It is painful to watch Michael Steele these days. Much earlier in my career, I too had accepted a fool's errand.  And there was a humiliating moment where I realized that I was not only being used, but being burned as well. It makes you angry. So do the Republicans realize what is going to happen if they raise Rush up their masthead and set Steele adrift in a rowboat? It's almost comical that they feel the rain but are still sailing straight into the reef that will split their ship. I bet in a few years there will be three our four fragments all calling themselves some form of neo republican progressive tax evangelical anti social issue party...

The Republican party hasn't found a way out of the wilderness yet because they haven't practiced yoga. (And probably never will). If they did, they might encounter relative and absolute truth. They might understand that though they can crow over absolute truths, in the relative world, forces must be opposed. Simply put, there is no other force that can keep massive companies from running amok in the economy or the environment other than government. Perhaps they blinded themselves to the environmental side, but now the economics is obvious.

But be warned, democrats - the opposite is also true. We don't want a government so odious it picks on small businesses for forgetting to cross their t's because the big ones are just too hard to catch falsifying the whole form (or designed it with their lobbyists).


The political power that holds MNCs in place can be opposed by the same political forces grown during the Obama candidacy. The Obama network needs to be used to fuel House and Senate elections. Or House and Senate candidates need to figure out that they can fund raise much more effectively and directly for the people with these models. Once this happens, some meaningful progressive reforms can truly happen. But until then, vox populi is drowned out by big money and influence.

It's time for some splitting. The republican party is heading for one. There are some massive financial companies that need one. And if house and senate candidates are serious about serving people, they ought to split from the old money model too.