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Michael Steele agrees to be neutered by his masters at the RNC

This is just a sad minstrel show at this point. Why is Michael Steele continually allowing himself to be publicly humiliated? Does the job of Top Tool pay that well?

RNC Chair Michael Steele has reached an agreement with dissident party members to work through their differences over proposed rules that would rein in his power to spend GOP money, Republican Party of Wisconsin Chair Reince Priebus told WisPolitics.

Several RNC members introduced the resolutions in the name of good governance, but Steele backers have bristled as the proposals, dismissing them as an attempt to undercut the chair’s authority.

...Priebus told WisPolitics later Friday night that Steele was willing to live with rules that help reinforce the transparency that Steele has been trying to instill in the party since taking over.

“But Michael is not going to be handcuffed,” Priebus said.

It’s more like he’ll have a Taser pointed at him by party folks to keep him in line. Steele, for his part, would only say

“Those who still want to wallow in name-calling and blaming and finger-pointing are welcome to do that. But they can do that without me.”

Just pitiful.

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* Uh oh—RNC’s Steele may lose control of party purse strings

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 06:10 PM • (25) Comments

Why is Michael Steele continually allowing himself to be publicly humiliated? Does the job of Top Tool pay that well?

Yes.
SATSQ, vol MMCLXII

Comment #1: Zifnab  on  05/04  at  06:24 PM

Can you imagine someone on the other side calling President Obama a “minstrel show”?

We don’t have to imagine…

www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/04/barf_obama_hold.html

Comment #2: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood  on  05/04  at  06:28 PM

Why is Michael Steele continually allowing himself to be publicly humiliated? Does the job of Top Tool pay that well?

We are talking about a guy who was paid a salary by the Maryland GOP to be their Lt. Gov candidate.

Comment #3: Redshift  on  05/04  at  06:34 PM

Can you imagine someone on the other side calling President Obama a “minstrel show”?

Point 1: Michael Steele himself is not being referred to as a “minstrel show”, but rather the whole pathetic charade wherein the real powers that be of the Republican party (who are overwhelmingly white) are stripping him of his power bit by bit and turning him into a sad, humiliated, parody of what he’s supposed to be.  Reading comprehension; ur doing it wrong.

Point 2: Members of a group are “allowed” to use language that outsiders are not.  A few weeks ago, someone on this site accused me of racism for making a “drunken Irishman” joke, but that accusation was retracted when I explained that I, myself, am Irish.  In the same way, if Alan Keyes or Michael Steele referred to Obama’s administration as “a minstrel show”, it wouldn’t generate nearly the kind of outrage it would if, say, Newt Gingrich said it.  It would be pretty absurd if they did, though.  The point?  Pam is African-American.  She can use that language if she damn well pleases.

Point 3: I know that you believe “side” trumps everything; that we’ll excuse something from one of our own that we’d jump all over if it was someone from your side.  Sorry to disappoint you, but we’re not you.  If you last too much longer before you get banned, you’ll see the kind of nasty arguments that can get going among us when someone says something stupid.

Comment #4: Seraph  on  05/04  at  06:39 PM

I’m sure this latest diss is going to make the GOP even more appealing among Blacks and other minority voters.

Comment #5: CParis  on  05/04  at  06:40 PM

I’m sure this latest diss is going to make the GOP even more appealing among Blacks and other minority voters.

The GOP’s respect for black leadership is really quite awesome.

Comment #6: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood  on  05/04  at  06:46 PM

Does the job of Top Tool pay that well?

It appears that in 2002, the RNC chair’s salary was $150,000 a year.  That’s a pretty good base to start from, then add all the perqs, the various slush funds he gets to control, and the millions he stands to make as a lobbyist once his term is up.  Steele has the added luxury of actually believing some of his own bullshit.  YMMV, but my guess is a lot of people would prostitute themselves for less.

Comment #7: BABH  on  05/04  at  06:55 PM

If Steele had an ounce of self-respect, he’d resign rather than allow himself to be treated like the RNC’s trained seal.

Comment #8: CHV  on  05/04  at  06:56 PM

Given that he no longer gets to play with the slush funds, I bet the job has just got a whole lot less appealing.

Comment #9: kaninchen  on  05/04  at  07:08 PM

What the hell is the point of having a national committee chair who can’t use the party’s money?  Putting on song and dance shows might be the only power left to Steele.

Comment #10: Jrod  on  05/04  at  07:09 PM

“Franklin Raines” is even more boring than the late “Dodge Ram”.

Comment #11: Ben D.  on  05/04  at  07:11 PM

Let’s hear it for Frankie

Frankie teardrop
Frankie’s dead

(screams)

Frankie’s lying in Hell

Comment #12: Lee Brimmicombe-Wood  on  05/04  at  07:18 PM

What’s so wrong with calling him a “Nego,” Frank?

Comment #13: Sadie Morrison  on  05/04  at  07:32 PM

“What’s so wrong with calling him a “Nego,” Frank? “

Nothing, Sadie Morrison.  If I recall correctly it’s the Croation word for “better than”.

Comment #14: seeker6079  on  05/04  at  07:35 PM

Nice Suicide reference Lee Brimmicombe-Wood!

I first read the comment as “Lego” and was puzzled for a moment. I think Frankie is trying so frantically to be the first to post that editing goes by the wayside, but perhaps that is too generous of an analysis.

This move just strikes me as strange. Perhaps this is a way to subvert (or at least obscure) this so-called transparancy to which Steele laughingly refers.

Comment #15: HooksInMyHead  on  05/04  at  07:44 PM

Can you imagine someone on the other side calling President Obama a “minstrel show”?

Not convincingly. It takes a certain level of talent in “stepping and fetching” to earn the title of minstrel/Uncle Tom, and Obama doesn’t even come close to Steele (heck, Uncle Ruckus doesn’t come close to Steele).

But as Lee points out, “the other side” (i.e. your side) certainly tries its best.

Comment #16: Gracchus.  on  05/04  at  08:28 PM

Can you imagine someone on the other side calling President Obama a “minstrel show”?

I’m guessing you live in that alternate reality where the GOP didn’t pass around a video called “Barrack the Magic Negro” during the campaign, and therefore it’s hard for you to imagine what has already happened in this reality.

Comment #17: Keith  on  05/04  at  09:05 PM

Frankie:

Can you imagine someone on the other side calling President Obama a “minstrel show”?

I don’t really have to imagine it, since you folks spent pretty much the entire national campaign doing exactly that.

Physician, heal thyself.

Comment #18: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster  on  05/04  at  09:41 PM

Frankie:

You know damn well that Steele is a figurehead, a caricature like Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes. The choice of the term “minstrel show” is perfectly appropriate, since the minstrel show always relied on degrading stereotypes. Steele serves no purpose to the GOP establishment, and now the racist extremists realize that this half-baked excuse for a Putney Swope has hurt them even more than if they’d just picked another rich white guy.

Comment #19: BrianX  on  05/04  at  09:49 PM

YMMV, but my guess is a lot of people would prostitute themselves for less.

I’d take hooker over RNC Chairman any day.  At least, as a hooker, you can conceivable choose your clientele.  Servicing El Rushbo night after night?  Nooooooo thank you.

Comment #20: Zifnab25  on  05/05  at  12:42 AM

Why not just call in a “Nego” while you’re at it?

They prefer the term “Yuggoth-American” you insensitive clod.

You right wingers are all alike. You talk about respect for people of faith, but a fungoid man who worships the Black Goat Of The Woods With A Thousand Young demands some simple respect and dignity, and you start throwing around slurs.

You sicken me.

Comment #21: karpad  on  05/05  at  02:32 AM

And…another Pan-Dagon thread goes Cthulu.

Victory!

Comment #22: Caren-Sun-blocking Creator of Animorphic Pancakes  on  05/05  at  11:52 AM

Well, right now the GOP’s behavior is about as bizarre as a Cthulhu cult….so go figure….

Comment #23: CHV  on  05/05  at  06:49 PM

about as bizarre as a Cthulhu cult.

It’s been like that for a while, you don’t know what the merciful heavens spared us from:

McCain still lives, too, I suppose, again in that chasm of media complacency which has shielded him since the Vietnam War ended. His accursed campaign is sunken once more, else Bill Kristol wouldn’t call for a restart; but his ministers on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in red states. He must have been trapped by the sinking polls within his black abyss, or else the press would by now be screaming with fright and frenzy. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in his visions of victory, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.

Comment #24: Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein  on  05/05  at  09:46 PM
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