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Friday, January 30, 2009
The Head Mummy
The Mummy Party is supposed to be choosing its Head Mummy today at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. According to The Politico, incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is in the lead, followed by former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, with Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell far back. Former Tennessee Republican Chair Chip Saltsman, he of "Barack the Magic Negro" fame, dropped out of the race yesterday (bless his heart).We're betting on Michael Steele to win. Republicans may feel that they need their OWN magic Negro to counter-balance President Obama.
Not that any of this matters very much. Whoever becomes the new Republican Chair will have to answer to the REAL party boss, Rush Limbaugh, who's already decreed that President Obama must be made to fail at all costs. Madam Virginia Foxx and all the other little Republican foxes in the House instantly obeyed their leader and voted for Obama's failure in the stimulus bill. Even Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia was forced to apologize to The Great One for asking him to pipe down about hoping for Obama's failure. You DO NOT cross the Limbaugh!
All of which is yummy pudding for Rush's fragile ego.
Labels: Michael Steele, National Republican Party, Phil Gingrey, Rush Limbaugh, Virginia Foxx
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Giant Weenie Roast
Rush Limbaugh is riding high, buoyed by his daily ability to be outrageous and get liberals all upset at him so that he can then play the victim of a liberal witch-hunt (uh, make that a "liberal Pillsbury dough-boy hunt").So one day he says he hopes Obama fails.
Then yesterday he said that Republican leaders in Congress were essentially girly men.
This afternoon Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., a very conservative member of the House, shot back and suggested that Limbaugh shut his fat trap. Rather, Gingrey essentially said that Limbaugh is out of touch:
You know you're just on these talk shows, and you're living well, and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of thing.
In other words, Limbaugh's a dilettante? Instead of The Most Important Conservative Philosopher in the History of the Universe?
Labels: Phil Gingrey, Republican "brand", Rush Limbaugh
