Tag: Republican National Committee

2009 Anal-Ocity

Yet another piece of crap coming from the GOP on health care….this time the Chairman Steele does it again with a great anal statement and a very delusional way of thinking.

I would like to thank thinkprogress.com for the word and the thoughts.

Yesterday, in an address at Philander Smith College, a historically black college in Little Rock, RNC Chairman Michael Steele implied that the late Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed with President Obama’s leadership.

“Dr. King would be disappointed in the political leadership of this country for failing to address the least of us,” Steele said.

It seems I am always finding these types of BS…I hate to be the one to tell Mr. Steele but he is wrong.

Dr. King once said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Since he was addressing a group at a college maybe he should take advantage of a government program and take a couple of cl;asses on Black History.  He sadly needs to be updated on historical events and sayings.  We cannot blame his ignorance on No Child Left Behind, since he too old to be a product of that piece of crap.

2009 Anal-Ocity

The health care debate has given us some of the greatest anal statements ever made and the hits just keep coming.

This one is from one M. Steele the chairman of the RNC:  (thanx to thinkprogress.com for content)

at Howard University, Steele encountered his own “genuinely concerned” citizen — 23-year-old college grad/activist Amanda Duzak. Duzak stood up and interrupted Steele, arguing that “everyone in this country should have access to good health care” and cited the case of her own mother who died of cancer six months ago because she couldn’t afford her prescription chemotherapy medications. The audience applauded her. Steele responded by chastising Duzak and accusing her of pulling antics to get on TV.

“So people go out to town halls, they go to the community, and they’re like this. (SHAKES ARMS) It makes for great TV. You’ll probably make it tonight. Enjoy it.”

Sorry to say…there is your answer…..and it is echoed by all Repubs…they do not care what happen to a loved one….only that health reform is killed.

Sounds like the typical conservative response….,that is to give NO valid response.  Why would a leader blow off a questioner like this?  Did this help the GOP’s efforts to kill health reform?

The Man Of Steele

RNC’s leader Michael Steele has done it again…this time he got his talking points from the GOP that Obama’s plan for health care is an “experiment” that will ruin the country.  That word is so important to the GOP talking points that DSteele used it some 30+ times in one short speech to the Press Club.

Steele also seem to like the word “cabal”,  which by the way means some form of intrigue, my guess that it also is a talking word for the Repubs.  The word implies some sort of secret plan or intrigue.  the RNC has decided to run with Steele’s speech.

Republican officials said they were supplementing Steele’s speech with a round of television advertising designed to oppose government-run health care. The 30-second spot, titled “Grand Experiment,” criticizes recent government aid to the auto industry and banks as “the biggest spending spree in our history” and warns of “a risky experiment with our health care.”

But the Repubs “man of Steele” has his kryptonite and it is the word “policy”.  When asked a question that was not part of his read speech, he said “I do not do policy”  That is pretty telling in my opinion….the GOP has NO policy on health care with the exception of NO.  Their policy is to be in opposition regardless of the consequences for the American people.  Maybe the RNC should look for someone smart enough to actually have ideas on policy.

They are playing a delaying game……it work in the 90’s for health care reform….thew more time that the GOP can delay any vote the better the chances are that their half-truths, misinformation and out right lies will have a positive effect for them.

A New Path?

As Yogi Berra once said, “when you come to a fork in the road, take it” and that best describes the “new” direction that the GOP will be pursuing.

From an article written by Perry Bacon, Jr for the WaPo:

RNC chairman Steele has outdone himself this time.   Steele, speaking to the 168 members of the Republican National Committee, continued his fiery rhetoric in the last few weeks against the president, who he said “could not be more partisan.” He accused Obama of “yielding his legislative agenda almost entirely to radicals like Nancy Pelosi” and called Obama’s first 100 days a “reign of error.”

“We’ve seen strategists writing memos and doing briefings urging that Republicans avoid confronting the president,” he said in a speech at a convention center in Oxon Hill. “Steer clear of frontal assaults on his administration. They suggest we should go after Nancy Pelosi, whom nobody likes, or Harry Reid, who nobody knows”

“The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,” Steele says. “It is done, we have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror.”

So the plan is to start attacking the prez on all fronts.  Is that a wise choice?  The prez has a 70% approval rating and the people may not be receptive to such attacks.  I know the party is struggling to find its footing, but is this a wise choice?  Why not formulate some new ideas on the economy and such to present to the people and let them, see that the GOP is truly a viable party?

And all out frontal assault is about as wise as just saying NO to everything.  Not sure that this decision was thought out completely before it was offered to the members of the RNC.  Or if the political fallout was taken into serious consideration.

The GOP: Comedy Central

Just when you thought it could not get much worse for the GOP, they keep letting the idiots in the Party talk.  It is like crack to cynical SOBs like myself.  All I can say is…thank you….thank you.

First some in the Party were blaming Obama for the swine flu, and yet others just keep making statements without a facts check…all great stuff for us bloggers.

To begin the comedy of errors, is the head of the RNC, Michael Steele told CNN Tuesday longtime Republican Sen. Arlen Specter essentially “flipped the bird” at the GOP leadership with his decision to switch parties he has been a member of for more than four decades.

“[National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John] Cornyn went out on the line for this man,” he said. “For the senator to flip the bird back to Senator Cornyn and the Republican Senate Leadership, a team that stood by him, who went to the bat for him in 2004, to save his hide is not only disrespectful but down right rude,”

The humor here is that they still do not see that the Party has a real confidence problem.  They keep blaming the deserters for leaving the party, but refuse to see just how out of touch they really are.

Then there is Info Ink’s favorite Republican, Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from the state of Minnesota. In her moronic attempt to blame FDR for the Great Depression she mentions the aforementioned Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Of course, she doesn’t call it the Smoot-Hawley Act but instead the Hoot-Smalley Act (seriously, you can’t make this stuff up), to which she compounds her mistake by claiming that the Act was the creation of President Roosevelt, and that as a result we have him to blame for the Great Depression. (While most economists would agree that the Act did not cause the Great Depression, it is widely believed that the Tariff Act, which caused a reduction in trade between the U.S. and Europe, and did nothing to help pull the country out of the economic abyss.

Flubbing up the Act name is an understandable mistake, but not knowing what you are talking about is unforgivable, especially from someone who is involved in producing acts and bills.

You know,  if she wanted to be a Congress maybe she should have paid closer attention in US History.

1. The bill creating the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was sponsored by two Republican members of the Congress, Senator Reed Smoot (Utah) and Representative Willis C. Hawley (Oregon).

2. The House of Representatives passed the bill in May of 1929.

3. The Senate passed its bill in March of 1930.

4. The Act was signed into law on June 17th, 1930, by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

5. Senator Smoot, Representative Hawley, and President Hoover were all defeated in their 1932 re-election bids.

FDR was not sworn in until 1933 and the Act was repelled in 1934, I believe.

The more Bachmann speaks, the more she should be the poster child for the failures of “No Child Left Behind”.

If the GOP wants to be taken seriously ever again they need to muzzle the morons in the Party, for they are not helping.

Then there is yet another moron allowed to talk.  This time it is the Representative from North Carolina, Virginia Foxx.  Unfortunately this one is not humorous, it is sick, criminally misinformed and damn right pathetic.

Foxx’s comments came on the House floor during debate over the so-called Matthew Shepard bill, named for a 21-year-old gay man brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998. Supporters say he was the victim of a hate crime.

The bill would expand a federal hate crimes law to include acts motivated by sexual orientation.

“The Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed,” Foxx, a Banner Elk Republican, said. “But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay.

Maybe Foxx should have done a little checking before choosing her line of speaking.

Two men were convicted of killing Shepard after meeting him in a Laramie bar. Some testified that Shepard was targeted because he was gay. One of the men convicted tried to use the so-called “gay panic” defense, that he acted uncontrollably after a homosexual advance.

I am sure that these incidents are not the last we will hear from the people that never let facts get in the way of their diatribes.

He Cannot Steele Respect

The head of the RNC is not doing what he was elected to do…..as reported in the Politico.

A month after Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee, key party leaders are worried that the GOP has made a costly mistake — one that will make it even harder for them to take back power from the dominant Democratic Party.

Steadily becoming a dependable punch line, Steele has brushed back Rush Limbaugh, threatened moderate Republican senators, offered the “friggin’ awesome” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal some “slum love,” called civil unions “crazy” and promised more outreach to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings” via an “off the hook” public relations campaign.

On the organizational side, Steele does not have a chief of staff, a political director, a finance director or a communications director. Last week, one of the two men sharing the job of interim finance director was forced to resign.

Steele, who has been traveling aggressively since taking the job, says the vacancies at the top of his organization are by design. He said he’s re-examining the whole structure with an eye to streamlining it and will have most of his team in place by the end of March, after he begins implementing reports from transition teams that are planning the party’s own first 100 days.

Jim Dyke, a communications consultant to Steele, said: “The public process has raised some eyebrows, and that has some people concerned. But the internal process is actually unprecedented and right on schedule. And when people find out about it, they are going to be very pleased.”

But so far the GOP has got to be worried to the point of going bald with the antics of their new chairman.  So far the only thing that this man has accomplished is to piss off workers, midgets, Rush and RNC members…he, Steele, might want to hire some people to help him in his interviews…so far he has done a horrible job of representing the RNC.

RNC Scrambles To Cover Butt

A spokesman for Michael S. Steele defended the new Republican National Committee chairman yesterday against claims by a convicted felon that Steele misused campaign funds from his 2006 Senate bid.

Curt Anderson, a political consultant and Steele spokesman, said the allegations had been “fabricated” by Steele’s former campaign finance chairman, who was seeking a more lenient sentence in an unrelated criminal case.

The Washington Post outlined the accusations in yesterday’s editions, including a claim that Steele’s campaign paid money to a company owned by his sister for services never performed, and the improper use of tens of thousands more in campaign money.
The accusations come from Alan B. Fabian, a former finance committee chairman for Steele’s Senate bid, as he was trying to cut a deal with Baltimore-based federal prosecutors. Fabian, of Hunt Valley, was indicted in August 2007 on fraud charges.

Steele denied the allegations through a spokesman. But attorneys said the confidential charges, which appear to have been mistakenly disclosed to a reporter, would dog Steele and endanger Fabian by branding him as a snitch.

Steele, Maryland’s former lieutenant governor, was elected national party chairman on Jan. 30, becoming the first African-American in the position. The Post described four instances of alleged wrongdoing raised by Fabian, who claimed Steele paid a law firm $75,000 for work never done, which the firm denied; improperly transferred more than a half-million dollars from a state campaign account to another account; used state campaign funds to pay for federal campaign expenses; and gave $37,262 in Senate campaign funds to Brown Sugar Limited, a defunct business run by his sister, Monica Turner.

And so it begins……Now the Repubs will have to do damage control on ALL the talk shows and will be a story for the next week…..it will be interesting to see who cover this and if it is given equal coverage by the media.