Brother Steele has drawn heat for spending $18,500 to redecorate his personal office, and for increasing spending on chartered flights and limousines. Reports also indicate that Uncle Mike has been looking into buying a private jet.
What do these white Republican plantation owners think? You give a hungry brother the keys to the bank — he will rob you dry! …or just RUN ….like King James.
Isn’t that what we black people are supposed to be …..Mr. Republican?
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Media Matters: One would think that after you rushed to smear an innocent woman as a white-hating racist and were publicly shamed as an inveterate and unapologetic liar, you’d be ostracized from the political scene, for at least a little while. Not if you’re Andrew Breitbart. Talking Points Memo reports that they received the following invitation (FROM UNCLE STEELE) to a RNC fundraiser in California, featuring — you guessed it — Andrew Breitbart. [ READ MORE ]
“Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is facing a new test of his leadership over comments he made that appear to question America’s military effort in Afghanistan.
Video footage that emerged Friday shows Steele referring to the conflict as “a war of Obama’s choosing” and implying that the effort is doomed to fail.
‘If he’s such a student of history,’ Steele said, referring to President Obama, ‘has he not understood that, you know, that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? Everyone who has tried, over 1,000 years of history, has failed.’ Michael Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau
Michael Steele, the Uncle Tomish Republican National Committee Chairman, has the gravitas of a balloon, and the charisma of a wilted head of cabbage.
It’s not often that I agree with the conservative stooge, but he’s right on the money in his assessment of Obama’s foreign policy in reference to the Afghanistan conflict.
Our mission in Afghanistan is doomed to fail, the Afghans prefer bondage under Islam, to freedom under a democracy. There will never be anything that remotely resembles a democracy in that backwards nation.
I would only disagree with Steele referring to the bloody mess in Afghanistan as a “war”, it’s an occupation, not a war. American troops are invaders and occupiers, and in a battle between the Taliban and the interests of Haliburton, who the hell do you root for?
Michael Steele’s Thurgood Marshall Fail: To attack Elena Kagan, the GOP chief has blasted a civil rights icon he once hailed as a hero. “Choosing to go after the country’s first black Supreme Court justice is an iffy strategy for the GOPers. But it’s an especially strange line of attack for Steele–formerly Maryland’s first black lieutenant governor–who used to laud Marshall as a hero.
During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, it almost seemed as if the late and legendary Justice Thurgood Marshall was the one being vetted–rather than Kagan, who once clerked for him. Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee have tried to turn the civil rights icon into ammo for their assault on Kagan, attacking Marshall as a “judicial activist” and suggesting that the same could be expected of Kagan. This wasn’t a surprise. Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, kick-started this bash-Marshall campaign last month by pouncing on Kagan for praising a 1987 Marshall speech in which the ex-justice said the Constitution, “as originally drafted and conceived,” was “defective.” Marshall had been referring to the Constitution’s definition of slaves as three-fifths of “free persons.” But Steele’s oppo gang at the RNC seized on this and zapped out a memo hammering Kagan: “Does Kagan Still View Constitution ‘As Originally Drafted And Conceived’ As ‘Defective’?
“Choosing to go after the country’s first black Supreme Court justice is an iffy strategy for the GOPers. But it’s an especially strange line of attack for Steele–formerly Maryland’s first black lieutenant governor–who used to laud Marshall as a hero.
For instance, in July 2004, Steele honored Marshall as a barrier-shattering champion on the 40th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Standing in front of a memorial statue of Marshall near the Governor’s Mansion in Annapolis , Steele declared: “Without the ’64 act, I do not stand in the shadow of this giant.” Also in attendance was Arthur Fletcher, one of the original plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education. As the NAACP’s chief counsel, Marshall had represented Fletcher in that landmark case, which ended legalized segregation in schools. During the ceremony, Fletcher told then-Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, “Thank you for making that young man [Steele] lieutenant governor.”
In public speeches, Steele has admonished others to follow Marshall’s example. After losing the 2006 Senate race in Maryland to Democrat Benjamin Cardin, Steele quoted Marshall in his concession speech: “And I told [Cardin]…don’t forget the poor. Don’t forget those who are trying their best. But like Thurgood Marshall said, ‘be the hand or two to help them.’ So, I hope he is that kind of senator.” In 2005, Steele helped christen the state’s largest airport “Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.” A year later, Steele unveiled an exhibit at the airport honoring the judicial work of its namesake. “It is particularly significant for our younger Marylanders, who may not be familiar with [Marshall's] legacy,” Steele said at the 2006 ceremony. “He honored us by his example, and we are proud to honor him in this small way.”Steele himself was honored in 2003 for carrying on the Marshall tradition, when he received the Community Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund–where Elena Kagan was once a board member. (It was formerly known as the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.) The mission of the Fund is clear: to honor Marshall’s “legacy and commitment to education” by awarding scholarships to students at historically black colleges. With this award, the group recognized Steele as one of the “foremost visionaries who have…impart[ed] a positive impact on the lives of our next generation of leaders.”
Does Steele support the GOP’s ongoing offensive against Marshall? The RNC did not respond to a request for comment.
This Republican charge against Marshall is a throwback–with Southern white GOPers, notably Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the judiciary committee, coming across as if they want to relitigate the civil rights era. None of these senators have pointed to any decision that Marshall rendered as a justice to bolster their attack. Instead, they have derided Marshall for being a supposed judicial activist–noting that he once quipped, “do what you think is right and let the law catch up”–and then slammed Kagan for admiring him.
This may play well in the deep South, but this strategy could have a cost. Blasting Kagan as a Marshall fan is highly unlikely to derail her nomination. Congressional switchboards have not lit up with calls from Americans demanding that the Supreme Court be off-limits to a clerk of one of its most well-known justices. But this positioning has cast Republicans as hostile toward a civil rights hero. (Marshall may be the most famous civil rights crusader to hold a top government job.) For decades, Marshall has not been a controversial figure; he has been revered.
When Steele became chair of the GOP in early 2009, he vowed that his party would reach out to minorities. Trashing Marshall during a nationally televised hearing–as his son sits in the committee room watching–is not going to help Republicans win over many African-Americans. And by joining in–actually, triggering–the Marshall attack, Steele has demonstrated that he’s willing to throw even his own hero under the bus for the sake of politics. Perhaps Steele ought to return that award to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Or maybe the fund ought to ask for it back.
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RNC Chairman’s numbers on the economy during George Bush’s dictatorship are badly skewed [ WATCH VIDEO BELOW ]
NOTES:Repairing The Job Machine — More jobs might be created this year than during George W. Bush’s presidency.
If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. [ READ MORE ]
Meanwhile, Toe-Sucking freak and chief prognosticator for the lying snakes at Fox News, now predicts Armageddon in 2011. Dick Morris engages in ethically dubious behavior, unabashed GOP advocacy, hypocrisy, outright fabrication of smears of progressives, failed political prognostication, extreme and inflammatory rhetoric, and repeated falsehoods. [ READ MORE ]
Bill Randall, Republican/Tea-Party nominee for Congress, is still convinced, without any facts whatsoever — that the Obama administration deliberately colluded with BP to cause the gulf oil-spill!!
Michael Steele said Monday that he has no intention of stepping down as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Steele also said that he had a “slimmer margin” of error as an African-American, comparing himself in that respect to President Barack Obama.
“It just is,” he said in response to a viewer question. “Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do. I mean it’s a different role for you know, for me to play and others to play. And that’s just the reality of it.” [ READ MORE ]
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I find it very funny that Michael Steele, the black chairman of the Republican party (the lynching party), has resorted to playing the “race card” against his own party — dragging president Obama into it. [SEE VIDEO BELOW]
During his confirmation hearings in 1991, Justice Clarence Thomas, the other Uncle-Tom serving the Republican cause in the Supreme Court, famously said this of Democrats: “….And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. — U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.”
LOL! A white Republican is more likely to lynch a black man than a Democrat.
Clarence Thomas, afraid of “lynching” while fighting to join the LYNCHERS?
Michael Steele did something similar yesterday — blame his “lynching-employers” for his poor job performance — Play the race card on the racist Republican party, a party which he willingly leads!
Ladies and gentlemen, the house negro is about to bolt back into the plantation. LOL!
It is just a matter of time before they kick your black ass out of their “lily white” club — my brother!
Yesterday, taking the fall for Steele, who is on his way out too, anyway, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay resigned, becoming the highest-ranking official to depart the committee after revelations that the national party spent nearly $2,000 at California sex club. [ READ MORE ]
