Former RNC chair Michael Steele and Democratic strategist Lanny Davis have joined forces to form a bipartisan consulting and lobbying firm: Purple Nation Solutions.
Kinda like a No Labels/Americans Elect hybrid, but with paychecks (they hope).
Now they are joining forces—politically and in business—to urge their parties to tone down the negativity and personal attacks.
“We’re not saying ‘Kumbaya,’” Steele tells me. “We’re not saying, can we all hold hands and sit around the campfire.” But he insists that “people have grown tired” of the daily demonization. “It’s boring. It’s not entertaining any more.”
They’re not saying you should “hold hands” with your opponents, they just think CongressionalMatch.com was a really spiffy idea. No word on whether or not they launched the firm from the Newt-Nancy couch.
For some reason we have a “Patty Duke” theme earworm:
They’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Wacky bipartisan antics to follow! We’re hoping for guest appearances by Sandra Fluke and Meggie Mac.
The mockery began shortly after Howard Kurtz tweeted the link to his Daily Beast column about the new venture.
Rumor: Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan to star in "Bipartisan'd: The Michael Steele and Lanny Davis Story"
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 18, 2012
Also known as "Hey, Look at Me!" Inc. RT @BuzzFeedBen Off-Message, Inc. http://t.co/KKjAarw2
— Joel Sawyer (@joeldavidsawyer) June 18, 2012
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Somewhere, a print newspaper columnist is musing on how the youth don't understand Michael Steele and Lanny Davis
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 18, 2012
THIS: RT @aburnspolitico: Theory: Lanny Davis/Michael Steele consulting firm a sham set up by cable networks to discredit bipartisanship
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 18, 2012
Is this a joke? Could totally be a sitcom. MT @HowardKurtz Michael Steele, Lanny Davis forming firm, urging parties to tone down negativity.
— Dominic Panakal (@DominicPanakal) June 18, 2012
"How bout … Joe Scarborough and Dick Gephardt?" "No, no — Michael Steele and Dick Gephardt." "WAIT! Michael Steele … and Lanny Davis."
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 18, 2012
We're not done making fun of Michael Steele and Lanny Davis on here yet, are we?
— Sasha Issenberg (@sissenberg) June 18, 2012
We really hope not!
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