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RNC Weakens Steele's Spending Ability
It's been a bad day for RNC chairman Michael Steele, with his authority having now been seriously weakened.
The Republican National Committee has now imposed new controls on Steele's spending, requiring him to set up competitive bidding on contracts costing over $100,000 and to get a second signature on those contracts.
The RNC also also voted to postpone until January any vote on the formation of a special ethics committee, which Steele had proposed as a way to ensure transparency. "My concern is with members appointed by the chairman, as he wanted to do, you potentially don't have the transparency he promised when running for chairman," said North Dakota chairman Gary Emineth.
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How emasculating.
July 31, 2009 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
How emasculating.
July 31, 2009 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
It turns out the second signature required is Alan Keyes.
Competitive bids? Republicans? Really? I guess they care when it's their money.
July 31, 2009 9:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The world is full of idiots. The Republican Party has many more than its share. Michael Steele is one of them. Apparently the party is afraid that Mr. Steele can't add, or that he's not to be trusted, or both. Remember this is the guy about who the Baltimore Sun editorial board wrote in 2006, when he was running for lieutenant governor on a losing ticket headed by Bob Ehrlich, that Steele brought "little to the team but the color of his skin,"(many of Maryland's voters are black). And, two years later, in his losing Senate campaign, the Washington Post's editorial board noted that "Despite his efforts to constuct an image as an independent-minded newcomer, there is nothing in Michael Steele's past -- no achievement, no record, no evidence and certainly no command of the issues -- to support it." I'd hoped that Steele had found his level of idiocy as Republican National Chairman. But apparently even that job is too much for him.
July 31, 2009 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget he's a darky! The Republicans can't trust him with money.
July 31, 2009 11:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please...for once I don't think there's a racial aspect to this...dude is just incompetent.
August 1, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You really think that? Oh man, we are in deeper doo-doo than I thought. There are only 3 certainties in the good ol' U.S.A.
1. Race is at the heart of everything.
2. Sex is the backdrop for everything
3 Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and powerful people use sex and race as tools to seize even more power.
August 2, 2009 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does he even need any money? He's described his job recently as being the guy who establishes themes and frames narratives. If I had a big media venue of my own, I'd help him out and have him on for interviews every week free of charge.
July 31, 2009 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
The GOP is worried Steele could egage in reverse descrimination (you know how those people are) if not given proper supervision.
To make sure he performs his propper role as GOP figure head he is being fitted for a nice satin jockey suit complete with a little cap and a iron ring to hold.
August 1, 2009 4:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wouldn't have been easier for the Repugs to just put blackface makeup on Mitt Romney and make him the head of the RNC?
August 1, 2009 6:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't care about the money, just let him keep talking.
August 1, 2009 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is pure economic stupidity at its best.
Must watch this clip.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2369
August 1, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
since when did the republicans give a rat's ass about competitive bidding? competition is BAD. just ask the insurance companies that own them.
oh, wait, this isn't taxpayer money? its RNC money? oh, that is a different matter entirely. stop buying him shampoo. he can get that at any hotel.
August 2, 2009 12:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Michael Steele never had any power to begin with. He was hand picked because old white republican leaders think that people are too stupid to see through their Jim Crow tactics. They are almost as bad as roaches. They just refused to die off.
August 2, 2009 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha Ha.
August 2, 2009 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Steele was elected because he convinced enough Republicans that the country was going through a "men of color" stage and that another "man of color" would be in the best position to counteract Obama's popularity with the masses. Kinda of like "we have one too."
He didn't sell them on a 'need to change,' just the image of a black man as chairman of the RNC.
The fact that the bought what he was selling suggest several possibilities.
1) That Republicans believe Obama to be image and of little content.
2) Republicans believe that the public's infatuation with Obama is/was based on image and little content.
3) That image alone could get them to change their current downward trajectory.
August 2, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink