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Let’s see. Get paid over $200k a year to head up a major political party and have (or take) time to go around personally enriching yourself giving speeches?
Two things of note:
1. Shouldn’t past GOP chairman be cheering this relative to their free market principles? Ahoy!
2. No more railing against “elites” for Steele. Mr. 15k speeches and first class only airfare.
3. I thought speeches were bad?
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Um…wow?
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage – and the RNC did not choose to opt out.
Spokespeeps say they are going to fix it. They were unaware. Blah blah blah. A policy that has been in place since 1991 was not scrutinized before? These are the people who want to win leadership in this country? Sheer incompetence. Maybe the RNC just wanted to offer sensible coverage to it’s employees. Afterall, they were given the chance to opt out of this provision and did not. Hard to call this a simple 18 year oversight.
Give American women the same coverage as your employees Republican Party!
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Seriously…
The Hill reports that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was on a radio show and asked about the GOP could reach out to African-American voters. And here’s what transpired:
MARTIN: But your candidates got to talk to them. One of the criticisms I’ve always had is Republicans — white Republicans — have been scared of black folks.
STEELE: You’re absolutely right. I mean I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me. I’m like, “I’m on your side” and so I can imagine going out there and talking to someone like you, you know, [say] “I’ll listen.” And they’re like “Well.” Let me tell you. You saw in Christie and you saw in McDonnell a door open because they went in and engaged. McDonnell was very deliberate about spending…
Stunning.
Nothing helps your African-American outreach like admitting that your party has trouble accepting any African-American as a legitimate leader.
Although Steele has never been asked to produce his birth certificate.
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LOL. So the narrative is now set in like a good hillbilly heroin buzz. Rush calls out Steele. Steele slams Rush. Rush smacks Steele in show. Steele apologizes:
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
ROFL.
RNC Chairman neutered.
Democrat narrative in full effect.
Rightwing gassbag and drug addict Rush Limbaugh leads the modern day Republican Party.
That was easy!
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So this is the way the RNC Chairman Michael Steele is going to rebrand the Republican Paryt? By saying MY BAD? LOL
“Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad,” said Steele. “But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point.”
“My bad” may be hip and all, but…um…
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Looks like the RNC had to dress ‘em all up to parade them out at their convention:
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.
Wheeeee! I sure hope nobody got a $400 haircut. You know how “conservatives” hate that!
Can we get some commentary from Joe the non-Plumber?
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Can’t make this stuff up. Despite McCain’s calls to tone thing down, the corporate lobbyists and GOPers still had the time to get liquored up, don pin boas, and take in a little “hookers & blow”:
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The national convention is coming up and there is a race to make it as green as possible. Imagine hybrid electric trucks delivering soft drinks, recycling centers throughout the facility, biodegradable discount cards, special power strips to cut energy consumption, solar and wind power usage to power the event.
Sounds like a bunch of hippie Buddhists, right?
Doh! It’s the RNC! If there were ever any doubts that we won the environmental movement, this should erase them.
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Political rap-rock giants Rage Against the Machine will give a rare performance at Target Center in Minneapolis on Sept. 3, which not so coincidentally is the same week as the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for $60.
via Star Tribune
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