Rnc Chairman

New GOP Website Functions Much Like The Party: It Doesn't!

Julie Farby | Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology


Julie Farby

RNC Chairman Michael Steele promised to "take this party to the streets" and God damn it, he wasn't messin' around!

Steele: Americans Shouldn't Be "Guilted" Into Passing Health Care Reform By Kennedy's Death

cnn.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Monday that Americans shouldn't be "guilted" into passing health care reform because of the...

Comic Diva Sheryl Underwood Talks Politics - She's Much More Than a Few Laughs!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics


Yvonne R. Davis

Sheryl Underwood: As a Republican woman I never let anyone push me some place where I don't want to go. I love everyone as long as you are not messing with my money.

Sam Stein

Steele Calls Obama Health Care Socialism, Agrees This His Waterloo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Asked on Monday whether President Barack Obama's plan for health care reform represented socialism, RNC Chairman Michael Steele didn't waste words. ...

Steele: Obama Is Part Of Health Care "Cabal"

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican party is accusing President Barack Obama of conducting "risky experimentation" with his health care prop...

Sam Stein

Steele's Speech: 32 Mentions Of Obama, Two Of Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


Michael Steele's speech at the RNC Chairman's meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, was touted as the first page of a new chapter in the GOP's history...

Conservatives Urging Steele To Target Stimulus

Washington Times | Ralph Z. Hallow | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics


Conservatives on the 168-member Republican National Committee are pressing a reluctant RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele to call a party meeting that wou...

GOP Discovers How Not to Steele an Election

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics


Robert J. Elisberg

The problem with Michael Steele isn't that he puts his foot in his mouth more than a six-month toddler. The problem isn't even that he postures as if he has authority with the American people.

Steele Tries To Soothe RNC Nerves

The Hill | Reid Wilson | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics


Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele reassured his members Friday that he is up to the job, following a week in which his leade...

Def Party Time! Let's Make a GOP Hip-Hop Video

RJ Eskow | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics


RJ Eskow

Michael Steele already said that Obama's stimulus plan is full of "bling bling." But did he really just say that he's going to bring the GOP to "hip hop settings" - and that it will be "off the hook"?

RNC Kills Ambitious "Renewal" Think Tank

The Plum Line | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics


The Republican National Committee, under new chairman Michael Steele, has quietly killed an ambitious plan to create the Center for Republican Renewal...

White House Brushes Off Election Of First Black RNC Chairman

The New Republic | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Team Obama isn't too interested in discussing the new Republican Party chairman, as was evident at today's WH press briefing:...

New RNC Chair Steele: Bipartisanship Is Overrated

CNN Political Ticker | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics


The new chairman of the Republican National Committee praised House Republicans Saturday for their universal opposition to President Obama's stimulus ...

Katon Dawson, RNC Chairman?

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Kenneth Blackwell has just withdrawn from the running for the next Republican National Committee chairmanship and has put his support behind Michael S...

Sam Stein

Michael Steele, RNC Chairman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


See earlier updates below Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee on Friday after defeating hi...

RNC CHAIRMAN RESULTS: Race For New Republican Leader Ends

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elect...

Food for Thought for Next RNC Chairman

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics


Michael Fauntroy

Republicans has to understand that its decline is about more than properly marketing its ideas or improving its technological deficiencies -- it's about aligning itself with the national ideology.

GOP Chair Candidate Attacked With Fake "Whites Only" Newspaper Cover

The Plum Line | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Uh oh -- it looks like viral email dirty tricks (okay, parodies) are now entering into the race for Republican National Committee chair. This image o...

Grand Old Social Networking Party

Renee Feltz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Renee Feltz

The Republican Party has always had a top-down approach to the Internet, using it primarily to deliver messages rather than mobilize supporters. But is the GOP ready for a Web revolution?

GOP Weighs Electing First Black Chairman

New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics


As the nation is on the verge of inaugurating its first black president, the Republican Party is facing a telling choice: whether to elect its first b...

USS George H.W. Bush: A Ship With a History

Russ Baker | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Russ Baker

This Saturday the Navy will commission the aircraft carrier CVN-77, to be named the USS George H.W. Bush. They seem in a hurry to burnish the reputation of the elder Bush while his son is still in office.

Sam Stein

Ken Blackwell, Robocalling For RNC Chair Post

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics


RNC Chairman hopeful Ken Blackwell has apparently begun a robocall campaign to help persuade enough committee members to elect him to the top post. I...

RNC Issues Apology to Negroes

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics


Andy Borowitz

In the apology, the RNC ripped Saltsman's song, calling it "tone-deaf, unacceptable, and offensive to every negro in the country."

Will Other GOP Officials Condemn the Magic Negro Ridicule?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

If Saltsman felt that he could issue the CD and get away with it, it's because too many other Republicans have made offensive racial slips or digs in the past with little or no consequence.

My Response to the Mean-Spirited "Barack the Magic Negro"

Peter Yarrow | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics


Peter Yarrow

Taking a children's song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move beyond racism.