Republican Party To Michael Steele: STFU
By Logan Murphy Monday Oct 05, 2009 9:00am
Michael Steele has been nothing short of an embarrassment to the Republican Party. (That's just fine with me, he can stay as long as he likes) He fits right in with today's feckless GOP, but it appears there is trouble in paradise, as some party leaders are finally growing tired of his buffoonery:
GOP leaders, in a private meeting last month, delivered a blunt and at times heated message to RNC Chairman Michael Steele: quit meddling in policy.
The plea was made during what was supposed to be a routine discussion about polling matters and other priorities in House Minority Leader John Boehner’s office. But the session devolved into a heated discussion about the roles of congressional leadership and Steele, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting.
The congressional leaders were particularly miffed that Steele had in late August unveiled a seniors’ “health care bill of rights” without consulting with them. The statement of health care principles, outlined in a Washington Post op-ed, began with a robust defense of Medicare that puzzled some in a party not known for its attachment to entitlements.
It's no secret that the Republican Party is a rudderless ship, devoid of leadership, but this incident shows a deeper divide between Steele and party lawmakers:
There are larger issues at hand, though, beyond a tense exchange over strategy. Since Steele took over the party earlier this year, congressional leaders and their staff have often cringed at the voluble chairman’s gaffes and rolled their eyes at his unambiguous view that he alone leads the party.
“He’s on a short leash here,” said one top House GOP leadership aide. Read on...
Steele's very existence as RNC chairman (and subsequent failure) is merely a symptom of the party's short sighted strategy of throwing out generic personalities to match Democratic front runners. He was supposed to be a counter-balance to then Senator Obama, to try and attract black voters, and of course, there's no denying that the party made a fatal error in shoving Sarah Palin onto the 2008 presidential ticket in an attempt to counter Hillary Clinton. You get what you pay for, and the GOP is definitely suffering from buyers remorse.
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LIE-CHEAT-STEELE
The "NEW" G(no)P
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I can only imagine how many times the N word flew around that meeting! After all, it took, what, SIX votes to elect him?
I was thinking the same thing about the "N" word in that meeting.
Really though, what did they expect? When you're using placeholders based solely on their race or family connections, you shouldn't be surprised that they're completely unable to meet the demands of the job (see: the chimp). We've seen time after time the dismal performance of tokenism, cronyism, and nepotism, only the GOP could delude themselves into thinking this wouldn't be the result.
With all the slang he used to converse with them, he was found to be both embarrassing and insulting, strangely enough.
and leave de serious talk to de white folks,...
Hi-fuukin-larious...
Anyone else here ever play Gnip Gnop as a kid! Thanks for reminding me of it...
I also like Lie Cheat Steele!
Didn't the GOP catch flack for foisting Steele up as their "black" alternative to Obama? I mean they threw Palin at us to be their alternative to Hillary. That was a fail, and so is Steele as the Republican Obama.
So much for a "New GOP" beginning to look like the same old white boy's club that it has been since Gingrich.
And like no one noticed???
Wow...they threw him under the bus pretty darn quick didn't they?
they threw him under the back of the bus.
LOL!!
How soon until Anne Coulter or Michelle Malkin claims he's a democrat plant?
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Funny.
I don't love you for nothing. :)
So what's the opposite of feckless, feckful?
feckerest?
.
Like totally fecked up?
Tubular!
These guys just like to feck around.
feckmore?
He'd been refusing to ride in the rear
Like larry craig.
Yeah Larry Craig prefers it in the rear...(sorry, I couldn't resist)
He can steal their soul away, if they had one, for all I care. I'll be happy to see the greedy old party stolen and done away with.
..is like saying the bull in the china shop is having difficulty selecting a pattern.
He made a commercial that I saw once or maybe twice about some sort of contract to protect seniors. At the end of the ad he asked the President to join him in protecting seniors. I saw this ad on one of the cable news channels but I don't recall which one. I wonder if the GOP knew about that ad before it aired. I haven't seen it since the first day it was on. I wonder if they pulled it out from under him?
Of all the embarrassments the GOP has shown us lately, I'm not sure Steele is the worst, but he's probably in the top ten.
to wrap their (little) minds around the fact that the popularity of Obama and Hillary came from their intelligence, and not race or gender.
Repubs are so shallow.
Joe Scarborough had Steele on a few weeks ago and tried to give Steele an out on the idea of death panels. Steele danced all around it but wouldn't deny the insanity of death panels being a possibility. Joe got angry with him for not just coming out and saying the idea of death panels was bs.
Steele is playing the part and emoting. He's over doing the role of carrying the party line to the point of looking absurd.
Hey, GOP folks! We didn't vote for Hillary because she was a female and we didn't vote for Obama because he was a black male. We voted for them because we felt them to be the right person for the job.
If they wanted a more right-minded black man
they shoulda appointed Idi Amin.
Dude's gotta Arabic name, too.
Is he still alive and does anyone know where he is? He might need a job if he's still around. I hear he can be a bit testy though.
He's a black man, they wouldn't listen to him anyway!
They might if he were smarter than a box of hammers.
would tend to disprove that.
Reportedly, Idi liked to get hammered when he would meet and eat his rivals.
Well perfect! He could take the job and if the GOP got pissed at something he did, he would just eat them. Talk about two birds with one stoned dude.
"Sack, dear. Hammers come in sacks. Bags if you must, but sacks are best. Hammers never come in a box. A box is for rocks. If you had any man parts you would know better."
It is confusing, but then, it's English. So live with it.
My rocks come in a sack, right underneath my hammer. Was that uncouth?
precisely why I said English is confusing. Even if you aren't British.
am not British. But I do watch lots of Monty Python and Doctor Who.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKg9tuSbXmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce7LS0kB780&NR=1
Just about the uncouthist ever. And I don't think "uncouthist" is even a word.
am an uncoutheist.
one of their common taters?
More like a spec tator, short for speckle tator often listened to by the common tators.
prefer French-fried taters.
Why do you hate America? ;)
do like Idaho, if that counts for anything.
teh gay. Or do you like the blue field in Boise?
Nope, it doesn't count for anything.
when he said Iraq wanted libertaters.
If you order libertaters you get a side of flowers and candy thrown at your feet.
think you mean "you get a shoe thrown at your head."
Why do I keep posting like this today?
with shoe no-fly pie.
LOVE terrorism related puns! ;)
GWOTcha journalism too, huh?
I would love to enter into a discussion about rocks and bags and boxes, but first I must grow a "set" so I will be on equal grounds with the male commentators here. This could take a while so make yourself comfortable.
dropping seed. However, you can replant your pair if
they are droopy.
Okay, so much for my agricultural ideas. Maybe I'll just continue to rely on my brains to get me where I need to go. It's worked pretty well so far.
That is smarter than a tree full of owls.
Or a room full of whips.
snap.
it was a box of hair.
"grow a set?"
or in
"get a pair?"
"Hair hammer?"
"Feckless follicles?
If you're Karen Walker talking about her pharmacist.
Idi Amin escaped from Uganda, with all his ill-gotten gains stolen from the people, with at least 3 of his wives and nearly a dozen children to Saudi Arabia, just a few paces in front of the mobs brandishing torches and pitchforks (and machetes). I cannot answer whether he is still alive and well, but he definitely retired in true NeoCon fashion, JIT.
This character would have fitted right into today's RethugliKKKlan Cult. He is a self-avowed Nazi (in spite of him being decidedly non-Aryan), stole hundreds of Millions in USD from the people of Uganda, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his people (other tribes), and was a ritual cannibal (ate the hearts of his enemies) besides. Yup, a real sweetheart! Definitely a candidate for the C-Street "Church".
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Oops, this reply wound up in the wrong place. (WTH!)
That's okay where the comment is because I found it. Thank you for all that information. I just remembered that he was a pretty terrible sort.
According to Wiki, he died in 2003. So scratch his name off the list.
Really? Are you sure about that?
and any ethnic Republican is deluded if they think otherwise. They only put Steele and Palin up to counter Obama and Hillary.
EPIC FAIL. Just like Steele's thinking he was in charge of the party.
He should have asked JC Watts why he got the hell out before Tom DeLay could arrange a necktie party for him aspiring to higher positions within the party back in 2000.
Maybe the GOP could give Steele's job to Rush. Rush is running the party anyway so might as well give him the title.
leadership aide.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8671...
Ever wonder where he gets his coaching?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Zwo9zvy3s
(satire)
Isn't Steele's job just supposed to be serving the drinks, tap-dancing, yelling "LAWD, Have Mercy!", looking pop-eyed, or working the fields? He sounds kinda uppity.
michael steele is a waste of time. he's part of the social engineering futile cycle. he talks in circles and tells certain demographic(s) what they want to hear,no substance and predictable......essentially a cheerleader.
...going into 2012? He has all the talking points on the tip of his tongue. On second thought maybe not... he would just hold onto their BASE! ;-)
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg ](4:02)
Thanks Logan √
Looks like they finally figured out he's a DNC plant. Dammit...he was doing such a great job making Republicans look like the morons they are. Thanks for your excellent service to the Democratic Party, Michael. It was great fun while it lasted.
Near the end of the post, I'm wondering where the Republicans would be today if Rove hadn't found himself a good little puppet with a fantastic name.
and simply work on secession.
"began with a robust defense of Medicare that puzzled some in a party not known for its attachment to entitlements."
What a bunch of hypocrites. They love entitlements, just not for those that actually need them. Where would Neil Bush be without entitlements? Part of their larger problem is that they are all astoundingly full of shit and people are seeing that. Steele's appointment certainly points to the problem of their issue with credibility. He wasn't appointed because he was the best man for the job he got the job because he was a black Republican.
Not a fucking thing!
after they elected Steele because he was a black man and they wanted to ride the historic change train, instead of electing based on actual credentials.
Isn't Ron Christie available?
Ron Christie is a hoot isn't he? Cross eyed effeminate knucklehead. Gotta admit he found his niche. Dems would have goofed on him. So he's better off with the pointy hats, at least they don't goof on him to his face.
Maybe he should try his idea of using Hip Hop music to sell the Republican's message again. How funny was that? Didn't fly with the pointy hat crowd that's for sure.
Ghostrider to repugs and repug mouthpieces. STFU and GTFO!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAa375C_FOA
Looks like the OREO got hisself dunked YET AGAIN!
MMMMM...tasty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQe9nUKzvQ
I get the feeling when he was elected as the head of the RNC, it was supposed to be a token appointment. Much like the naming of Sarah Palin to be Vice President was most likely an attempt to try to grab disgruntled Hillary supporters (like that woman FOX grabbed onto that said Obama was just "an inadequate black male"), Steele was probably elected to his position so the RNC could say "see, we're not racist", but ever since his election, they've treated him in ways that are anything like the head of the RNC.
Does anybody else think Michael Steele bears a strong resemblance to the singer from Digital Underground who sings the Humpty Dance?
Seriously. Put a furry hat on Michael Steele and he could be the dude from DI! He doesn't even need the Groucho glasses and nose.
"Mr. Alan Keyes. White courtesy phone please."
"Where did this niggrah come from? I thought I voted for that girlie who sang 'Walk Like an Egyptian'!"
the article linked to in Politico has an opening sentence that reads, in part: whether the Republicans need to produce their own initiatives to contrast with Democrats’ or just oppose policies that polls show are losing favor with the public.
After that I just stopped reading. I can't take it, not today.
He's like the Muppet Show meets that cartoonish black man in the old 3 Stooges shorts.
A short leash is quite appropriate. Steele is a creditless waste...a failed token, inspired from abject racial profiling...he embarrasses honest uncle toms(Elder, Christie, Thomas, Tara Wall, etc).
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/418316686_...
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