Steele tells conservatives to stop pointing fingers on bailouts: “Do the ‘my bad’ and move forward.”
Steele tells conservatives to stop pointing fingers on bailouts: “Do the ‘my bad’ and move forward.”
Much of the right-wing “outrage” against the Obama administration has been over its willingness to grant “bailouts” to Wall Street companies. In fact, the RNC is currently encouraging supporters “to speak out against the bailouts.” Today on MSNBC, however, RNC Chairman Michael Steele candidly admitted that it is “disingenuous” for conservatives to blame Democrats for bailing out Wall Street, since the original bailouts were approved by President Bush:
STEELE: Look, we can’t go back out and start pointing fingers at Democrats and saying look how bad they’re performing, look at what they’re doing with the economy when we jump-started this thing. We were the ones that put the $700 billion on the table and said, all right, let’s start nationalizing the banking system. So now, for us to stand back and go, oh, that’s a bad thing to do is disingenuous. So let’s own up, do the my bad, and move forward.
Watch it:
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Damn…this not going to sit well with “the base”, to put it mildly.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am*sigh*
It’s like taking candy from a baby, isn’t it?
April 30th, 2009 at 10:34 amI wonder if Steele has started packing up his desk yet?
Bet he steals the stapler on the way out.
PEACE
April 30th, 2009 at 10:35 amSteele appeared on the “conservative” morning Joe next to Pat Buchanan – How “safe”. He’s toning down a little. I guess when your a$$ has been handed to you by a defected GOPer, what’s let to do?
Defect, baby, defect!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:35 amGOP = ‘Little Shop of Whorers’
April 30th, 2009 at 10:35 amSteele then jumped up and demonstrated the ‘my bad’ dance…
He’s not supposed to admit obvious facts like that. Maybe he should switch to being a Dem.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:36 amIs this a early sign of leadership ?
April 30th, 2009 at 10:36 am“STEELE: Look, we can’t go back out and start pointing fingers at Democrats and saying look how bad they’re performing, look at what they’re doing with the economy when we jump-started this thing. We were the ones that put the $700 billion on the table and said, all right, let’s start nationalizing the banking system. So now, for us to stand back and go, oh, that’s a bad thing to do is disingenuous. So let’s own up, do the my bad, and move forward.”
But what would Rush say? Better check first.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:37 amfinally! someone in the GOP has something constructive to say. I really hope he doesnt back peddel this one.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:41 amwe jump-started this thing ….
Other things they started:
April 30th, 2009 at 10:42 amThe recession
2 wars
International Hatred of America
Massive deregulation
Corporate welfare
Massive off-shoring of good American jobs
Looser EPA rules
Weakening the SEC creating Ponzi free environment
Enron
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Steele messed up and told the truth. He will be punished.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:42 amhe definitely is bad.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:44 amYou know, it occurs to me that Steele does the ‘my bad’ quite a lot.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:44 amAgreed RantingTommy!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:45 amThis guy is the gift that keeps on giving.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am…
the mike man.
:)
April 30th, 2009 at 10:46 amThe remaining 21%ers don’t have much smarts. They are eliminating the moderates from their party, essentially catrating themselves, they constantly oppose a popular President over petty nonsense, they have ZERO ideas of tehir own that haven’t already failed, and now Steele is cutting his own throat by actually admitting that the past can not only be reviewed, but used to prove guilt… Gives new definition to the notion of self-defeating. I love it…
April 30th, 2009 at 10:47 amDid he then suggest it best to keep his comments on the “down low”? Late middle aged dudes trying to do adolescents is sort of annoying but “whatev”…
April 30th, 2009 at 10:49 ami could kinda sorta maybe possibly start liking this guy…
that’s not the first truth he’s spoken…
April 30th, 2009 at 10:51 amRing …. Ring …. Ring ……
April 30th, 2009 at 10:51 amHello This is Michael Steele RNC Chainman, how may I help you?
OH! Hello Rush!
You saw me on MSNBC today?
(crap, what did I do now)
I’m so sorry, I didn’t get that memo.
Oh, let me check ……… Oh darn!
I found it – it was buried under my GOP talking points memo.
It WON’T happen ever again.
Good Bye now.
How old is this clown? I know he didn’t check with LimpBall for permission to suddenly become ‘honest’. We haven’t heard the last of this latest true confession. Furthermore, Bachmann and the rest of the lunatic fringe haven’t put their 2 cents in and they might just disavow him now.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:55 amThat Mike Steele — he knows his disingenuous. ;)
April 30th, 2009 at 10:56 amPresent day Republican = fiscal liberal who loves war and hates civil liberties.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:57 amUh-oh. His electrode must have come loose.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:57 amSteele, I know your mama didn’t raise you this way, baby.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:59 amMy guess is this “acknowledging reality” thing is just one more strategy to find out where he sits on the chessboard.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:00 amI wonder if Steele is a ditto head? Here’s the definition. Like FAUX Noise says – “I’ll report, YOU decide”:
1. ditto head
Any person who loves the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Ditto heads totally agree with Rush’s opinions and stand behind him without question. The word ditto was first used by a caller on his show who agreed with the accolades given Rush by a previous caller. The praise Rush was given by callers was becoming too long winded and Rush promoted the use of ditto by his callers as a means to be brief and to show their approval at the same time.
2. ditto head
April 30th, 2009 at 11:02 amA person, usually of low intelligence, that has been programmed or brainwashed by political activist Rush Limbaugh into believing that the fallacies created on his show are real.
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you know when think about mike steele
you think about but rainbows and unicorns…
he’s magic!
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April 30th, 2009 at 11:07 amMichael Steel sounds like a republican with a brain. He is out for sure.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:07 amAll the wingnuts who think they are conservatives are radical extremists…they just don’t know what that is.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:09 amkasinca Says:
Michael Steel sounds like a republican with a brain.
Except that it was completely unintentional. He forgot to deny reality for a moment there, and he’s gonig to hurt him. It’s not that he’s more intelligent or has more of a conscience than other R’s, it’s that he’s just not very good at what he’s supposed to do.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:09 amRemember, with Mike, it’s alll an elaborate ruse – do not attempt to interpret his remarks – you cannot! – their actual strategic import will be made known only at a time of his arbitrary choosing in the near-or-distant future.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:10 amThe Steele token is going to cave to Flush Limpballs any minute now……he didn`t stay focused on the Re-puke message,lies, denial and hypocrisy.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:12 am“My bad”, the verbal and moral equivalent of “I’m just saying”.
Somehow, mealy-mouthed inbreds believe it absolves them from responsibility, which it does not.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:12 amThat Mike Steele — he knows his disingenuous. ;)
*BIG GRIN* .>
April 30th, 2009 at 11:12 amack! my post didn’t show up >.<
It should be…
“*BIG GRIN* .> MY internet no werk!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:14 amNooooo my posts are vanishing due to tags! *CRY*
well hearts2Zoeey
April 30th, 2009 at 11:16 amI uhh…. wait.. what? Did he just say that?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:16 amchristopher wiwi Says:
The Steele token is going to cave to Flush Limpballs any minute now…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/30/steele-rush-limbaugh-righ_n_193505.html
April 30th, 2009 at 11:17 amLOL I just go through reading that.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:19 amOh My Dog!
That was actually a rational, reality-based statement!
I guarantee this will flush-out those noisy enemies in the tent on the chessboard he was talking about a few weeks ago.
His future is assured–as a first-round loser on “Dancing With the Stars” and late-night cable-tv ad salesperson for his local car dealership/carpet store.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:20 amHAHAHAHA……every time Steele uses “black slang” it must just drive the white supremacist hillbillies and rednecks over the edge.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:35 amEasy for him to say…
…what is the RNC going to do now, with all those teabags they’re sitting on???
April 30th, 2009 at 11:35 amSteele’s first clue that he’s in over his head, is that at eye level, he’s thirteen feet under water…
April 30th, 2009 at 11:38 amHAHAHAHA……every time Steele uses “black slang” it must just drive the white supremacist hillbillies and rednecks over the edge.
Yeah, and I’m just waiting for him to do a ‘terrorist fist jab’
with himself…
April 30th, 2009 at 11:39 amFinally, a repug who realizes the Bush administration spent us into the poor house. Now they want to be fiscal conservatives? Scumbags!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:40 amI wonder how long it takes him to change back to the “Blame the Democrats no matter what it costs the party.” strategy.
But to speak honestly about the economic situation? Why, that’s not how Republican operate these days.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:44 amWe were the ones that put the $700 billion on the table and said, all right, let’s start nationalizing the banking system.
Ok, I’m missing something here. When did the Republicans say that we should start nationalizing the banking system?
Steele is a liar and a weasel.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:46 amBut that’s not conservative…
April 30th, 2009 at 11:52 amSTEELE: Look, we can’t go back out and start pointing fingers at Democrats and saying look how bad they’re performing, look at what they’re doing with the economy when we jump-started this thing. We were the ones that put the $700 billion on the table and said, all right, let’s start nationalizing the banking system. So now, for us to stand back and go, oh, that’s a bad thing to do is disingenuous.
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Whoa…wait! What gives? Holy smoke…is that really Michael Steele? Looks like him, but it sure doesn’t sound like him — he actually sounded logical and reasonable there. What happened? Did aliens come and switch his brain with someone else’s while we weren’t looking? Or did he simply forget to drink his prescribed dose of Kool-Aid this morning?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:56 amNo troll to defend or attack Steele?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:58 amTP should really put a Rush Limbaugh pic with him to get some trolls here lol.
08Dariana, please reference post # 46.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pmThank you.
BOOM! SPLAT! The sound of rightwingnutconservative heads exploding. I think Michael Steele knows that if GOPers try to oust him they’ve got to worry about being labeled rascists. So, Steele is not going to step down without a fight. A very ugly, rascial fight.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:04 pm08Dariana Says:
No troll to defend or attack Steele?
TP should really put a Rush Limbaugh pic with him to get some trolls here lol.
I don’t think our job here is to call out every troll and attack them when they try to defend the conservative position with matters unrelated to those of the topic. Let’s just discuss the topic, and if someone shows up to try to defend the opposite stance, then fire away.
I prefer not to knock on the opposition’s door and instigate them when they have no opinion on the matter.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:08 pmOne would think that this guy is a huge loose cannon on the deck of a sinking ship.
But it is really all just part of his “Strategy” for finding out who his enemies are…
…brilliant, just brilliant.
Fcuk the Republicans
April 30th, 2009 at 12:08 pmHow did you guys know I live under the bridge to the 21st century?
April 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pmPoor Michael Steele. He accidently spoke the truth, and now he must pay.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pmPurple State Says:
I prefer not to knock on the opposition’s door and instigate them when they have no opinion on the matter.
That’s like Democrats don’t have a opinion on something Pres. Obama says, of course Republicans have a opinion on Something Steele says.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:29 pmFirst the public at large largely ignores Mr. Steele.
Now his own party ignores him, too.
Mr. Steele should take his own advice and move forward so that his party can continue to grind that Newt bus in to reverse gear.
Yup. With ol’Newt behind the wheel of the Republican bus, they will pass everyone, backwards at relative light speed losing members as they go bump bump bump.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pmWhoa whoa we didn’t nationalize the banks with that money, we subsudized them, that’s why we’re all so pissed. If you would have nationalized them it wouldn’t have taken 700 billion dollars to do it, it would have taken like 100 billion tops and the crisis would have been over by now. Fail.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmdbadass Says:
Did he then suggest it best to keep his comments on the “down low”? Late middle aged dudes trying to do adolescents is sort of annoying but “whatev”…
He keeps reminding me of somebody from an 80’s sitcom like “Fresh Prince” or something, as the older guy who thinks he’s hip and with it, and keeps busting out all wit da phat jiggy embarassment.
His jive-turkey act seems to have gotten him far with his country-club friends in the G.O.P. (Bachmann: “you da man!”) but to the rest of the world it just looks pathetic.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pmWhen are these Rethugs gonna realize that spouting “hip, blackster talk” just makes them look pathetic?!! It’s like my grandma saying, “I’m down with the homies, dude! Just listen to what I’m sayin’.” And Michelle Bachmann saying, “You da man”? Loser!
April 30th, 2009 at 1:37 pmsteeley damn is like some whitebread trying to be a 1950 hip.
he’s so out of it and so happy at being a token it’s fun-nee as hell.
Thanks.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pmwatchout5 Says:
Whoa whoa we didn’t nationalize the banks with that money, we subsudized them, that’s why we’re all so pissed. If you would have nationalized them it wouldn’t have taken 700 billion dollars to do it, it would have taken like 100 billion tops and the crisis would have been over by now. Fail.
teabaggers don’t want to understand this.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:56 pmI think Mika pissed her knickers when Steele sais “let’s do the my bad and move forward” there at the end.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:49 pmI think Steele is actually making strategic sense here, but the repubs won’t listen.
If the economy continues to pull out as it is currently moving, then the public perception will be that the bailouts were a good thing, overall.
And if the repubs make too big a fuss about the bailouts, and the economy pulls out, then the conclusion will be that they actively worked against economic recovery.
April 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pmUpdateExplaining the political diversity inside the GOP, Steele also remarked:
April 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pmi take it back (19)… never mind…
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