AMERICAblog: RNC chair Michael Steele's blog is no more
scytherius
· 8 months ago
This is AWESOME
nicho
· 8 months ago
While you're up, could you get me some more popcorn? Thanks. I don't want to miss a minute of this.
Rob Mule
· 8 months ago
So it's a choice between a token without bus fare or a bus without the token???
Indigo
· 8 months ago
Fascinating. Tedious, but fascinating.
Gridlock
· 8 months ago
A bit like a slow motion police chase involving a 90 year old man in an AMC Gremlin.
davespicer
· 8 months ago
Naaah - Gremlin owners are more sensible than that. After all, Marge Bouvier (later to become Marge Simpson) drove one :-)
Gridlock
· 8 months ago
Tell that to Hans Moleman! :P
davespicer
· 8 months ago
Well, I could be wrong - I had a Pacer myself for a while, and its 401V8 was anything but sensible!
Indigo
· 8 months ago
Now THAT's funny! LOL!
Leo
· 8 months ago
Don't forget, it was the guys at FreeRepublic who founded CPAC several years ago. They are the most popular Republican site and were the major participants at the CPAC gathering. And guess what ... they despise Michael Steele: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/219890...
tlsintx
· 8 months ago
it IS GOPer civil war...their denials notwithstanding.
maudgonne
· 8 months ago
And Coleman is leaving Minnesota without a Senator, just for spite...
At least 17 young men have vanished during the past two years from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and are believed to be in Somalia now, said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, a legal-aid organization.
Jonathan Evans, a counter-terrorism official in the U.K., recently raised concern in a newspaper interview that residents there had trained in camps in Somalia and had returned to Britain. The FBI won’t say whether any of the Somali-Americans have returned to the U.S. The FBI is concerned that there may be more Somalis who have disappeared and whose parents haven’t reported them as missing, said E.K. Wilson, a bureau spokesman in Minneapolis. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...
pdxprobert
· 8 months ago
I hear Michael Steele hasnt even hired any support staff yet... he doesnt seem very organized or focused... what on earth did they select him for?
You would think he was hired because he had the best plan and presented them as the blueprint for where he was going to take the republican party... or am i giving the people who made him their choice too much credit?
I heard a black woman who works for the rnc this morning, apparently she sent out an email not very supportive of Steele, claiming he makes black people look foolish... someone made that email public... she was very articulate.. i thought she should become the chair for the rnc...
RitornaVincitor
· 8 months ago
I've always assumed they hired Steele for cosmetic reasons. The GOP needs to counter its racist image. And with an African American president, the GOP definitely doesn't need to make itself look even worse by having a white guy leading the obstruction of each and every single thing Obama tries to accomplish. This is just another case of the GOP trying to look like something it is not.
pdxprobert
· 8 months ago
Its funny how the republican pundits are trying to blame the dems and in particular, the white house speaker, Biggs, for the failures of the RNC... as though the dems caused Rush make his failure comments which caused Steele to say Rush was incindiary from which Rush made Steele apologize and its all because of the dems .... sometimes the repubs appear like spoiled children... their failures are never their fault... ever....
RitornaVincitor
· 8 months ago
So true. Let's hope Obama and the Dems start to turn around this mess we are in before the GOP can start persuading substantial numbers of the persuadable that everything we face now is Obama's fault. That will be their objective and the way they perceive returning to power.
AbbaRabba
· 8 months ago
That'll teach him to sass his Massa Rush.
HereinDC
· 8 months ago
Boss Rush as Olbermann says
JD
· 8 months ago
Explain to me how the Republican Party is not actually the Borg, Sarah "seven of nine" Palin notwithstanding.
Absolutely brilliant - - - great bumper sticker too.
bosdav
· 8 months ago
Although Rush may not be noticeable as this photo is about 100 lbs of dough lighter than his current tonnage.
The images of this stud at CPAC might be much more appealing.
Older_Wiser
· 8 months ago
Love it! Wish they had used the image he projected at CPAC, though; you know, the trough-feeding sow image.
HereinDC
· 8 months ago
"Ohnotheydidn't"
EmGD
· 8 months ago
It turns out it was just too hard to set up a system where Steele's blog posts were approved by Rush before going up. It's a shame, now where are we going to get a direct conduit for all the things Steele will have to apologize to radio and TV hosts for?
In situations with nasty people my grandmother used to tell me: "Give them enough rope to let them hang themselves", something I have always done with success & the expected outcome. However, the ugliness that is the current Republican Party is getting downright painful to watch. These people are scraping the bottom of human nature. Limbaugh exudes all the dysfunction of a maniacal dictator and none of the charisma. He's like a living, breathing, word-spewing boil. Ewwww.
frank
· 8 months ago
Today I woke up feeling hate. I had a lively debate with a Slovak that seem to understand mass graves and genocide pretty well
Coming Undone
· 8 months ago
Have they erased his entire blog from the internet?
At least Chavez was honest enough (or was it inadvertent?) to admit that there is a "Democratic juggernaut." : )
Dusty
· 8 months ago
All hail to the Rushpublican Party!
Johnny
· 8 months ago
"Rushpublican"
Brilliant term! I hope it catches on!
tropicgirl
· 8 months ago
Michael Steel is not a bad guy. The Republican party probably doesn't deserve him.
The real question is why is he in the Republican party? There are so many more sort of normal people still in the Republican party and I hope they can really reform.
If they stood for a fraction of what they say, I would even consider switching. Its a toss up as to who is more corrupt Repubs or Dems. But alas the party is really the "party of looney" now. I feel sorry for Michael Steel. He seems out of place. But at least the crazy Evangelicals have gone away for the most part.
JeepTreats
· 8 months ago
Steele is a jerk. never show pity to republican creeps. they will stump on you when you're down, so don't offer them a cup of pity when they're down. i'm not referring to all republicans, just the jerks like limp-balls and steele-less
osage
· 8 months ago
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political power they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (the religious right and Limbaugh racists, fear-mongers and hate-baiters) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. It was a conscious political decision to manipulate and exploit emotions to win rather than to be intellectually and morally honest and lose.
Today, those Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devils they empowered, and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without accepting and even advocating values that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of the Republican Party has become so dependent on radicalism, that they have no significant political power WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics.
Ed McGuire
· 8 months ago
Perhaps it is times that Mr. Steele recognized that the Republican party has no real respect for "People of color" and only gave him the RNC chair to reach out to a mostly non-existant base in the black community.Now that he starts to speak out they want to return to the old GOP and put on a "Lawn Jockey" outfit and stay quiet.
Johnny
· 8 months ago
When will Steele learn there's only one head to the party?
Why did Steele not realize his appointment was window dressing in the first freakin' place?
Me, Myself, and I
· 8 months ago
The GOP NEEDS Steele. After all, someone has to take out the trash, and mow the lawn!
mermaidart
· 8 months ago
What's the over/under on when he'll be gone?
Corey
· 8 months ago
How is the party ever going to make headway if the RNC Chairman can't buck up and take criticism on his own blog? This is sad.
Blanca DeBree
· 8 months ago
The only reason Michael Steele got the job is because the only other black Republican Alan Keyes didn't want it. Maybe they can give it next to Bobby Jindal. Then Bobby can give it to Anh Cao. They can just keep passing it from one token to another. They will probably run out of minorities by the end of the year. But then they can find the next Chair on a reality show.
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At least 17 young men have vanished during the past two years from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and are believed to be in Somalia now, said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, a legal-aid organization.
Jonathan Evans, a counter-terrorism official in the U.K., recently raised concern in a newspaper interview that residents there had trained in camps in Somalia and had returned to Britain. The FBI won’t say whether any of the Somali-Americans have returned to the U.S. The FBI is concerned that there may be more Somalis who have disappeared and whose parents haven’t reported them as missing, said E.K. Wilson, a bureau spokesman in Minneapolis.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109...
You would think he was hired because he had the best plan and presented them as the blueprint for where he was going to take the republican party... or am i giving the people who made him their choice too much credit?
I heard a black woman who works for the rnc this morning, apparently she sent out an email not very supportive of Steele, claiming he makes black people look foolish... someone made that email public... she was very articulate.. i thought she should become the chair for the rnc...
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm36/zulch/b...
From a DU contributor:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...
Absolutely brilliant - - - great bumper sticker too.
The images of this stud at CPAC might be much more appealing.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Republicans Need A New Leader
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/lchavez/2009/l...
Brilliant term! I hope it catches on!
The real question is why is he in the Republican party? There are so many more sort of normal people still in the Republican party and I hope they can really reform.
If they stood for a fraction of what they say, I would even consider switching. Its a toss up as to who is more corrupt Repubs or Dems. But alas the party is really the "party of looney" now. I feel sorry for Michael Steel. He seems out of place. But at least the crazy Evangelicals have gone away for the most part.
In order to gain the political power they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (the religious right and Limbaugh racists, fear-mongers and hate-baiters) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. It was a conscious political decision to manipulate and exploit emotions to win rather than to be intellectually and morally honest and lose.
Today, those Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devils they empowered, and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without accepting and even advocating values that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of the Republican Party has become so dependent on radicalism, that they have no significant political power WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics.
Why did Steele not realize his appointment was window dressing in the first freakin' place?