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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 jump, from page 26:

Ralph Hallow, the Washington Times’ crack reporter on the RNC, has a damaging scoop this morning on RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s side gig as a speaker-for-hire. The party calls it “silly” and says Steele isn’t breaking its rules. But the former RNC chairmen contacted by Hallow have problems with Steele’s other work.
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On a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey took some obvious joy in the scaled-back ambitions of the Senate’s version of health care reform. The government takeover represented in the new bill, said Armey, was “puny,” pleasing no one.
“They’ve even abandoned their own perverse power objectives,” said [...]

The RNC just invited reporters to a Monday conference “to discuss efforts to stop the Democrat plan for government-run health care,” hosted by party chairman Michael Steele and … Dick Armey, the former House majority leader whose role at FreedomWorks has made him a leader of the Tea Party movement. It was Armey, remember, who [...]

When the Republican National Committee launched the new version of GOP.com, Zachary Roth noticed that Michael Zak, an author and speaker who argues that the Party of Lincoln deserves more credit for Civil Rights advances, had written the site’s “Heroes” section. Zak maintains an email list which he usually deploys to tell followers about how [...]

“I’d like to think that this symbolizes some good old-fashioned traditional conservatism making a comeback in the GOP,” said Ron Paul spokesman Jesse Benton.

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” once again last night to talk about recent GOP efforts to co-opt the Tea Party message ahead of the 2010 elections. Watch the clip after the jump.

One of the big themes of yesterday’s “Code Red” rally on Capitol Hill was “Listen to me.” That slogan appeared on buttons sported by members of conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s entourage, and it was pushed hard by Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots. Almost on cue, the Republican National Committee is running a [...]

Here’s the text of an ad that the Republican National Committee is running on health care, with Chairman Michael Steele doing the voiceover.
The Democrats are accusing us Republicans of trying to delay and stonewall their government takeover of health care. You know what? They’re finally right.

The unexpectedly good job numbers — only 11,000 lost in November, revisions that kicked overall unemployment down to 10 percent — have been slotted into Republican National Committee attacks that read like they were written for a much gloomier economic report.
Yesterday, President Obama hosted a ‘jobs summit’ at the White House in an attempt to [...]