RNC Chair Steele threatens retribution against GOP senators who voted for stimulus.
RNC Chair Steele threatens retribution against GOP senators who voted for stimulus.
Yesterday on Fox News, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said he was open to withholding RNC funds from Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Arlen Specter (R-PA) because they voted for Obama’s economic recovery package. “I’m always open to everything baby,” he told host Neil Cavuto. If state parties want to enact retribution against those Senators, then the RNC will follow their lead, Steele explained. Watch it:
Steele said his solution for the economic crisis is to put in place a spending freeze. Republicans are quickly rallying around the old Hoover agenda of enacting a spending freeze in the midst of a recession. As Ezra Klein has written, “Even the most casual interaction with basic economic principles suggests that during times of recession, government spending should increase in order to stimulate demand.”
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The Republicans sure picked a wacky one to lead them out of the wilderness.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pmDid Steele just call Cavuto “baby?”
bowmp chicka WOW wooowww….
February 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pmMafia like tactics, will Steele threaten to break their legs?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pmYour modern republican party: Always violent, always wrong.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmUTTERLY hysterical. On what planet does he think that replacing moderate GOP Senators in blue states with extreme right wingers will actually help the GOP? The ideological purging of the GOP has left them with, well, this.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pmNevar Says:
The Republicans sure picked a wacky one to lead them out of the wilderness
It’s all part of their insidious plan. When they do can Steele the spin will be “See, we tried a black empty suit and he just screwed things up even worse.”
February 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pmKeep digging, GOP, keep digging.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:12 pmHip hop? No.
Lock step? Yes.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pmMichael Steele = Don Corleone?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pmDoes anyone else feel like the GOP picked Palin because she was a woman and forgot to check whether she had whackjob ideas? Now they’ve picked Steele because he is African-American and apparently didn’t ask him any questions either. It’s just sad.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pmThe Rethuglic party is marching backward, to the 11th century.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pmThe GOP is hellbent in becoming a fanatic, extremist Amerikan Taliban fringe. I hope they achieve it. They are about to put themselves into the ash heap of history, like their predecessors, the Whig Party. And that will be a glorious day for America and the world.
jacambece Says: It’s all part of their insidious plan.
Don’t believe I think of that… but then I look at his competition in the struggle for the chairmanship, and I thought… nahh, they just aren’t that bright anymore.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pmI hope he beats them up? Or something?
I don’t know what to say about that – except that I’m glad he’s cashing their checks. Those R’s don’t just spend money – they find the biggest hole they can and they shockandawe that thing with money.
Hey Righties – Don’t forget to give generously to SarahPac!!
February 24th, 2009 at 12:16 pmSteele said his solution for the economic crisis is to put in place a spending freeze.
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Isn’t this a little like trying to revive a suffocation victim by sucking all the air out of the room?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:17 pmGet this out there, now: Steele has just set the stage for at least one of these three senators to switch parties. I think that either Sen. Snowe or Sen. Collins could do this and still retain support in their state, and even Sen. Spector, having battled cancer and perhaps getting the ‘life is too short’ message from whatever he may believe in might also.
This kind of abrasive crap from the obviously very short-sighted and ego-filled Steele could be the death knell the GOP seems to be wishing for. Just takes sixty votes, GOP, and you are toast.
Steele ought to be down on his hands and knees shortly aploogizing, or he will go down in GOP history in the same category as W.
Keep it up, Michael!
February 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pmSo it’s not enough to alienate the majority of Americans? Now you need to go after the more moderate within your own party, Steele?
Ya, that’ll work.
PEACE
February 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pmWe’re going to hear this rhetoric until a national election come along and slaps this crazy idea that the republicans after 8 years of spending like drunken sailors are fiscally conservative Most of these crazies are playing to a base that is shrinking daily If they think the doublewides in Alabama Louisiana and West Virgina aren’t feel the pain of this “Let them eat cake” attitude the suffer the consequences
February 24th, 2009 at 12:18 pm“I’m always open to everything baby.”
Just what the RNC needs: Sammy Davis, Jr.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pmSteele, Blackstone (OH), Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, and the rest of the Oreo Pukes have gotta be chewing and spitting nails, having sold out so completely to be near power, to see Obama occupying the Oval Office while they’re reduced to impotent pissing and moaning…
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pmI’m thinking that we may be seeing the demise of the Republican Party and the birth of a Moderate Party…
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pmSteele said his solution for the economic crisis is to put in place a spending freeze. Republicans are quickly rallying around the old Hoover agenda of enacting a spending freeze in the midst of a recession.
The 1st thing frozen will be paychecks to every obstructionist GOP Congressman/woman , Senator , Governor , Mayor , whatever ; how does that sound , jerkoffs ?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:20 pmI’m thinking that we may be seeing the demise of the Republican Party and the birth of a Moderate Party…
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Nah…
Almost 47 MILLION voters cast ballots against Obama. They’re still out there, and nothing in their political onology has changed.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pmI’ll bet Harry Reid will now see if he can go back and change his vote to “no”.
Just out of habit (caving to GOP threats).
February 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pmtombaker Says:
they find the biggest hole they can and they shockandawe that thing with money.
“BOOM goes the dynamite” !!!
¶ AIO
February 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pmAh, the Bush way of doing business is still in play with the Repukes…
….FCUK THE REPUBLICANS
February 24th, 2009 at 12:22 pmOutstandingInMyField Says
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Does anyone else feel like the GOP picked Palin because she was a woman and forgot to check whether she had whackjob ideas? Now they’ve picked Steele because he is African-American and apparently didn’t ask him any questions either. It’s just sad.
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This is because in their world, anybody who isn’t a white male is viewed solely by race and/or gender, and serves only to fill a “token” spot.
Therefore, some rather bizarre equivalents form. In their world, for example:
Clarence Thomas = Thurgood Marshall
Harriet Miers = Sandra Day O’Connor
Sarah Palin = Hillary Clinton
Michael Steele = Barack Obama
Etc.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pmMichael Steele has an apparent crips/bloods mentality for the world to see. What could be interpreted as progress by naming Steele to the top GOP post may actually be an effort to harden any negative stereotypes of blacks in leadership positions.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:24 pmMr. Steele is sure putting in a lot of energy to his party.
He shouts, “Republican moderates sympathetic to the suffering of your constituents beware!”
“You better play my way which is to say like Rush’s and Dobsen’s way or like the Elephant in our beloved GOP logo, the Party is going to rise up and, well.. do what Republican elephants do.”
Yup. Todays GOP. Gettin’ it all over ‘em while everyone else is screwed.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:25 pm…baby?
lol
February 24th, 2009 at 12:25 pmWow. Those conservatives sure are compassionate bastards aren’t they.
I wonder how long Steele will last in this position?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:26 pmOutstandingInMyField Says:
Does anyone else feel like the GOP picked Palin because she was a woman and forgot to check whether she had whackjob ideas? Now they’ve picked Steele because he is African-American and apparently didn’t ask him any questions either. It’s just sad.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I forget who said it but I believe it: There are NO “accidents” in politix…
I am becoming more and more certain that the Pukes threw the election, to saddle the Dims–whomsoever their nominee would be–with a suite of problems that are intractable, insoluble, and impossible. The plan is to be (permissibly) obstructionist, and to wait around while he Dims and Prez.O implode on the futility of the challenges.
Then they move in to shovel the last valuable scraps into a bag and get the phuque outta dodge…
February 24th, 2009 at 12:26 pmMeet Michael Steele…
“With financial and other support from Karl Rove and Cheney,[16] Steele formally announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on October 25, 2005. Polling in February 2006 showed the Lieutenant Governor lost significant ground against Cardin, although he remained statistically even with Mfume.[31] He was endorsed by Mike Tyson during the campaign.[32] Steele’s television ads for the election never stated that he was the Republican candidate.["
"Steele lost the general election to Cardin on November 7, 2006, 44 percent to Cardin's 55 percent. The Washington Post reported that on election day the Steele campaign arranged for buses of low income and homeless people from Philadelphia to distribute fliers at polls. The flyers contained incorrect information, including a statement that Michael Steele was endorsed by prominent state Democrats and African American leaders who had not, in fact, endorsed him. The homeless people were falsely identified as volunteers although they were paid, and the campaign funds used for this purpose of hiring the homeless were not timely or properly reported or attributed to the campaign.[41][42]”
“Steele was the first person to coin the term Drill Baby Drill during the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minnesota where he promoted offshore drilling as an alternative to dependency on foreign oil.[29]“
February 24th, 2009 at 12:26 pm“RNC Chair Steele threatens retribution against GOP senators who voted for stimulus.”
Interesting… And he is certainly burning the bridges with the conservative Repubs. Retribution to Specter? Good luck Steele. I am not too sure that many of Specter’s buddies are going to appreciate that Steele, who is the first African-American GOP chairman that has less than 2% minorities in the GOP party, wants to punish Specter and the other two GOP Reps that voted for the stimulus. This will backfire on Steele. Will be fun to watch.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:27 pm#26
I get that, who’s Jindal?
February 24th, 2009 at 12:28 pmMaybe a party change would be appropriate for the ladies of Maine. Adding them to Al Franken would give the Prez a clear field to fix the economy and other contentious issues….
February 24th, 2009 at 12:29 pmWell ladies….what do you think ???
“Yesterday on Fox News, RNC Chairman Michael Steele said he was open to withholding RNC funds…”
What kinda funds are we talking about here, anyway? Wasn’t the Republicant party having serious money raising issues this past election cycle? Steele, “Sorry free thinkers, you won’t be getting your piece of the Repub pie this time around. That’s another $549.67 for us to spread around. Bet you wish you fell in line with us now don’t you?”
February 24th, 2009 at 12:30 pmPoor Arlen Specter. He finally got out of Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe, and now this.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:32 pmThat will show them! Just bully away and see if you get what you want. These guys are heading for extinction. We should just sit back and enjoy the show.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:33 pmSo much for independent thinking in the greedy obstructionist party. It sounds like “acting” RNC chairman Steele received his talking points from the real leader of the GOP Rush Limpballs.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:34 pmI believe my younger brother hit the nail on the head when describing the mentality of the republican’t party supporters when he said:
I tend to believe because their beloved party is responsible for the two failed wars and the near collapse of the economy, republicans need to blame and attack people who know the truth. Because these truths destroy their whole belief system their party brainwashed them with so it is easier to attack the messenger.The same way they attacked those who spoke out against the war by attacking them and calling them unpatriotic.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:36 pmPerhaps Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Arlen Specter should switch parties.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pmoff the hook!
beyond cutting edge!
hip hop!
(urban and suburban)
help!
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February 24th, 2009 at 12:38 pmDid Shakespeare somehow channel his thought to to 2009 and lay it on RePUG Steele with his Hip Hop ways. The man has lots of Mac Beth, Otello, Hamlet, in him.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:39 pmand of course, a little merchant thing.
Let me see if I understand the double standard:
Yesterday, the airwaves were full of Santelli saying that Gibbs had threatened his family, his children were afraid to go to school, by taking part of sentence “I don’t know where he lives or where his house is…” and it was accepted as fact.
But a “big, black man” goes on national TV and threatens retribution against a group of three white senators, two of whom are women, and this will all go by unnoticed by the great librul media.
Okay, got it now. Thick with irony.
PEACE
February 24th, 2009 at 12:40 pmIt will be a joy to watch the republican’ts grovel at President Obama’s feet if the stimulus package shows signs of working. Because that is what they will have to do if it does work. I’d prefer them committing political suicide by continuing to oppose every policy President Obama and the democrats want passed but it would be enjoyable to watch them crawl back to President Obama with their tales tucked between their legs and trying to act nice.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pmMr. Philby Says:
Veteran ABC News television executive Michael Clemente has been named Senior Vice President of News for FOX News, announced Roger Ailes
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So are you saying Clemente isn’t fair and balanced and has the IQ of a slug? Or that he has a lead on more bleached blonde bimbo journalist wannabees whom he can bring with him over to FUX?
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Rich H Says:
#26
I get that, who’s Jindal?
he’s the one they need to perform exorcisms.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:46 pmspencers mom Says:
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Republican’ts are masters of playing the victim or creating non stories. Santelli is a pathetic little man who is obviously trying to get attention. Perhaps this is an audition for him to land a job at the failing FUX business channel?
Philbee
Has something great to say, doesn’t have anything to do with the subject, but we understand, right!
February 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThat’s it, GOP, keep the faith baby… Pretty soon your minority status will be almost non-existent. Literally. As in not there at all…
February 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pmI imagine Louisiana could use as much of the stimulus money as they can get their hands on to I don’t know, rebuild new Orleans. Jindahl should be ashamed of himself.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:51 pmRich H Says:
I get that, who’s Jindal?
He’s that “Slumdog Millionaire” kid.
Steele and the GOP think that’ll get them the Hollywood vote.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:52 pmWhen the token GOP black speaks, Cavuto listens.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:53 pmIt must be great to be represented by a G.O.P. Senator or Rep. They have absolutely no latitude to vote with their constituency or, on the rare case when they have one, their conscience. There seems to be no real debate amongst them
February 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pmREPUBLICAN SCORCHED EARTH POLITICS
Republicans are practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and insurrectionary OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.
Republicans AREN’T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they’re using conflicting economic theories as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement.
Republicans are preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted.
Republicans are trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from undoing the damage caused by a Republican presidency.
Republicans are offering controversial arguments they know no one can agree on to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They’d rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance. That’s how they gained power and that’s how they’re trying to retain it.
Republicans are not the LOYAL OPPOSITION. They are the ENEMY WITHIN whose personal priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that treachery and betrayal are their preferred modus operandi.
It’s one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it’s another thing entirely to willfully sabotage America’s government because a successful Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican corporatism and extremism that have poisoned and crippled America.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:57 pmPaz3 at #15 said, “Get this out there, now: Steele has just set the stage for at least one of these three senators to switch parties. I think that either Sen. Snowe or Sen. Collins could do this and still retain support in their state, and even Sen. Spector, having battled cancer and perhaps getting the ‘life is too short’ message from whatever he may believe in might also.”
Let’s sweeten the pot and trade Lieberman to the R’s.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:00 pmAll one has to know about the republican’t party are these three bills that were pushed by a republican president or a republican senator:
1982-The Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act
1999-The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
2000 -The Commodity Futures Modernization Act
The first act was a Reagan administration initiative written by S&L lobbyists which seven years after being passed almost led to the collapse of the S&L’s. Interesting side note is the millions Neil Bush walked away with. Tax payers got stuck flipping the bill on this scandal.
The second act we all know about. Republican’t senator Phil Gramm pushed this bill which was written by lobbyists from the banking industry and although then President Clinton signed it, the republican majority allowed deregulation to run rampant which has led to the current financial/banking/mortgage crisis.
The third act again was pushed by Republican’t senator Phil Gramm. Again the bill was written by lobbyists, this time energy lobbyists. This bill contained the “Enron loophole” which of course led to unchecked oil speculation which drove the price of a barrel of oil up to record prices and allowed Enron to screw millions of Californians with skyrocketing energy costs.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:04 pmMr. Philby Says:
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Veteran ABC News television executive Michael Clemente has been named Senior Vice President of News for FOX News, announced Roger Ailes
February 24th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
What does this have to do with Steele and Craputo , a pair of talking shitpiles , and their discussion , nimrod ?
February 24th, 2009 at 1:05 pmosage Says:
REPUBLICAN SCORCHED EARTH POLITICS
EXCELLENT POST, AND SO VERY TRUE.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:09 pmOsage, this is a similar comment from a commenter at FDL:
THE AMERICAN TALIBAN /AMERICA’S SABOTEURS:
Republicans AREN’T making a sincere effort to stop the bleeding their incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they’re using conflicting economic theories as a smokescreen to conceal their real agenda, which is to undermine President Obama and cause him and America to fail. Republicans are practicing SUBVERSIVE forms of demagoguery and guerrilla obstructionism that are intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.
Republicans are preposterously professing that their disgraceful political whoring had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted. Republicans are trying to hamstring Obama to prevent him from undoing the incompetent negligence of George W. Bush.
Republicans are offering up subjective controversial arguments they know no one can agree on in order to disrupt and deny progressive change. They’d rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance. That’s how they gained power and that’s how they’re trying to retain it.
Republicans are not the LOYAL OPPOSITION. They are the ENEMY WITHIN whose political priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that treachery and betrayal are their preferred methods of operation.
It’s one thing to vigorously advocate their conservative beliefs; it’s another thing entirely for them to willfully sabotage America’s government because a successful Democratic president would not be vulnerable to the fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican corporatism and extremism that have poisoned and divided America.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pmosage says;
I have a shorter way to put it
The only good Republican is the one that’s dead.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pmWow. Steele may have just doomed himself…even though the Republican Party does have a propensity toward lock stepping as they march off the lemming cliff.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pmGreat post osage. I don’t know if they are all your own thoughts or not – doesn’t matter. The repugs are definitely “The enemy within”, and I think Obama just needs to keep doing what he’s doing – the people are behind him, and the pukes either give a damn, or just don’t get it.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:15 pmCollins or Snowe need to jump ship NOW, before the other one beats her to it. This is a terrific opportunity to curry favor with the Dems and get a good deal by changing parties.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:17 pmCicero seemed to be describing the republican’ts in this quote:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation – he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city – he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”
February 24th, 2009 at 1:20 pmCollins can stay with the republicans. She is the female version of Joe LIEberman. I just wonder why all of the sudden she is siding with the democrats?
February 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pmSteele is some whack republidude. He called out those cuzins acting crunked and gettin’ all up in their grills. Werd.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pm“All uff you little Rushies had better shape up and shtart goose-shtepping in cadence! Ve vill not tolerate any free tinkink in der Limbaugh Party!! You vill tink vhat der Fateurer tells you to tink!!, or no Rushmarks vor yur campaign! Heil Limbaugh, Baby!!
February 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm“Michael Clemente has been named executive producer of ABC Digital News”
Embellish much Mr. P. But most of us won’t watch ABC and we’re certainly not going to watch Fox.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:32 pmThis is so funny. Steele is acting like he actually has power over the Repub party.
Cute!
February 24th, 2009 at 1:34 pm#
Jindal is as close as they’ll get to Hispanic. They all look the same to them so they couldn’t tell the difference.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:35 pmThere can be no doubt any more that the repugs do NOT want bipartisanship — as they will go so far as to punish any member who takes part in anything Democratic — polls are showing today that the public knows the truth and repugs are failing miserably. However, rather than change their methods, look for repugs to double-down and get even more ugly.
In fact, there is a story on Drudge today of a gullible soldier who doesn’t believe Obama is the legitimate C-in-C therefore, won’t follow orders. (Guess that’s one way to get out of Iraq.)
February 24th, 2009 at 1:43 pmSieg Heil!!! Party always above country
Bunch of jackasses.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:47 pmJindal is of Indian ethnicity, who will deprive unemployed Louisianans from unemployment benefits; who is catholic and performed an exorcism; and who took the name Bobby because he was a huge fan of the Brady Bunch.
I’d love to see him on a ticket with Sarah Palin in 2012. Between the two of them, the repugs will think they have the market on women and minorities, and the Democrats will then sweep the election.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:53 pmEach day the Republicans become more ridiculous. Threatening their own– well, threatening is one of the things they do best, I suppose. They continue their fear-mongering & bullying, proving again they really have no solutions to any problems, and no hope for the future.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSo their ideology is so weak that they have to threaten their own members to stay in line.
Must be a laugh a minute.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSPENDING FREEZE!!
CUT TAXES FO RTHE RICH!
END GOVERNMENT REGULATION!
OH, AND PUMP TRILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS INTO OUR FAILED FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS!
February 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm76 dasm Says:
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Exactly! Republicans have two strategies. Fear and intimidation and two old ideas, tax cuts for the wealthy and tax breaks for corporations. Watching them implode has been fun to witness! I imagine it will only get worse and they will look even more ridiculous as time goes on and the stimulus package starts turning the economy around.
My only fear is another terrorist attack. We already know the republican party will stop at nothing to gain back control. Some of their own members have even mentioned in the past that a terrorist attack would be an advantage for the republican party.
So if the stimulus package begins to work I will be very happy yet very nervous as we all how a wounded dog reacts when it’s cornered. Perhaps Cheney let the cat out of the bag with his recent statement about another terrorist attack happening.
God knows there are probably loyal neocons scattered through out the NSA, CIA and FBI who would think nothing of killing Americans if it meant getting praise by Darth Cheney and assuring that the neocon’s regain control of our government.
I may sound a bit paranoid but again I put nothing past the republican’ts and the neocons.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:34 pmHave at it Mr SteelyEye. Maybe those Senators would like to change their political affiliation and give the Democratic Party a filibuster proof majority.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pmUncle Fester Lurks @66. Thanks for reminding me of that Cicero quote! Sooo appropriate! It’s too bad that they don’t have Cicero comic books so the G.O.P. base could read Cicero too!
February 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pmI realize this is off topic, but every news source says:
February 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm“ABC News executive Michael Clemente has joined Fox News as senior vice president of news.”
I expected the party to retaliate against these three. Didn’t expect them to do it openly, though.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pmA spending freeze may have worked say back in 2002. Then again this is the party who agreed with it’s fearless leader that tax cuts for the wealthy while our country is involved in two wars was a good idea.
So while the banksters, the crooksters on Wall Street, Oil companies and the wealthy made out like bandits, the middle class was stuck paying for the war. We can’t have the wealthy sacrifice during a time of war or they might not support the war, the rest of us, who gives a damn what we think.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:40 pmCollins and Snowe should switch parties. Dems would welcome them w/open arms. Then w/ Frankin seated, we reach that magic # of 60! Message to Steele: Go Baby!!
February 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pmAs steel is attracted to a magnet steele’s magnet is blatant GOP ignorence
February 24th, 2009 at 6:53 pmDoes the name, “Joe Lieberman” ring any bells?
February 24th, 2009 at 6:54 pmMichael Steele is demonstrating daily the reasons tokenism has such a bad name. While Arlen Specter may have something to fear in terms of a primary challenge (although I suspect not, and even if he did get knocked off by a lunatic fringer the ultimate election result would be another Democratic senator from PA), being from the great state of Maine, I can assure you that Collins and Snowe most certainly do not. For one, which right winger here in the state of Maine could credibly run? Michael Heath? (how the mighty have fallen-the once ubiquitous Heath is reduced to writing a right wing blog that never gets updated and no one reads). The looney John Frary? Or maybe Jim Soule, the guy who so ingratiated himself with the northern two-thirds of the state by threatening the secession of Cumberland and York counties? (Now that would be a GOP primary race worth watching.) I think you get my point. The fact of the matter is, neither of these women have anything to fear from Steele’s outlandish, tone-deaf threats, or the name-calling from members of their own party. Now, far be it from me to defend these two, but frankly Olympia Snowe especially is a goddess in this state-her political popularity here is higher than any other sitting US senator, with close to an 80% approval rating from her constituents, and she was re-elected in 2006 with 74% of the vote. Susan Collins, while not as universally well liked as Snowe, still took down a challenge from popular 1st district Congressman Tom Allen in November with over 60% of the vote. The two of them could squash Michael Steele like a bug, and yet he has the audacity to threaten them with primary challenges and no RNC funding.
At the same time, for those thinking they should switch parties, they are vote pretty consistently with the party line on most issues. The two of them are not mavericks in any real sense of the word. They are Republicans, albeit Northern ones.
But Mike, I got news for ya: you do not scare the women of Maine. They know-and so does everybody in the GOP except you, probably- that either of them women could dye her hair green, get busted selling meth to ten-year-olds and garner the endorsements of Lyndon LaRouche and the American Nazi Party and still win in a landslide. They spit in the face of your bluster…you Palinist moron.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:48 amjacambece Says:
Since you are just a stupid jackal with the brain of a fruitfly why dont you go sit in the corner and STFU while the adults talk?
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