We were watching Bill Maher the other night and enjoying the slugfest between the former RNC chair, Michael Steele, and Ed Schultz, a sturdy liberal radio/tv talker. It was a sweet, sweet performance: It made me marvel to see Michael Steele think he was going to be taken seriously, when he had done so much to screw up the RNC’s finances during his tenure there. I’m not sure if he was to blame for their financial problems, or if the Republican base simply refused to entrust their money to a black man (sadly, not that hard to imagine). So that…