Michael Steele

Man of Steele
Republican National Committee Chair!

Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele was elected Friday the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee.

A brief biography:

Michael S. Steele served as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 2003 through 2007.

Steele is chairman of GOPAC.

When Steele was elected Lieutenant Governor of Maryland in 2003, he became the first African American elected to state-wide office in that state.

He is currently a partner in the international law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf in Washington, D.C.

From 1991-1997, Steele was a corporate securities attorney at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C., specializing in sophisticated financial transactions on behalf of Wall Street underwriters.

He also was a corporate finance counsel for the Mills Corporation and founded his own company, The Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm.

His writings on law, business and politics have appeared in The Washington Times, Politico.com, Townhall.com, and The Journal of International Security Affairs, among others.

Named a 2005 Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership and awarded the 2005 Bethune-DuBois Institute Award for his ongoing work in the development of quality education in Maryland, Steele has served on a variety of boards and commissions, including the Export-Import Bank Advisory Board, the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors, and the Republican National Committee.

Born in 1958 at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Steele was raised in Washington, D.C.

He spent three years as a seminarian in the Order of St. Augustine in preparation for the priesthood, but ultimately chose a career in law instead.

He earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1991.

Steele serves on the Administrative Board of the Maryland Catholic Conference and is a member of St. Marys Catholic Church in Landover Hills, MD, where he attends mass regularly with his wife Andrea and their two sons.

The above is from Fox News

Don't Act Like a Democrat

Andy Levy of The Red-Eye Report (Fox News) suggests we Republicans not act like the Kool Aid drinkers to our left.


DON’T question the motives - question the policy. When you disagree with Obama’s policies, say so, and make it clear why. But remember that President Obama is doing what he thinks is best for the country, as President Bush did. Both men love America and want what’s best for her. End of story.

DON’T make it personal. We don’t need another Derangement Syndrome. We don’t need people doing things like emphasizing Obama’s middle name in a derogatory fashion. How anyone would think that’s beneficial to their cause, or to the country as a whole, is beyond me. Also, it’s not even clever. Neither are smushwords like BusHitler, or sillywords like Rethuglicans and Dhimmicrats.

DON’T cozy up to and champion foreign dictators and despots. Sean Penn is an ass. No reason to be like him. ‘Nuff said. (Corollary: Don’t cozy up to and champion foreign dictators and despots and then act outraged when people question your patriotism.)

DON’T pretend you’re being brave when you criticize your government. Not while people in other countries actually, y’know, DIE, when they do that.

DON’T use the word “divisive.” At this point, all that word means is “You disagree with me,” and the English language gets mangled enough these days.

DON’T use the phrase “speaking truth to power.” EVER.

DON’T move to Canada.

DON’T say you’re going to move to Canada and then stay here. (I know it’s too late for Stephen Baldwin, but not for the rest of you.)

DON’T apologize to foreigners and say things to them like, “I didn’t vote for Obama,” or “He’s not MY president.”

DON’T say or do everything in your power to drive this country apart and then claim you want unity when it’s your guy in power. This is like the convicted felon who conveniently finds God when he’s up for parole.

DON’T call people un-American one week, and then talk about how “We are not blue states or red states, we are the United States” the next. (This rule may only apply to Tom Hanks, but I put it in just to be safe.)

DON’T automatically think people who disagree with you are stupid or evil. Some of them are, of course. But most of them aren’t, and you might actually learn something if you listen to them.

And finally, DON’T use the fact that many on the left behaved abominably for the past eight years as an excuse to behave the same way. America needs adults. And if it bothered you when they did it, it’s a good sign that you shouldn’t do it.

From: `Big Hollywood'

Thank you New York Governor Paterson!

Paterson appoints Kirsten Gillibrand to Senate

AP Paterson picks Gillibrand as next NY senator

Gillibrand voted for the surge, and enjoys a 100% NRA rating!

It could have been so much worse had Paterson chosen someone like N.Y. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, or even worse had he picked Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy who entered politics only after her husband was murdered by a gun wielding madman in 1993.

McCarthy's never figured out that had New Yorkers not been disarmed the entire incident probably wouldn't have happened.

... don't mean we're stupid.

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, not content destroying America's biggest single industry, now takes on the English language too, slaughtering it for no apparent reason except he can...or maybe he really is that stupid.

You decide.

"C'mon....
Just because we're union don't mean we're stupid."


From: Reuters

One of the provisions backed by Sen. Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, would force the UAW to accept stock instead of cash for half of the amount the automakers pledged to a union-affiliated trust fund for retiree health care.

Gettelfinger said that provision, along with a call for the UAW to accept wages competitive with the non-union workers of Japanese automakers in the United States, would be hard for the union to accept or implement.

"Now we have this senator telling us you have to trade cash for equity? What's the value of it?" Gettelfinger said. "C'mon. Just because we're union don't mean we're stupid."

Did a little driving over the past few days

Put on just under 2000 miles on last week.

CVN-77 USS George H.W. Bush

90,000 tons of diplomacy

Senate Democrats Make U-Turn

Burris to be seated
After making complete fools of themselves....
Here, Harry Reid Leads anti-Burris rally earlier this week.
Democrats make a complete
U-Turn

Several Senate staffers are now in recovery.