The much-hyped meeting between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Tea Party activists ended up lasting four hours, with the activists who participated alternating between assertions of independence and gratitude for being invited.
Karin Hoffman, founder of a South Florida tea party group called DC Works For Us, organized the
Ken Vogel has a revealing scoop on the Republican Party’s effort to co-opt Tea Party activists — something anathema to a few activists, something that other activists had hoped would happen from the beginning. Tomorrow, Michael Steele will meet with 50 state Tea Party leaders. One of the models More…
Via The Hill, here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) telling Fox News yesterday that the extended debate over Democratic priorities (ie, health care reform) has created an uncertainty in the business community that has hobbled economic recovery.
“It’s the policies that are coming out of this administration
The RNC’s decision to meet in Honolulu for its conference struck me as pretty defensible, given the surprise special congressional election that will be taking place in the state when Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) retires next month. But Jonathan Martin found skeptics high up in the GOP firmament who More…
In case you missed it, TWI’s David Weigel spoke with NPR’s Liane Hansen yesterday about Democratic retirements, Michael Steele and the 2010 elections on “Weekend Edition.” Listen after the jump.
Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was More…
Eric Kleefeld has the goods on Michael Steele’s really absurd fib that he “wrote this book before” he took over the RNC on January 29, 2009. On Tuesday, I noted that Steele makes an early, score-settling reference in the book to the special election in NY-23 and More…
If you believe in the primacy of the news cycle, this has been a lousy week for RNC Chairman Michael Steele. He’s booked on “Face the Nation” this Sunday, and the questions may focus less on good news for his party, like the retirement of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), than More…
Two must-read pieces on the RNC and Michael Steele today from Reid Wilson and Ralph Hallow, the best reporters on that beat. Wilson reports on a tense “conference call between senior Congressional communicators, House and Senate aides.”
A senior Senate aide brought up Steele’s comments, arguing that he was
In his quick-turnaround book “Right Now,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava than he was during the NY-23 special election. His post-election annoyance with the activists who forced Scozzafava out of the race doesn’t make it in. After the More…
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