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Subscribe to RSSThe race for head of the Republican National Committee got another candidate this morning.
Former Missouri GOP Chairwoman Ann Wagner announced in a video that she is getting in. Her entry had been widely rumored for the past two weeks.
"2012 is going to be a challenging cycle," she says in the video. "The RNC needs to be funded to its maximum obligations. We must be efficient, relevant, professional, and credible. We must start immediately to erase past debt, and to restore the confidence of our donor base."
She adds, "Fundraising must come first. We also must have greater transparency and accountability when it comes to the RNC's budget and expenditures."
All are thinly veiled references to current RNC Chairman Michael Steele's tenure. Steele has not yet announced whether he will run for reelection.
Wagner, who is also a former RNC co-chair and, most recently, chaired Roy Blunt's successful Senate campaign in Missouri, also says in the video, "We need to get back to basics."
In addition to money, she touts microtargeting, field operations, but also a more personal side.
"Yes I'm a political operative," she says, "but more than that I'm a devoted wife and mother from the middle of America."
She adds, "Like you, I am deeply concerned about the direction our left-wing adversaries are taking this country. Our freedoms and values are under assault. I'm concerned about soaring spending, massive debt, punitive tax increases, and an expansive government that seeks to control our businesses, communities, and families."
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Well the token black guy hasn't worked out to well for them...
Might as well give a token woman a try... shall we?
WTF???? Who are you to even suggest someone is a token. Your hidden racism is starting to come out. I knew you could not hide it forever.
I peeped your weak azz from day 1. I know, I know "but my best friend is black and I have many black friends."
Go ahead and say what you really want to say. I know your turning cherry red holding that word on your tongue.
Calm down ITM... The only reason Michael Steele was promoted to that position was because *gasp* he's black!
You're Feisty Redhead Fan Club Membership Card is in the mail!
Although... we have rules against peeping... lmao
Feisty
WTF???? Who are you to even suggest someone is a token. Your hidden racism is starting to come out. I knew you could not hide it forever.
Calm down ITM... The only reason Michael Steele was promoted to that position was because *gasp* he's black!
You're Feisty Redhead Fan Club Membership Card is in the mail!
Although... we have rules against peeping... lmao
Mehinks IntheMiddle, TX maybe a token brainwashed right winger and is hiding behind his Black on white recriminations.
IntheMiddle, TX you just committed another cardinal sin.
”Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson quote
The only thing you missed Bev... was ANGRY... token brainwashed right winger... lol
Hope you had a great Turkey Day!
Feisty
The only thing you missed Bev... was ANGRY... token brainwashed right winger... lol
Hope you had a great Turkey Day!
Oh snap, I forgot that is his “otherness”.
Yes I have a nice Turkey day. I hope you did too.
bev - Don't be to surprised if the seeds you sow come up as stunted and withered plants, incapable of creating fertile seeds for the next planting. ref post 1.3
I'm not angry. My life is GOOD and SATISFYING..... I laugh at you ignorant switches everyday.
This woman actually said "we must be....credible..."?
What, she's going to single-handedly get rid of John Boehner and Eric Cantor, and then disassociate the GOP from Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck, and THEN have it (the GOP) actually put 'country first'??
This I gotta see. Male or female, white or black or 'other'- this I GOTTA see!!.
In the Middle, TX...You've got to understand, Feisty and Bev fancy themselves......informed and politically "knowledgable". They think mediamatters and think progress are legitamate sources.
So, don't be surprised when they slip and say something like "token black", they can't comprehend that they've made a freudian slip. They will simply gloss over it and resort to calling you names. it's their M.O.
They live by a double standard to which you and I are not welcomed to unless we see things their way. They think of this thread as their own personal editorial page. I think they actually believe they are "columnists".
True American
"They live the double standard....not welcomed to unless we see things their way"
Did you just screw up and define the "Republican Party"? or was that intentional?
You know - "the whole "Republican Big Tent"....where all minorities are welcome....provided they go around the back and put on the aprons!
Double standards - lmao.....you just epitomized the dialogue of the conservative movement!
Steele is not going out the back door;unless he is pointed to it. At least I hope not. He is a really stupid Republican/Tea Bagger
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Maya Angelou quote
IntheMiddle, TX
I'm not angry. My life is GOOD and SATISFYING..... I laugh at you ignorant switches everyday.
Now, how you gone call me a switch? I told you you we have have a distant relationship. I haven't changed.
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Anyone who thinks Michael Steele was anything less than a "TOKEN" for the REPUBLIKLANS has his/her
head so far up their a$$ that they should now be on life support. However, they [KLANS] now have Mr.
West and he has a higher security clearance than the POTUS...bet that means a lot to his friends on the
right...(HA)!
There you go with the all black Republicans are stupid azz n..... You smearing this man and don't know shyt about him.
Where have your simple butt served?
All black people are not monolithic, there are some that are able to freely think amongst us.
Last I remember, the ex- Grand Wizard was a "big hat" boy of the Democrat party serving in Congress.
Take your simple butt somewhere and sit down. "Flick..off of my shoulder"
ITM- you saying the GOP isn't above a stunt like tokenism? Hell, man- just look at what they ran on the ticket in '08. And no, I'm not talking about old man McCain.
"Yes I'm a ruthless and satanic excuse for a human being, but more than that I'm a devoted wife and mother from the middle of America."
That's right Citizen. When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.
You're just another hater with no real answers except insulting drivel.
At Thanksgiving dinner in my family, the talk turned (briefly) to politics, to which one of my relatives contributed a single observation: "Republicans are idiots."
Now, listen. My relative is a church-goer, over the age of 60, with the highest income at our table, a person who never went to a protest march in his life, in other words, what USED to be the very definition of a Republican. And he thinks "Republicans are idiots." (thank you Michael Steele and Sarah Palin.) Furthermore, my other relative, a Tea Partier, when congratulated for his movement's winning Maine's gubernatorial race, opined that it won't make any difference, and government is useless anyway...in other words, his candidate won the election, and he doesn't care! Clearly, Libertarians make poor supporters. Obamamanics had more staying power. Mark my words, the GOP is in bigger trouble than they realize.
Wow, a person who thinks "republicans are idiots". Me too, but I also think democrats are idiots.
Imagine someone in New England that would have less than kind words for repubs. Stunning, stunning I tell you.
Having little anecdotal sayings about repubs or tea partiers doesn't negate the overwhjelming losses the dems incurred. So, who is in trouble?
Amy, Portland. I agree about the republican party--they are in more trouble than they will admit.
Boehner and McConnell will have difficulty with the Tea Partiers they embraced whole-heartedly simply because of their enthusiasm. Voters put Congress and particularly newly elected republicans on probation for two years. If they fail, they will be thrown out as quickly as they were elected. It is easy to forget that most of the republican wins were strictly based on frustration with the economy and a hope that if republicans shared power, they might actually work to help the economy.
kirby in Idaho. Why do you and other like you use the word "haters". From what I have read and seen in the last few years, the Republicans are the "haters". I happen to like my life, I will change America at voting time. I will help get rid of the Republicans "haters". I don't think I hate anyone who has threatened to take my country away from me. I just want them pushed back into the hole they came from.
Did the word "haters" for any other person become popluar before the Palins. And just because someone is a middle class mother and working does not make them all that intelligent. Look what party she belongs to. But, she can go after Steele. He's black, she's white and that people is what the Republicans are looking at.
To all of you "Progressives" out there...(you know Feisty, bev, Driveby, John B., etc.)
Why don't we get down to the bottom line and see if any of you are truly interested on "fixing" this country.
Which ones of you would:
Support a constitutional amendment to limit terms for Congress and the Senate
Support a constitutional amendment that requires a balanced budget.
Support cuts to entitlement programs (you know, the things that are breaking our backs)
If you understand anything about the beauty and actual simplicity of our country, then you would support all of these things.
Entitlements aren't the things that are breaking our backs, it is two unfunded wars coupled with unsustainable tax cuts. Did republicans ask the American people to sacrifice to fight the wars? No, they charged it. You speak of entitlements yet it was the GOP who passed an unfunded Rx Program Medicare thereby harming the sytem financially and the GOP charged that bill also. Every piece of legislation from 2001-2006 was passed by the GOP majority without funding it. Social security is not an entitlement, we pay into it. It is so easy to simply blame the programs that help the elderly, the poor, the disabled as being the cause of our problems.
I would support cutting military spending by 30% and reducing the number of military bases overseas. The beauty and simplicity of this country never intended a military industrial complex nor did our founding fathers intend we become the protectors of the world while those countries pay nothing for it.
Instead of federal pensions, every legislator and government worker participates in social security.
Democrats proposed a balanced budget bill, republicans voted against it. Having something Constitutionally amended ties the hands of every future Congress and President in times of economic recession/depression, unexpected disasters, wars, catastrophic events.
You propose term limits. What exactly will that do for the country except replace people every few years. If we do not eliminate the influence of lobbyists, we just get new people for them to wine and dine.
If you understand anything about the beauty and actual simplicity of our country, then you know that all of that beauty and acutal simplicity takes money. If you understand that it is tax money, and if you understood that if not for the Federal Taxes you would be paying a bundle more on city, county and state taxes.
If you are truly interested in "fixing" this country, then do something constructive, like care for the country instead of your "purse".
Jody STOP!!! Speaking logicially and factually will only confuse Mr./Mrs. TRUE American! Our military budget is now $623 BILLION bucks! The next largest is China's @ $63 BILLION!! Our flippN military budget is LARGER then ALL of the other countries that inhabit this earth COMBINED!!!
So now, you will probably be called un-American or worse by TRUE American because you mentinoned cutting military spending!!
Florida Negro...Well I guess the Repubs have used Steele for the outraged election of Obama-A black man! I mean as racist as the party members are surely a black GOP man can insult a black president better than a the white majority in their party. Now that they have demonized this black president to their advantage they do not need Steele anymore. I am going to sit back with popcorn and see how this token game GOP plays so well... plays out. I can not wait!!
True American-2366567
To all of you "Progressives" out there...(you know Feisty, bev, Driveby, John B., etc.)
First you need to know what elections are for before you talk about amendments.
Amending the United States Constitution is no small task. You rabid righties are not gonna get two-thirds majority in both houses of the legislature for the bill. Neither will you get a Constitutional Convention called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States or approved by three-fourths of the legislatures or conventions for it.
There's the Humphrey-Hawkins Act
The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act[1] (known informally as the Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act), is an act of legislation by the United States government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey-Hawkins_Full_Employment_Act
A bill to establish and translate into practical reality the right of all adult Americans able, willing, and seeking to work to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation; to combine full employment, production, and purchasing power goals with proper attention to balanced growth and national priorities; to mandate such national economic policies and programs as are necessary to achieve full employment, production, and purchasing power; to restrain inflation; and to provide explicit machinery for the development and implementation of such economic policies and programs.
An Act to translate into practical reality the right of all Americans who are able, willing, and seeking to work to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation; to assert the responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable programs and policies to promote full employment, production, and real income, balanced growth, adequate productivity growth, proper attention to national priorities, and reasonable price stability; to require the President each year to set forther explicit short-term and medium-term economic goals; to achieve a better integration of general and structural economic policies; and to improve the coordination of economic policymaking within the Federal Government.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d095:HR00050:@@@L#status
Thus far, no republican has done any of that for the balancing since Raygun and the 2 Bushes!!
I asked you a straight forward question...Do YOU support these constitutional amendments?
Don't tell me that We the People can't get two thirds majority or conventions to pass them. It is our DUTY as American citizens to make them do it...They work for US! A major reason we have the corruption on both sides of the aisle that we have now is because elected officials get in there and make a 50 year career out of it. That is NOT how it is supposed to be. It breeds corruption. So, I ask YOU again...
Do YOU support a constitutional amendment to limit terms of Congress and the Senate?
True American-2366567
I asked you a straight forward question...Do YOU support these constitutional amendments?
No wonder people call tea Baggers dumb. Can't you read?
Hell Naw! A balanced budget is already on the books; but dumb tea bagger listen to the bullsh!t republicans feed you. Why the hell don't you people work towards that instead saying "No"? Yes, would benefit this country in most cases; checks and balances are for take care of it; except in this Congress.
That's what neo-cons do. They are only interested in wars and shadow government in other countries; bleeding this country dry; just to make the democrats look bad. Isn't it funny how you ignoramuses don't even listen to the CBO? Your back will really be broken if you righties all fall off a bridge, die from food contamination, have no police to protect you and the list goes on and on for dis-establishment clones of multi corporation that don't give a damn about you.
Republican don't think you need anything.
If you can't see what the Koch Brothers, other puppets to the multi-coroporations, and Rove are doing I pity you.
Bev...you are truly ignorant.
You say Hell Naw, you don't support term limits and a balanced budget is already on the books. And you think I'm the ignoramus? Maybe you should listen to the CBO.
What do wars and shadow governments have to do with term limits?
You don't believe 50 years in Washington is too long? What do you think all that "experience" does for them. I'll tell you - it does nothing more than give them "experience in how to circumvent the system, how to funnel more money to their respective states, how to be more and more corrupt. Our system is fairly simple - you read the bill, study the constitutionality of it and vote based on your constituents.
I don't know what you are, but your not a true American.
Leave it to you to judge!
I gotta tell you how hard I laugh every time I see your moniker!
Could you tell us if you chose that to remind yourself OR to try to convince the rest of us? lmfao
True American. Come on, tell us what country are you from or where do you live. What is a true American certainly not you. You get behind the crazies who are now touring the country, and off you go, go, go. What a single minded ? you are.
Feisty
Why don't you answer the question.
Would you support a constitutional amendment to limit congresspersons and reps to a fixed amount of terms?
You all certainly like to gloss over the actual body of my posts....chickens!
We already have term limits...
THEY'RE CALLED ELECTIONS!
You don't believe 50 years in Washington is too long? What do you think all that "experience" does for them. I'll tell you - it does nothing more than give them "experience in how to circumvent the system, how to funnel more money to their respective states, how to be more and more corrupt. Our system is fairly simple - you read the bill, study the constitutionality of it and vote based on your constituents.
So, Feisty,
I guess you would support removing the terms limits for the office of President of the United States.
Cause he gets ELECTED too.
Guilty as charged! I've read enough of your nonsense to know better than to waste my time!
*does chicken dance* lmao
Yea, waste your time trying to rack your brain for why term limits don't make sense.
I'm sure if you check with The Huffington Post, MediaMatters, Think Progress, or Acorn one of them is bound to have the right answer for you. I would say LMFAO but it's just too sad to laugh at.
Listen up True American....40% of the Congress are MILLIONAIRES! Most of these people stopped working the US long ago....Does the Citizens United decision bother you at all?
Of course it bothers me!
I don't tow any party's line. Whether those justices were left leaning or right leaning, they should have never allowed this. That just tells you how far we've strayed as a nation.
BTW...40% of the congress are millionaires because they have been in Washington on the peoples dol for so long with cadillac healthcare and insider tips from their lobbyist that they've been able to invest wisely
So, strongarm...are you OK with the fact that "they stopped working for us long ago"? Do you support term limits?
Being a former Missourian, NEVER EVER elect one of them to an office of power. Need examples? Ashcroft was from Missouri, he ruined the state, then went Nationwide as Bush's Attorney General. (He's the guy who said torture was legal). Carnahans, Blunts, Danforth.... all bad. "Nothin' good ever came out of Missouri" - The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Bev, you say -
you rabid righties are not gonna get....
I'll take that to mean you DON"T support limiting congresspersons or senators to any amount of time. That speaks volumes about who you are. I guess you would support removing the term limits for the presidents too, huh?
BTW - what does that Humphrey-Hawkins act have to do with what we are discussing. Is that more deflection? Are you practicing for politics yourself? (and that bill...is window dressing at best, give me a break)
True American-2366567
Bev, you say -
BTW - what does that Humphrey-Hawkins act have to do with what we are discussing. Is that more deflection? Are you practicing for politics yourself? (and that bill...is window dressing at best, give me a break)
Jobs; can't you read? if you can't understand it go wikipedia will explain it I hope.
Unemployment and inflation levels began to rise in the early 1970s, reviving fears of an economic recession. In the past, the country's economic policy had been defined by the Employment Act of 1946, which encouraged the federal government to pursue "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power" through cooperation with private enterprise. Some Congressmen, dissatisfied with the vague wording of this act, sought to create an amendment that would strengthen and clarify the country's economic policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey-Hawkins_Full_Employment_Act
What do jobs have to do with term limits?
You keep deflecting...job creation has nothing to do with forcing our Senators and Reps to not spend more than we can afford to spend. We can't keep borrowing money from foreign entities to satisfy our insatiable appetite.
Quit talking to me about job creation and tell me why term limits are bad.
I thought this blog was about Ann Wagner, she will do a great job as chair of the RNC
Jody is a democratic idiot. oops, sorry about the redundancy there.