Brinker, founder and CEO of Komen, said in an MSNBC interview that Handel had nothing to do with the decision. Handel now claims she had everything to do with it. It's obvious Handel was brought on board for a reason.

One of the characteristics of successful organizations is that they stray from their origins. That's clearly what happened here. They believed their own PR, thought they were invincible, and they were as long as they stuck to their mission. They thought they could do anything. And they could in the narrow field of breast cancer research.

When they strayed into making a political statement, they got bit. And it's worse than that. The CEO trots out in front of the nation and lies. The person she's protecting sells her out, and resigns anyway. The Foundation restores money to the organization they were trying to eliminate.

So we are where we were, except for the damage to the Komen Foundation. You have to wonder where their PR people were. But obviously Handel was clever enough to create a stampede and rationality left all of them briefly.