In thrall to Jabba the Hutt .

From Dick Polman's blog: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/americandebate/In_thrall_to_Jabba_the_Hutt.html

For sheer popcorn-entertainment value, nothing beats the current spectacle of Republican supplicants quaking at the feet of their master, Rush Limbaugh. And nothing better illustrates the sorry state of the minority party than this abject ritual.

Michael Steele, fresh from winning the GOP chairmanship on the wing of a promise to expand the party's appeal, has vividly demonstrated over the past few days that he is the leader in name only, and that while outreach might be a fine idea in theory, it is way more important to knuckle under and pander to the Pied Piper of the right...because it is really the intermittently coherent Limbaugh who runs the show, frames the dialogue, and ensures that the GOP stays hostage to roughly 25 percent of the electorate.

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Now comes Michael Steele, who has symbolically diminished his own authority by daring to diss Limbaugh over the weekend, only to bow at the knee by Monday evening. Remember the scene in that Star Wars movie, Return of the Jedi, where Princess Leia is forced to wear an ersatz bikini and appear in chains at the feet of Jabba the Hutt? Steele did her one better. He stripped down and put the chains on all by himself.

Steele at first said on television that Limbaugh's rhetoric was "ugly" and "incendiary," and that Limbaugh was merely an "entertainer." That triggered a lengthy on-air outburst from Limbaugh yesterday afternoon, and at first there was silence from Republican headquarters. But by evening, Steele realized that he had to abase himself with the base (how foolish of him to dare articulate what centrist Americans think about Limbaugh), and of course this meant that he had to apologize to his overlord.

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best description I've heard in a long time.

nation under Bush. Turns out their fearless leader (GWB) was too lazy to pull it off. Now all they have left is Bush Limbaugh who is the bully of their dreams. Real Republicans (all 5 of them) better start fighting back. Democrats are more or less on message because they agree on the message. Republicans are being riduculed and threatened into accepting the message being dictated by the crazies on the far right.

doesn't he fall back on "I'm just an entertainer!"?

We have more evidence in the past few weeks that the Republicans follow Rush's orders than the ReRushicans have that Dems follow "Hollywood's" orders ...

Nothing would more surely keep them in the wilderness of political irrelevance.