Harry Reid finally thinks he has his caucus in order. He’s cut backroom deals and received verbal commitments from the Senators he needs, including Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson. Now he’s scrambling to hold a vote on his job-killing “health care” bill before anyone has a chance to change his or her mind. This is a bill that will raise your taxes, not cut them. It will increase the deficit, not decrease it. It will cut Medicare, not preserve it. This bill will cost more than a trillion dollars in taxpayer money if everything goes exactly as planned. And worst of all, it will increase the cost of your health care premiums – the exact opposite of what meaningful health care reform was supposed to accomplish. This is the bill that Harry Reid and his allies are celebrating.

But don’t let the bluster fool you. Reid’s scared, he’s weak, and he knows that he’s just one defection away from losing this fight. If you can convince just one Democratic Senator to vote against Harry Reid and ... more

On Tuesday morning at 1:00 AM EDT, we took the website portion of our web platform into live Beta. Our traffic grew by 440%, sign-ups to OurGOP: The Republican Action Network took off. We thank you for that.

As I noted in my blog and a video you can see on Rebuilding the Party, Beta releases often come with technical issues. That’s why technology people label things “Beta.” We did not escape the Beta Flu. As some bloggers have noted, there were problems accessing the site. Our Beta experience put us in the very good company of some of the biggest technology companies.

We experienced something the big tech companies did not. What they didn’t experience was vicious liberal bloggers and some confused people in big media—taking time out of reporting on yet another radical presidential appointee to report that, by golly, a Beta release of a web platform had an issue.

 It appears that the media and the leftosphere thought we were building the new GOP.com for them. As they are about many ... more

Within fifteen minutes of meeting him, Chairman Michael Steele convinced me he was sincere about making new media a centerpiece of Republican politics. I had explained to the Chairman my point of view that, unless we are willing to embrace being open and social in social media, we would have no success. We discussed the inherent risk of a political party leaving itself open to the online pranks of our opponents and the instant amplification of that pettiness by the likes of former Sportscasters with niche, liberal cable programs aimed at a zip code 94720-2284.

“I guess we better stop having Town Hall meeting and listening to folks! Someone might be rude to us.” The Chairman said. Not familiar with his style—when he says he’s not your “Great Grandpa’s Chairman”, he’s being humble—I was stunned. He laughed, grabbed my hand and said, “Todd … Facebook and social media are the best chance we have to visit with the greatest number of supporters, to know more of them---to learn from ... more