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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater.
It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low (insert Munch’s “Scream” here): He’s set up an RNC fundraising page on Facebook made to look like it’s the United Steelworkers union.
The “United STEELE Workers Union” page even features a hard hat with an American flag sticker front and center.
Just curious, Michael: Doesn’t a white hard hat clash with your designer suits?
Steele’s rip-off is another blatant and egregious attempt to align the party of NO ideas and NO appeal with progressive and forward-looking groups, in this case, the union movement—because the party can’t get anywhere on its own. And with a pathetic 21 percent of the public willing to identify themselves as Republican and four in 10 of those Republicans having an unfavorable opinion of their own party, it’s looking worse than ever for the Party of NO.
Even before the current GOP disaster, Steele campaigned in the same sleazy, misleading way, distributing “Steele Democrat” yard signs in his 2008 run for Senate to make it appear he really wasn’t aligned with the Party of Bush/Cheney. His campaigns in Maryland have included handing out fliers with inaccurate voting information distributed by homeless people he bused in from Pennsylvania.
Steele posing as a member of the United Steelworkers is an insult to the 1.2 million active and retired members of the Steelworkers whose proud history of taking a stand for workers emerged in the hard-boiled 1930’s struggles for union recognition as part of the CIO’s industry-wide organizing strategy.
Yet here’s what the False STEELE workers’ page proclaims as its goals:
This group is dedicated to help the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele get the GOP moving for the 2010, 2012 elections and beyond.
We will be a grassroots force ready to answer the call from Mr. Steele.
We will organize.
We will campaign.
We will fight to win our country back.
Organize? Campaign? Grassroots? More rip-offs of the union movement.
Here’s the real—and extremely partial—list of Michael Steele’s RNC goals:
- Destroy jobs.
- Oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Kill health care reform.
- Disenfranchise minority voters.
- Smash efforts to equalize women’s pay.
- Shred civil liberties.
- Pad Big Business coffers.
- Lie.
- Cheat.
- Steal.
This is a cross-post from the Firedoglake blog.
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And the Union leadership is letting illegal aliens STEAL our jobs AND identities,boy do we need new leadership!
KEEP THE ELEPHANT OUT OF THE “HOUSE”
We have had enough of the GOP Elephant stepping
all over us, while zionist control their policies, and
platform.
With no remorse that elephant is headed
non-stop for extinction, which is no bad thing.
We need a third party a truely AMERICAN party,
with a platform that is mandated by the American
people,and policy followed by elected officials.
Is there a third party that will step forward and save our nation? Obviously, saving US from World War III and nuclear attack aren’t of any importance to either major political party. We are, instead, focusing on another unjust war we lost thirty years ago. But just like the Germans after World War I, we cannot accept either that the war is over, or the fact that we lost it. The blessed opportunity of a “peaceful revolution” by a truly honest and open election is rapidly slipping away, and may well be replaced by a nuclear terrorist attack launching World War III. It will be the first major rebellion against “The Evil Empire,” a rebellion against the Emperor of the Dark Side. Star Wars is US, and the great clock of history is about to strike the hour.
Pat Bushanan clearly has more grass roots support than any other Republican. Why? he says it like it is, he described Congress as “Israeli-occupied territory”,
which is well known. AIPAC has deep roots into
both political parties.
Therre is no doubt in most peoples minds, that it
needs to change. Drastically change and SOON.
For years, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has helped to stonewall the Middle East peace process by building a solid wall around the Israeli government, protecting it from criticism in the US. Senators and representatives have feared the wrath of AIPAC come Election Day, even in states and districts where the Jewish vote is negligible. Whatever they may have thought privately about Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, they’ve remained silent.
AIPAC is not deserving of your respect or even your toleration or courtesy
in its diabolically clever grab for control of your party. AIPAC is the
money power behind the foreign policy and war policy and “anti-terrorist
police state” policies that you have associated with George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney and Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. The bought and subverted the
leadership of the Republicans starting when they took over Reagan’s
administration and turned it into a neo-con Wall-Street globalism party and
they have controlled it ever since — until now, when the Republican party
is the disgrace of the world and facing revolt in the minds of all thinking
people. And so AIPAC turns to your party (which their money has also been
quietly controlling at the top for some time too) like a pony express rider
looking for a fresh mount.
Let me ask a few questions of you fearlessly loyal “my-party-right-or-wrong”
Democrats. Do like what you hear about “the liberals” and the “goodness and
rightness” of Bush war and police-state policies from multi-billioniare
media-monopolist Ruppert Murdoch’s
The Obama Administration needs to signal that the US is preparing to remove the training wheels from Israel’s “free ride” enabled by American tax-payers?
I am not sure what you are talking about when you mention a war we lost 30 years ago, I have not seen any Vietnam issues in the news except Sen Barbara Boxer offering legislation cutting Vietnam from GAT trade status unless reforms are made. Korea has been in the news as of late, but that war was not lost 30 years ago, a “Cease Fire” started over 50 years ago.
I agree somewhat with your views of AIPAC. but until ALL PACS are outlawed, and the election system is free of outside money, (AKA freedom of speech, LOL) we will have a system where elected officials MAY be indebted to special interests.
If you have been paying attention to the world news on line you will see that Obama IS working towards a stand closer to anti Israeli interests.
Wasn’t the NAZI parties anti-Jew stand due to the fact that jews were a dominating force in the banking industry that was blamed for crippling the 2d Reich? No research was done on that idea, it is just some distant memory possibly worthy of further thought. Oh Yea, isn’t our nation is crippled by a “Financial Emergency”
Just some old blue collar worker thinking… Is that dangerous?
WOW! This is a totally new sleazy repugnitan game, to masquerade as a group he has dedicated his life to defeat!
I suggest that everyone who has a Facebook account should sign in on this and register their disapproval. And let ‘em know you’re union and read about it on the AFL-CIO blog!
Like your idea. I’ll do it. This is a new low even for the republicans. May they all rot somewhere!!
I find the “United STEELE Workers Union” another indication of a political party without ideas and bankrupt in the morality department. Perhaps it is another jank the chain type thing to upset Steelworkers (after all many a Republican is celebrating sticking it to the UAW)
Where are the union busters when we need them?