Tom Price (from down this way!) will be Chair of the RSC, an ad on “Card Check” that C-BS doesn’t want you to see, which Republicans to watch for 2010/12, McConnell’s gonna give Reid a hard time in the Senate, is The Weather Channel dissing climate change?, Barack Obama may not rescind those evil Bush tax cuts after all, and text Michael Steele for GOP change!…

Peachpundit.com reports that Representative Tom Price (R-GA) has been elected Chairman of the Republican Study Committe, quite the power center for conservatives.

On “Card Check,” hotair.com reports that C-BS thinks that viewers would be “confused” (read: too dumb) about an ad against the union bill. Americans for Job Security produced the following ad:

Here’s a bit of the presser that the organizaton has released:

“According to our media buyers, CBS officials cited the appearance of Nancy Pelosi as one of the primary reasons for the denial of the advertisement. One CBS representative felt that viewers would be “confused” by its contents within their program,” said Stephen DeMaura, President of Americans for Job Security.

The advertisement will be running on CNN, FNC, CNBC, MSNBC, and FOX.

“CBS executives obviously believe their viewers are not smart enough to recognize the difference between CBS propaganda and American free speech. There is no room on our public airwaves for the coddling of powerful politicians and the censoring of a serious public policy debate,” DeMaura added.

The Friday Line from the washingtonpost.com lists the Ten Republicans to Watch through to 2010 and 2012.

Roll Call (via redstate) reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will use the filibuster (assuming Saxby wins on December 2) to force Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) hand on important legislation:

A feisty Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Friday that while he looks forward to working with President-elect Barack Obama in the coming months, Republicans will continue to demand that they be given the ability to amend legislation or will filibuster bills as they move through the Senate.

McConnell released a letter signed by the entire GOP Conference to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calling on him to use a more open process for advancing legislation in the 111th, a clear warning to Reid that Republicans will be looking to stand together over the next two years.

“The 42 Republican Senators represent 157 million Americans. Their voices are entitled to be heard, and the way to be heard in the Senate is an open amendment process,” a clearly rejuvenated McConnell told reporters.

Referring to Reid’s use of procedural tactics to curtail Republican amendments, McConnell told reporters that “we’re going to try and get that genie back in the bottle.”

McConnell also called Reid’s actions during the recent auto bailout debate “bizarre,” and he said Democrats seemed to bounce from one idea to the next before simply giving up until “Dec. 8, maybe.”

McConnell seemed more energetic than at almost any time since he became the Senate Minority Leader in early 2007. Republicans attributed the change in demeanor to the fact that McConnell has largely been freed of having to toe the political line for the extremely unpopular Bush White House, as well as having survived a unexpectedly tough re-election campaign in November.

In fact, McConnell referenced the campaign when discussing his relationship with Reid.

McConnell, quoting Winston Churchill, said that “the most exhilarating feeling is to be shot at and missed. Well, they shot at me and they missed,” he said.

The washingtonpost.com reported that NBC has fired the Weather Channel’s environmental unit; in a bit of irony, this happened in the middle of NBC’s “Green Week.”

From the politico.com (via redstate), do you mean to tell me that the media is exceptionally biased?:

Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.”It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”

Halperin, who maintains Time’s political site “The Page,” cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates.

“The example that I use, at the end of the campaign, was the two profiles that The New York Times ran of the potential first ladies,” Halperin said. “The story about Cindy McCain was vicious. It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it case her in an extraordinarily negative light. It didn’t talk about her work, for instance, as a mother for her children, and they cherry-picked every negative thing that’s ever been written about her.”

The story about Michelle Obama, by contrast, was “like a front-page endorsement of what a great person Michelle Obama is,” according to Halperin.

You didn’t think that Barack Obama really meant what he said about phasing out Bush’s tax cuts, did you? From Yahoo! News (via hotair.com), we get the following:

President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying an election promise -- to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans -- as part of his economic recovery strategy, a senior aide and an adviser said on Sunday.

David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest confidants chosen to be a senior White House adviser, was asked if the tax cut could be ended later than Obama called for during the campaign. “Considerations will be made,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Maybe even Democrat constituents have been speaking with their elected officials wondering “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??” on their investments.

It’s time to text Steele for change at the GOP! From his website:

Do you have a great new idea for the future of the Republican Party or just think their is room for improvement?  Now you can text your ideas directly to Michael Steele.  Text Steele to 66937 today!

To send a text simply follow these steps:
1 -- Select messages on your cell phone
2 -- Dial the Short Code 66937
3 -- Enter Message “Steele” and send
4 -- You will then receive a return message confirming your registration.  Just repy back -- Y.
5 -- You are now able to text your ideas to the Steele website.  To do that -
- Select Message and dial the short code 66937
- Start your message with @Steele (and then text in your thoughts)

Hotair goes on to say:

The Republicans need both a comprehensive, rational message and an infrastructure to communicate it to compete in national elections in 2010 and beyond. The RNC’s responsibility runs more towards the latter than the former. They need to build the infrastructure to reach voters in ways that will make them pay attention and in methods that make the communication more efficient.

Text messaging may seem gimmicky, but it allowed the DNC and Obama campaign to almost effortlessly make millions of crucial GOTV contacts to self-identified sympathetic potential voters to push them to the polls on Election Day. They especially outperformed the GOP in reaching younger voters by doing this exact thing.

I think they’re exactly right, because “We The People” need to better understand what it means to wage The Art of Conservative Political War.

And finally, today, peachpundit is reporting that RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is visiting Fayette County for Saxby.