Tag Archives: Michael Steele

The GOP has found their scapegoat. The Republican National Committee is cutting ties with a staffer who treated a group of donors to an after party at a bondage-themed club in West Hollywood. The event was expensed for nearly $2,000 and also cost the unnamed employee a job. Some members of the GOP had already called for the resignation of …

Yeah, that headline is correct. RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s expense reports reveal some rather interesting expenditures. While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily …

RNC chairman Michael Steele doesn’t want a government-run health care program. He wants to protect Medicare. Which is a….anyone?

Keith Olbermann rips apart Michael Steele’s claim that gay marriage costs small businesses money.

GOP head Michael Steele, speaking to the Georgia Republican Convention: “Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay …

GOP head Micheal Steele found Barack Obama’s ribbing of him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to be “good love between two brothers.”

GOP head Michael Steele is denying the widening perception that the Republican party has hopelessly splintered into ineffective factions. Steele feels that the party is regrouping and has seen the worst of its internal divisiveness. But check out his words. He says the GOP has “bottomed and we hope that’s the case. But whether or not you’ve bottomed or not, …

On Saturday, Sirius XM host Michelangelo Signorile debated FL GOP head Jim Greer about the role of minorities in the Republican party and the leadership of RNC chair Michael Steele. Fascinating stuff.

As if he wasn’t in enough trouble with the all the back and forth with defacto GOP head Rush Limbaugh, nominal GOP head Michael Steele has now totally signed his own death warrant. From an interview with GQ, as reported by Political Wire: On if women have the right to choose an abortion: “Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s …

After weathering a storm of criticism for saying that the Republican Party should reach out to gay voters, RNC chairman Michael Steele said yesterday that the GOP would not budge on LGBT rights, calling even the consideration of civil unions “crazy.” From a radio interview with Mike Gallagher: GALLAGHER: Is this a time when Republicans ought to consider some sort …

Meghan McCain, the flashy socialite daughter of Sen. John McCain, will address the opening session of this year’s Log Cabin Republicans convention. John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, 24, has agreed to headline the annual convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP group which advocates on behalf of gays and lesbians. “Her willingness to reach out to organizations like ours …