Michael Steele's new role: Repug Mob Enforcer

[marmar]

The Republican Party truly does function like an organized crime unit.....



from ThinkProgress:



Steele: Punishing senators who supported stimulus is ‘absolutely on the table.’

Last month, RNC Chairman Michael Steele signaled his willingness to consider retribution against the three Republican senators who supported President Obama’s recovery plan by supporting primary challengers. He reaffirmed that pledge today on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, declaring such punishment is “absolutely on the table.”

INGRAHAM: Will you make good on that pledge that the RNC will not raise money and give money to Republicans who continue to put a stick in the eye of fiscal conservatism?

STEELE: As I said, that is something that is absolutely on the table for me. I’m not backing down from that.

Listen to it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-primary-retribution/


It’s ironic that Steele insisted he was “not backing down,” because directly following Steele’s original statement regarding primary challenges, the RNC walked back his statement in a message to Politico’s Ben Smith, insisting it “has no interest in getting involved in primaries.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/04/steele-primary-retribution/

[Dr Fate]

1. Direct orders from Rush Limbaugh, no doubt. n/t

n/t

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Not one shred of integrity

Let's beat up on the female senators but bow down to Limpy. This has been one entertaining week.

:beer:

[county worker]

3. Seems he's more like the wingnut talk radio host butt kisser.

I don't mean this to be racist so please don't take it that way but,

Talk radio is treating him like "Step and Fetchit"

[Jack_Dawson]

4. He is the ultimate Uncle Tom

unless I'm not remembering the story correctly.

[Tempest]

5. Keli Goff, a Black columnist thinks Steele hurts Blacks

"What's particularly disturbing about this story is that just weeks after Steele spoke about his party's efforts to reach out to minority voters, he became an unfortunate symbol of one of the party's most troubling historic images; the idea of a strong, black man being forced to go hat in hand to a white man, for no other reason than to keep a job that is rightfully his."