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Posted on Jan 15, 2011
AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

New Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus holds up an oversized gavel after his election to the post.

There’s a new sheriff in town for the Republican Party. Ousted Chairman Michael Steele has been replaced by Reince Priebus, former party chief in Wisconsin and a friend of the irascible tea party movement. —JCL

The New York Times:

For Reince Priebus, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, politics has long been more than simply a hobby. It provided the entertainment for the first date with his wife.

More than a decade ago, when Representatives Henry J. Hyde of Illinois and James F. Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin were delivering keynote speeches at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Priebus reserved two tickets and turned the event into part of his courtship.

“I know. Nerd alert,” Mr. Priebus said in an interview a few hours after he was elected on Friday to lead the national Republican Party. His voice was filled with self-deprecation as he recalled the moment “But we went to a movie after that.”

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By rollzone, January 16, 2011 at 9:58 am Link to this comment

hello. the Tea Party is a legitimate force scaring
the Republicants into absorbing their power. the
Republicants represent the oil (and now natural gas)
barons whom run the world economies, whom had a hand
in developing the petrodollar industry, which is now
developing the Middle East. yet they sit idly by as
OPEC remains below output capacities: to artificially
drive up the price of oil. Republicants can leave the
Tea Party on its own, to drain the swamp in Congress,
or do whatever it is they are doing, and on their own
chose to undermine this fabricated power of OPEC. we
have everything we need to severe our ties to OPEC,
and let them scurry to obtain customers abroad, while
we utilize our resources to our complete advantage.
we developed them- now set them free. Republicants
need a shift away from bedding OPEC, not an absorption of the Tea Party.

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By rico, suave, January 15, 2011 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment

I worship at your feet, you intellectual colossus!

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By diamond, January 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm Link to this comment

And what’s with the gavel? Small dick syndrome?

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By diamond, January 15, 2011 at 4:28 pm Link to this comment

“Irascible’? That’s a new word for Fascists and white supremacists.

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