RNC Finance Director Tim Crawford Quits
The finance director for the Republican National Committee resigned abruptly Friday afternoon, and a source familar with the situation said he was for...
The finance director for the Republican National Committee resigned abruptly Friday afternoon, and a source familar with the situation said he was for...
John Ridley | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
What's clear now is that after Tuesday night's flame out by Jindal, Steele is going to have to work double time in finding a new messenger. First, perhaps, he needs to figure out what the message is and how to deliver it.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
This week, just like the stock market (funny how that goes), Republicans hit yet a new low.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics
n an interview today on Morning Joe, Michael Steele seemed to be trying to back off of his prior statements about how Arlen Specter could face a prima...
AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning on Tuesday said he would have grounds for a lawsuit against his party's national campaign arm ...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 03.26.2009 | Home
One of the notable aspects of President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington was that, somehow, without tear gas, tasers or thousands of people d...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
John Ridley | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Rather than a politician with fresh ideas, Michael Steele sounds more like somebody's uncle trying to be hip while playing some black-top hoops with 16-year-olds.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 03.23.2009 | Comedy
It's a jungle out there and sometimes in the privacy of their own gated communities the Grand Old Party wonders how they're going to keep from going under.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics
It could be that our institutions are so corrupt, our political discourse so banal and polluted, that they are incapable of lifting us up from our national malaise.
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...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
Politico reports that new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele "has requested the resignations of the entire RNC staff and signaled a...
The Plum Line | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
Do Michael Steele and the Republican National Committee -- the center of the party's political operation -- agree or disagree with Dick Cheney's claim...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
There exists a leadership gap in the Republican party with no strong frontrunner for 2012 and evidence of growing division between the leading candidates. Steele must fill this leadership vacuum.
Carl Jeffers | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
Selecting Steele is designed to help position the Republicans more advantageously in their effort to fight off charges of "using the race card" when their attacks on the president become really tough.
Ira Forman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
When Steele was faced with a choice between political expediency and denouncing bigotry, Steele chose expediency.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
It's hard to remember the last time a party chairman's race has been so closely followed, but the reality is that Steele's win really doesn't mean much.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics
That fact that Steele won the RNC chairmanship is a hopeful sign that the GOP has begun to confront its shameful exploitation of race as a national political strategy.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics
Republicans needed a public relations break more so than a Michael Steele, a fact that will show itself much sooner rather than later.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
I'm a liberal Democrat who doesn't agree with Mr. Steele on much of anything but I still find myself hoping that other progressives will take a moment to appreciate his nomination.
Judd Legum | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele was just elected chairman of the RNC. Here are five facts about the new leader of the Republican party.
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...
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...
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...
CNN | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
The Democratic National Committee is backing a piece of trademark legislation championed by former GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain -- asking...
Politico | ALEX ISENSTADT | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics