- Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) would like to deport natural-born American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants because apparently they do not have “our souls.” (LA Times)
- Still-RNC Chairman Michael Steele would like Barack Squidbama to stop “Staining the Contitution [sic] with Red Ink.” Everyone knows that Real Americans™ drop the “s” (for socialism) from the word Constitution. (Wonkette)
- Oh hey, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will run for the Senate as an independent instead of a Republican, a think which everyone except Charlie Crist pretty much figured out a year ago. (Reuters)
- According to Laura Bush’s new memoir, someone (Zee Germans!) poisoned her and President Bush in 2007, but, um, they got better? How did nobody know this? (CNN)
- Oh look, Republicans will let the financial regulatory reform bill come to the Senate floor, so they will not have stay up past their bedtimes and then be even crankier tomorrow. (TPM)
- Boycotting terrible Arizona? Don’t worry, you can still drink Arizona Iced Tea because it, like all the best iced teas, is from Long Island. (CBS)
Archive for posts ‘Michael Steele’
- RNC Chairman Michael Steele is very good at his job, of electing more Democrats. Last night he told students at DePaul University that there really is no reason for African-Americans to vote for Republicans. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Unless, of course, they are African-Americans interested in fiscal responsibility, in which case—oh wait, Steele’s RNC blew $340,000 on its Hawaiian “semi-annual meeting” vacation last January. (Hotline On Call)
- And in other “fiscal conservatism” news, the IRS is investigating Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio, darling of the state’s teabaggers, for possibly misusing the Florida GOP’s credit card. (St. Petersburg Times)
- Here is Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on the Senate floor single-handedly blocking 97 of President Obama’s nominees for various positions. This is because Jon Kyl is so committed to bipartisanship, you see. (HuffPo/TPM)
- Sue Lowden, who wants to replace Harry Reid in the Senate, has a clever healthcare reform proposal: pay your doctors in chickens and paint jobs, not cash. (TPM)
- Is anyone still working for Michael Steele’s RNC anymore? (Hint: Nope.) (MSNBC)
- Wingnut Senate candidate Marco Rubio would like to take away Social Security from Florida’s Olds, who make up 99% of Florida’s electorate. Pat Buchanan will be the next U.S. Senator for Florida. (St. Petersburg Times)
- If the teabaggers actually succeed in taking the government away from the Black Guy President, we will all be living in the United States of Amercia. (Daily K0s)
- Surprise! Black leaders are none too thrilled by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proclamation commemorating the South’s exciting history of chattel slavery. (WaPo)
- Now that Bart Stupak has both been called a baby-killer on the floor of the House and ensured a bright future for America’s coathanger industry, he will maybe retire from the Congress. (CNN)
- Michael Steele does not play the “race game”—except, of course, when Michael Steele is in hot water with the RNC’s donors. (The Plum Line/The Hill)
- Head on down to New Orleans for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential Candidate Date Auction! My guess: you can probably get a date with Newt Gingrich for cheap. (TPM)
- Unemployment benefits expire today for thousands of Americans thanks to obstruction from Tom Coburn and the Senate GOP. So obviously, this is the Democrats fault. (CNN)
- When always-terrible Ken Cuccinelli told Virginians that they could refuse to answer questions from the Census Bureau regarding household income, what he meant to say was that Virginians are legally obligated to answer questions from the Census Bureau regarding household income. (C-Ville Daily Progress)
- Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) may soon be facing an indictment for the whole “using your parents to pay off your mistress’s husband” thing. (Las Vegas Sun)
More Bad, Sexy News for Michael Steele
There’s pretty much nothing else that needs to be said about this:
Fresh on the heels of a scandal over a nearly $2,000 charge to the RNC at a bondage-themed nightclub comes word that a fundraising mailer the organization sent out included a phone number leading those who called to a phone-sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute.”
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The phone sex line was only discovered, in fact, because one of the people who received the mailer called the number to complain to the RNC about the fact that its fundraising solicitation looked like a government document.
And if you are definitely not at work or in a public place, you can listen to what happens when you try to call the “RNC.”
- How much does RNC Chairman Michael Steele like strippers and bondage? About two thousand of the RNC’s dollars much, apparently. (The Daily Caller)
- America’s racists will conveniently label themselves as racists on this year’s census forms. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Your FBI has thwarted a Michigan Christian militia group that had been gearing up to fight the anti-Christ but got bored and decided to kill some cops instead. (Detroit News)
- Random C-SPAN caller “Bill” wonders, why do so many black people love Obama, and how did so many of them get phones? (TPM)
- Getting ready for tonight’s first Passover seder? Guess what, there’s an app for that. (LA Times)
It Came From… the Internet!
In the process of the defending the RNC’s unambiguously terrible fundraising presentation (where shall we begin? The picture of Obama as the Joker? Mocking the RNC’s small donors as clueless rubes?), RNC head Michael Steele seems to have missed the real issue:
STEELE: It was unfortunate. It was, you know those are images that were pulled off the internet. They’ve been out in the public domain for a while and a staffer was putting together a presentation for a small group of about 9 or 10 folks and thought they would intersperse their presentation with humorous shots. [...] It was stuff that was pulled off the web that was inserted into a presentation to members of a finance team. It did not go out publicly.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think copyright infringement is the reason for the sane world’s reaction to the fundraising pitch. Nobody’s saying, “Hey, that picture of Nancy Pelosi next to cartoon villain Cruella DeVil offends me because it reproduces a Disney character without permission!” Or perhaps Steele is trying to blame the internet for… existing? Magically downloading itself into the RNC’s PowerPoints?
Here’s hilarious video:
- FOX News is sad that Barack Obama is so mean to the Senate Republicans, who are just interested in good-faith negotiation! (FOX News)
- Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry totally gay for earmarks? Yes, according to fellow Republican and opponent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison! (CNN)
- New York Gov. David Paterson will not run for reelection because governing is just so hard! And definitely not because of any domestic violence scandal or abuse of power, or anything. (NYT)
- Black people were much better off as slaves than they are now because they are all abort-o-holics, according to Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). I for one am looking forward to when Michael Steele has to go on TV to defend this statement. (TPM)
- Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio is all about fiscal responsibility, which is why he will pay back the Florida GOP for the flights he accidentally charged to the state party’s credit card. (Miami Herald)
- Thailand’s highest court fined former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra almost $1.5 billion after finding him guilty of corruption. This practice, known as “accountability,” could never happen in this country! (Guardian)
The Jokes Write Themselves
- Before marrying Jenny, Mark Sanford insisted on removing “fidelity” from their vows.
- David Vitter cosponsors bill to stop same-sex marriage in DC after patronizing prostitutes in DC.
- Debate over “America’s Future” featuring Harold Ford, Jr. and Michael Steele.
- Nonsense in Washington Post article refuted by Washington Post poll.
Quote of the Day
We’re working hard here, trust me. This is not a vacation.
—RNC Chairman Michael Steele, “while sporting a Hawaiian shirt and a flower lei” at the RNC meeting in Hawaii.
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