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RNC Chairman Michael Steele Says He's Open to Cutting Funding on 3 GOP Traitors (video)

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the largest spending bill in US h...

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Breaking: RNC Chairman Michael Steele Says He's Open to Punishing 3 GOP Senate Traitors (Video)
Gateway Pundit — Yes! RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the Generational Theft Act. Steele says he will wait and see what the state GOP parties decide about the traitors. Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins voted in favor of the trillion dollar pork-bloated bill, the largest spending bill in American history. Michael Steele made the comments today on Your World with Neil Cavuto: Terrific! The base was waiting for this. Today they got it.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele: I’ll Support Primary Challenges To Republicans Who Voted For Stimulus
Say Anything — This is the leadership we need: The Republicans in question would be Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. Now, I’ve heard all the arguments about “big tents” and “consensus building,” but ultimately…if the Republican party is to be the limited government party but the members of the party are going to vote for big government…what’s the point of being Republican?  Why not just be Democrats and Democrat-lite? If these people are going to vote like Democrats, then let them be Democrats.  And let’s run against them with ...

Steele discusses "retribution" against Specter, Snowe and Collins; open to cutting their funding next election
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — This is why the GOP usually votes in lock-step. They're viciously brutal if you don't. It is interesting, however, that the chairman of the Republican party is talking about supporting primary challenges to Specter, Snowe and Collins simply because they supported the stimulus package. That's the Republicans' "big plan" for coming back to power: Push the country into an economic 9/11. Funny way to win friends and influence people. ...

Steele hints at cutting off Republican disssidents
Ben Smith's Blog —   RNC Chairman Michael Steele has threatened to withhold party funds from three GOP senators who voted for the stimulus package. : “Will you, as RNC head, recommend no RNC funds being provided to help them?” Steele was asked on Fox News. “Oh, yes, I`m always open to everything, baby, absolutely," Steele said. (h/t Greg Sargent)

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele Says He’s Open to Cut Off Specter, Collins and Snow from GOP Funds
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the largest spending bill in US history. Steele says he will wait and see what the state GOP parties decide about the traitors. Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins voted in favor of the ...

RNC to consider punishing Senate centrists
Political Animal — RNC TO CONSIDER PUNISHING SENATE CENTRISTS.... Three Senate Republicans -- Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine), and Arlen Specter (Pa.) -- were the only members of the minority party to cross party lines and vote in favor of the stimulus package. Yesterday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele suggested they'll be rewarded with primary challengers, and possibly a withdrawal of support from the national party. Greg Sargent flagged this clip ...

Michael Steele 'Open To' Punishing Stimulus-Backing GOP Senators
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — During an appearance on Your World with Neil Cavuto yesterday, Michael Steele told the host that he was "open to" punishing Senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter for their votes on the stimulus package, by withholding RNC monies for their re-election bids. He then said he was "open to everything, baby," because that's his bold schtick: inserting the word "baby" into everything. [WATCH.] CAVUTO: Republican Senators Collins, Specter, and Snowe who voted for the stimulus plan in the Senate, what...uhh...retribution will you exact? STEELE: Look, my retribution is the ...

Michael Steele 'Open To' Punishing Stimulus-Backing GOP Senators
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — During an appearance on Your World with Neil Cavuto yesterday, Michael Steele told the host that he was "open to" punishing Senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter for their votes on the stimulus package, by withholding RNC monies for their re-election bids. He then said he was "open to everything, baby," because that's his bold schtick: inserting the word "baby" into everything. [WATCH.] CAVUTO: Republican Senators Collins, Specter, and Snowe who voted for the stimulus plan in the Senate, what...uhh...retribution will you exact? STEELE: Look, my ...

Will Michael Steele Really Go To War Against The GOP's Last 3 Moderate Senators?
DownWithTyranny! — Because they make DeMint, Vitter & Burr look like neo-Nazis My closest friend is from Maine. He's been in L.A. for more than half his life but I still hear the Maine weather report from him nearly every day. He'll always be a Mainer. This morning I read him a claim from one of the GOP's most extremist right-wing blogs that Arlen Specter, Susan Collins ...

No Formal Repercussions Likely from RNC for Stimulus Defectors
The Atlantic Politics Channel — News that RNC Chairman Michael Steele might support primary opponents for the three GOP stimulus defectors has made the rounds in the blogosphere today--but was Steele serious when he made the suggestion yesterday, pressed by Neil Cavuto in a TV interview? According to an RNC official, there are no plans to break from traditional RNC policy--which is to stay out of primaries unless state parties choose to endorse--in the cases of Sens. Snowe (ME), Collins (ME), and Specter (PA). The way Steele phrased it was: "My retribution is the retribution of the voters in their states. They're going to have to go through a primary in which they're going to have to explain to ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — WANKSTA Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele may boast that he wants the party to have more hip-hop appeal, but he's failing hip-hop's #1 test of character: his toughness lacks realness. As noted by Greg Sargent, he went on Neil Cavuto's Fox News program last night and threatened that the RNC might punish collaborators with the enemy, Barack Obama -- or, rather, he carefully hedged his bets, trying to seem as if he was threatening traitors (in order to look tough and inflexible, because looking tough and inflexible brings in GOP donors' dollars) while passing the buck to state parties. Here's the clip. ...

Steele: RNC Open To Supporting Primary Challengers
News — Steele: RNC Open To Supporting Primary Challengers Put this in the we-should-have-had-this-up-on-the-site earlier category.  On Fox News last night, newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appeared at least ambivalent about whether the RNC will support the senators who voted for the $787 billion economic stimulus bill when they are up for re-election. Of the three Republicans that voted against the stimulus - Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), and Arlen Specter (Pa.) - only Specter is up for re-election in 2010. Checkout the video below: Steele's remarks to Fox News' Neil Cavuto were immediately highlighted by the blogosphere ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Latest on Air America — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Michael Steele on Collins, Snowe & Specter: “They’re gonna have to go through a primary”
Firedoglake — Asked by FOX's Cavuto about possible RNC "retribution" against Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (both of Maine) and Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, hip-hop RNC Chair Michael Steele promises all three a primary. Supporting the watered-down stimulus, and being out-front on a compromise with ...

The Party of No
Suburban Guerrilla — New RNC chair Michael Steele wants to punish the Republicans who supported the stimulus bill:

“Drop Dead Conservatives” in the Winner’s Circle
The Republic of T. — A while back I attempted to define “Drop Dead Conservatism.” High on delusion, denial, and derision, it’s the face of a conservatism unequipped to recognize — let alone meet — the challenges America and the world now face, and blind to the possibility drowning itself in irrelevance. It’s the face of a conservatism that, facing the failure of its ideology, has more anger than answers. In other words, it’s a conservatism fresh out of ideas, unwilling or unable to “get it” when it comes to the challenges we’re facing today. Well, if “not getting it” were an olympic event, these guys ...

Did Michael Steele Single-Handedly Drive Away Arlen Specter?
Politics Daily — Filed under: RepublicansAfter seeing RNC Chairman Michael Steele's denouncement of Arlen Specter for switching parties earlier today, we had to wonder ... doesn't some of the blame fall on his shoulders? After all, this is the man who threatened to withold all party financial support from Specter's 2010 reelection bid as "retribution" for his vote in favor of President Obama's stimulus package. We'll leave the final say up to you, but if we see Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (who also received the threat back in February) drop out as well ... ...

Will Steele's stimulus threat affect Crist?
News — Will Steele's stimulus threat affect Crist? You'll recall that Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele threatened on two occasions to withhold financial support from Republicans who supported the stimulus package. Well, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) not only supported the stimulus; he actually appeared alongside President Obama in Fort Myers, Fla., when the package was being launched. So, with the party establishment behind Crist in Florida's Senate race, how will Steele treat Crist? Does he hold fast to his crusade against stimulus apostasy, or back a man who was even more gung-ho about the stimulus than Sen. Arlen Specter–the original target ...