VIDEO-- Michael Steele: WaPo should be ashamed + government jobs aren't jobs

By GottaLaff



Remember when Paddy posted about Mikey Steele's questionable campaign spending? He went into denial mode on "This Week":

Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, defended himself from allegations of campaign finance improprieties on Sunday, saying the Washington Post should be "ashamed of itself" for running a story highlighting irregularities from his 2006 Senate campaign in Maryland.

The (now convicted) former finance chair of Steele's own Senate campaign made the allegations in question. Here's some more info:

In March 2006 or thereabouts Turner filed the necessary paperwork to have her company disbanded but supposedly her ghost company did work for the Steele Senate campaign in October of 2006 and July 2007. Sounds very Chicago, though it happened in Maryland. [...]

[W]hat obviously raises red flags here is the timing of her business dissolution paperwork and the supposed work she did for campaign which was followed by the payments.

The WaPo contains other allegations by Fabian against Steele but the other allegations about campaign funds beings shifted between a state campaign fund to a federal one frankly aren't as sexy as the payment to his sister's dead company.

This is obviously not the way any party chairman wants to start his term in office, especially a Republican chair at this point in history where all of his efforts need to be aimed at rebuilding the party following two unsuccessful national elections,

Maybe this will turn out to be nothing more than Fabian's unproven allegations. If that's the case it will soon be forgotten. That has to be the prayer of Steele and fellow Republican officials right now.

If there's one thing the Republicans like to quack about, it's their predilection for prayer.

One more noteworthy item:

But in his interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Michael Steele seemed to suggest, as he did back in January, that government jobs are not, in fact, really jobs.

Rather, Steele said, government jobs are "just work." (Is work not a job?) The newly-minted RNC Chairman added that when it comes to the private sector, job loss is never permanent.

"They come back though, George," said Steele. "That's the point. They've gone away before and they come back."

Stephanopolous did his best to sift through the logic, pointing out that millions of private sector jobs have been lost in just this past year.

There he is, folks: The RNC Chair. This is the man who represents the Republican party's collective-- and embarrassingly stunted-- mindset. Show him your appreciation by donating to the Democratic party.

H/t: Ellen for that last part

McCain lashes out at Bush's record

Good lord he's delusional.

(CNN) — John McCain lashed out at President Bush's record on a host of issues Wednesday, perhaps the Arizona senator's harshest criticism to date of his party's standard-bearer for the last eight years.

"Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously," McCain told the Washington Times when asked to name his criticisms of the current president.

John Sidney McCain didn't know what kind of car he drove, either

By GottaLaff

How will he get to the houses he doesn't know he has without a car he doesn't recognize? Let's close our eyes in unison and think back to 2007:

[A] 2007 interview revealing he knew neither how many houses he owned nor what car he drove:

In our News interview, he was asked what kind of car he drove. As with Politico’s question about home ownership, he didn’t know and had to ask a nearby aide. “A Cadillac CTS,” she told him. But then the senator was quick to point out that he had bought his daughter a Prius — the prefect (sic) halo symbol for his green pretensions. […]

We also pressed McCain on the home issue, though at that time he was only willing to reveal two of his dwellings: one in Phoenix and a second home in Sedona. And he was quite proud of the fact that he had installed solar panels on the Sedona pad.

It doesn't say how many cars he owned/owns. 7? 8? 9?