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 New White House 
 Counsel Scares 
 GOP, Other 
 Lawyers 

Bauer is a skilled, controversial Democratic veteran

Nov 13, 09 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Robert Bauer, the new White House counsel, is a longtime Democratic operative known for his hard-nosed style and work ethic. He is a veteran of the Clinton impeachment proceedings and represented House Democrats during the Bush years, where he was known for his aggressive strategy—he went as far as... More »

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Republican • RNC • White House • GOP • Bill Clinton • Tom DeLay • impeachment • lawyer • Bob Bauer • Obama administration • Gregory Craig • White House counsel • Republican National Committee • Greg Craig

Steele: I Scare White Republicans

RNC chair says he sees it in meetings

Nov 10, 09 12:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Rack up another gaffe for Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chair has been trying to improve his party’s relationship with minority voters, but he may have been a little too honest in a recent interview with NewsOne's Roland Martin. Martin suggested that white Republicans were "scared" of... More »

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Republican • African Americans • RNC • race relations • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

(Newser) - Congressional GOP leaders met with RNC chairman Michael Steele late last month to assert their authority when it comes to policymaking, and while those involved said the get-together in House Minority Leader John Boehner’s office was routine, Politico's sources described it as heated. Of particular concern was Steele’s... More »

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Congress • RNC • Senate • House of Representatives • Republican Party • Lamar Alexander • John Boehner • health care reform • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee • policy

 How the Crazies Took Over 

Birthers, Limbaugh, Beck fill vacuum as Obama tries to stay above the fray

Sep 21, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - As recently as this spring, the Tea Party movement seemed anemic and wonky. But in the months that followed, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others whipped the right-wing fringe into such a frenzy that a “separate reality grew like a second head on the American polity,” Philip Weiss... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base • right-wing attacks • Obama administration • Republicans • right-wing extremism • birther • World Net Daily

(Newser) - The RNC has joined the fracas over health care reform with a proposed “seniors’ bill of rights” that guards against Medicare cuts, ABC News reports. “Our seniors have really come under fire in the last few weeks,” says RNC chair Michael Steele—who backed Medicare cuts as... More »

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RNC • Medicare • Medicaid • Democratic National Committee • health care reform • DNC • seniors • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

(Newser) - Drawing on the momentum the GOP has gained in the health care debate, RNC chair Michael Steele today called President Obama’s plans a “dangerous experiment,” the Washington Post reports. "This reckless approach is an ill-conceived attempt to push through an experiment and all of us should... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • RNC • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele

(Newser) - The Republican National Committee has yanked an online game from one of its websites after complaints that aspects of the game were anti-Semitic and sexually graphic, reports Politico. The "Obama Card Game (Life Costs Nothing)" was intended to demonstrate how much could be purchased with the $3.4 trillion... More »

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politics • RNC • anti-Semitism • Obama Card Game • sexually explicit

Steele: Palin Run in 2012
'Off the Table'

Alaska gov. needs time to sort out the current 'financial mess'

Jul 7, 09 5:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Sarah Palin presidential run in the next election is “off the table,” Michael Steele tells Fox News. "Not having talked to the governor, I take 2012 off the table right now simply because (of) everything she's going through personally,” said the Republican party chief. Palin's... More »

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RNC • GOP • campaign • Republican candidate • Sarah Palin • Election 2012 • Michael Steele

OPINION

RNC Recycles LBJ 'Daisy'
Ad to Bash Obama on Gitmo

Classic incendiary spot doesn't age well in Michael Steele's hands

May 22, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - RNC chairman Michael Steele has rolled out an ad remixing an LBJ classic on nuclear war to warn about the danger of closing Guantanamo. The infamous 1964 spot used images of a little girl plucking petals off a daisy juxtaposed with a nuclear explosion to illustrate the risk of Armageddon.... More »

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RNC • Lyndon Johnson • Barry Goldwater • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Daisy Ad • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele

(Newser) - Score one for Michael Steele. The RNC toned down a potentially embarrassing resolution today that would have urged Democrats to change their name to the Democrat Socialist Party, the Hill reports. Instead, the reworded resolution calls on Democrats to "stop pushing our country towards socialism and government control."... More »

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OPINION

 Parker Takes 
 Hammer to Steele 

GOP chairman 'means well,' but isn't fit for the job

May 20, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Almost every demographic is quitting the GOP—despite a chairman who aims to win over everyone, including “one-armed midgets,” writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. “The emerging consensus is that [Michael] Steele, though he means well, has the wrong personality for the job,” she notes.... More »

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(Newser) - Michael Steele told fellow Republicans to go after President Obama himself instead of lesser Democrats, the Washington Post reports. "If we have the courage of our convictions, and we do, then we will and we must stand up against disastrous policies, regardless of the president's popularity," the RNC ... More »

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politics • RNC • GOP • President Obama • Michael Steele

Palin Shopping Spree OK: Feds

Commission nixes complaint that RNC's $150K in clothing purchases broke law

May 19, 09 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Federal Election Commission dismissed today a complaint that the Republican National Committee broke the law when it bought $150,000 in clothes for then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The FEC said purchases were “coordinated party expenditures” for campaign purposes, and did not violate... More »

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RNC • campaign funds • clothes • Republican Party • Federal Election Commission • Sarah Palin • election law

OPINION

 Steele: GOP Is on 
 Rebound. Really. 

If party looks forward, rather than back, it will see a bright future

May 19, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, we’ve fallen on hard times, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele writes in Politico. But, he insists, the GOP is straightening its priorities out. “The Republican Party will be forward-looking—it is time to stop looking backward,” Steele writes. Republicans will stand against “the most... More »

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Republican • RNC • Ronald Reagan • George W. Bush • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican opposition

Civil War Rages at RNC 

Old guard tries to force spending regulations on Steele

May 1, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Behind closed doors at the Republican National Committee, a battle’s raging over how much decision-making power chairman Michael Steele should have and, by implication, how much the party trusts him. Some RNC members, led by Treasurer Randy Pullen, the Arizona party chairman, are pushing strict oversight on Steele’s... More »

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RNC • campaign finance • Michael Steele • Randy Pullen

 RNC May Limit Steele's Power

Infighting tearing up committee

Apr 29, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A bitter fight is raging within the Republican Party after an attempt by an RNC faction to limit Michael Steele’s powers, the Washington Times reports. The “good governance” resolution would put new controls on the chairman’s ability to spend money and award contracts. Its backers, who... More »

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Specter: I'm Not 'Automatic 60th Vote' for Dems

GOP colleagues 'stunned,' angered by senator's party switch

Apr 28, 09 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newly minted Democrat Arlen Specter said he will not blindly toe the party line, Politico reports. “I will not be an automatic 60th vote,” the veteran Pennsylvania senator said, pointing out recent opposition to a unionization bill. “If the Democratic Party asks too much, I will not... More »

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Congress • RNC • Senate • Senate Democrats • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Senate Republicans • John Cornyn • senator • 2010 election • Michael Steele • switching parties

 Steele Finally Catching 
 More Flak From 
 Dems Than GOP 

Special election turned out not to be litmus test after all; RNC chairman draws Dem fire instead

Apr 28, 09 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Steele got off to a rocky start in his job as chairman of the Republican National Committee but he promised he’d deliver election victories in places like New York’s 20th district. Now that the GOP has lost that election, Steele is catching flak. But, CQ Politics reports,... More »

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RNC • special election • Michael Steele • Katon Dawson

(Newser) - How can the Republicans get back to being a big-tent majority? “I can’t believe I’m saying this,” writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post, but “it should start by paying more attention to the all-too-quotable Michael Steele.” Sure, the party chairman might be crazy,... More »

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RNC • Gene Robinson • Michael Steele • Republican Party Chairman

(Newser) - Todd Palin says the $150,000 spending spree that outfitted his wife during last fall’s campaign was “out of our control,” the AP reports. “You come into a campaign late,” he told Men’s Journal. “You put all your trust into the team.”... More »

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John McCain • Alaska • RNC • clothes • campaign trail • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

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