Michael “What Up?” Steele, who famously described himself as a “cow on the tracks,” doesn’t understand why he gets all the attention:

I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation. Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?

Well, for starters, the DNC chair doesn’t have a tossed salad named after him.

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We did our best to ignore yesterday’s amusement over the new GOP website, even though it included such blog-baiting features as Michael Steele doing a Happy Dance on the homepage, and a very special Steele column briefly entitled “What Up?”

Well, dawg, you have our attention now:

“I’m not trying to be an obstructionist here. To the contrary, I’m saying, Can we all get in the room and have a Rodney King moment?”

Near as we can tell, Steele views himself as the Los Angeles cops beating a defenseless man to a pulp. Which, given how Republicans treated Town Halls, seems apt.

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The minds that came up with this must have a “cognitive dissonance” light that is blinking like crazy:

Maine Marriage Initiative was established with the goal of informing Maine people about the consequences of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Maine Marriage Initiative is a coalition of concerned Maine citizens committed to preserving traditional marriage in the state.

We believe that all Maine citizens are entitled to equal rights and respect regardless of their gender, race, creed or sexual orientation.

We further believe that the values exemplified in traditional marriage are optimally beneficial to society, and therefore do not believe that changing the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples is warranted or advisable.

The objection(s) to same-sex marriage are based not only on religious tenets but also human reason and the good of society at large.

(Note: the bolding is theirs.  Really.)

(But also: nice use of the “(s)” there.)