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Michael Steele’s House of Race Cards
A pattern of pathetic excuses by the RNC chairman.
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In each of those interviews, Steele compared himself to Barack Obama. There are voluminous differences between Michael Steele and Barack Obama One of them is that Barack Obama never talks about his race. He buried that issue with his famous race speech in Philadelphia.
Michael Steele has received an infinitesimal fraction of the criticism leveled at Barack Obama since each of them took office in January of 2009. And yet only Steele has attempted to blame his bad press on the racism of his critics.
Steele’s comment this week was so awful that it not only made him look bad, but it managed to make White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs look good. Asked about Steele’s words, Gibbs delivered the best line of his tenure: “I think Michael Steele’s problem isn’t the race card, it’s the credit card.”
When Robert Gibbs destroys a line of argument you’ve built up throughout multiple interviews conducted over the course of more than a year by delivering a pithy one-liner, your credibility has been nullified. It’s time to stop making that argument.
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rjh| 4.9.10 @ 6:53AM
It appears that Mr. Steele is in the wrong political party.
James| 4.9.10 @ 1:12PM
Why does it seem blacks in leadership roles immediately resort to playing the race card whenver their activities, decisions, positions, ect., are criticized? Moreover, are we to assume the only critics are white? Isn't that racist, too? Yet that exactly what Michael Steele suggests; that the only people criticizing his leadership as chairman of the RNC are white. So what does he call a -- to use Steele's word -- "brother" who criticizes Steele's leadership?
Dixie Pixie| 4.9.10 @ 6:48PM
Any port in a storm, any straw in a flood, any straw rope when falling.
Besides “Race Baiting” is a multi-billion political business which does not bar a democrat from seeking any political office including the Presidency. See the “Justice Brothers”.
Alan Brooks| 4.9.10 @ 8:13PM
"It was a Republican president, George W. Bush, who strove to eradicate the "soft bigotry of low expectations” from America's public schools."
No Child Left Behind was (or is?) emollient for parents worried about low performance and ability of students.
David Homer| 4.10.10 @ 2:08AM
G W Bush strove to eradicate any expectation that students would be educated in public schools.
stmichrick| 4.10.10 @ 2:24PM
Mr Steele is a MARYLAND Republican.
It's different.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.9.10 @ 7:01AM
When failure looms, the race or gender card is never far away for some folks. And when you play it you reduce your reputation to that of an Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, i.e., "God gave you your skin color so why not use it."
Michael Steele should resign and immediately. People aren't judged by race, but results. That's all that matters. The President has failed and now Michael Steele has played the failure card.
The RNC should move on this and quickly. Ironically, there was an actual black conservative who ran against Michael Steele for the chairmanship and lost. So maybe Mr. Steele has a point. He was a liberal black and won. Perhaps that does say something about both parties.
Red Bubba| 4.9.10 @ 7:11AM
They knew who you were when you got the job, why go to all the trouble of putting you in that position just so they can fire you for being black?
Eric Cartman| 4.9.10 @ 8:45AM
Well, look at O.J. I mean, we all liked him, great ball player, funny actor, great guy! But, it was his turn to be put in jail for murder because he's black, so - ppphhhttt! Slice up his wife and friend and frame him! Had to be done! Can't let him get too rich , ya know.
And Michael Jackson! Great singer, but getting too uppity so we had to put little boys in his bed.
Look, if you are gunna be black in the USA, ya need to get used to getting really high up in an organization only to be humiliated and fired or put in jail just because you're "driving while black". God! I though we all agreed on this!
Eric Cartman| 4.9.10 @ 12:01PM
Phew! You had me going with the Chaney/Bush/O.J./911 linkages! Are you sure that is satire, because I think you may be on to something!
And your right: it's pretty pathetic to watch Republicans get to DC and be seduced by a platter of Li'l Smokies in BBQ sauce. God they're disgusting.
NavyBrat | 4.9.10 @ 12:11PM
Which is disgusting, Cartman? I quite like smokies in spicy BBQ sauce! :-)
NavyBrat | 4.9.10 @ 1:43PM
Cartman, you have now succeeded in ruining my appetite with that mental image. I can't even finish my knish!
Churchill had an exchange that fits in with a woman like Pelosi:
Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd give you poison."
Churchill's reply: "If you were my wife, madam, I would drink it."
Grzmlyk| 4.9.10 @ 12:26PM
It's not just our politicians, the vast majority of whom are reliably feckless every time their mettle is really tested.
But our pundits never fail to shock me (except Limbaugh, with whom I almost never disagree). They'll be going along espousing opinions with which I heartily agree, and then a guy like Dick Morris will dismiss the goverment takeover of student loans as "actually, that's a good thing. Government can do that more efficiently and cheaply anyway." HUH????????
Nobody breaks my heart more than Krauthammer. He usually speaks very intelligently, but about 15% of his views leave me scratching my head. You can just see how proud of himself he is that he's considered the intellectual wellspring from which all other conservative pundits gain succor.
Last week he said Steele is an excellent person and a rising star who may just be in the wrong job. Again, huh? Krauthammer's smarter than I am, but even before Steele became RNC Chairman and was a regular on Fox, every time he came on I felt that he was an intellectual lightweight and a preening egotist very short on leadership skills or conservative bona fides.
But Krauthammer loves him. And Krauthammer admires Obama; rather than outrage at Obama's stunts, too often Krauthammer is amused and impressed by Obama's in-your-face tactics. Earth to Charles: There are REAL consequences to Obama's illegal coup d'etat!
Yesterday (I think), Stephen Hayes - another pundit with whom I almost always agree - concurred with Mort Kondracke (!) that there was a significant upside to the phony arms agreement with Russia. WTF? What happens to these people??????
And forget Bill O'Reilly; he long ago sold his soul for market share.
Eric Cartman| 4.9.10 @ 12:45PM
Yeah, Charles makes me scratch my head a lot, lately. The toe-sucker is smart, but he likes government too much. Its his job. Steele, though. The guy surprises me. I used to really like the guy. Turning into a DC reptile.
Grzmlyk| 4.9.10 @ 1:04PM
I agree, Charles used to be more reliable. Again, I think it's the fact that he's a darling of the cocktail circuit - and I think he has that strange kneejerk boosterism for black politicians that warps many a perspective in and out of DC.
The toe sucker is slippery, and sometimes he's WAY off base (remember his book "Condi vs. Hillary," about the 2008 election? Yikes.)
But Morris is correctly wary of government on a number of topics. I mean, if government takeover of one private industry is wrong on its face, how can it possibly be right in another realm?
Reminds me of O'Reilly, who is a big believer in capitalism - unless you're talking about energy. Then it's price controls and suffocating regulations galore. And it's gotten worse as he's hitched his wagon to Glenn Beck's star (he's no fool when it comes to ratings). The guy has really become a world-class phony.
I must say, I liked Steele until Fox made him a "contributor" after he lost his election and before he became RNC Chair. Then I really began to listen to him, and there's just no "there" there.
I just wish I understood what makes reliable conservatives go wobbly. No wonder we're in the mess we're in.
Eric Cartman| 4.9.10 @ 1:16PM
Yeah, the Weeble Effect. They wobble but they don't fall down (unfortunately). I think its just the atmosphere of power and the feeling that you are part of a small group of people who have the power. Us plebes are great to get money from and rial up every once in a while. But DC is a club, a little town where you "have " to get along or you get your house toilet papered and windows soaped buy the other frat boys.
Eric Cartman| 4.9.10 @ 2:04PM
Hmmmm? We have to think of a name for this phenomenon. The George W. Bush Effect? But was he ever a conservative? It's frustrating. You can see the gradual change in these people. Like the old Wolfman movies where the guy's face would slowly start furring up. lol
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.9.10 @ 11:52PM
"What happened to these guys?"
I believe it is the lack of term limits.
Margie| 4.9.10 @ 2:39PM
When you're a Liberal, you don't have to fight. It's easy being a Liberal, you just go with the flow. It's the way of the world~ anything goes, and you just go along with it. The "culture," Hollyweird, the elite, etc. ~ You said it yourself, the "cocktail crowd." The go along to get along.
To be a conservative however, you must fight for what's right. It takes effort and some will power to go against the grain. Everything ISN'T relative, there IS right from wrong and you have to stand your ground and be willing to have enemies.
Being a Liberal, or getting there, all you have to do is relax and let it happen. The before you know it you're a sell-out.
(And you know, now that you mentioned it, I just KNEW Haliburton MUST have had something to do with the whole O.J. "thing," now it all makes perfect sense.... NOT!)
Matt Morehouse| 4.10.10 @ 10:12AM
Watching Laura Ingraham as O'Rielly's replacement made me realize how truly awful he is.
Fox should can him and give Laura the gig.
SpiralArchitect | 4.9.10 @ 12:07PM
Yes, I also find it offensive.
He should 'moveon'.
Ret. Marine| 4.9.10 @ 7:20AM
Wow, bigtime race-card use, and from a Republican Chair, really. What the problem there Mr. Steele, you were voted in for the qualifications of your resume, the merits of your words and deeds weren't you. Stop acting like a bi autch and do your job before some of out here begin to think that job is not as importent to you as it is to us. Indeed Mr. Steele
Bruce | 4.9.10 @ 10:51AM
Uh ... I think it would probably be a very bad idea to apply that labeling of yours to ... say ... Col. Allen West.
Just sayin'
martin j smith| 4.9.10 @ 7:45AM
Michael Steele sounds more like a Democrat every day. But more seriosuly, it is sad that the race card is used so freely--makes it sound as if that criticisms of Steele are even more valid.
A mature person can only deal with criticism by addressing the issues directly--raising any "card" is a sure sign of weak arguments.
Don L| 4.9.10 @ 7:55AM
Skin color is too good of an opportunity to waste.
I don't blame Steele -he is what he is. I blame the GOP for lowering themselves to the nasty deceit of the left which pretends to care about blacks. The left wants to keep them forever victims and dependent and the right should demand they become full fledged dignified members of society -but instead they chose to play image games.
RustyG| 4.9.10 @ 8:02AM
His playing the race card was utterly ridiculous and I wouldn't mind him being shown the door because of it. Let's be honest though...besides us blog reading political junkies, what percentage of Americans can tell you who Micheal Steele is? In this climate all he has to do is open the mail and deposit the checks. I'm guessing there won't be any more reimbusements for strip clubs.
Melvin| 4.9.10 @ 8:22AM
A political weak man or woman will ultimately use the race card when the political truth has them up against the wall.
It is the nature of things. Minorities have since the beginning of President Johnson's Great Society have been told that they cannot measure up because of the color of their skin and the white establishment.
For the longest time white Americans have bowed their head's in guilt and said, "Yes, your right, I am a racist."
I had such great hopes for Micheal Steele, I had followed his political career and thought he had the skills and desire to shake up the RNC and rebuild it to reflect Conservatism.
I am extremely dismayed at Mr. Steele's generic remarks about his inability to guide the RNC because it is the color of his skin. I expected more of him as did millions of Republicans who were fed up with the status quo within the Party.
Mr. Steele should step down as head of the RNC. He has lost all his credibility and no longer has the respect of millions of Republicans.
Republicans also need to realize that they do not have to appointment another Progressive Republican upon Mr. Steele's departure.
Mr. Steele can best use his ethnic self-immolation in college academia, because he sure isn't no Joan of Arc.
blarset| 4.9.10 @ 10:57AM
Good post . I agree its the party that needs to show its not, an elite club of incumbents bent on protecting its members and advancing its causes for their benefit and profit.
Tim*| 4.9.10 @ 8:47AM
Jettison this Buffoon , Steele.
He's what's wrong with the Republicans' Faux Conservatism.
Take A Hike , PC Plant !
Northern Rebel| 4.9.10 @ 9:34AM
I don't care if you're fuscia, as long as you're a constitutional conservative.
Peter McGrath| 4.9.10 @ 10:34AM
Steele is a good guy and loyal Republican. Unfortunately, he's in over his head in this current climate.
Republicans need a firebrand directing shock troops across the trenches of indolence and apathy to attract independents and clear-headed Democrats to Republican candidates. More importantly, we need a guy who can fire up the base.
Steele is too busy extricating his foot in his mouth. He needs to stop apologizing for being a "brother" in the Republican party. Better yet, he might take a shot at explaining why blacks - who've been exploited by Democrats for generations and left in economic doldrums - should be deserting the Democatic party in droves. If he managed to to that effectivly, he'd be enshrined as a hero.
He seems incapable of doing either. Time to step up, Mr. Steele. Stop apologizing. Start fighting. Or, start resigning.
stephanie| 4.9.10 @ 11:17AM
How long can we use the race card? after a while, it looses it's sting and means little. I am so happy with my governor here in VA who now honors Confederate soldiers, while the racist hounds howl "RAAACISSSST". yawn......
loulou| 4.9.10 @ 11:40AM
See what happens when you have an affirmative action hire?
Michael Steele is so clueless and less than mediocre--does he really think he'd be chairman of the RNC if he were white?
Andy| 4.9.10 @ 11:52AM
The dictionary defines Racism as: "belief in racial superiority: the belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior." Mr Steele seems to think the criticism leveled at him is due to his race and not his performance. So I ask you who is the racist? If he thinks his failure is due to his skin color and not his performance, isn't that the very definition of racism? So to Mr. Steele I say "Get over it", some people just suck at their job and you are one of them!
Teflon93| 4.9.10 @ 11:57AM
Isn't it odd how some people's first thought when they look in the mirror in this morning is related to race?
The GOP made a big mistake in selecting Steele because he and Barack Obama happen to be black. So what?
He was hired to do a job and he's failing miserably at it despite the most favorable circumstances imaginable.
At the very least, he ought to use the fact that it's hard to accuse him of opposing Obama because of the color of his skin to good advantage by, you know, attacking an unpopular president who happens to be a condescending, narcissistic, lying, socialist nitwit---a combination Americans can't help but loathe.
The GOP's racial squeamishness needs to end---after all, it wasn't the Republicans who supported slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and the KKK. Why be defensive at all given the Democrats' long and continuing history of plantationism?
Joe| 4.9.10 @ 12:44PM
Wrong man for the job, not much differnet than putting Juan Williams in his stead. No matter who they are and what they have done, blacks will always cry 'racism' when they're criticized for their non-performance.
Republicans meed to get over their 'white guilt' and concentrate on national issues that taxpayers care about instead of trying to 'out-democrat' the other party. Anyone who has ever contributed a dollar to the Republican cause should be demanding his resignation before he screws up 2010 and 2012 beyond redemmption.
WASP| 4.9.10 @ 12:52PM
Get Steele out now.
We have a great opportunity, we cant waste it.
Dai Alanye | 4.9.10 @ 1:12PM
The sad thing is the RNC could have had Ken Blackwell, a better thinker and less of a whiner.
Jon B| 4.9.10 @ 1:23PM
Blackwell, a criminal, would fit in well as the GOP head.
Nick| 4.9.10 @ 1:55PM
Pay no attention to Jon B, folks.
He peddles lies and marxist propaganda. Oops! Redundant.
Like the lie that President Reagan gave the Soviets $425 billion.
After 3 days of trying to belittle those of us who called him out on his lie, he finally admitted his fabrication.
Although, he then claimed it was a mistake That it was actually $425 million, but he offered no source. Just his deeply flawed memories.
Nick| 4.9.10 @ 2:09PM
Where's that source, Jon B?
You promised it a month ago!
Todd| 4.9.10 @ 2:40PM
You are ridiculous, me and Nick called you out on your stupid claim which you had no evidence to back up and you call him a liar? You are a pathetic joke
mujalan| 4.9.10 @ 2:04PM
I don't care if Steele is black, white, green, or purple he is still bad medicine for the GOP and he has to go. He is costing us dearly in more ways than one.
David| 4.9.10 @ 3:52PM
That Steele sure does act like a democrat. He has spent more money than he has raised. And, after doing a lousy job and the vast majority of republicans recognizing it, he insists on hanging on to his job like any democrat who gets caught with male prostitutes soliciting in his home, or with $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer, or owing thousands in back taxes.
We sure don't need the Chairman playing the race card, and providing cover for Bam Bam at the same time. I am beginning to think he secretly voted for Obama. What an idiot.
With a great opportunity for repubs coming up in November he should care enough about the party to resign. If not, he should be made to resign.
He can be replaced with a Ken Blackwell type, or maybe Ward Connerly if he is capable of addressing all of the issues and not just race. I know that seems like we are replacing a black with a black, but Blackwell is an extremely well-spoken person on republican issues. Santorum would be excellent. Barbour was excellent. I would suggesst Palin, but not after working so hard for McCain (a simple endorsement would have been okay though). No Gingrich.
My guess: If he is made to resign, and because he was willing to do the unthinkable and play the race card, he will either begin to publicly trash the republican party or switch to the democrats.
bill schmudlap| 4.9.10 @ 6:21PM
Mr. Steele is an idiot, not a black idiot, just an idiot.
ben dover| 4.9.10 @ 6:30PM
Is the "soft bigotry of low expectations” the result of poor performance by blacks? Is it that the performance is not poor, but that when an error is made (as everyone makes errors) the fingers are pointed and one hears the "See, I told you so's..." Or is it that the "bigotry of low expectations" is perpetuated by the blacks / minorities themselves who make a mistake, and rather than stand up, admit it and fix it; will scream racism to shout down any and all critics as racist, bigoted, homophobic klansmen. Then continue on their merry little way, with no checks and balances, and the opposition afraid to say a word. Criticism is how one is kept on the straight and narrow. Without guidance, he's nothing more than a loose cannon on deck.
Greg| 4.9.10 @ 7:15PM
I had no idea that Michael Steele was this pathetic a person. Actually, I think he is the perfect person to lead the Republican Party. After all, a moderate to liberal party needs a moderate to liberal person to lead it. Just another reason to not be a Republican.
rdman| 4.9.10 @ 8:51PM
Politicians like Michael Steele have become experts at deceitful duplicity, selling their calculated positions to a public to the point where We, The People can no longer tell a fabricated image from a real person. Citizen voters are so seduced by the slick package that they often do not realize that there is nothing in it except ulterior motives… the package is the message.
The shallow values and the beguiling oratorical skills have become the norms by which everything is measured. The only guideline is the ability to gain attention… what is noticed has value. Calculated images successfully masquerade as reality. Exhibitionism and self-promotion is now acceptable as Government Class factions compete to be the winner… to be famous and celebrated.
Expediency, appeasement, placating, duplicity are the total lack of LEADERSHIP and STATESMANSHIP.
RESIGN, Mr. Steele...
Steele| 4.9.10 @ 9:54PM
MBT mbt
BREDNG10| 4.9.10 @ 10:04PM
We need to get rid of mr.Steele now.If we wait he`ll pull a spector and go to the dark side(dems) before the elaction.IMO
esprit d'escalier| 4.9.10 @ 10:44PM
What we really need to know, to get to the bottom of this, is the color/race of the guy who dropped $20,000 of RNC donations at Voyeur, then we can really raise hell.
I am kidding, of course. Blacks are thin-skinned enough without us finding another one with chicken-thief mentality. It is just the lure of all that money that no longer belongs to the people it once did. Its free money, now. - White, black, brown or yellow - yellow being the Asian guy from CA who got $200,000 "donations" people who made $30,00 a year - one from a mail carrier who lived in a tract home in Daly City. He was fund-raising for Hillary Clinton. When found out, Hillary "gives the money to charity" - bingo, a tax deduction. All is not lost.
Fund Raisers are not in the business out of the goodness of their hearts. Skimming is their main business.
The only difference is, the Asian guy didn't get to say "It is because I am yellow, they are blaming me." And a white man cannot whine, "I wouldn't be being treated like this if I were not white."
Michael Steele, try this. You are incompetent. It is as simple as that. Being black is coincidental. Incompetence does not discriminate.
Matter of fact and matter of skin color, you are not very black. Geez, everyone in Texas once claimed to be one quarter Cherokee. God knows why. Now everyone with a sixteenth
or thirty-secondth or a shot glassful of black blood is BLACK and painfully sensitive about it. It gets them where they are going but when they get there they use it as an excuse!
Racism is being perpetuated by Blacks because it is a strong crutch to lean on. They can't take "yes" for an answer.
EXAMPLE: Years ago I worked for a major airline. We had a young black woman new hire in our department. She was given the job not because of her office skills but because we had a quota to meet. A major portion of her morning was spent blending about 16 shades of lipstick and doing her make-up at the desk. Let a white gal try that day in, day out and she would have the supervisor tapping his pencil on her desk, saying "That's what your break time's for..."
She asked me to submit a medical claim for her, citing that "Insurance kept sending it back, denied, because "I think my badge number it's because my file number is coded FEMALE NEGRO" I said, "Where on earth did you get a notion like that?" She said,"It's right there - FN XXXX." I said "Mine says FN, too. It means File Number. Your claim is being returned to you because you sre not subimiting it properly." I wanted to say get the damn black chip off your shoulder, your in the Affirmative Action Big Leagues now. When she got miffed at being counseled about her work habits, she said she could have the Panthers out there with a phone call. I did say, "Good Luck with them getting past the guard at the gate. The FAA says who goes through - and it ain't the Panthers."
When she walked in the room, people saw a good looking, arrogant and bone lazy black woman, gettin' away with it. We had our share of incompetent young white women - some willing to learn, some not. And if they didn't, they didn't pass probation. Guess who did?.
ince when is $20,000 walking around money . I was, because $40 of that was mine once.
esprit d'escalier| 4.9.10 @ 10:50PM
that last wandering line fell from somewhere - I was remarking that $40 of the $20,000 frolic at Voyeur might have been mine - and it is the last dime RNC will ever see of mine.
Yosemeti Sam| 4.10.10 @ 12:55AM
What color is - honesty?
What color is - character?
What color is - integrity?
Mr. Steele, what color is - manhood?
What you are is a cry-baby!
And what color is that?
Richard Baker| 4.10.10 @ 7:30AM
When I was in the Army, I had a senior NCO, who just happened to be black, tell me that "Being a jerk doesn't have a color" when the Army was struggling with race problems in the '70s. Sound advice and that which encapsulates Michael Steele.
martin j smith| 4.10.10 @ 8:30AM
The question that remains unanswered is this: Who ( politically ) is Micheal Steele ) ? I am very troubled by his use of the race card and this sadly throws suspicion on his motives on his loyalties and interests . If he is willing to make a bru ha ha about race within the Republican Party--that means to cause a fracture, embarassment or divisive condition--I would strongly suspect that Steele is no Conservative and not a Republican--At best a RINO at worst a fake and imposter.
Pingback| 4.10.10 @ 10:47AM
Michael Steele’s House of Race Cards « What Would Obama Do? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
suzy f.| 4.10.10 @ 11:02AM
The truth of the matter is the RNC gave him the job ONLY because he is black. He is now being criticized because he is incompetent, not the other way around.
martin j smith| 4.10.10 @ 12:06PM
Suzyf. If you are right, then the Republicans involved are pandering fools and did a disservice to many.
But, having said that the question still is: Who ( politically ) is Micheal Steele ?
Oldefarte| 4.10.10 @ 12:51PM
I'm so sick and tired of all this BULLEXCREMENT concerning race, I could PUKE! The use of race on either side is simply AN EXCUSE FOR ONE'S FAILURES [I can't do this, that or the other because of RACISM]. Be a man [or a woman] and compete. It's been a level playing field since 1954's Bown vs. Bd. of Education SC decision, so get off your ars and quit using the phoney racism excuse as something to hide behind. Is Tiger Woods restricted in golf? Is Ophah Winfrey restricted in entertainment? Obviously Barack Obama is not restricted in politics! Racism is just an EXCUSE to sit on your lazy ars and acompolish absolutely in life. Speaking of RACISM, I find it very cureous indeed that Obama HAS NOT traveled to West Virginia to console the grieving families of the dead miners. In fact, it's more than cureous, it's SHAMEFUL. If the disaster was another Katrina somewhere, he's be in the middle of it [John Edwards style] moaning and groaning over the loss of life. Talk about RACISM???????????
Mike Rogers| 4.11.10 @ 11:21AM
I love old curmudgeons - you're bang on the money, sir!
I wonder if Obama's absence from WV is because of racism or because that he can't abide anything to do with coal - you don't think his enquiry into the accident is anything but looking for excuses to close some mines, do you?
Oldefarte| 4.11.10 @ 3:20PM
Oh hell no, the MORONS running the country are already screaming IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT style by claiming lack of governmental regulation for this disaster. Obama will no doubt send Jarrett down to WV with here Chicago-style hard hat to close those filty old coal mines, since they are such a threat to his clean energy, cap & TAX policies. Or maybe he'll send Acorn recruiters to tax-advise them on the evils of prostitution and coal mine operations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Girl Friday| 4.10.10 @ 2:03PM
Mr. Steele's excuse(s) to the main stream media's delight for his numerous failings is moral relativism at it worst. "We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." And may we remind Mr. Steele of the first tenant of being a Republican is 'PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.' Why he made the pathetic cry of "the color of my skin" rather than pointing out his failure as head of the RNC? Because claiming to be a victim of racism changes the dialogue from the real issue at hand: WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY DONATED TO THE RNC GONE TO.......SIR! Indeed Mr. Steele can be compared to our rapacious President, he too is living large off the gratuitousness of hard working American's. My final word to Mr. Steele: don your SCARLET LETTER sir if you must, but not under the Republican Banner as you are a traitor to our principles.
Oldefarte| 4.11.10 @ 3:36PM
Someone once said, TO ERR IS HUMAN, AND TO FORGIVE IS DEVINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Answers1| 4.11.10 @ 3:52AM
Steele's idiotic comments prove that affirmative action creates losers.
Sissy Wiillis | 4.11.10 @ 9:59AM
Obama used the race card way back in December of 2006, when he in effect called me a racist, but the media weren't interested. As I blogged back then:
“Are some voters not going to vote for me because I’m African-American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn’t vote for me because of my politics,” Barack Obama told ecstatic New Hampshire voters yesterday. Being one of those voters who probably wouldn't vote for him because of his politics, we were naturally offended at his suggestion that people like us are racists. Swept up in the locals' devotional hysteria, however, the media didn't seem to notice. Folks hear what they want to hear.
Mike Rogers| 4.11.10 @ 11:17AM
Deeply saddened that it is working out this way.
Prior to his selection for the RNC, I was a big believer in Michael Steele - he's a great speaker (no prompter required), more conservative than most, and seemed to have a good set of policies.
Instead, we get behind the scenes stories of sniping, leaks about leadership and spending style, and mysteriously no party platform from the RNC, but a book containing one from the chairman.
I think there's more going on at the RNC than just the Michael Steele circus, but he got where he is based on his abilities and probably a desire to have a really good black spokesperson for the party - to complain that it's tough to be black rings hollow. Those of us observing are judging his words, actions, and results - coffers running low, profligate spending, and the race card don't impress.
Meanwhile, very little of my money is going to the RNC, the NRSC have ticked me off, again, and instead I'm giving generously to Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, Heritage, DeMint's PAC, my state Party, and good candidates that I learn about.
matt gordon md| 4.11.10 @ 12:03PM
One wonders if Michael Steele and Jessie Jackson both took the same public speaking course. After listening to both at different times, they start out interesting, as if something reasonable is forthcoming. But quickly confusion takes over, they are going down some convoluted barely coherent path yet sounding confident and emphatic in their rhetoric, annoyed that the listener hasn't been able to defy logic to keep up with them. At least Jessie, for the most part, is motivated by a desire to better the community and opportunity for blacks and deserves his due credit. Steele, well, Steele just needs to get real.
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Osamas Pajamas| 4.11.10 @ 2:31PM
I can only fault Steele on the expenditures of others in the RNC - he or a subordinate should have been vastly more tight-fisted and expenditures for certain classes of goods and services should have been clearly forbidden. The war is on, the game is afoot, and just a handful of jerks can make the Republicans look like the usual sleazy Democrats. Asleep at the wheel, anyone? As for the race card, I can say only that a black man must be steadfast in adherence to whatever his principles may be and not be deflected from them by racists or by racial issues. There will always be racists within every race. Get over it and "move on."
Oldefarte| 4.11.10 @ 3:31PM
AMEN and RIGHT ON, let's move on. He should not have taken the bait of the reporter's question concerning RACISM, but he did [due to his sensitivities as a balack man, no doubt]. I still say [even though he needs to get serious about his job of administrating and managing the RNC] that he's strikes back at Democrats in hard and fast/scorched earth fashion [which other previous chairmen have not done due to PC concerns]; and that Republicans have won big in Virginia, NJ and Massachusetts [and are projected to be big winners in November]. Steele has made mistakes [of his own admission]; but he's done a damned good job overall; and if he facilitates a Republican congress in November, he deserves our appreciation and thank-you's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David| 4.12.10 @ 10:24AM
To those defending Steele, what evidence is there that he had anything whatsoever to do with selecting the candidates to run, financially supporting them, or with winning the elections in VA, MA, and NJ?
Forgive him, yes, if this were the first time it happened; but Steele has a pattern of playing the race card. That is the last thing the repub party needs.
Again, if he can't raise more money than he spends, there is no money with which to support repub candidates. Anyway, I say skip giving to the RNC, the senatorial campaign committee, the house of reps election committee, and give directly to the the most conservative candidates in all of the races. Why go through a middleman and risk them your money to RINO's? It makes no sense.
Oldefarte| 4.13.10 @ 11:16AM
Haley Barbour and I resonate from the same stompin' grounds; but name me one candidate he selected and supported that made a previous historical difference in our current situation now? Ginguich did great work with the CONTRACT WITH AMERICA, but why are we now representated by a Harvard lawyer/street hustler from Chicago; a moronic and senile DADDY'S GIRL radically liberal from SF; and a imbicilic corrupt opportunist from Navada? GET OVER STEELE and MOVE ON [as Haley proclaimed rightfully]. To do otherwise and pi*&, moan and groan about Steele and his racism remarks will only create Republican division and A VICTORY TO THE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS that are currently in charge of this country!!!!!!!!!!
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