The Republican National Committee is in quite a pickle following the whole lesbian-bondage-club kerfuffle, which has made some right-wingers question RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s leadership skills and to form a “shadow RNC … only with a little less shadow,” as Stephen Colbert puts it in this clip. –KA

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