Good Grief… Leading RNC Candidate’s Law Firm Supports Obamacare – Says It’s Constitutional
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 30, 2010, 2:36 PM
This will go over well with the conservative base…
If you thought the fact that RNC Chair candidate, Maria Cino, was an Obamacare lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest…
The leading candidate in the race – Reince Priebus‘s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!
Yes, you read that correctly.
Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
Unbelievable.
Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is seen here with RNC Chairman Michael Steele. (News One)
The far left Think Progress website reported this today:
On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to select the next national chairman of the party. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for a second term against a number of challengers, including Saul Anuzis, Ann Wagner, Maria Cino, Gentry Collins, and Reince Priebus.
Priebus, the current state chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is positioning himself as the true conservative alternative to Steele…
Despite his heated anti-Obama attacks, Priebus makes a living at a law firm far more comfortable with the policies of President Obama. Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Over the summer, the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm’s services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations. In one presentation, John Barlament, a colleague to Priebus at the firm, said that a health reform repeal is not only unlikely, but that the lawsuits brought by Republican Party allies to declare the law unconstitutional probably have no merit. Referring to the controversy over the individual mandate, Barlament explained that the commerce clause of the constitution “gives Congress authority to act on his legislation.”
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this.
Is this really the person who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years?
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Missy8s commented:
F**k the RINOs!
toongoon commented:
No, it’s not unbelievable, many republicans want socialization as much as the progressives. Conservatives have very little representation in congress and all of this isnot going to end well.
ProLifer commented:
The conservative base, of which I am a member, needs to find a new home — our own political party.
Rob Crawford commented:
He’s the establishment candidate; he wants a more powerful establishment. Imagine the graft that will flow when Congressthings can make determine who gets medical care and who doesn’t!
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squeaky commented:
“republicans want socialization as much as the progressives. Conservatives have very little..”
wolves in sheeps clothing. it’s conservative vs progressive and we can forget the d or r. the name of the game was and is infiltration – as in the trojan horse. if they’re not part of the solution they’re part of the problem…..
Motoman commented:
This seems to hard for a lot of people to grasp, but representing a client doesn’t mean a lawyer shares the client’s views; it does require the lawyer to make the best arguments available, even if they reflect views the lawyer finds personally offensive. Analogize it to a doctor, who takes all comers and does all he or she can to return the patient to health, even if that means restoring the patient’s ability to propagate views the doctor abhors.
A little adulthood, folks: Mr. Priebus may be the wrong person to lead the RNC, and he may hold views on the constitutionality of Mr. Obama’s medical takeover that should disqualify him from that post–but nothing in his firm’s representation, as described, proves either.
chillguy33 commented:
Republicans are obviously a good piece of the problem; and offer no solution.
We need to clean this thing out.
toongoon commented:
Thanks for the reality check Motoman, We really need do to consider the source and not be thrown into confusion on their terms.
Daniel commented:
The answer is not only NO, but Hell no!
Mark commented:
But look at what happened in the elections in Wisconsin
Doug Wakeman commented:
Another incompetent RINO in this position will only further erode the power of the establishment Republicans encouraging conservatives to contribute directly to, and campaign for preferred candidates, bypassing this moribund organization. It worked pretty well this last cycle and will only become more powerful going forward.
Steve commented:
Motoma – “but representing a client doesn’t mean a lawyer shares the client’s views;”
- Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP.
You aren’t asked to become a partner in a law firm without sharing, to some extent, that firms ideological/philosophical & political views. Additionally – your comparsion of lawyers to doctors & saying they are essentially engaged in the same activity and from the same motivation is bogus.
Mark Livingston commented:
Don’t make me run…
mRed commented:
Saul Anuzis! He’s against ObamaCare, he’s conservative, understands technology and understands what needs to be done at the RNC!
Mike123 commented:
There is a difference between being a Conservative and a Republican. The RNC and by extension the Republican Party is not conservative. A person can be a good Republican even if they vote for START, DADT, ObamaCare, TARP, Deficit Spending, etc. A great example is Senator Isakson. He’s a good Republican but isn’t a Conservative.
I personally think calling Republicans RINO’s is inaccurate. A better term is Mark Steyn’s DIABLO …… Democrat In All But Label Only
Yes, Conservatives need to find a new home. As long as the Republicans hold us hostage, Conservative principles will suffer.
Jim commented:
What Missy8s said !
WSG commented:
I seem to want to say something about putting down the shovel.
Chuck Pelto commented:
Down with the Republicans!
Pass the Tea!
GaryS commented:
The Repugnants are as bad as the Dimocrats. You can’t slide a piece of paper between McConnell and Reid. I am thoroughly disgusted with the Party, and will never again contribute to the RNC or pay any attention to them whatsoever. The RNC is just another indication of the problem.
I will probably stay registered so that I can vote against the RNC-approved candidates in the primaries and general elections. But that’s only because I despise them so much.
I realize how truly difficult establishing a successful third party will be, but maybe we are running out of options. Our current system of searching high and low for the very worst people in the US so we can send them to Washington has obviously been a total failure.
Old One commented:
I’ll be continuing my practice of the last 2 years. and send back empty envelopes with the suggestion the RNC ask Dede Scozzafava, Mike Castle, and the Maine Twins for money and fire the RNC chairman.
When I get phone calls from the RNC I give thema similar blurb and tell them no more money from me ever though I have contributed to the party for more than 25 years prior of the idiot Steele’s ascendancy and then hang up.
BlogDog commented:
Once again the Republican establishment lives up the “stupid party” moniker.
PamK commented:
Don’t know the guy, Priebus, but nowhere in this post is there a statement that he supports Obamacare. Before retiring I worked 32 years at a major research university surrounded by liberals. Did I quit or get in a snit? No, I worked a job I liked for pay I could accept and did not discuss politics. Those who are critical of someone just because he is in a workplace surrounded by people with different ideas need to get facts about the individual, not judge him guilty due to who pays his salary. Some of the comments seem pretty immature.
Fen commented:
Dear GOP,
This is not a 2nd chance. Its the last one.
Redwine commented:
NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS NO RINOS
Enough of this crap!
PERIOD!
bg commented:
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deja vu
The Boiling Frog Syndrome
[.] But if the haters of Constitutional government proceed in small
increments, they eventually gut the Constitution almost unnoticed –
particularly if they carry out their initiatives in multiple components
of U.S. society (so-called public schools, the banking system, the
major news media, the legal system, etc.).[links @ links]
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Jeff Mitchell commented:
It’s like they’re daring us to start a 3rd party…
Paul Ben commented:
I don’t know how many times we have to repeat to the idiots on the right who vote “R” thinking that “R” is different than “D.”
Wake up you morons, there is only ONE group of people in American politics, especially in D.C. and that group is called:
“We are the elites, we know better than you, go f* yourselves, sheep.”
Or in other words: “The Ruling Class.”
bg commented:
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re: It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this.
just received this in the email..
As of this writing, Grassfire Nation has delivered more than
180,000 CITIZEN MANDATES to the new House leaders Rep.
John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor. [etc..]
[Now that Republicans have made major gains in Congress — primarily on
the backs of and through the votes of patriotic, Tea-Party Americans - it's
time for citizens to let members of the new Congress know precisely what
WE THE PEOPLE want them to do! [etc..]
“Citizen Mandate”
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Bill commented:
There may be plenty of good reasons to oppose this guy for we know now, but what his law partners may believe is not among them. Anyone familiar with large law firms knows well that very often the partners hold one another in contempt and ridicule.
As conservatives and Republicans should we not reject guilt-by-association as a discredited tactic better suited for Democrat group think?
m commented:
Hope he doesn’t get the job as the Chairman of the GOP. It sounded like all the candidates are RINOS. I guess Michael Steele might be the next Chairman of the GOP.
AntiMotoMan commented:
Hey Motoman, the article says that the partner was pitching the firm’s services to clients:
the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm’s services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations . . .
The article doesn’t say that the partner was representing a particular client, which would be the only conceivable reason for opining that challenges to the healthcare reform law are without merit.
Considering the statement further, I take it back. There would be another reason for making such a gratuitous comment – namely if the law firm stood to make oodles of money from helping clients navigate the legal labyrinthine known as Obamacare. In that case though, the head of the RNC would have a conflict unless he resigned from the law firm that stands to make money from Obamacare.
Tangentially, the partner who made the ‘without merit’ statement to his clients might want to consider upping his malpractice coverage because the statement is manifestly false given that at least one challenge to Obamacare has already been upheld in federal court and, further, because the entire issue is virtually certain to make its way to the Supreme Court.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
I’m sick of this bull f^cking sh*t.
Bill Connell commented:
That photo was taken aboard a private jet, right? I’m sure the RNC Chair needs to travel that way sometimes, but could we get somebody who’s not quite so gleeful about spending Republican campaign contributions?
oldtexan commented:
@Paul Ben — on the money pal. We need to find honest men who have had to work for a living then get them into office.
Qbksguy commented:
PamK is right. I’m from Wisconsin and I see Priebus as one of the good guys. The Michael Best & Friedrich firm is a big firm – Madison & Milwaukee offices. I know people who’ve worked there who are liberal. That doesn’t mean Priebus is. He’s one guy in a big firm.
Take a deep breath before the hanging posse gets carried away. Wisconsin swept out 2 Congressmen (and made several more sweat bullets), elected a libertarian Repulbican Senator (Ron Johnson is great!), added a libertarian republican Governor who has already killed the slow-speed train AND we swept the liberal dems out of BOTH houses of the legislature. Priebus was in charge.
I don’t know him well, but he works for a big law firm and shouldn’t be tarnished by the politics of his long list of law/business partners.
Ginger commented:
Ann Wagner in Missouri is the only true American in this bunch that loves this country. She is a go getter! We need to get behind her and get her elected as our next RNC.
David commented:
I can see a third party from my house.
squeaky commented:
the answer to everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCTkvMC5mqk
buzz commented:
Seriously, you people can’t be this stupid, can you? It would be one thing if he lobbied for or in any way supported Obomacare, but there’s nothing here that claims he did. The firm has 200+ attorneys, and just because one of them makes a statement doesn’t mean the other 200 agree with it. And are you saying that a law firm shouldn’t help it’s clients comply with a law that, like or not, has been passed and is the law???? This is beyond idiotic.
Chisum commented:
#36 December 30, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Ginger commented:
Ann Wagner in Missouri is the only true American in this bunch that loves this country. She is a go getter! We need to get behind her and get her elected as our next RNC.
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+1
DaMav commented:
The Republican Party appears to be suicidal. I’d prefer Steele to someone like this and I’m not a Steele fan.
Bobbi commented:
wasn’t it Priebus who said that Anne wagner couldn’t be RNC Chair because of her gender?
http://biggovernment.com/tag/rnc/
bg commented:
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heh, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet..
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Gloria commented:
Uh, the people don’t want it. How is THAT for a basis of constitutionality? The GOP needs to be purged of progressives. We did it once, and it’s time to do it again. Screw these guys.
Practical Jane commented:
Mole
Bbrooke commented:
Way past time for a Conservative party that can take power. The middle class has been losing for decades…can we ever vote as a block?
The Underground Conservative commented:
Time out here.
I’m from Wisconsin and Reince Priebus did a heckuva job flipping our state from Blue to Deep Red. We elected a Tea Party conservative governor, a Tea Party conservative U.S. Senator, helped flush the Democrats from control of the State Legislature by wide margins, help elect two new Tea Party conservatives to the U.S. House of Representatives and help the GOP take control of all but one statewide offices.
One lawyer cannot be held responsible for all actions and statements made by the firm or any other partners. It’s a given that most law firms and lawyers tend to lean to the left. Many firms hedge their bets and donate to both sides. There are conservative lawyers that work at law firms dominated by liberals. That’s a given.
But here we are talking about one lawyer’s opinion. This lawyer happens to be a partner in the firm. Don’t know his status, but that lawyer is entitled to his opinion. Reince Priebus, however, should not be held accountable for it.
Chris commented:
Apparently, we are going to have to double our supply of tar and feathers. Who in the hell is in charge of the repubics. If this keeps up, the party is doomed.
The Underground Conservative commented:
Oh, and using the lefty site ThinkProgress as a credible source? FAIL. It’s like using the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center and the DUmmies to back you up.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
One question: What’s Priebus’ background on this?
It’s one thing for a colleague to be supportive of Obamacare, but what exactly are Priebus’ views and previous actions on the subject?
Ginger commented:
We have enough deceivers and we do not need one running the RNC.
What was it that Barry said…. “Judge me by my friends.” Lawyers are the most decieving jack asses there is! Amost All are corrupt! I do not give a hoot how large a law firm is they all have one thing in common. They do work together! I KNOW!
DaveinPhoenix commented:
Life in the RNC headquarters: power, money, ego, screw the working guy. At least we’ll be fine. Eff the RNC.
George commented:
Just emailed my Republican Congressman and told him that as a result of November I had hoped to once again give money to the RNC. Mind you, I am still queasy about it but I have been thinking – hey maybe they got it. Yeah, I don’t think so. Told him that if this guy makes it in it will be a cold day in Al Gore’s house before I EVER give money to RNC. Forget it, not going to do it. Screw them.
Peggy R commented:
There is no interstate market for insurance that citizens are being compelled to participate in by this law. The Congress did not permit interstate pooling by private insurers. The feds have no constitutional authority over intrastate insurance markets.
There is an interstate market for medical services, but by what authority do the feds dictate how we are to pay for receipt of such services? Exist fed programs already take care of the poor and elderly. No need to expand them to cut out our options of payment.
I would like to see utility regulation case law and history applied to this issue to help protect the purview of states and individuals. I am an economist with long history of utility regulation.
That said, yes, the GOP is loaded with many RINOs who would have been happy to endorse a federal version of Romney-care. They must be stopped.
jgreene commented:
I’m sick of RINO lawyers! Get this guy out of our faces. No more RINOs and no more supporters of anti Constitutional legislation.
sifty commented:
Not one penny goes the the RNC. Never again. Only to candidates directly and only to candidates I have personally met. Screw the RNC. They are a country club for weasels.
Scott commented:
Think Progress are hacks that specialize in mischaracterization.
So the law firm helped it’s clients figure out how to deal with Obamacare. Law fimrs help their clients deal with new laws/regulations. It doesn’t mean either he or his firm support Obamacare.
Then Think Progess talks about the opinion of a specific lawyer at the firm about the constitutionality of Obamacare. Guess what. Big law firms have both Democrats and Republicans who work for them, and this particular attorney is likely a Democrat.
The whole thing is a non-issue, contrived by the less than honest clowns at Think Progress.
Gravis commented:
Remember, as Beck says, it’s a top down, bottom up, inside out plan that INCLUDES alleged ‘conservative’ politicians that we have no control on how they will vote. Yes, the People of this country won’t put up for this, but it’s partly what these globalists want from us; to become so angry and frustrated that we’ll actually DO something about these politicians we THOUGHT was going to do the right thing (e.g. Scott Brown), but hasn’t.
To be honest, We the People are going to have to push for REAL blue collar candidates that has no connection to any kind of earmarks, bailouts, etc., which is going to be the toughest job for Americans to accomplish.
BullDawg commented:
George I am with you, just sent mine an e-mail and told him the same, I think it’s time to say the hell with both the parties and start the “Conservative Party” I am so sick and tired of these elites not getting it.
http://www.weeklyrepublic.com
Motoman commented:
Having been a partner in one of the world’s largest law firms, I can say to #12 and others that such an aggregation is typically a business undertaking by hundreds or thousands of people of widely diverse views, and that it makes no sense to speak of the firm’s “ideological/philosophical & political views,” any more than it does to suggest that partnership is only extended to those “sharing” those non-existent views. At my firm, and I think this was typical of large, successful law firms, no one gave a damn about my political views, or my assessment of the merits of a particular law or policy; my willingness to subordinate such concerns to the common enterprise was what mattered to my colleagues, and properly so.
Nor does a marketing pitch that a particular law is or is not vulnerable say anything about the firm’s individual members’ views on the desirability of the law or policy in issue, any more than advising clients to order their affairs on the probability that Mr. Obama will be re-elected suggests that the person giving that advice wants him re-elected. Good lawyers detach their personal views from their advice. I detest Mr. Obama’s medical takeover; I would certainly advise clients that it will probably survive legal assault. So whatever the merits of Mr. Priebus’s firm’s marketing pitch, it says nothing about his personal views, unless he says it did.
Fred commented:
Priebus is no RINO. I’ve known him for years, he is a conservative’s conservative.
Must his firm agree with each of his positions?
Now we are taking reports from far left website?
Ridiculous.
Priebus does not deserve this slander/
arnonerik commented:
All of a sudden Michael Steele is looking better to me.
donh commented:
The lame duck session was a repudiation of those talk show hosts who demand we ‘ take back ‘ the Republican party. There has to be a Plan B to the same old party loyalties . . All that money and effort people sacrifice could go towards building a new party that is pleased to represent our agenda . The money people waste on saving this country through republicans is better spent stockpiling resources for the coming end of days. Look what just happened to Christine O’Donnell. If you take Mark Levin’s advice , get involved and try to change the Republican party from within, the establishment will send the FBI after you. These dangerous times just keep growing darker by the day . Our government is failing , getting desparate, and is losing what little remains of its moral conscience .
BS61 commented:
#29 Bill
‘should we not reject guilt-by-association’
No, that’s how Obama got elected! Bill Ayers, the Reverend!
Ginger commented:
Lets put it this way….. Go check the political contributions to the demo- rat -ic party and count all the law firms that contributed to the demo- rats compaired to the republican party. I mean big dollar amounts! I wish I had the link but I do not! Help… bg….gus you two usually have every thing.
I am making a point as to the direction and how law firms do business.
It is not just unions who are tearing down our country it is the LAWYERS! The bible warns them too!
“Woe to you LAWYERS
You have taken away the KEY of KNOWLEDGE.
You yourselves have NOT gained access,
yet you have stopped those who Wished to Enter!”
Luke, Chapter 11-Verse 52:
Jack commented:
The repubs don’t have any leaders. The fact that nobody challenged Boner for his position proves that. They all suck and I’m afraid they will continue to suck even after the election results. I trust NONE of them. I hope I’m not feeling this way a year from now.
aprilnovember811 commented:
I’ve come to the sad conclusion that many Republicans are part of the socialist takeover of the country. This man is obviously an infiltrator and one of them. I think we are going to have to have an official third party. Heck, I’m at the point I think George W. Bush is part of it. After what happened in the lame duck session, we shouldn’t trust any of them.
aprilnovember811 commented:
donh,
I agree about Mark. I usually agree with him, but I’m not so sure he’s right about this either. Sometimes I think the GOP should be left to die. With people like Boehner, McConnell, Murkowski, Brown etc. why not just vote Democrat. I read today that Upton who Boehner appointed to the Energy Committee doesn’t want to defund the EPA’s Lisa Jackson’s marxist rules on fraudulent climate change/global warming? Someone needs to check Boehner out. Is he one of them?
Ginger commented:
April
I still believe that Bush Jr. Was controlled! Think about it….Daddy Bush and Billy boy were and are chummy… Why because they are both One World Order. I do believe that Barb Bush is a traitor along with Laura! Why in the world would Bush come out and say that he would not bash enother president? But…but.. Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Burtha Kerry, the media bashed him all the time and BUSH NEVER SAID A THING. Bush was and is being controlled! He knows that Barry is a illegal Kenyan alien and DID NOTHING TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY. He knew letting him get elected would make it impossible to get rid of him and Bush knew what they were going to do to our country and for that I despise the man.
Hedgehog commented:
It is time. Third party. Make them both history. We need to stop fooling ourselves. This is war, and the enemy is within. Chose sides. It is coming. The Communists know that this is their last chance. They intend to fight to the death. Let’s just have it out and be done with it.
bg commented:
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Ginger #71
i’ve said it many times before, and will say it until the day i die, i’m surprised
Bush did as well as he did considering the majority in, lets say, the gov were
against him, including his father.. and most certainly do not believe Bush 43
was “controlled” by anyone in the sense you portray it, i bleieve he threw a
huge monkey wrench in to the NWO agenda via going into Iraq for one..
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bg commented:
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Ginger #66
yeah gus, lets see what you can dig up..
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Chisum commented:
Reince Priebus: There Will Be War
Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this. Is this really teh(sic) person who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years?
I get it. It’s a law firm. He’s only one partner yadda yadda. But his dissembling on the Stimulus issue was bad enough. Now we learn his firm’s stance on Obamacare is bad, not to mention his personally taking part in an eminent domain lawsuit – on the wrong side for a principled conservative. Then there’s his internship with the NAACP after law school. Everyone knows the politics of the NAACP. Add to that, the dude is only 38 years old and none of this stuff was a lifetime ago. For the most part, we’re talking the last 10 – 12 years. You don’t get from the Leftist NAACP to the RNC in that kind of time frame and have much credibility as aconservative, especially with all this other intervening crap.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/
Ginger commented:
I knew it! Another demo-rat in Republican clothes!
Ann Wagner for RNC.
Keep your eyes and ears open because there is a lot of deceivers and liars out there! Look at Scott Brown! I sure see him hanging around John Kerry a lot.
Ginger commented:
bg..#74 Funny
funny 
dad29 commented:
Mr. Priebus may be the wrong person to lead the RNC, and he may hold views on the constitutionality of Mr. Obama’s medical takeover that should disqualify him from that post–but nothing in his firm’s representation, as described, proves either
That doesn’t stop Ms Wagner’s attack-munchkins.
Sheesh! commented:
#62 Fred & #48 Underground Conservative
I’m with you. I’m from Wisconsin & watched Russ Feingold, Jim Doyle and David Obey all get run out of office. Both the state assembly and state senate are now GOP controlled. Yeah, we still have a few RINO’s running around (like the ethanol supporters), but we had really great conservative candidates that won, including Scott Walker and Ron Johnson (a no name a year ago). Our state Republican party leadership did a phenomenal job. I believe Reince Priebus played a part in that effort.
Please note that I don’t know the man personally. This opinion is based on my observations during our campaign season, of which I helped out with for the first time in my life. Based on recent articles I have read on Reince, it seems there is an effort to smear him, but I have no proof of this.
Deekaman commented:
I suggest the facts get a good going over on Priebus. I do not know him personally, but know many who are strong Conservative operatives who SWEAR by him. I’m calling BS on the charges.
Deekaman commented:
I’ll add that if Priebus were a good RINO, why would ThinkProgress even bring this up?
Chisum commented:
Is Liberalism Reince Priebus’ Eminent Domain?
http://www.keyhouseraces.com/content/liberalism-reince-priebus%E2%80%99-eminent-domain-1
MikeC commented:
Let’s at least give the guy a chance to defend himself.
> Johnson/Rubio 2012
Ginger commented:
We are still getting phone calls from the RNC for money! Each time we tell them Hell no! Not untill you clean house! Well it sure looks like they do not know how! My husband finally just yesterday had to scream at the person on the phone to go to Hell that there has not and will not be any money from us to the RNC. Told the person to take our name off the list! How much you want to bet they keep calling. We give to the republican that we want to give.
Syrin commented:
Who do we contact about this so we can raise holy hell, and get this RINO removed from consideration immediately?
tommy mc donnell commented:
maybe he is an infiltrator from the left. that is one of the left’s main strategies. infiltrate an organization and destroy it from within.
stan commented:
Ann Wagner is the only choice for RNC chair , she is the only real deal .
Ginger commented:
stan….. What I have read about Ann Wagner reminds me of Sarah Palin and us! True Americans and no hidden agenda’s. Just watched an hour of Palin with Sean Hannity. She did not say for sure she is running for president but we know she is. I might have to make a choice between Sarah Palin or John Bolten.
bitterclinger commented:
Internship with the NAACP, handling eminent domain cases FOR THE WRONG SIDE, and making a boneheaded statement (a la Michael Steele) about Ann Wagner’s gender tells me this isn’t the guy we’ve been looking for. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…
“Good conservatives” may have been elected in his state during his tenure, but funny thing, lots of “good conservatives” were elected all over the country. There’s a 50/50 shot this guy had anything to do with the outcome.
Rush said if the GOP keeps on with its shenannigans, IT will become the 3rd party. Frankly, I’d like to see the Commies and Tea Partiers go head to head. I know who would win.
I’m done with the GOP. Tea Party all the way.
midlandewing commented:
Wow you guys left nothing to say. Thank God for the tea party.
Dean from Ohio commented:
What kind of name is (excuse me, I have to look back at the article to get this spelling right) Reince Priebus? I say we draw the line right here and refuse this guy on a preemptory challenge just because of his name. And the guy is a lawyer. Two strikes, buddy!
Let him grovel to convince us he will dismember ObamaCare piece by bloody piece, without anesthesia.
Dean from Ohio commented:
peremptory
silentcal_rox commented:
that should read FORMER RNC candidate!! GOP blows this one, i’m going to the teaparty as a libertarian!
jorgen commented:
This looks just like the situation in the UK where the Conservative party is in a coalition government with Liberal Democrats (socialists). it is difficult to see the difference between the Lib Dems and the “Conservatives”: the “Conservatives” was wealth redistribution, save the country from global warming etc. The real Conservatives have absolutely no say in their party.
Wake up now USA! The RNC is being taken over!
Billy commented:
lefty SOB!!
AuntieMadder commented:
Despite his heated anti-Obama attacks, Priebus makes a living at a law firm far more comfortable with the policies of President Obama. Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Over the summer, the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm’s services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations. In one presentation, John Barlament, a colleague to Priebus at the firm, said that a health reform repeal is not only unlikely, but that the lawsuits brought by Republican Party allies to declare the law unconstitutional probably have no merit. Referring to the controversy over the individual mandate, Barlament explained that the commerce clause of the constitution “gives Congress authority to act on his legislation.”
I don’t know diddly squat about Prince Beavis or whatever his name is. (Seems I read something negative about him here a few weeks ago but I don’t recall exactly what it was. Perhaps his law firm doing some work for Ohblowme or something.) I really have no opinion of the man.
That said, I don’t read an endorsement or support for Obamacare in that paragraph. What I read is attorneys telling their clients/potential clients that Obamacare is imminent and the clients/potential clients who are employers and want to keep their employee health care crap compliant with the new/upcoming laws would do well to contract the law offices of Butthead and Associate LLP.
Motoman, who worked at a law firm other than Butthead and Associates, and Anti-Motoman, who posted to disagree with Motoman yet stated nothing in disagreement with Motoman (go figure), both explain this well. It’s just marketing – lawyers setting up future sales of their law services. As Anti-Motoman pointed out, the Butthead Associate was full of crap when he said that Obamacare is Constitutional and therefore won’t be repealed, meaning only that he probably doesn’t give any more weight to Constitutional Law than most any other attorney. Or maybe he knows better but is trying to scare the client/potential client into signing him up NOW, in advance. If/when it is repealed, the contract would be cancelled but the relationship should remain, meaning other business. That isn’t an endorsement or statement of support, either. It’s sales, attorney style. shudder
bg commented:
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re: Bobbi / Chisum et al..
[Big Government has already pointed out Priebus’ relationship to stimulus dollar solicitations here. Priebus certainly talks the right talk in these Tea Party times. Unfortunately, from his fondness for liberal catch-phrases, work with the NAACP, appreciation for the use of eminent domain to take land from a small business–land it needed to survive–and profiting from Stimulus funds, it’s extremely hard, if not impossible to document that there’s a principled conservative somewhere underneath the facade.]
keep the focus on Priebus, not the law firm, that’s
definitely an ObamAlinsky distract – attack move..
[OT.. just want to mention this in case i forget it.. did you know when they
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traced where that 5 million dollar request for the Ground Zero Mosque would
come from, it lead back to the 9/11 fund?? talk about audacity, gah!!
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rickster commented:
We need to be as determined as ever to support Ann Wagner. No to everyone else! And for extra emphasis, no to Saul Anuzis!
Mark S. commented:
SO …
Steele out for his incompetence
Ciao out for her stances..
Prebius out for the OBamacare
That leaves us with Wagner and… who else?
burt commented:
There are many elites in the Republican Party that need to be removed. I don’t think the media and George Soros can support them all. I wonder if any of them know how to work?
Catherine commented:
A Third Party is absolutely not the answer and if you want the Leftist Dems to be in Charge for the next several decades, that is exactly the route to take. All the Conservatives have to do is keep voting in more Conservatives, until there are not anymore RINO’s in the Republican Party. The Republicans are the Party of Lincoln and Reagan, we have nothing to be ashamed of, we just have members that either don’t know they are in the wrong party or they are in our party to sabotage it and us.
Sheesh! commented:
http://www.lakeshorelaments.com/?p=7689
Like I thought, a smear…
The Conservative Blogosphere — knows that Jim Hoft, “The Gateway Pundit” of St. Louis, MO is backing Ann Wagner. Wagner is the former GOP state party chair of Missouri who some think is only running to build a name ID for a likely 2012 Senate run against Claire McCaskill.
There’s nothing wrong with Hoft being a homer for Wagner, but there is something wrong when he’s not disclosing it on his blog posts.
Chisum commented:
Sheesh,
Perhaps you missed Jim’s endorsement here:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/missouri-conservative-star-ann-wagner-announces-her-run-for-rnc-chair/