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The 16-year-old Wednesday Meeting of conservatives, held every week at the offices of Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, typically draws one or more powerful Republicans to a room of 100+ movement activists and leaders. Next Wednesday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) are slated to come [...]

Luke Rosiak has the scoop, reporting that the site cost five times more than the Democratic National Committee’s Website.
In the months prior to the October 13 launch of GOP.com, the committee paid $328,000 to 11 firms for Web development. (The Democrats, which did not completely overhaul their site during that time period, spent $45,000 on [...]

“This is not a tea party hangover,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony list. “It is every piece of the conservative base–the Club for Growth, social conservatives, right to work, pro-lifers, everyone–coming together.”

Greg Sargent flags a Michael Steele interview on Univision, in which the chairman of the Republican National Committee deflects a question about whether, per Glenn Beck, President Obama hates white people.
No, no, look, the reality of it is when I ran for the United States Senate and I was called an Uncle Tom by leading [...]

The man who wrote the new GOP.com’s 19th century-centric “Heroes” page has issued a new email blast about Republican history.

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the “Heroes” section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree on obscure 19th century black Republicans. Zak’s involvement with the site was no secret — he is credited at the bottom of the biography pages — but I’m [...]

Eric Kleefeld sees the 40th president referred to as “Ronaldus Magnus” on the GOP’s new Website and wonders what’s going on. While it’s strange to see the phrase there, it’s not like the GOP just invented it — Rush Limbaugh has popularized the “Ronaldus Magnus” nickname for years. And I’ve heard it from Sean Hannity [...]

After a day of surprisingly loud mockery, the RNC has changed the name of Chairman Michael Steele’s blog, formerly known as “What Up?” The new name:

The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs — a lot of it directed at Chairman Michael Steele’s blog, “What Up?” I am surprised that the launch missed this line in Steele’s inaugural blog post:

Following up the story of far-right site Newsmax.com taking ads from Massachusetts GOP candidate Scott Brown, there’s this: A friend who’s subscribed to Newsmax.com’s email list passes on a fundraising letter from the Republican National Committee. “Dear Newsmax Reader,” the email begins. “Please find below a special message from our sponsor, The Republican National Committee. [...]