Daily Show: The RNC’s new website features an American flag with hydraulics and Michael Steele’s blog, “What Up.”

Daily Show: Michael Steele falls into the liberal media trap by criticizing Rush Limbaugh.

Daily Show: The CPAC derides veterans, and calls for the annihilation of an American city to save us from unpatriotic Democrats.

From Huffington Post:

Letterman starts off, asking Couric:

“What about this bonehead Rush Limbaugh? Honest to God, I mean, what is going on there?
He gets up in Washington and he’s the keynote speaker at some function and he comes up and he looks like an East European gangster. He’s got the black jacket on, the black silk shirt and it’s unbuttoned like, oh yeah, when you think Rush Limbaugh, you think, ‘Ooh, let’s see a little flesh.’ Honestly. What is he doing?”

Couric doubles over and laughs, saying “although I’m thrown by the Rush Limbaugh flesh in the same sentence… it’s indicative of the power vacuum in the Republican party right now and he’s filling it right now.”

Letterman continues:

“We get used to Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Newt… resembled a Newt… but a smart guy. And now all of a sudden you get Rush Limbaugh… “I’m sorry the casino’s closed”… What? Leave us alone, my God!

Couric laughs, adding, “So much for my interview with Rush.”

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I was just about to give up on them forever when the new, and improved, GOP Chairman Michael Steele promised to deliver an “off the hook” pr offensive aimed at the hip-hop crowd.  From the Washington Times, via Huff Po:

The RNC’s first black chairman will “surprise everyone” when updating the party’s image using the Internet and advertisements on radio, on television and in print, he told The Washington Times….

“There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort” zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. “We need messengers to really capture that region – young, Hispanic, black, a cross section … We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

In classic Republican speak, Steele goes on to say he doesn’t do “cutting edge” but is going beyond “cutting edge.”

I know Steele wants to appeal to the hip hop crowd , but he’s Vanilla Ice compared to Barack Obama (who is not exactly T.I.). It’s like watching your parents (or Will Smith) try and rap.

Once again, the GOP has proven it knows how to focus on the relevant issues of our time.  Go ahead, try and compete with the most popular black figure of the last century on his own turf.  Make sure you send Sarah Palin in there to talk to the hiphoppers.  Now that’s a conversation I want to see. 

Doomed!

Yes, really.

“Drill baby drill” has become so passe that even Governor Sarah Palin has stopped using it.

Some highlights from the Politico article detailing the serious, time consuming, debate that has engulfed the GOP as they try to come up with a new slogan:

“This year, everyone’s thinking maybe they’ll actually come up with grown-up things to say,” said Republican energy lobbyist Michael McKenna, president of MWR Strategies. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ impeded the conversation. We energy guys hated it.”

All eyes are now turning to new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who coined the phrase, and some lawmakers hope he might crank out another infectious slogan.

In the meantime, some House Republicans aren’t waiting around for a Steele brainstorm.

Good to know. That could take a really, really, really long time. See Steele’s interview with George Stephanopoulos in which he insists that Government jobs are not “jobs”.

More from Politico:

“A more accurate depiction of the Republican message is ‘all of the above,’ rather than ‘drill, baby, drill,’” Lamborn told Politico. “It shows Republicans are sympathetic to the need for alternatives and renewables to be developed further but absolutely must not neglect conventional energy resources.

How about: “Think baby think!” It seems to be something the Republicans have forgotten how to do.