As I said last night, I think Michael Steele’s forgetting that he’s pro-life in his interview with Lisa DePaulo may finally bring some GOPers off the sidelines and pushing to get this guy to step down. You’re going to get Christian conservatives saying that he should go, presumably. But I think you’re going to get others who just want an end to the embarrassment. So keep an eye out if you see news reports of people calling for him to step down and please send us the links.
We’re compiling the best of the steamy text messages from and to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and we’ll be bringing you those tomorrow. But there’s still time to email us with your favorites from the 6,000 texts that were released earlier this week.
Check out our photo gallery of some of the most notable men (and they are all men) behind the collapse of the financial system.
Not a good day so far for Michael Steele. Let’s round it up.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is aghast at Steele’s apparently pro-choice comments to GQ, comments which Steele has tried to walk back.
Ken Blackwell, Steele’s former rival for RNC chair, saw fit to chime in, saying Steele “needs to get to work — or get out of the way.”
Mike Huckabee called Steele’s pro-choice comments “a violation of the most basic of human rights.”
GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone tells TPMDC that the GQ interview was “one more nail in the coffin” for Steele.
Even if Steele were to immediately cease sticking his foot in his own mouth, are there any other ticking time bombs like the GQ interview that have yet to go off?
If you’re the governor and a prominent black congressman from your state says refusing to take stimulus money will disproportionately hurt black citizens of your state, would you turn around and compare the stimulus plan to the economic policy of … Zimbabwe?
Only if you are Mark Sanford (R-SC).
Looks like Norm Coleman’s campaign did just about everything you can do wrong in failing to protect the credit card information of his contributors from hackers. Heck, they weren’t even hacked — they simply didn’t protect the data from someone just surfing the web.
From the Austin American-Statesman …
Gov. Rick Perry will announce today that he is blocking the state from accepting $550 million for expanded unemployment benefits as part of the federal stimulus package.
With an upscale Houston hardware store as his backdrop, he will paint the expansion as a burden on small business.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins tells TPMDC’s Eric Kleefeld that Michael Steele has the GOP on the way to being a big empty tent.
Obama directly confronts the “Obama-too-busy” meme (as chronicled by our Matt Cooper) in his speech this afternoon to the Business Roundtable:
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