RNC purity test designed to 'stick it' to Steele, ally claims

By GottaLaff

Those durned Purity Rules are becoming a bit of a sticky wicket for Michael Aluminuminum.

Yes, stickin' it to Steele is quite the little hobby these days. Maybe someone will start a Steele's Been Stuck Magazine or a new cable Stick It to Steele Channel:

"You've got a few backbenchers who are unhappy," said Shawn Steel, an RNC member from California and one of the chairman's top supporters on the committee. "They don't have the power they once had under the previous chairman, and that's what motivating this. This is an attempt to stick it to Chairman Steele by the losers."

Awww, poor widdle Mikey. He's been officially stuck... and by losers! He is the King of Stickitude. The Stick Dude. The StickMeister. StickaLickaDingDong.

Citing e-mail exchanges with his fellow committee members, Steel estimated that almost 80 percent of the RNC opposes the purity test. "This resolution will fail," Steel told CNN. "It will absolutely fall on its face. The resolution was just to stir the pot. It's for reporters."

And, indeed, the reporters are lapping it up. Mikey has been reduced to a stick figure, but he managed to do that all on his own. Stick Man Steele:

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the effect Rushpublic purity has on the Chair of the RNC. Or should I say, the Stick Chair.

At Least 40 GOP Lawmakers Fail ‘Purity Test’ with Bonus VIDEO!

By GottaLaff

Kick more people out of the Party of WTF in the name of Ronald Reagan! What a plan! Except, oops:

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Here is my original post on the resolution that denies funding to any member of the party that bucks the hallowed Purity rules.

But, d'oh! Those wacky impure Rushpublics! All 40 of 'em. If they're not careful they'll become an endangered species:

ThinkProgress has conducted an analysis that finds at least 40 current Republican members of Congress have violated at least one principle of the purity test.

I'll give you an excerpt of one of my faves, but go here for the whole endangered list:

Purity Pledge #5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants

– The McCain-Kennedy 2006 immigration bill would have “legalized millions of undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. if they paid fines, paid back taxes and learned English.” Republican Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Dick Lugar (R-IN), George Voinovich (R-OH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Susan Collins (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) voted for the bill.

John McCain his very own self? Ohh nooo!!! Not a headliner!

H/t: Alan Colmes

Mitch Daniels (R-GOV-IN) to GOP: Quit 'whining'

Thank g-d they won't listen to a RINO like Daniels (ha!). Rush is already defending Palin from those evil NCNA "Presidential Persperators", and Gov Crist just may not be pure enough.

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) is urging Republican leaders in Washington to stop “whining” in order to mount a serious opposition to President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.

“I hear Republicans whining about, you know, the Democrats not being bipartisan. You know, ‘We weren't included in this, we weren't at the table in that.’ Well, get over it, that's the way those folks are,” Daniels said in an interview that ran Saturday in National Journal. “To me there's not a lot of upside in whining.”

Daniels said Republican leaders have behaved “erratically” since the beginning of the Obama administration, frequently offering “process arguments” rather than competing policy prescriptions.

“What they should say instead is, ‘Well, here's the way we would spread health insurance and not ration care and not take away your freedom in the process. If they'd let us in the room, this is what we'd suggest,’” Daniels said.

The two-term Indiana governor urged Republicans to come up with a “better idea” in policy fights with the White House because “the public needs to see you care and that you've thought about it and you've got a constructive suggestion.”