In spite of pressure on him to quit, Steele insisted he would seek a second term, but his lack of support was evident today in a ballot of the 168 committee members for a new chairman.
Through the weltering confusion of their four points of this and five pillars of that, Friedman and Mandelbaum again and again return to one inspiring theme: the leader "too dumb to quit," who insists on battling a problem again and again until a solution is found.
Cameron gave his clearest warning at the weekend that he will sack any government minister who wants to campaign to quit the European Union, insisting the government will not be neutral once he has struck a deal on a new relationship with the EU.
But taxes were the rub: Mr. Boehner has said he quit when Mr. Obama insisted on $400 billion more in revenues above the $800 billion they had agreed to.
Looking more like the Gingrich of South Carolina than the lame impersonator we saw in Florida, he jovially dismissed rumors that he might quit, which he insisted had emanated from the Romney campaign.
It was not policy disagreements or declining public enthusiasm after Apollo 11 which led Mueller to quit Nasa, he insisted, but the need to boost his income and support his family.
Let the lower-ranked employee quit, if he insists on doing so: "If they quit, they will be doing you a favour in the long run as you can replace Colleague B with an employee more like Colleague A, the high performer".
Eddie gets ahead $11,000 and Charlie tries to convince him to quit, but Eddie insists the game will end only when Fats says it is over.
But he has declined to quit his dual role, insisting that the problems have been righted and that the financial group expects significantly higher profit this year.
