Sounds like the Republicans would like to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to a community organizer.

A what?

Um, I agree with everything in that quote by Michael Steele. That disturbs me.

If it's accurate that he hasn't, shouldn't the Republican be giving him an aware for not backing up rhetoric with concrete action?

After all, they don't want him to actually concretely accomplish any of his rhetoric.

It's been suggested that they gave him the peace prize so that he'll feel pressured to not send more troops to Afghanistan.

I don't know what he did within the 2 weeks. Who knows maybe they gave it to him on just what he has espouses to do rather than what he's done.

He was nominated within two weeks of taking office. The decision was not made based on what he did up to that nomination deadline (not that this adds tons to the list of solid foreign policy accomplishments, but it's more substantial than "recovered from inaugural party hangovers.")

And considering how loose the nomination process is it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he'd been nominated last year too.

I'm not sure why, Steele's letter strikes me sort of funny. The subject line is "Nobel Peace Prize for Awesomness" which would be something my 19 year old would espouse. Not only that, the flights of fancy I'm having about a Nobel Prize for Awesomeness are truly, well, awesome. I wish to nominate Mark Loretta.

I liked this part too:
He even spelled my name right.

Hahaha, well with only 20% of Americans identifying as Republicans, get set to be mowed down as road kill as you stand in the way of the rest of us.

Global redistribution?!?

*crosses fingers*

Please, oh please, send California to Italy!

I'm reading some reactions posted by AP

This one is classy:
It's sad that I had to look and was surprised it was by a Republican. I don't know anything about his politics but it's a small glimmer that not all Republican politicians have lost their manners and gone off the deep end.

He's a Republican, but a Minnesota one so not too far off to the right.

But you'll get a chance soon to learn about him as shortly after next year's midterm election he'll begin running for president.