GOP leaders’ attempts to squelch Obamacare shutdown mania spurs revolt.

Because, of course.

As you may have heard, Business Insider (we and others picked it up from them) reported that RNC Chair Reince Priebus had called Romney’s ‘self-deportation’ “horrific” and “racist.” It turned out that he actually said not “racist” but “it hurts us.” And everyone corrected. But at first, the RNC actually confirmed that Priebus had said “racist.”

These things happen, of course. But I can’t help but thinking that there’s some element in this that signals the rudderlessness or perhaps the multiple rudders operating within the GOP at the moment. As in, the comms folks may not know from one day to the next which GOP is coming down the pike. If someone asks for confirmation that Priebus said, “No Justice No Peace” or “Justice for Trayvon” … I mean, who knows, maybe he did?

The Senate Conservatives Fund – founded by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R) and credited with making it virtually impossible for Republicans to win back the Senate – is now running ads against Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. It’s not terribly surprising in itself. But taking on the party leader in the Senate takes it to a different level. This comes on the heels of McConnell’s saying yesterday that there were some things in Obamacare that he liked.