- Mark Halperin is deeply disappointed at the “toxic freak-show nature of our politico-media culture” which has been perpetrated by people such as Mark Halperin. (TIME via Balloon Juice)
- Remember that time the House of Representatives unanimously passed a law (seriously, they did) in response to the RNC sending out mailers that looked like census forms? Apparently this law does not apply to the RNC, according to its spokesman. (AP/TPM)
- A North Carolina man was arrested for “trying to meet Obama” while carrying a gun and driving a fake police car. So, uh, good thing that they didn’t actually meet. (AP)
- Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is now totally in love with the healthcare reform law, which will help keep his older constituents alive long enough to vote for him again, which he totally opposed when it was a bill and now says is unconstitutional. (Think Progress x3)
- Most Americans would like President Obama to regulate the shit out of banks and financial institutions with his Kenyan voodoo socialism. (WaPo)
- When aliens eventually do find us, they will take one look at Politico Click and then destroy all of humanity, and who could blame them? says noted scientist Stephen Hawking. (Times of London)
Archive for posts ‘RNC’
- 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.”
- Hmmm, I wonder what kind of “office supplies” the RNC is purchasing at Congressional Liquors? (Gawker)
- Health insurers are doing everything they can to avoid covering sick kids. Obviously, this is to defend ‘Murica from Teh Socializm!
- So the teabaggers, many of whom receive Medicare and Social Security benefits, would just love to get rid of Social Security… but probably just for other people. (NYT/ThinkProgress)
- Who do those dark-skins think they’re foolin’, with all their fast talkin’? asks former Swift Boater and Charlie Crist supporter Bud Day? (NWF Daily News)
- 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)
- All 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to unanimously pass legislation banning fundraising letters that look like official Census mailings, like mailers previously sent by the RNC and NRCC. Woah, actual bipartisanship! (AP)
- Doug Hoffman has a new tactic for his second run for Congress: he will actually live in New York’s 23rd district this time. (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
- The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill that would basically opt Oklahoma out of federal hate crimes laws because gays are icky and gross. (The Oklahoman)
- A Muslim imam gave the opening prayer in Virginia’s House of Delegates today, even though he is a Muslim! This, of course, was cause for protests outside the state Capitol. (WaPo)
- Britain’s Met Office is 95% certain that people are the cause of global warming. Maybe that’s true for the foreigns, but we don’t believe in your “science” here in ‘Murica! (Times)
- Gov. Bob McDonnell is doing all the same things that candidate Bob McDonnell criticized Tim Kaine for. Apparently your news media is still surprised by Republican hypocrisy. (WaPo)
- Sen. Jim DeMint did not like the RNC fundraising powerpoint, but only because it didn’t have quite enough “MarxBama iz turrible Socializm!!111!11!” in it. (St. Petersburg Times)
- Former New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) is using the Obama campaign logo to run for the same Senate seat he was expelled from after being convicted for domestic abuse. Yes He Can… hope no one remembers he was convicted for domestic violence. (Manhattan Young Dems)
- David Axelrod is not a fan of this “Washington” place, where everyone is so mean to David Axelrod. (NYT)
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:
- Welcome to yet another episode of “homophobic ‘family values’ Republican drunkenly stumbles out of gay nightclub.” This week, California! (CBS13)
- Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) says he and a dozen of his buddies will continue to let Americans die because they cannot afford health insurance. This is the very definition of “pro-life.” (The Hill)
- The RNC has unveiled its 2010 election strategy: exploit our dumb donors’ fear of the black guy. No one could have predicted, etc. (Politico)
- Most House Republicans would rather let schools physically and mentally abuse children than vote for a bill that a Democrat introduced. (Media Matters Action Network)
- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebeilus has politely asked insurance companies to be more transparent about premium increases. So, no need for a healthcare reform bill then! (MSNBC)
- Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is such a Washington outsider! After all she has only been there for, oh, twelve years. First person to get pics of Blanche Lincoln in a Razorbacks jersey wins! (CNN)
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