Yesterday’s election for the next leader of the Republican Party came down to two men: one of the five black RNC members or the guy who became a Republican because of desegregation and had to leave his “whites only” country club in order to run. After the final balloting was done, Michael Steele emerged as the next RNC Chairman.
Or at least it is on this side of the pond. For your viewing pleasure:
Heh. I coulda sworn there was some other guy’s name there yesterday. Oh well.
Yesterday orphans helped an Iraqi sculptor erect a giant brown shoe (like the ones thrown at ex-President Bush) in front of a Tikrit orphange, but today local officials have taken it down because, well, why not? Looks like we forgot to bring “freedom of expression” with us when we invaded. (CNN)
The first round of voting for the next leader of the failing Republican Party is over and get this, “An accounting firm will now begin tallying the votes.” There are one hundred and sixty-eight votes, and the RNC has hired “an accounting firm” to count them. Fiscal responsibility! (MSNBC)
Following up on yesterday’s rumor, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) confirms that he is in the running for Secretary of Commerce. (Boston Globe)
Missouri’s own Sen. Claire McCaskill will introduce a bill today to cap salaries for employess of companies taking federal bailout money. No more taxpayer-funded bonuses for investment bankers. (Fired Up! Missouri)
Illinoisians, this “Pat Quinn” character is your new Governor! You can tell how different he is from Blago because he is bald. Change We Can Believe In! (CNN)
So after John McCain failed to win them the presidency, the RNC filed a lawsuit to overturn McCain’s favorite law, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act aka McCain-Feingold. Now the DNC has joined the lawsuit… in defense of the act! Thank God for bipartisanship. (MOAR CNN!)
A picture is worth a thousand words. These two are no exception. (Feministe)
Chip Saltsman was not able to woo Republicans with his Magic Negro Christmas CDs, so he is dropping out of the RNC Chairman race. (Nashville Post)
Moments after removing him from office, the Illinois senate voted unanimously to prevent impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich from ever holding political office in the state again.
Because Blago is exactly the kind of person who would try and run again.
Your President Obama will take his first international trip as president to… Canada! Can’t he just see Canada from his house? (CNN)
An Arkansas House resolution congratulating President Obama on his election was killed in committee after some members objected to language describing the founding fathers as “slaveowners.” Which is, you know, true. (Arksansas Business)
Super-numbers-wizard Nate Silver, over at that website that you stopped reading on November 5th, says there are only five red states left. So it is written, so it shall be! (FiveThirtyEight)
WTF CA? A California court says it’s okay for private religious schools to expel students who might be homosexuals. (San Francisco Chronicle)
After Rewriting Stimulus Bill, GOP Still Won’t Support It
This should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, since this is how Republicans define bipartisanship:
While GOP lawmakers said they appreciated Obama’s visit, their leaders urged a “no” vote because of the bill’s price tag. “All it does is burden our kids and their kids with more debt,” said House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio, citing a non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimate that the plan would add $347 billion in interest on the national debt over 10 years.
Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., said there could be as many as 10 to 15 Republicans supporting the package, but added, “If I had to bet, I would bet zero.”
So after President Obama personally comes to the Hill and makes the compromises that House Republicans demanded, they won’t guarantee a single vote? I say fuck ‘em. Put the money for family planning back in and take out the GOP tax cuts (which now make up 33% of the bill). Boehner and company don’t care if the country spirals into a depression as long as they can score their cheap political points. If Republicans won’t support a watered-down stimulus bill that they helped create, let the Democratic majority pass a better bill without them.
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