Yesterday,  Wednesday, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Michael Steele,  met with immigration activists, ten leaders of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM). The activists put out a press release stating that Mr. Steele promised that he would work with  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and try to recruit additional Republican support for comprehensive and bipartisan immigration reform legislation. Following release of the activists statement, the  RNC made a statement that Squire Steele said no such thing.The activist leader,  Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, who was present at the meeting said, yes, he did.

So what happened? Well, I think the squire got scared when a RNC staffer, one of Mr. Steele's many handlers,  signaled that he was going too far.  Lindsey Graham is considered a RINO, you see,. Republican In Name Only, a closet Democrat, by some right-wingers. He's been denounced as such by Tea Partiers in his home state. And so far he is the only Republican working on " comprehensive and bipartisan immigration reform." His old GOP immigration reform pal, John McCain,  has gone AWOL on the issue, frightened away by a far-to-the-right, right-winger, his  Arizona GOP primary opponent, who has accused the frightened John of being a RINO too. So lately, the frightened John has been talking like the toughest, roughest, loony right winger in America.  And Lindsey Graham is left out there all alone. And so, if the immigration activists could bag the RNC chair, that would be something for a second of news. Just a second, because everybody knows that the current chairman is just the squire -- or squatter, who squats in the head GOP chair.

The Wall Street Journal in it blog, Washington Wire reports,  that Mr  Hoyt said  Mr. "Steele went through a list of possible Republicans in the Senate who might sign on to the effort, said he would try to recruit another (Republican) sponsor (to join Lindsey Graham in the fight), and agreed with the activists on their goal of getting legislation introduced by April 30. But midway through the meeting, a RNC staffer signaled to Steele that he should  'walk back what he had said.' After that, Hoyt said, Steele said he emphasized that he could not  'get ahead' of Republican Senate leaders."

Back up a minute and consider this question: Why would Mr. Steele stumble? Back track on what he said?  And consider this question: What could have that RNC staffer been thinking that he would interrupt the squire? Call the squire out during a public meeting? Make the squire look smaller than himself? Yes? I know. The nameless staffer must have been thinking that the squire was sounding like one of those RINOes. Must have signaled the squire to hush. And the squire, loving his high dollar job, and the perks, ducked  his head into his thousand dollar suit and hushed, and wearing his five hundred dollar shoes tried to tip toe away.

And all of this is in a blog owned by the Wall Street Journal? The place where the toothy lions of the right, the tigers, the hungry bears that will crush a RINO person hang out!  Oh  my! What has my favorite RNC chairman gotten himself into now?