PAUL BEDARD: GOP to Michael Steele: Quiet About Rush Limbaugh or You’re Fired. Steele seems to have managed to blow it completely. Was it smart to criticize Limbaugh? Probably not at this juncture. But it was clearly stupid to first criticize, then grovel. Nobody wins there, except Limbaugh.

Meanwhile, I’ll note that while Limbaugh was after me in 2006 for pointing out the GOP’s problems, he seems to have come around to my point of view since . . . .