That’s Right Nate

I’m sure by now you have probably heard about Michael Steele ringing up a $1,946.25 tab at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.  However, like most stories brought to you by the left wing media in this country, what’s clearly missing is context.  Right now, one of the number one issues in this country is removing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell regulations that many liberals feel keep gays out of the military unfairly.  What Michael Steele did was clearly a fact finding mission.

The military is still smarting from scandals at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib.  We certainly don’t need another one.   We have been accused of being everything, but a child of God by bleeding hearts who don’t believe that the military has treated prisoners in a humane fashion.   What better place to find out if homosexuals can do a better job of restraining somebody in a secure and efficient way while still being humane than at a lesbian bondage club?

Why doesn’t the gay community and the liberals who continue to complain about how prisoners are treated defend Michael Steele?  Is it because he is a Republican?  I have no doubt that if Dick Durbin was doing this same research, he’d be called a hero.   There is no end to the useful information that Michael Steele could have observed in that club that will help protect American service men and women in the future.  That used to count for something in this country.  How dare we forget those who have given so much to this country now when they need us the most.

One of the untruths frequently repeated by Democrats is that Republicans are the party of no.   They claim that we have no ideas to improve things and instead spend all of our time trying to stop their plans with nothing of our own to offer.   We’ve been very critical of Obama’s stimulus plan for the economy, but the media has ignored our own plans for economic recovery.   Currently, one problem that small businesses are feeling right now is that banks are refusing to lend money and instead sitting on very strong balance sheets after the TARP bailout.

RNC Chairman Michael Steele was on the Today Show today and gave his proposal for the banks.   It was  such a simple idea, I’m surprised nobody else had thought of it.   With the economy suffering, this is the perfect time to cut the unemployment tax.   By doing this, business will spend less money paying for people who aren’t even working anymore and have more money to spend expanding.

Steele told Matt Lauer, “Well, I think, first off, he should recognize that banks aren’t going to lend money to people who can’t pay them back. … So there’s — there’s this whole cycle of not understanding exactly how the economy works with respect to small-business owners. Take that pressure off of them.  Let’s…let’s eliminate the capital gains tax.  let’s reduce the unemployment tax.”

The added advantage is that by eliminating unemployment benefits or at least reducing them with a massive cut to the unemployment tax, being jobless will no longer be rewarded.  This will get all of the people who could be working right now, but choose to stay at home collecting their unemployment checks, back into the workforce.   While I have no idea exactly how many people that is, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the unemployment rate cut in half.   It kind of reminds me of No Child Left Behind where schools that are falling behind get their budgets cut.   Once again, Michael Steele has the pulse of the nation.

Wow! It was hard to believe that after he made his choice he came crawling back and begged for another chance, but that’s just what Michael Steele did.   Last week, Steele appeared on D.L. Hughley’s show on CNN and disputed Hughley’s statement that Rush Limbaugh “is the de facto leader of the Republican Party.” “I’m the de facto leader of the Republican Party!” Steele insisted. Steele called Limbaugh’s shtick is “incendiary” and “ugly.”

Well just yesterday Steele backed down.  “There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership,” Steele said. He added, “There are those out there who want to look at what he’s saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That’s what I was trying to say. It didn’t come out that way.”   Did Michael Steele mistakenly forget how much power Limbaugh has over us?  Perhaps, but then again there may be a less calculating reason.

It seems that second chances were in the air yesterday.  On ABC’s The Bachelor I heard something about the winner breaking up with the woman he picked and then asking a girl he dumped to go out with him or something like that.  I guess what happenned (I hear) is that Jason picked Melissa because he was like Molly makes me think of fun and excitement, but when I think of Melissa its like I think of love and then he sent Molly home and she was like all “I don’t understand” and “you’re going to get hurt again”.   But you know, in the back of his mind Jason couldn’t stop think of Molly and he broke up with Melissa and then Molly comes out and she’s like all “I really did fall for Jason” and he’s like “I’ve learned a lot about myself in the last several days and I think everything I’ve been looking for and which I thought I found at one point was wrong and so much of what I was looking for and I didn’t even know it was right in front of my face and I think the most insincere thing I could do is jump real fast from one thing to another, but what I was hoping was that we could have a shot if we could go out for coffee or a drink and see where things…”  and she’s like “Well yeah.”

I’m pretty sure that something very similar happenned to Michael Steele.  He probably thought about Rush and he was like, “You complete me.”  I’m hoping that the day of second chances will be the beginning of something big.  Jason asked Molly to take it slow and get away from the cameras and go out for a drink or a cup of coffee.  I think that would be a very good idea for Rush and Michael as well.

As I mentioned last week, RNC Chairman Michael Steele has called on us to change as a party.  He wants us 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.”  Well sir, I have taken this call to heart and while I am no MC Rove I was amazed at how easy this rapping is.   First off, sampling is amazing.  Republicans love using songs without permission and now I can do it legally.  Now, I’m the first to admit that I’m no MC Rove, but this rapping is really just talking.

For my regular blog readers, I know that some of you may be frightened of rap.  Don’t be.  We need to reach out to people in all communities who share our views and frankly most of you are too old to really get the vibe on the street.  Even my daughter Emily pleaded with me not to post this video which she called an embarrassment, but you see she doesn’t know the urban experience–in fact I’ve spent most of her life protecting her from it.  If you don’t get it, don’t worry.  I’m trying to reach out to young black men and anybody else who is part of that hip hop culture.  Please appreciate the video for what it is.

It occurs to me that there are a lot of things that unite us Republicans to rappers.  For one thing, we love our big cars and for another we’ve both been accused of mysoginy.  Now that I have this video on the YouTubes, my next goal is to get it on the Itunes.  I’m not going to be happy until I’m in my car and I hear somebody next to me cranking it so loud that the bass is shaking my car.  That will be success so crank this baby up while I lay some dope rhymes on you.

UPDATE: There is an issue with the video sometimes showing up as not available.  At first I thought it was the man trying to keep me down or Steven Tyler again, but it is just a glitch with the YouTubes.  If you get that message try again in a few seconds and you should get it.

I’m sorry for the delay in posting.  I have been rather busy this weekend with CPAC and everything, but as I promised you last week, I am taking up Michael Steele’s challenge.  Tomorrow I hope to release my new video that takes our core conservative values and places them in a hip hop urban-suburban setting.  I’m hoping to be dropping some fresh rhymes in the AM so check it out tomorrow. Peace out

It was a proud day for the Republican Party when Michael Steele was named as chairman of the RNC.  He had plenty of experience before this as Maryland Lieutenant Governor and before that as bass player for the Runaways and Bangles  in the 1980s.  Now, Steele has issued a challenge to the Republican party.  In an interview in the Washington Times Steele said, “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.”

All I have to say to Mr. Steele’s challenge is “Fo Schizzle”.   Now that I have become a Youtube celebrity I’ve been looking for a followup video and what some of you may not know is that I wrote an amazing rap that was the hit of the Great Lakes Region Independent Self-Storage Operator convention for 2006.  If I can make self-storage hip by mixing it with a little somethin’ somethin’, just think what I can do for the GOP and I’m not the only one.  This is a job for MC Karl Rove.  Michael Steele is right, it isn’t our ideas that are wack, its the way we’re frontin.   By this time next week I hope to have a followup video that captures the potential of the Republican Party for the hiphop community.

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I was overwhelmed to see at least a half-dozen black or brown faces at the Republican Convention this year

Today, the Republican National Committee has named former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele as its head.  I know what you’re thinking and I am proud to announce that after several google searches I can confirm that Mister Steele is indeed African-American.   I expect that he may have been the African-American that I thought I saw several times at the Republican Convention last November.

Republicans like myself who were disheartened when Alan Keyes left the party last year, can take pride in knowing that we now have a black man in charge of our party.   What should truly be a source of pride for all Republicans is that 40% of all black RNC members ran for President of the organization.  With Steele at the helm, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a black Republican Senator or Governor by 2014 or 2016.

Of course, the greatest thing about the election of Steele was that his selection was a way to say to the rest of the world, “Hey, we’ve got a black guy too!”   Several other lower RNC positions were also filled tonight, but things had to be streamlined so that that Republicans could get out of the hall before a scheduled wedding.