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NBC's Sarah Blackwill reports that embattled RNC Chairman Michael Steele declared today he is staying put.
"I ain't going anywhere," Steele said to cheers at the opening Colorado Republican Party’s "Victory" program in Colorado. "I'm here. I'm here. Look, we have too much work to do; we have too much work to do."
*** UPDATE 2 *** He added, "Look, every time something happens, people go, 'Oh, you should step down, step down. Well, the reality of it is that's not happening, so stop the noise on that."
After saying the party doesn't need the "distraction," and that he's focused on "winning" and a "winning message," he addressed his comments on Afghanistan.
"On the other matter, in terms of Afghanistan and all of that," Steele began, "let me be very clear: Absolutely, without equivocation, or doubt or hesitation, I'm foursquare, a thousand percent with our troops on the ground. My goodness, do not leave these young men and women without the resources they need. And that should have been very, very clear -- that I think it's important for us to recognize that this war on terrorism was brought to our shores and we must fight it. We must fight it. And we will fight it and we will win it, because that's what the resolve of the American people is on this. That's part of that exceptionalism again that we bring to this."
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*** UPDATE *** Rough log of Steele's remarks:
How's it going out here in Colorado! it is so exciting to see so many of you here this morning - making the phone calls - having the cup of coffee when you make the phone calls- I really do appreciate it - you're the heart and soul of this effort and this office launch is the first of many great launches that are going to be taking palce here in Colorado - in California - in Washington - in New York - all across the country. and I'm just very very excited to be here, to be a part of it and to help get the drumbeat rolling towards november - there's a lot of exciting things happening out there. I want to touch on a few of them.
Clearly, the media's excited about what's happening here in Colorado - the people are interested in what's happening in Colorado - you are interested in what's happening here because this is your backyard. this is where it all matters and where it all comes down to whether or not as the congressman noted we're going to stay on a path of freedom, we're going to stay on a path of free markets and free enterprise, we're going to stay on a path that allows you to find the future for your families and your communities, or we're going to get on a path that has the govt defining that future for you. I firmly reject any effort to put us on a path that diminishes our liberties or our freedoms, that takes away the opportunity for a small business owner to go out and take on that risk, for a mom and a dad to raise a kid the way they want, to educate that child the way they feel empowered to do. I reject anything that takes those rights - that privilege away from families and communities - that's why you're here - and that's why you have such a great team assembled here - from and congressmen - to the party leadership, to the activists like yourselves that make a big difference everyday in the success of the party here. We've come a long way, baby, haven't we. This has not been the easiest road. We've watched a lot of transition and changes here in Colorado - we've seen this state, you know, celebrate Obama two years ago. Well guess what? You're going to celebrate victory in November when you start retiring Harry Reid and firing Nancy Pelosi and (applause) putting this country back on the right course.
I do want to acknowledge the leadership here because I don't want to contradict my boss but Lily is actually my boss, as is Dick and as is Mark Hillman - they are the ones I'm ultimately responsible to on your behalf. They come to the table with the battle plan and they look at the RNC as a partner and they expect that partnership to be open and honest and fair - and I am very very excited to work with them and national committee woman and natl committee men (cam off Steele) in their efforts not just to rebuild but to continue to build on past successes - to continue to go out and find new and exciting candidates and boy do you have a good, good group of candidates running.
I know the primaries are tough times and people sort of size up one way or the other but in the end, when the primaries are over, we're going to focus like a laser beam on the general election. and the nominee of our party for the governorship - for Senate - for the House races - for the state legislative races. And we're going to win folks, we're going to win. ...this young man is going to be working with the party leadership, with the congressional delegation, with the leadership that is going to be necessary and coming from the grassroots to make sure we get it done - to make sure we get it done - and so I salute you sir and I thank you very much. Don't screw it up (laughter) - don't screw it up. No pressure, no pressure (Steele off cam) yeah - you don't want to get that phone call. And he won't because he's a good man...andThis is such an important crossroads for our party and such an important crossroads for our nation's economic future and health and we want to make sure that we put our best foot forward and we put the best teams out there - the fact that you're here at this hr of the morning, volunteering, making the phone calls, it makes my heart swell w pride. here we are over a year later. We all remember what it was like in the dark days, right? 06, 08, parts of 09 when many of you were trying to convince a friend or a neighbor to run for office and they were like no way, no how. well we've come a long way since then. we've turned a lot of corners - and this party has found it's footing - it's re-acnchored itself in core principles - it's focused on the future with a sense of purpose. We saw the line drawn in the sand by our congressional delegation on the stimulus - that was an important defining moment for us - when our leadership said 'no', we're not going to spend our children's future blind - we're not going to go into the future burdening them with debt. that was a galvanizing moment. and then through the health care debate, card check, cap and trade, all of these issues that distort the market - that strip away individual freedoms and opportunities. you're the front lines in that fight.People don't really appreciate what it takes to win a campaign - right? My brother's laughing over there - he;s like, no, they have no idea.Because they think it's all - just run a TV commercial or just stand out and hand out a flier - you know it's much more than that - in 2009, for example in the governor's race in VA, the governor's race in NJ, we did unprecedented levels of voter contact - 5.8 million voters were touched by our party, were asked to become involved, were asked to become a part of this renaissance for the GOP in terms of the work that has to be done. 165,000 volunteer hrs - it tripled what we did in the presidential just the yr before - that's the power that you have - that galvanizing force that you have. So don't lose sight w that, don't lose tough w that...We win here, we take that governorship, that US Senate seat, we pick up those congressional seats, we make our play for the state house and the state senate - the world will be watching and they'll see how it's done here in Colorado. And it's a good lesson to teach the party and the nation about what hard, grassroots activism, campaigning is all about.So don't believe the hype that it can't get done - don't believe the noise that, oh, at the end of the day the Democrats are really going to survive...what, under Nancy Pelosi? you're kidding me? (laughter) Harry Reid? what, really? Really? So - we have our work cut out for us, we know that....under the chairman's leadership is going to get executed upon, your efforts on the ground is going to make all the difference for us - and I'll be very very honest w you, I'm here to launch that and to have us say as a unified party we're ready. and to paraphrase our good friend Ronald Reagan, come November, we win, they lose.At 17 yrs old, I made the conscious decision to join the Republican party - now, as a Roman Catholic, conservative black man from Washington DC, that was not necessarily the easiest thing to do (laughter). All right? But it was an important step for me in setting out my own individuality - which from time gets me in a little trouble, but that's OK, we understand how that works.I ain't going anywhere (cheers) I'm here - I'm here. Look, we have too much work to do, we have too much work to do...off cam: You are the man in the arena - as Theodore Roosevelt said...Steele: Right. (laughs) The arena closes in on you sometimes, but its all good, it's all good. You got to go through those changes, absolutely - and look, I talk about the party in very active terms, not passive terms. I talk about turning the elephant to face it's future w the American people....I made the early decision to commit our resources up front - as opposed to what we've done in the past where the chairman - and we didn't have a discussion about victory until august at the earliest. 3044 where people would come and say, oh, well, it's now time to set up a victory program. well - guess what - in august, some of our states they still have primaries, in September some of them will be setting up early voting, and you're just setting up a victory office and trying to get organized on the ground...I know people kind of looked at the bottom line of the RNC and go - well - your numbers should be here. Well - yeah - under the old regime they would be there. But we made the early investment in you, our volunteers, our activists, our candidates, our state party, our infrastructure, so we could get the phones on the ground, we could get the walking list together, we could identify the volunteers, we could identify the voters, we could get out and we could actually start talking to people in February and March as opposed to September and October....I said this to the chairman already - what do you need? what else do you need? let us know - so we can begin to put those things in place so that we're not scrambling at the last moment to win an election, but instead we're out in front, so that effort has been underway, it's been a great - a great job to see it come online...
We're winning in the Northeast - can you believe that for the first time we're winning in the Northeast - New Jersey, Massachusetts, all of this has been a part of that effort and there's much more to come...I've learned politics through some pretty hard knocks - it hasn't been easy being a Republican in DC - it hasn't been easy being a Republican in Maryland, but this fight has always been worth it to me because the things that drew me to the party still matter and I hope they will into the future, and I hope they will for all of you.
To the point that you just raised about stepping down, look, every time something happens, people go - oh, you should step down, step down. Well the reality of it is that's not happening so stop the noise on that. (applause) Number two, you don't need the distraction. We're focused on winning. We're focused on a winning message. We're focused on winning candidates. We're focused on a winning state. We're focused on pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps and then from time to time reaching over and helping a neighbor do the same thing. So that's really been the emphasis for me and it's an important emphasis I think going into this fall campaign. On the other matter, in terms of Afghanistan and all of that - let me be very clear. Absolutely, without equivocation, or doubt or hesitation - I'm foursquare, a thousand percent with our troops on the ground. My goodness, do not leave these young men and women without the resources they need. And that should have been very, very clear - that I think it's important for us to recognize that this war on terrorism was brought to our shores and we must fight it. We must fight it. And we will fight it and we will win it, because that's what the resolve of the American people is on this. That's part of that exceptionalism again that we bring to this.
You're right, during the presidential campaign as I said in my earlier statement - the president as a candidate and now as president has made it clear which direction he wanted to move into. The only concern and issue that we should ever have is: are our troops getting what they need on the ground? are they being supported? are they winning the battle? and that's the thing that matters the most. And so - let's not lose sight of winning, whether it's winning this November or the future of our families and our businesses or winning longer-term in the battle against Al Qaeda and terrorism for our country and our world.Question: You should have said - Obama is failing as Commander-In-Chief, OK?
oh yeah, that would have gone over well...yeah - that would have - look, I know where your heart is on this - at the end of the day it goes back to this - whatever course this administration chooses to take needs to be very clear and it needs to be understood by the American people. And it needs to be executed in a way that protects lives here, protects lives in the theater of war on the ground - and obtains victory. That's it - and, you know, I think that that for me is the key thing. Our troops must know that. They know our hearts are with them. We want to make sure that the strategy's there. I'm so excited to see General Petraeus taking the lead and the charge there - I'm so excited and I think it offers a greater opportunity for us to succeed and move forward and win this thing. Let's just win it, folks. Let's not quibble or quabble over what he said or what he didn't say, what the president said or what he didn't say, let's long-term stand behind our troops and win this war. It's that simple.
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He should stay. He is a great boon for the Democrats. Besides, if he is so bad for the Republicans, they can try to fire him. But that firing will prove that he was elected to show to the country that they (republicans) are not just the party of stale, white males.
Steele definitely needs to stay. He's the best thing going for Democrats now. He's a cornucopia of gaffes just waiting to come out.
Re the "Too Legit to Quit" tour...you really can't make this stuff up.
What is it when you are one thing, like a stone cold liar, and you pretend to be something else, like a legitimate source for information? Oh yeah, I remember. That's called being Republican!
This sure puts Republicons into a difficult position.
Clearly, he is a ridiculous, loose cannon.
But, the Party also needs its one token minority to try to convince the country that it actually cares about minorities...or anyone in the Public, for that matter.
And he's not going to pass English either!
Good, i was thinking yeaterday that the republican would have better off having Alen Keys to lead the party,
this blog would have been more fun than talking about Mike Steele.
{To Ron} - I didn't assume we were a generation apart. When I typed "my generation" I was at that moment thinking about all those I knew personally in the late 1960's. I wasn't implying that I thought you were either older or younger than me. I just assume most of us here are from the same generation or pretty darn close to it.
Pat: I'm not offended. I bet you and my wife are about the same age. If you are curious, ask me on newsvine.
Ron, I am older than you both. I assume just about everybody here is younger than I. I am probably closest in age to CA if I had to guess.
Well Michael, you are right. You are not going anywhere. You, Rand Paul and Sharron Angle are making progressive feel mighty good. Stick around Michael; continue to give speeches, take your shoe off before you put your foot in your mouth.
Can you say Buyer's Remorse? They're screwed whether they keep him or not! And that's fine with me.
Of course not, why should he go? He is doing a fine job of exposing what a bunch of hypocrites and greedy coporatists Republicans are. Heck naw, d man of steel should not go just because he wears his hat a different way. His job is to raise enough money for people to pull d lever at the polling place.
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USAFVET76
You said...
"ever notice the progressives typically support or include the most violent, hate-filled, anti-social members of society? Ayres, Black Panthers, Illegal Aliens, SEIU Thugs, Jesse Jackson, Al NotSo Sharpton, Farakhan, urban thugs (they say they got no education and that's why they are violent), and in some cases Muslim terrorists. I forgot the love fest they (Progs) had with Rev Wright.
And yet Progressives and our government (right now) attack "right wing" extremists groups and claim they are violent."
Ahhh, I see you subcribed to Beck U.
We liberal/progressives do not include the most violent, hate-filled, anti-social members of society. What you call hate as far as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farakhan is in response to what your mentor the a$$wipper Glenn Becker distorts in his "I have A Scheme" dream and racist teabaggers, neo-nazi oath keepers, minute men, and closet KKK memebers.
Suddendly, Martin Luther King Jr. is Glenn Beck's BFFs
There is another racist, hate group which started based on the Boston Tea Party. It's called FOX NOISE.
FYI: The southern law poverty has designated the New Black Panther Party a hate group and the orginal Black Panther Party denounces them.
The KKK in their campaign of terror against black voting rights, included Medgar Evers and Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. The murders of James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old white Jewish anthropology student from New York; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old white Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker also from New York, symbolized the risks of participating in the Civil Rights Movement in the South during what became known as "Freedom Summer", dedicated to voter registration
Also people of color don't have their hand out wanting something for nothing. We don't teach hate either. We march/marched for rights that we really deserve.
*The right to vote
*Eating without the fear of death
*Walking without the fear of death
*The ability to get jobs we are qualified for
*We even served in the military in all of our wars, including the ones with George Washington, and died too, because we love America the way "Real Americans" do.
Yes, Americans throw at lot of stuff us and the President; but what does that mean for the rest of US?
Sorry, we and Obama don't do a song and dance, or prostrate ourselves, when you tell us too. Neither will we allow you to hold US and President Obama hostage!!!
dangerfield
You said "If you would be so kind as to let me know which of my "lies" you would either like to "debunk" or correct, I will be happy to do my best to satisfy your curiosity."
I'm not your personal assisant. Try changing your Channel from Fox Noise's echo channels or google politifact.com and all your curious questions will be answers there.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Beverly: You are on a roll!! I voted
Me too Beverly. Go get um.
Wow! IF this is the kind of stuff that gets encouraged here, no wonder the tone is so generally offensive...
dangerfield
"You said "If you would be so kind as to let me know which of my "lies" you would either like to "debunk" or correct, I will be happy to do my best to satisfy your curiosity."
I'm not your personal assisant. Try changing your Channel from Fox Noise's echo channels or google politifact.com and all your curious questions will be answers there."
Why didn't you re-post your crazy rant and give everyone a good chuckle?
I give you credit for 50% reading comprehension and applaud your much needed comic relief...
again
Democrat/Independent
Voted for the president
Only watch PBS...
Find overheated, angry, invective-laden diatribes...sad but funny...so thanks again...:)
Go Beverly! Well stated. The facts are easily available to anyone who sincerely searches. Hint: They are not available on Fox News.
Beverly
Hilarious! The epitome of a radical uninformed Democrat. And you're from Chicago so you even have the stereotype location.
You people are just pissed because your wonder boy is a dismal failure beyond belief.
I bet Robert Byrd cheered when Metger Evans was killed. Hell, he may have been involved.
As for Michael Steele. A lot of hoopla about what he said about the incompetent-in-chief and the Afghan war. The reactionaries on the left seem to forget that the manchild is CIC. It is his war. He could order all troops from all over the world home tomorrow and they will have to obey. He is the only person in the world that can do that.
The problem the thinking people have with Steele is not the lap dances, not the limo rides, not calling obama to task concerning Afghanistan. It is his lack of raising funds and a coherent strategy for applying said funds. He can make claims on Mass. and N.J. all he wants. But those victories belong to Obama, same as it will be in November. The majority of the nation is not behind the policies of the Democrats and Obama's agenda. Call it 2008 revisited except this time Obama is Bush.
Neutered in 10. Out in 12.
"I bet Robert Byrd cheered when Metger Evans was killed. Hell, he may have been involved"
Your political position or posture makes no difference to me, but that comment? Just shows you're a jackass of biblical proportion.
And Bush/Cheney were such prizes. Look how much better they left this country compared to how it was when they took it over from Clinton...
Mike rocks!!! keep on "telling it like it is"... lol
We like Mike! The only person better to represent the Repubs and recruit more into the fold would be Sister Sarah!
Both are the gift/gaffe machine that keeps on giving!
Maybe Steele and Palin could co-represent the GOBP-ers. That would be special. Two special needs people representing a special needs party.
I lived in Colorado and I HATED IT. The view is obviously stunningly beautiful, but I couldn't stand the people. I remember they couldn't tell me where either Boston or Chicago was. I was shocked. They were mean spirited as well. I couldn't wait to leave. They had a kind of cowboy mentality to them. Pretty fake religious as well. Not my cup of tea.
Think Tom Delay and Tancredo. Yuk.
Pat, you must have been in the Springs! Sorry you had a bad experience, but not everyone is a redneck or holier than thou, and some actually have studied geography! In reality, Coloradans are pretty darn laid back and friendly - and a whole bunch are even Democrats and liberals! We worked very hard to turn this red state BLUE in '08 and we expect to keep it that way. Not nice to stereotype, you know. :-)
Hey Pat - did you have the misfortune to live in Colorado Springs - the conservative outhouse of Colorado? Just have to laugh that conservative Colorado Springs has to cut back on so many public city services because the conservatives there are too cheap to pay a proper property tax rate. Colorado Springs also has had to radically downsize their fire and police departments so badly that the police there don't have enough policemen to investigate most crimes that are merely property crimes. After some of their overexpensive McMansions burn down and burglars routinely rob them of their assets watch how the conservatives of Colorado Springs votes for higher property taxes. Racist Tancredo must be from Colorado Springs.
Yes as a matter of fact I did live in Colorado Springs!!! It was gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. But I'm sorry to say I didn't like the people at all. Luckily I worked with a few people who were from the New England area and that helped. But everybody else was - I don't know how to describe it - but they were unlike any people I had ever met anywhere.
I lived in Washington State and I thought they were wonderful! Colorado Springs - yikes. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Culture shock. lol
Pat - It's not just Colorado Springs. It's what I call the Front Range mentality; typically those cities on the East side of the mountains. If you go west the people change drastically and are as nice as any I've found in the country.
Here's a perfect example of the brain dead.
Dude! Your state is comatose! On it's deathbed riddled with staph! They are contacting the next of kin and telling them the disease is so bad the only option is to cremate!
You should be the last person making a comment about "public city" services when soon the largest city in your state will be lucky if they have water. Not to mention your governor has determined that all state employees are not worth minimum wage.
UGH...Unfortunately, the time to move to a new RNC Chairman has passed. It wouldn't be a smart move to make a change this close to the election. If I am the powers that be in the GOP, I'm doing what I can to keep Michael Steele (and Sarah Palin) off of the public airwaves. The GOP has a great opportunity to pick up a lot of seats in November, and possibly even win control of the house. But I believe that some questionable candidate selection and some poorly thought out remarks by our "leadership" have hurt those chances.
Frank: You are right on. Any change should have happened months ago. I read that the GOP leaders are ignoring Steele or working around him. But actually Steele is not really the primary presenting problem. I'm more inclined to think that the Tea Party/moderate schism is still the underlying issue that needs to be addressed. If Tea Party candidates do poorly in November, then the schism will have to be addressed. If Tea Party candidates do well, then the party will stay right and figure out their positions on energy, immigration, and a whole host of other issues.
'I ain't going anywhere'... Music to Democrats ears Michael!
With any luck... you're just getting warmed up... lol
Caution to the wind of making too much of Steele staying put and therefore by doing so being a big boon for the Dems. This wave of frustration and anger out there is looking over and past the heads of folks like Steele, Rand Paul and Angle. Many are looking for someone, something to crucify. If these numbers grow and if the Dems, Obama and his administration become the targets (legitimate or not) the gaffs, rants, unintelligible and twisted logic of people like Steele, Rand Paul and Angle will not make a difference or turn these people's heads long enough to slow their march on the bastille. At this point people involved in such a movement are themselves divided into splinter groups and have their own differences. I see that as the only saving grace keeping the doors to the bastille solid and unpenetrable. But if they were to ever find a single cause (like the economy) or a person that could somehow take advantage, that would bring these people into one large mass, the bastille will fall. And after the dust clears we'll all find ourselves in one big crazy mess looking to folks like Steele, Rand Paul and Angle for leadership. God forbid! The key is going to be that those with some common sense and who can see the dangers that people like Steele, Rand Paul, Angle and the like pose for this country find and rejuvenate that fervor used to elect Obama President. If not found or not rejuvenated and these far right wack jobs ever learn to march on the same road or find someone to force them on to the same road, it will be a return for all of us to the dark ages.
CA...Check your recent history. You will find that the vast majority of death, injury and property damage related to political causes comes from the left. Clinton's burning of innocents at Waco, TX should be a clue for you. Democrats rounded up Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. People are always rounded up by leftists/socialists. Every time there is a G-8 type summit anywhere, leftists burn police cars and commit other property damage. You are in the "Dark Ages" now.
gitnerdunn, you are citing something that happened in 1993, almost twenty years ago, to explain today's anger and frustration? Way to hold a grudge!
You may want to check YOUR recent history. Bush led us into a voluntary and unnecessary war under false pretenses, failed to pursue our actual enemy in Afghanistan, and funded them with expensive borrowing that doubled the national debt. Oh, but first he implemented a corporate welfare program that emptied the US and the state treasuries.
His Republican appointees allowed the free market to run amuck, refusing reasonable regulation at every turn. The result? We sold trillions of dollars worth of bad debt all over the globe (CDOs) and insured them with money we did not have (CDS) requiring the biggest corporate bailout in the history of the universe (TARP) but our financial sector collapsed anyway and the country lost millions and millions of jobs, necessitating the biggest financial stimulus since the New Deal was conceived to fight the Great Depression (ARRA) Despite the fact that health care reform was supposed to be PResident Obama's "Waterloo," it passed. BTW, it implements President Bush's Executive Order 13330 with money, a plan and a timeline. Bush hated all three of those things but he liked to send unfunded mandates to the states.
So, Republicans see that things are looking up, we are adding jobs, things are recovering so what do they do? They block unemployment insurance extension, which is a great way to keep the economy going, since it allows people to buy groceries, stay off social services and live in their houses.
I would say that people are in angry and frustrated with the devastation caused by the Bush administration, but had unrealistic expectations about what it would take to fix it all although we are making documented progress on evrey front.
We need Mike (off the hook) Steele to remind them who put us here to begin with.
Amen brother, very well said.
Thanks Mr. Steele
Between you, Sarah Palin and VP Biden we are sure to have some good laughs every now and then...
Between Steele and Palin...the Republican't party just keeps on giving. Keep talking Steele, you're almost as stupid as Palin and we "LIBERALS" love it.
Pls dont leave. The best tool the Dems have today is the mouth of Steele and Palin! Just keep talking!
Great political cartoon today that shows the back half of an elephant walking backwards and an old woman saying to her husband "You'd walk backwards too if Michael Steele was your head". Ofcourse Bling Bling Boy won't step down, he's too busy ripping the dimwitted RNC off for as much money, bling and lapdances he can. He is only in it for himself and could care less about the failing RNC, but then that's why I voted no - he should stay at his job because he's the best thing to happen to Democrats.
Okay opkay second best thing as the best thing that could happen is for the lazy crazy mini quitter governor to take over. Wasilla Hillbilly Palin will make Wailing Old Woeman Michelle Steele look like an amateur ripoff conartist as she'll empty the RNC coffers to buy herself lots of new outfits and jesus jewelry. Every time Simpleton Sarah opens her mouth she'll charge the RNC $100,000, her standard misspeaking fee. Then halfway through her tenure she'll quit and try to blame it on the Mainstream media and Democrats and Obama's feverishly imagined death panels.
RNC = Rotten Nasty Crazies!
That's what we are all counting on!! :-D
And all that cheering was coming from the Dem's in the audience... ;-)
"I ain't" -- And repukes wounder why they get labeled as being uneducated...
Hey Just me - yep "Ain't" no intelligent life in the repugnant one's party and to think they whine about making American English the official language of the land when they can't even speak it properly.
I was thinking maybe he should go to a first grade class and learn grammar.
Just me...Then you are aware of the tendency of "useful idiots" [that's YOU in the "Communist Manifesto"] to be lied to until they believe it. Education is great if applied by smart people like Einstein, but there are many, many over-educated parasites with no talent, imagination, or leadership abilities who are GIVEN jobs in government and education that require all. How much education is required to understand that if your financial outflow exceeds your income, the upshot is your downfall? Obama is a Harvard Law grad and either doesn't understand this or doesn't care.
gitterdunn: Whoa, dude! You sound like one of Limbaugh's Losers’ who has molded, shaped, and fashioned each and every logical fallacy into a new art form of pure fantasy. I can tell, too, that you lack a little depth in the world of the well educated. Your distorted disrespect of the academy is clear. Actually, I think your reference to "just me" as a "useful idiot" as described in the Communist Manifesto clearly describes your gullible march to the step of Limbaugh, Beck, Palin the Simple, et al. They've gotten rich and continue to get richer off the pennies of the mindless. Ole Rush, a recovering alcoholic, drug addict, and flunk out of Southeast Missouri State University, and Glenn Beck another recovering alcoholic and drop out of Yale University tell the mindless how to vote. No wonder with models like those that you hate the university and the well educated. They're kinda your own aren't they, gitterdone? Everything you're not? Is that the reason for your anger?
It's really sad that so many people in this country do not understand the difference between political speak and reality. Politicians and talking heads speak in political terms with mis-information and outright lies. (Death Panels, Socialism, ect) for the sole purpose of making the person they are talking about look bad. Yet so many Americans, with no evidence in their own lives of death panels or socialism buy this tripe hook, line and sinker. You have to wonder, Why.
Thank you Ron
A vote is very important. It can be pro or con. Either way it is empowerment. Did you see the video that dizzy, half wit, half governor, Sarah palin made?
"Look out Washington, because there's a whole stampede of pink elephants crossing and the e.t.a. for them stampeding through is November 2, 2010."
Ha Ha, she must be looking at here palm again. Btw; if she can Russia from here porch why did she not see those spys?
I think I know she probably was asleep on a cot in that studio FOX NOISE built for her. Or it was President Obama's fault.
This is what the Republican party get for appointment this clown to go after the President. Now they have to deal with this black token and listen to Steele gloat. Steele know the Republican can not politically get rig of him because the color of his skin. Just one more thing the Republican have done that back fired.
When you read some of these post by people on the right, if you didn't know any better you would think the world was coming to an end, and that Obama is sending in the secret police in the middle of the night to take their guns and freedom.
retired mil...Exactly. Clinton burning up innocent women and children in Waco, TX in the dead of night and firing on would be escapees should be an omen. This current Disaster in Chief is even more of a dangerous loose cannon than Clinton.
....don't look out your window now, but here they come.... so wake up, dude! it's happening......and how is that hopey changey thing working out for ya?
Steele began, "let me be very clear. Steele please stop trying to Obama because you are no Obama. Let me be clear is one of President Obama phases you wanted be.
It's wanna be! DUH?
Please stay... oh wait, Palin might replace you. She this would guarantee her a cameo on the Daley Show every night. How entertaining! "No, why do you lie about me? I never said, 'Drill, Baby Drill'"
Steele is a joke why bother with his rants? Fact is millions of people in this country have no opportunity to acquire a job that will provide income to just pay the basic costs to live in this country, and that would be the lucky ones. The Government seems to be oblivious to the real pain and suffering of these poor souls, pain and suffering that the Government brought on, they would rather bicker back and forth trying to blame one another for this or that playing their childish political games completely unaffected by the plight being endured by millions, their "starve the beast" philosophy would be comical if it weren't for the millions doing without so a few can have it all, they took care of their rich banking buddies and all the crooks that bankroll them on Wall Street, they continue to keep the military contractors rolling in doe, but yet someone mentions spending one thin dime to help out the citizens of our country and all you here is "we are broke", at least until the next war funding bill then money seems to flow quite freely from every orifice of our corporatist Government. To all you people who are doing well presently, enjoy it while you can because you are next. A cynical point of view? Is it when it's the truth?
w bush:
I say let's have a vote. And here are the choices. Stay in Iraq and Afghanistan and keep spending millions in both places attempting to nation build, or get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bring that money home to be used to rebuild our infrastructure and to establish public works job programs. My bet is that even those afraid there will be a terrorist or two hiding under their beds if we leave Iraq and Afghainuistan would vote for the latter. Your thoughts?
Nope, I would have to disagree, the republicans and fox noise have convinced these people that if we leave Afghanistan their world as they know it will come to an end and that Obama will provide a safe haven for the terrorist right here in the USA.
hello, who's president?? Now club gittmo, what's up there? Let me try thinking - who has controll of house- senate, executive branch? Just waiting for your guy to do his thing? I wonder if he needs tax cheat Timmy to run a turbo program to figure out if it's feasible to pull out? Feasible to whom? Lets see only 48% of the stimulus $ has been spent so I guess there's sooo many jobs out there that your saviour can just sit on the $. Taxes need to go up for why? BO has it all in control. We'll just wait to see how wonderful things turn out by 2012. Don't worry about Sarah giving u a laugh just listen to Biden. And while we no longer can even issue permits for shallow oil drilling our president feels giving 2 billion to Brazil to drill is o'k. Yeah u all got it right. Try watching C-span and seeing 4 yourselves what kind of legislation is being debated. Oh 1st to know something is anti-American you'd have to have read the u.s.constitution. Then u might be able to figure out that taking away our -yes i said our rights will someday come around and bite u on the ass. Also, BP gave more $ to BO than any other candidate to date. Who side do you think the crimminals (in D.C.) are on? If u haven't figured it out your hopeless-it's not the color of black or white it's the COLOR OF GREEN. Always has been - Always will be. As long as they, 545 of them, can divide us 300million then surely there will always be the haves and the have nots. Yea it's pretty damn sad there's so many of us who do not have a real clue and listen to talking points of those with Special Interest. Now don't for 1 min. think the Republicans have a monopoly on that.
CA, Tuscaloosa, AL
w bush:
I say let's have a vote. And here are the choices. Stay in Iraq and Afghanistan and keep spending millions in both places attempting to nation build, or get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bring that money home to be used to rebuild our infrastructure and to establish public works job programs. My bet is that even those afraid there will be a terrorist or two hiding under their beds if we leave Iraq and Afghainuistan would vote for the latter. Your thoughts?
#23.1 - Thu Jul 8, 2010 1:57 PM CDT
Sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately there will be no vote, and the people that were elected to represent us really don't, much to mosts surprise I don't enjoy being the eternal pessimist, I sincerely wish I could imagine something positive happening in D.C. but the facts always seem to get in the way, I believe Obama is a good man and I still support most things he is trying to achieve but his stance on Afghanistan considering conditions here at home puzzles me, if the deficit is truly everyones concern getting out of a nation building exercise in a country that is by all accounts a lost cause seems logical. I fear the powers that be want us to be broke so they have an excuse to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, but that as they say will be the straw that broke the camels back for most.
Everyone knows that if we were to pull out of Afghanistan, terrorists would expand throughout the world just like the North Vietnamese did when we pulled out of Viet Nam! What. . .? Viet Nam now has favorable nation status with the United States and is one out major trading partners? And the dominoes didn't fall with all of Southeast Asia becoming Communist puppet states? Well then, never mind.
Steele: 'I ain't going anywhere'
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And he shouldn't have said that either!
But he should stay on.
He ain't goin nowhere he's the HNIC!
and to think everyone says there is no racism left in the good ole USA........
Satire is often mistaken for the causatory roots it exposes.
when you post HNIC - it has nothing to do with satire.......there is no mistake in what is intended.
b dune....Normally, I disagree with your posts emphatically, but you nailed this one. There is no defense for Mecro, none.
Just don't use the "R" word b dune. I mean...that's just wrong. (sarc)
....and the biggest racist in the U.S.A. is living in the White House.......