camp, & all it would take is one phone call and all our asses would be served on toast. I believe he ended with "so there. nyah."

My cat always acts afterwards like he meant to fall off the sofa. Steele is just doing the same thing.

So, in effect, Steele is saying he played Rush. I wonder what ol' Rushbo makes of that?

So he is using the RNC committee chair as a testing board for a presidential run? I wonder how the rest of the RNC will feel about that? (not that I care)

OMG Steele, Palin, Bachman, Cantor, Boehner, McConnell, Jindal - everyone of them a crazy person, what are the repubs drinking?

I fail to see how a publicly humiliating apology to Limbaugh is part of a grand strategy.

It helps me understand my position on the chess board. It helps me understand, you know, where the enemy camp is and where those who are inside the tent are.

If the enemy camp has tents on your chessboard, Michael, then it can only mean you haven't made a move in a very, very long time.

When you notice them toastin' smores over the camp fire on that chessboard then it's probably time you switched to mastering tic tac toe.

Ooh, if Steele put his secret plan to...whatever it is he's secretly "strategizing"...together with John McCain's secret plan for winning in Iraq, it'd be the coolest surprise move ever! Those hapless Dems wouldn't know what hit 'em!

Come back George Carlin and reprise your routine about Steele, er, cats bouncing off the glass sliding door.

Did not know Steele had been the head coach and defensive coordinator of last year's KC Griefs.

(Steele places little finger next to bottom lip and pronounces...) "It's all part of my master plan, to RULE THE WORLD!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

This guy, and the whole RushPigLick'in party are truly pathological and need help. My Goddess America, (and I'm talking to you 27%'ers), WAKE UP! You are being played and used in the worst kind of way.

I'm waiting for the day he announces that it is all an elaborate performance art piece- you know, that thing that all the cool, suave hepcats are diggin' these days.

The only time I love the republicans is when they are making complete and utter fools of themselves and are so clueless that they don't realize it.

No worries- Michael Steele has a super-secret plan! It's a double-secret plan: even *he* doesn't know what it is!

-Z

"It helps me understand my position on the chess board.

That's the real problem. They regard governing our country as a damn game. And none of the media are willing to call them on it.

Missed it by that much!

I really hope the RNC keeps him on for no other reason than comedic value.

It's strategery.

Let me, for the sake of argument, just assume that he really planned it all out--so then what is he saying he learned and what is he going to do about it--what does the statement "I wanted to know who says they're with me but really isn't."

This "chess match" is a game he seems to be playing entirely within the Republican party. He sounds like he is scheming to negotiate the landscape within his own party. This almost seems like a declaration that he is going to try to purge (or silence) his political enemies--now that he knows who they are. What else could he do with that information?

I honestly think this guy could blow up the republican party--either by incompetence or by fostering infighting. Keep in mind that this guy got elected to office by pretending to be a democrat in Baltimore--he's pretty ruthless and I doubt he'll go down easily.

"It helps me understand my position on the chess board."

Pwn.

Waitwaitwait -- did he just imply that Rush Limbaugh is his "enemy"?

"New shit has come to light, man!"