Not much of a fan politically, but I liked Michael Steele’s early work with the Runaways and the Bangles.
I don’t know what it’s been about the last ten years that makes you think the Republicans are likely to admit that they’ve screwed up and cut their losses. When these guys find themselves in a hole, they dig harder.
Steele’s only there now because nobody wants to go to the trouble of running for his job, because nobody wants it. Any of the half-dozen or so guys who could install themselves or their sock puppet tomorrow are smart enough to know that its a ticket to scapegoat. Steele was the only guy for whom it was a “career move” worth making, not running from. Outside of getting caught with a live boy, a dead hooker, or a grocery bag full of Benjamins, I think he’s pretty secure.
“Hey, up there! Hey! This is too slow, throw us down some dynamite…”
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I know it’s wrong to have fun at anyone’s expense, but I’ll have to, once again, make an exception in Michael Steele’s case. The man’s been an utter embarrassment since day one [you decide which day in which year that was. There are so many to choose from].
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He was President of my Student Council in college. Can we start there?
Poochie is an X-TREME! radical! Incredibly cool! character added to an existing show in the Simpsons. As such, he falls like a lead balloon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXuG4e8yYk 30 seconds of song that explains what Poochie is.
The good news is I was wrong, it’s Steve Lonegan attacking Christie. How’d I get it backwards like that? Okay, maybe radio advertisments before coffee in the morning don’t process too well. Christie might not be as bad as I thought.
Please do. Was he an embarrassment back then as well?
Kidding aside, I’d really like to know what happened in his life to cause him at some point to conclude: “There’s nothing crazy, nor self destructive, for me, a black man, to join an organization actively opposed to equal rights for blacks, no, none at all.”
That is true. However, Michael Steel’s black, and once they’ve scapegoated him with enough of the party’s screw-ups he’ll be tossed aside like an old, tattered dish cloth that’s sopped up all the messes it can handle.
The party brokers never wanted Steele, the man, in the first place. They stupidly believed his race would be an effective counterpoint to Obama. Now that they see Steele’s blackness provides absolutely no benefit to the party they’re incredulous, and are scrambling, once again, over yet another major miscalculation. They’ll jettison him soon enough.
They’ll get rid of them if he insists on sticking to his own brand of crazy. But if they can make him into a kind of Joe Louis casino greeter figure, they will keep him as their evidence that black people have a place in the party.
never mind…
And Steele begins to yield to the inevitable.
Only as long as they know their place???
Oh no, that won’t be explicit unless and until they try for election to party offices. THEN it will become clear.
So you’re saying Greenland derived its name from somebody trying to sell a bunch of bullshit to uninformed members of the general public.
How on-topic.
When asked to elaborate on Mussolini, Steele described the fascist leader’s efforts to straighten out Italy’s inefficient bus industry.
Well…he’s already a black socialist. Potato, potahto.
-Joe
Hey now! Even my turnip can name *a *newpaper or magazine even if it doesn’t actually read them! 
What’s the debate here? Sounds more like a Pit thread to me.
There’s at least one more Black Repubbie: Ken Blackwell. He was Ohio Secretary of State for 8 years, lost the election for Governor of Ohio in 2006, and was even in the running for Michael Steele’s job earlier this year. Blackwell has been tainted by some political scandals in Ohio, but he might still make a politrical comeback.