Ari Fleischer has been making the cable rounds (Mornin' Joe just this a.m.) the last couple of days, promoting the theory -- with a straight face and somber tone, I might add -- that the leader of the free world has hatched a dastardly plot to destroy the Republican party by sparking up a fight between all other Republicans and Rush Limbaugh for the heart and soul  of the party.

According to Ari, who pulls quotes from President's inaugural to prove his point, Barack Obama has failed, failed in promise to be a "new" kind of positive politician because James Carville and Paul Begala and Stan Greenburg took a poll, found out people -- especially people who are not conservative Republicans -- ab-so-lute-ly hate Rush Limbaugh and decided to exploit it. On the basis of a daily phone  call between the president's chief of staff and the three "mouth-keteers", Ari has come to the concrete conclusion that this bears the hand of none other than the President himself going all "Manchurian candidate." 

Ari, his poor back hunched over as far as he can bend for Rush, his face straining to remain composed,....

Okay, I can't even carry on with this bullsh(t...

Note to Ari: If you're going to keep this up, you're gonna wanna buy some lube, man.  

Apparently, Michael Steele is like totally serious about changing the Republican party with that hip-hop, urban (nah!), suburban (yeah!) makeover thing.

First there is the whole switch to Ebonics. (I never knew Michelle "Michael Steele, YOU be da Man!"  Bachman was such a quick study. Private tutoring, perhaps?)  

Then there is the outreach with Steele making a cameo appearance at this year's Tyler Perry Presents "Scene of the Crime: Madea Goes Off  At Tavis Smiley Presents The State of the Black Union," featuring "The Hardest Working Man in Radio, the Flyjock Tom Joyner," Don Cornelius and the Soul Train Dancers. (I can get away with this stuff, so I will.)  

At the SOBU, not to be confused with FUBU ("for us, by us", the clothing line and not, well, the other "f-u" phrase), Steele treated his audience to popular phrases like "damn skippy!" (as in "I find Obama's policies damn skippy!").

And now we have this bloke, whigger rap sensation "Hi-Caliber", interviewed here by Max Blumenthal of the Daily Beast. Take a listen.

Hell, I'm quitting my day job.