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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater.
It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low (insert Munch’s "Scream" here): He’s set up an RNC fundraising page on Facebook made to look like it’s the United Steelworkers union.
The "United STEELE Workers Union" page even features a hard hat with an American flag sticker front and center.
Just curious, Michael: Doesn’t a white hard hat clash with your designer suits?
Steele’s rip-off is another blatant and egregious attempt to align the party of NO ideas and NO appeal with progressive and forward-looking groups, in this case, the union movement—because the party can’t get anywhere on its own. And with a pathetic 21 percent of the public willing to identify themselves as Republican and four in 10 of those Republicans having an unfavorable opinion of their own party, it’s looking worse than ever for the Party of NO.
Even before the current GOP disaster, Steele campaigned in the same sleazy, misleading way, distributing "Steele Democrat" yard signs in his 2008 run for Senate to make it appear he really wasn’t aligned with the Party of Bush/Cheney. His campaigns in Maryland have included handing out fliers with inaccurate voting information distributed by homeless people he bused in from Pennsylvania.
Steele posing as a member of the United Steelworkers is an insult to the 1.2 million active and retired members of the Steelworkers whose proud history of taking a stand for workers emerged in the hard-boiled 1930′s struggles for union recognition as part of the CIO’s industry-wide organizing strategy.
Yet here’s what the False STEELE workers’ page proclaims as its goals:
This group is dedicated to help the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele get the GOP moving for the 2010, 2012 elections and beyond.
We will be a grassroots force ready to answer the call from Mr. Steele.
We will organize.
We will campaign.
We will fight to win our country back.
Organize? Campaign? Grassroots? More rip-offs of the union movement.
Here’s the real—and extremely partial—list of Michael Steele’s RNC goals:
- Destroy jobs.
- Oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Kill health care reform.
- Disenfranchise minority voters.
- Smash efforts to equalize women’s pay.
- Shred civil liberties.
- Pad Big Business coffers.
- Lie.
- Cheat.
- Steal.
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That list of Steele’s RNC goals looks like it’s standard operating procedure for Republicans.
As evidenced by the last thirty years.
hey Tula!
SCABrous Pigfucks was already taken ???
went over there and started to write something on his wall – and then thought it might be better to have real Steelworker Union members do that – is that in the works ?
add
reinforce image of republic party as party of the absurd
Off-topic, but the Washington Post has fired Dan Froomkin!
We need pictures of those signs! Steele is desperate I take this as a good sign. But stealing the style from Unions that is sooo desperate thats like McDonalds telling immigrants that their burgers are vegan.
(Truthfully I knew some immigrants who thought Taco Bell wasn’t real meat I wonder who told them that? Its scary that meat in this country is so suspect.)
Is Steele really that bad as GOP chair or like Obama is he stuck cleaning up the mess the GOP made?
Unlike Obama Steele is not cleaning the mess he is doing more of the same as his predecessors at the job did but now we are actually paying attention to what the GOP leaders say so Steele looks more incompetent than past GOP leaders by comparision?
Maybe Steele is recognizing that he needs to wear a hardhat for the remainder of his tenure.
Hi, cbl2!
Write away on the wall. Pile it on.
Good to hear from you again.
Tula
I keep thinking that the bastards can’t get any lower and dirtier with their crap and then they prove me wrong.
Steele is suppose to help the GOP get African American votes right? Then why doesn’t he ever give any speeches to African Americans?
A highschool, a church group lets see Steele work a crowd lets see Steele’s support in the African American community.
I will introduce him myself ” Hello people the man behind me Michael Steele wants President Obama to lose the next election…so lets give a big hand for.”
Somehow I don’t see any crowd of African Americans in America applauding. For some reason my mind blanks I can’t visualize what happens next.
liar and cheater were titles Steele already had.
He did the same crap during the senate race including pretending he was a Democrat
quel dick.
Off topic, but important:
From Glenn Greenwald, word that the Washington Post has fired Dan Froomkin.
This SUCKS!
Steele fits right in with all of those other corporate shills. Here is corporate shill, Jim Cramer, doing his best to subtly blame unions for lack of job creation.
We need to get John Stewart to beat some more sense into this guy.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1840
Yes, Please move the GOP to another planet where it might be welcome.
Mr. Steele, no one is picking up. Shall I keep ringing?
Guess what. The same corporations that owned the US last year still own it today.
Steele sure got this Republican stuff down pat !