WISGOP's Reince Priebus in unbelievable outrage

By all accounts, Reince Priebus ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer.

— "Liberty Pundit"

Reince Priebus, the WISGOP chairperson who is seeking to dethrone his former best buddy and current top RNC gaffe machine Michael Steele in an election this month, has got the Base in an uproar again.

Here is Gateway Pundit proprietor Jim Hoft hooting it up via Andrew Breitblart's BigGovernment.com:

The leading candidate in the race — Reince Priebus's law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!

I don't believe Reince Priebus's law firm is the leading candidate in the race, but that's close enough for the Base, apparently.

Yes, you read that correctly.

(Shame about its not being written correctly.)

Reince Priebus's law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.

Boldface (and typo) in original.

This space had found a similar entertainment earlier:

Reince, Priebus & Pelosi LLP.

Arguably fallacious as it is to assign to Reince Priebus his law firm's statement, it's amusing on several levels to see the nut-right deliberately mishandle this information against one of their own.

On the other hand, when the Base discovered Priebus was the "co-author" of a document advising clients on how to obtain the hated federal stimulus funds, another conservative accused Priebus of "scrambl[ing] to scrub" the attribution from the firm's website.

And on a third hand, the firm's advice that the suits challenging Obamacare "have no merit" is mildly comical on its own and I can certainly understand that advice riling the Base especially now that two of the suits challenging the constitutionality of one of its operative provisions are nearing the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Several RNC hopefuls debate today. Fox News says it will be ugly.*

h/t Breitblart: Outrageous ... unbelievable.

* But spells Priebus's name every way except for correctly.

Wisconsin's Priebus doomed: Ex-RNC chair

Is what it says here.

Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party whose unlimited view of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce is indistinguishable from Nancy Pelosi's — according to the conservative Republican Base — will last only a ballot or two when the Republican National Committee elects its new Il Duce* on January 14.

Sitting chair Michael Steele, who in happier times was Priebus's bestest pal in the whole world, was expected to bow out first.

Five candidates for the position were interviewed yesterday by wing-nut pundits Grover Norquist and Tucker Carlson, who subjected the hopefuls to such penetrating queries as, 'How profound is your ardor for Saint Ronald Reagan' and 'How many guns do you own.'

"One of our biggest youth movements was Ronald Reagan," replied Priebus of the former president, the oldest in American history, who left the office precisely one month short of his 78th birthday.

Reince Priebus claimed to own five guns, a tiny arsenal by comparison with that of Missouri's Ann Wagner, who owns 16 including an assault rifle, the mention of which inspired an excited burst of applause from the gathered faithful (I'm not kidding).

The candidates also fielded a written question from the National Organization for Marriage's Maggie Gallagher, inviting each aspiring GOP leader to define the scope of their various homophobias.

Priebus's impending doom comes in spite of his promises to "work absolutely like a dog," as much as "five or six hours a day."

* One candidate repeatedly vowed to "make the trains run on time."

Priebus: Please stop talking about Ron Johnson

For real, stop it youse guys!

After all, Ron Johnson (R-Qaqortoq) is only the WISGOP's presumptive Establishment Choice as candidate for U.S. Senate.*

WISGOP CHAIRMAN REINCE PRIEBUS: People in Wisconsin are sick and tired of ... career politicians like [indentured Republicans Scott Walker and F. James Sensenbrenner and Mitch McConnell and ...] ...

Watch the whole thing, it's kind of sad. The WISGOP owns Ron Johnson now, so Reince Priebus and the rest of its teevee spokesmodels had better come to grips with his parade of inanities.

Indeed, things are getting so bad lately for the WISGOP's fair-haired boy that even WISGOP Chairman Reince Priebus has taken to campaigning for Democratic Senator Russ Feingold:

WISGOP CHAIRMAN REINCE PRIEBUS: [Democrats] know that the real issue is we don't want to axe thousands of jobs chasing after carbon and cap'n tax and chase jobs out of Wisconsin over a theory that is unproven [sic].

Huh. Via WisBusiness dot com, 09/08/09:

"I'm not signing onto any [cap and trade] bill that rips off Wisconsin," Senator Feingold declared, arguing the bill's mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions could put the coal-dependent Badger State at an economic disadvantage compared to other regions and nations.

WISGOP teevee spokesmodels FTW.

* Dick Morris, concurring.

GOP chairman's baldfaced lie is "disputed"

Whoever writes the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's headlines is quite the comedian. Reince Priebus, the ridiculous chairman of the Republican National Committee, tells an outright lie — that there are tens of thousands of fraudulent votes cast in the State of Wisconsin — and the Journal-Sentinel calls it an "allegation" that is merely "disputed."

"We need to do a [percentage] point or two better than where we think we need to be, to overcome it," sez R. Priebus, so you know what's coming if Tom Barrett edges Scott Walker* in the election next Tuesday.

More baseless lies dressed up as "allegations" by the local paper, which has made something of a habit of legitimating right-wing propaganda.

* Walker is quoted as saying he has no "'reason to agree or disagree' with Priebus' comments," but just the other day he was saying exactly the same thing as Priebus. At least they could keep their lies consistent.

Obviously he has a "reason to agree" if the pair are on the same page.

These clowns depend on popular stupidity — in turn fortified by disingenuous newspaper editors — in order to flourish. Wake up ffs.

The continuing adventures of Reince Priebus

Couldn't [WISGOP Chairman] Priebus and Co. find an article to cite that doesn't contradict the narrative they are pushing?

Via Pretty Important.

Well it is this Reince Priebus:

It's disgusting ... It's offensive to the people of Wisconsin. I hope Russ Feingold has an explanation as to why he thinks Obama ought not to be executed ... My guess is Ron Johnson would believe Obama should be executed and he oughta be treated as a war criminal.

Poor sod's a little confused.

The only other people who are that confused are the old folks on social security the cynical Priebus & Co. are using as political pawns.

In strenuous defense of Reince Priebus

Reince Priebus didn't really say Obama should be executed.*

He said Ron Johnson believed Obama should be executed.

However, the WISGOP Chairman was unclear as to whether Obama or Ron Johnson was the one who should be treated like a war criminal.

* That's a conservative website.

eta: More Priebus —

Lawsuits filed to block the case are unlikely to succeed because the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress authority to act on this [PPACA] legislation.

Holy cats, I can't hardly tell apart Reince Priebus' law firm's interpretation of the Commerce Clause from Nancy Pelosi's.

Guess the GOP will have to pass the Reince to find out what's in it.

Reince Priebus flees from hard challenges

Other RNC candidates faced and answered tough questions

But not Wisconsin's own Reince Priebus, says Bill Kristol's organ.

Earlier: Priebus owns five guns.

Roads, bridges all fine, says Wisconsin Republican

Item: Infrastructure plan announced

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, said in advance of the president's visit that "at a time when the country is falling of a fiscal cliff," spending $50 billion is the wrong answer.

Chairman Reince Priebus's GOP-leased Cadillac Escalade then bounced off a giant pothole and disappeared over a "Bridge Out" sign.

Reince Priebus Republican quote of the day

"I'm not going to respond to data." — Reince Priebus

I guess because when he does respond to data, that's horseshit too.

Something's in the Hopper with Randy

WKOW27's Tony Galli is relentless:

Candidates for various jobs in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s administration were passed over despite recommendations from high-level officials, while a woman with ties to Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac) was hired to a position with an immediate thirty five percent salary increase, without formally being recorded as a job applicant.

And now that lovable zany Reince Priebus is in the Hopper also.

Valerie Cass, 26, was with the Madison Republican PR and quasi-lobbyist outfit Persuasion Partners* for a time, until she got disappeared when the randy saga first got hopping. PP's Darrin Schmitz helped Republican State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman traffic in the basest of base political sleaze. Gableman was elected to the court on April Fools' Day 2008 and promptly and formally charged with violating the Wisconsin code of judicial ethics.

* It even sounds like a dating service.

On teh web: Thoughts of Chairman Priebus

Priebus promises more comedy

Less drama.

Politico.com:

The video includes a series of testimonials from Sen-elect Ron Johnson, Gov-elect Scott Walker and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Journal-Sentinel:

The accompanying video message includes testimonials from Gov-elect Scott Walker and Janesville congressman Paul Ryan.

Johnson-snub.

The continuing adventures of Reince Priebus

Doth not Priebus bootless kneel?

Steele says he now believes Reince Priebus, also the chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, was secretly plotting against him for months despite what appeared to be unfettered loyalty.

Should have got a dog.

Thoughts of Chairman Priebus

If you can call them that:

Feingold had mentioned that he thought that it would be good if we captured Obama in the battlefield ... It's disgusting ... It's offensive to the people of Wisconsin. I hope [Feingold] has an explanation as to why he thinks Obama ought not to be executed ... My guess is [Ron Johnson] would believe Obama should be executed and he oughta be treated as a war criminal.

— WISGOP Chairman Reince Priebus

It's hard for a Republican to keep those two apart, I understand.

Kenya, Yemen ... what's the difference.

And now, the punchline

[Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince] Priebus called it "disgusting" that the Democratic Party's ad would start on Easter Sunday.

It's airing during Charlie Sykes's teevee show. Priebus called the Democrats liars, so the ad will be a perfect fit for its placement.

But why wouldn't they run it where somebody's actually watching?

Reince Priebus inadvertently tells the truth

"People are starved for [Scott Walker's] leadership." — R. Preibus

Walker Unveils His Wisconsin Food Stamp Starvation Scheme

The Grand Old Non-Party

The Janesville (WI) Gazette, reporting on last night's Republican jamboree there, describes Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick as one of the "stars" of Wisconsin's Republican Party.

Koschnick is believed to be challenging State Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in an election April 7. Such elections are, according to the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes, "non-partisan."

Judge Koschnick addressed the Party jamboree along with several other celebrated local Republicans, according to the Gazette.

"Look out Democrats," warns reporter Frank Schultz, who was apparently obliged to endure the festivities. "The GOP is coming after you." And Democrats, complained another of the stellar Republican Party luminaries, Rep. Paul Ryan, "run everything."

Yet a further brightly burning ball of reactive gas, State Party chairman Reince Priebus — fresh from dutifully rearranging his national Party counterpart's clerical accoutrements — proclaimed a return to "the Party of Lincoln once again."

The reference is to a 19th century American president who unilaterally suspended the constitutional right of habeas corpus (which only the United States Congress is constitutionally empowered to do, as most "strict constructionists" are aware).

Meanwhile: "Judges must not only be fair, neutral, impartial and non-partisan but also should be so perceived by the public," wrote all seven Wisconsin Supreme Court justices in December, 2007.

Last week, Judge Koschnick was the toast of another GOP shindig.

Democrat Gay Homosexual Atheist Party

Resolution language "tweaked," sez Reince Priebus of Wisconsin

"One of Steele's allies on the committee, Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer, told CNN the resolution is 'stupid' and 'ridiculous.'"

Dave Westlake now defeated: Murdoch paper

That was quick.

The Wall Street Journal's September 15 issue hits the stands today

The Wall Street Journal's right-wing editorial pages have long been a leading expert source in Wisconsin judicial politics as well, predicting several years ago a terrifyingly Alabamian tsunami of product liability litigation in the Badger State which, uh, never actually happened.

Observers suggested the WSJ's mandarins may have mistaken video footage of Ron Johnson at the Republican Party convention last May for the September 14 primary. In the footage, a Johnson aide is shown tearing down a 'Dave Westlake for Senate' political free speech campaign poster while Johnson pulls down one of Terrence Wall's.

Johnson's campaign subsequently claimed the pair were rendering freelance janitorial services — just helping out with the tidying up.

A spokesperson confirmed no union jobs were displaced to Macau.

Since that time, Ron Johnson has been touring Wisconsin complaining that his own personal Freedoms are under government attack and that the Communist Chinese "climate for business investment is far more certain ... than it is in the U.S. here."

The Chairman of the Party Reince Priebus issued a decree that all discussion of Ron Johnson's bizarre proclamations must cease immediately [Need to clarify he is Republican Party chairman — ed.].

Earlier: Dave Westlake concedes solar system only 13 days young

How come the Wisconsin redistricting SNAFU?

Because Acts 43 and 44 were passed creating the new State Senate, Assembly, and Congressional districts before municipalities had finished creating their local wards.

And who made that brilliant decision? Your famous WISGOP is who.

So they could have them ready for national GOP approval, no doubt.

You know who Reince Priebus works for, right? And you know who gave unethical judge Mike Gableman free legal services to ensure he stayed on the court where redistricting challenges were most likely headed: Michael Best & Friedrich and national Republican Party activist Jim Bopp.

What a racket,* and an incompetent one at that.

"Connect the dots, connect the dots." — Pee-Wee Herman

* "Syndicate" might be a better word.

Reince Priebus thanks Charlie Sykes for all the lies

"God bless you, Charlie Sykes."

That would be the famous "trickster God" of theology, evidently.