Republican National Committee

During Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s speech/town hall meeting Tuesday at Howard University in Washington, a 23-year old college grad/activist named Amanda Duzak got up to ask Steele an angry question about health care, along the lines of the questions Democrats have been asked at town halls in August. Steele wasn’t flustered, but he [...]

The Republican National Committee is out with a TV ad running in Florida and “select national cable networks,” and it’s the kind of thing that Republicans might have expected when they gave the telegenic Michael Steele the chairmanship of the party.

Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats might deny care to registered Republicans.
Although the question was inartfully worded, Americans have reason to be concerned about the failure of the Democrats’ health care experiment to adequately protect the [...]

I just chatted with Raymond Denny, the 64-year-old La Center, Wash., man who received the RNC’s “2009 Future of American Health Survey,” which alleged that President Obama’s health reform plans might discriminate against Republicans. Here’s the survey question:

UPDATE: The survey is here.
Kathie Durbin reports on the “2009 Future of American Health Survey” sent out by the Republican National Committee. It’s this part of the survey that’s raising eyebrows:
It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person’s political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated [...]

Media Matters catches Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele repeating (and botching) the false charge that the Department of Veterans Affairs, by making available a guide to writing a living will, is telling veterans to kill themselves.
[Y]ou have a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like “are you really of value to your community?” [...]

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee ad asking voters to call Republicans and tell them to stop ginning up town hall heckling. The RNC redirected these calls from its main switchboard over to the DNC’s switchboard — [...]

On a wide-ranging conference call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele offered a theory as to why the stock market was performing strongly — because the Democratic agenda was hitting some hurdles.
“I think the stock market is also beginning to speak a little bit about this economy,” Steele said. “Because the train has [...]

I hate to pour cold water on Sam Stein here, but the Republican National Committee health care memo from Alex Castellanos that I quote from in my story today is not new or secret. It went out on July 7, and the RNC has happily passed it on to reporters. Byron York makes similar hay [...]

Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public plan.