It's sort of sad that it's come to this. But it seems RNC Chief Michael Steele may have pulled off a minor feat of leadership for his party.

As you know, the RNC was to meet tomorrow and vote on whether to rename the Democratic party the "Democrat Socialist Party" -- something Steele himself opposed and an apparent majority of RNC yahoos viewed as a key step on their party's path back to power.

Now, though, Steele seems to have engineered a switch in which the full rename (i.e., "Democrat Socialist Party") will give way to merely "condemn(ing) the Democrats' march to socialism" which, for reasons that, when I actually think about it, aren't exactly clear, makes the whole thing entirely different and defuses the controversy.