Michael Steele Appearance on Joe Scarborough Show Audio of Rush Limbaugh's Return Added

RNC Chairman Michael Steele was just on the Joe Scarborough Show on WABC-AM in New York City, and this is the audio of his appearance. His book is available at Amazon.

Also, Rush Limbaugh will be on the air for the first time since December 23rd, and you can listen at WABC-AM.

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Here is the first segment of today's Rush Limbaugh Show for your enjoyment:

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More on the Democrat Hate Machine

Yesterday, I blogged about a recent email I received using Limbaugh as a boogie man to raise funds. Today, at The American Thinker, Paul Sclichta has gone to the root of the effort to cast Limbaugh as a figure for the lemmings in the Democrat party to hate.

So many Republicans find themselves hating on Limbaugh, too because they are stupid enough to believe the lies from the Legacy Media. Limbaugh is my personal litmus test for me if I want to see if someone is a conservative. If they like him, then they pass that test. If they don't pass the test, then, in my book, they cannot be a conservative. Bottom Line.

It is sad that Michael Steele [see article], Dr. Ada Fisher [see article], and so many other Republicans were made fools of by the Left. I hope that they learn from their mistakes, and move on.

Here is a portion from his article, which inspired me to do the photoshop in this post:

I am ashamed that Republicans are so simple. Like Lucy in Peanuts, Obama has once again offered the Republican Party a football to kick, and, like gullible old Charlie Brown, Republicans tried to kick it and ended up flat on their faces.

Obama's purpose should have been obvious. For the past eight years, the Democrats have made intense and persistent use of the Two Minute Hate technique that George Orwell described in Nineteen Eighty-Four:

The Hate had started. As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen...The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there were none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure...Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party--an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling... Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room ...In its second minute, the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen ...The Hate rose to its climax. The voice of Goldstein had become an actual sheep's bleat, and for an instant the face changed into that of a sheep...

Using this technique, Democrats so successfully conditioned the public to hate George Bush that even Republicans avoided being associated with him. Irrational Anti-Bush hatred was a major factor in Obama's campaign strategy.

Apparently, Obama intends to use the same technique to undermine any future Republican opposition to his plans. As Karl Rove has pointed out, Obama is already attributing false viewpoints and statements to nameless "straw men" whom he identifies as his opponents. This straw man attack may be an attempt to divert attention from the embarrassment of his numerous discredited nominees such as Richardson, Daschle, and Ron Kirk. It may also serve distract the public from noticing that the golden idol of O is beginning to turn green in places.

But this is a rather transparent trick that can't be used for long. With Bush retired from public life, Obama needs a new scapegoat. Evidently, Rush Limbaugh has been chosen. Calling him "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is obviously trying to set up Limbaugh as the next hate icon for the minions of Big Other. Simultaneously, vicious attacks on Limbaugh were launched from several Democratic sources. It has been claimed that Obama's strategists are making an explicit effort to "turn the [image of the] Republican Party into a Limbaughesque caricature."

I have considerable respect for Mr. Limbaugh. He has consistently and incisively attacked Democrats and liberalism with a perception, wit, and showmanship that has earned him 20 million listeners. Moreover, in incidents like the e-mail episode, he has displayed a generosity and sense of humor that contrasts sharply with Obama's meanness and priggish humorlessness. But his caricaturable physical appearance and past drug and marital issues have made him vulnerable to jeering, while his popularity and humor have aroused envy and hysterical hatred in liberal journalists and intellectuals. Thus, he would be an excellent hate-icon replacement for Bush.

Notice that this attempt to iconize Limbaugh puts conservatives in a Morton's fork. If they defend Limbaugh, they will seem to acknowledge that he is the Republicans' leader and make him a hate icon for good. On the other hand, if they deny his importance, they will tend to weaken his valuable influence and cause intra-Republican bickering---which is what seems to have happened.

Source: The American Thinker (Read the whole thing)

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RNC Chairman Steele Weekly Address Feb 7, 2009

RNC Chairman Michael Steele Delivers Weekly Republican Address.

Transcript:

This is Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Democrats have controlled both branches of government for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone to their heads.

For the last two weeks, theyve been trying to force a massive spending bill through Congress under the guise of economic relief.

All of us Republicans and Democrats agree the government must act to kick-start the American economy. American families are doing their best to balance their own budgets and pay their mortgages.

The fastest way to help those families is by letting them keep more of the money they earn. Individual empowerment: thats how you stimulate the economy.

But the Democrats have a different philosophy. Instead of leaving money in the family checkbook, they want to send it to Washington, run it through a slow and inefficient government, and hope that does some good.

When families keep the money, they spend it, save it, or invest it. And the private sector economy benefits when families and businesses buy consumer goods or invest it for the future. But when Washington spends the money, some of it may flow into the economy, but all too often, much gets wasted.

Democrats in Congress want a one-trillion dollar spending bill. Youve heard about the pork-barrel programs they want to fund 45 million dollars for ATV trails and removal of fish passage barriers is one that caught my eye. Exactly what is a fish passage barrier and why does it cost 45 million dollars to stimulate the economy with it?

Thats why Republicans in the House voted against uncontrolled spending. This is not a bragging point, but rather a statement that at least Republicans would stand with the American taxpayer.

But voting no is not enough and Republicans have offered innovative ideas to help struggling families and small businesses. Weve offered plans to spark job creation and investment through lower taxes, to stop the taxation of unemployment benefits, and to help Americans keep their jobs and their homes.

The comprehensive Republican plan would lower taxes for all working American families. If youre married, the first 16,750 dollars you make this year will be taxed at ten percent. Why dont we cut that rate in half to give instant buying power to every working American family?

Good ideas lots of them all left out of this plan by the Democrats in Congress.

Republicans stand ready to work with reasonable Democrats to do what is right for America.

But it will take more than bipartisan words from the President. It will require fair-minded action from Democrats in Congress.

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Michael Steele Selected RNC Chairman!!!

According to my twitterfeeds...Michael Steele has been selected the new Chairman of the RNC after six rounds of voting. 

In case you do not know who he is, or what he believes...here is a video of him speaking at the Civitas Leadership Conference in 2007:

I was hoping that it would be either him or Ken Blackwell, and anybody except Mike Duncan or Katon Dawson...either of whom would have been disastrous for our party.

From Wikipedia about the RNC race...

As is typical for national US political parties after losing an election, many senior Republicans promised big changes at the RNC after losing control of the White House in 2008. Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele described the party as having lost its sense of purpose while announcing his candidacy to succeed Duncan. "I think I may have some keys to open the door, some juice to turn on the lights," he said.^[1]

Besides Michael Steele, who coined the mantra "Drill baby drill" at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Michigan State Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis, former Ohio secretary of state and member of the Republican Platform Committee Ken Blackwell, former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman, during whose tenure Al Gore lost his home state in the 2000 election,^[2] GOP Chairman of South Carolina Katon Dawson,and incumbent Mike Duncan are all seeking the position of National Republican Party Chair.^[3] Saltsman's candidacy was marked by controversy when he distributed, as a Christmas gift, a CD that included the song Barack the Magic Negro, a parody of Puff the Magic Dragon.^[4]

Other Republicans said the RNC will focus its efforts on congressional and gubernatorial elections in the coming years rather than worrying about the next presidential election. "When I was chairman of the Republican National Committee the last time we lost the White House in 1992 we focused exclusively on 1993 and 1994. And at the end of that time, we had both houses of Congress with Republican majorities, and we’d gone from 17 Republican governors to 31. So anyone talking about 2012 today doesn’t have their eye on the ball. What we ought to worry about is rebuilding our party over the next year and particularly in 2010,” ex-RNC chair and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said at the November 2008 Republican Governors conference.^[5]

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