Media Disaster for GOP

The Grand Overlord and Leader
of the GOP

Republicans Dare Not Disobey the Mighty Rushbo!

The Rise and Fall of Michael Steel - RNC's First Black Leader

Finding himself under fire from Rush’s army of self-proclaimed “Dittoheads,” Steele immediately sued for peace. “I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,”


Steele whimpered. “It was one of those things where I was thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.


But given Limbaugh’s well-documented history of racial controversy, and Steele’s position as the Republican Party’s first African-American chairman, his apology is more significant than Gingrey’s. Limbaugh has, for example, mocked Obama as a “Halfrican-American” who should “become white“; he has called for a “posthumous Medal of Honor” for the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray, and told an African-American caller, “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

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Doing as Promised

Obama to order Government Contracting Overhaul

President Barack Obama plans to change how government contracts are awarded and who can earn them, a move his aides say would save taxpayers about $40 billion a year by making the process more competitive.

Obama will say that his administration will stop outsourcing to private contractors many services that should be performed by government employees. He also pledged to open contracts to small businesses and eliminate "unnecessary" no-bid contracts that allow preferred contractors to take assignments even though they might not be the least expensive option. Read the story


His Campaign Promise?

Reform Contracting

* Create Transparency for Military Contractors: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will require the Pentagon and State Department to develop a strategy for determining when contracting makes sense, rather than continually handing off governmental jobs to well-connected companies. An Obama-Biden administration will create the transparency and accountability needed for good governance. Finally, it will establish the legal status of contractor personnel, making possible prosecution of any abuses committed by private military contractors.

* Restore Honesty, Openness, and Commonsense to Contracting and Procurement: An Obama-Biden administration will realize savings by reducing the corruption and cost overruns that have become all too routine in defense contracting. This includes launching a program of acquisition reform and management, which would end the common practice of no-bid contracting.Obama and Biden will end the abuse of supplemental budgets by creating a system of oversight for war funds as stringent as in the regular budget. Obama and Biden will restore the government's ability to manage contracts by rebuilding our contract officer corps. They will order the Justice Department to prioritize prosecutions that will punish and deter fraud, waste and abuse.

From November 11, 2008:

In contracting, Obama will focus on oversight, transparency, ethics

GOP: Im sorry Rush!

The Grand Overlord and Leader
of the GOP

Republicans Dare Not Disobey the Mighty Rushbo!

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”

“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.”

“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. "It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.
RNC Chairman Michael Steel

RNC Chair Grovels to Rush Limbaugh

It isn't hard to see who is REALLY in charge of the GOP...


"I was briefly encouraged by the courageous comments made my counterpart in the Republican Party over the weekend challenging Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and referring to his show as ‘incendiary’ and ‘ugly,’"
"However, Chairman Steele’s reversal this evening and his apology to Limbaugh proves the unfortunate point that Limbaugh is the leading force behind the Republican Party, its politics and its obstruction of President Obama’s agenda in Washington."
Virginia Governor and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine

Steel to Rush: "I'm sorry!"

Update from AP: GOP chairman apologizes for Limbaugh remarks

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Reminder: Brian Moran Meet and Greet

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What: Meet and Greet for Brian Moran, Candidate for Governor

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Start Time: Tuesday, March 3 at 7:15pm

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Porn in the U.S.A. GOP Family Values?

8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election

...there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.

"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by"

• The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users
• Eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election
• Six out of the lowest 10 favored Barack Obama
• Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays – a 1% increase in a postal code's religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country
• Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage

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It will be interesting to witness the sanctimonious at work to spin the results of this finding which supports other studies of trends on obesity, domestic violence, incarceration rate, dropout rate, teen pregnancy rate etc...

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