SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016

This Sunday in America…at the Church of The Compassionate Conservative, Beloved Whistleblower Publisher, the Right-Wing Reverend Charles Foster Kane was asking his Political Parishioners to ask for God’s help to give Conservatives Patience during the next 92 days until the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. It’s going to be a long slog.

Last Sunday, we were again asking for God to help members of the Establishment Pray for Republican Party Boss Reince Priebus to figure out what he’s supposed to be doing about fixing the problems the Republican National Committee appears to be having between now and his upcoming Clusterfuck Convention in Cleveland.

This Sunday on CNN’s “Face The Nation,” the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, has warned off members of the RNC from making any changes to the Republican National Convention rules at next week’s spring meeting of the 168-member organization.

“Reince believes strongly that the rules of the convention should be set by the delegates who have been elected by the grassroots activists of Republican voters,” Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief spokesman, said in an email late Saturday. “He is asking the RNC members to leave it up to them.”

Normally, at the spring meeting before a presidential nominating convention, the RNC members would provide a series of recommendations with regard to convention rules—the bylaws that will govern the GOP convention in Cleveland in July this year. But in this case, Priebus has texted a group of RNC members to warn them against doing that so as to keep the RNC’s neutrality walking into Cleveland—and prevent the appearance of making it look like the party bosses are swaying the nomination to any one particular candidate.

Today’s move by Priebus is supposed to allay concerns of the three remaining campaigns—Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and John “The Spoiler” Kasich—that the party leaders might game the rules at the last moment, and puts the responsibility for writing the convention rules squarely on the Rules Committee for the convention. That committee has yet to be completely decided, but states around the country are in the process of electing members to it from delegate slates they are also electing.

That might sound like a step in the right direction, God, but we’re not sure your work is done on this political project.