Steele on judges with ‘empathy’: ‘I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!’
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Steele on judges with ‘empathy’: ‘I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!’
Last week, when Supreme Court Justice David Souter said that he intended to retire, President Obama said that in naming a replacement, he would not only “seek somebody with a sharp and independent mind and a record of excellence and integrity,” but also someone who has “empathy” for “the daily realities of people’s lives.” Conservatives quickly latched onto Obama’s use of the word “empathy,” lampooning it and claiming it is a “code word” for an “activist judge.” Guest hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show today, RNC chairman Michael Steele derided “crazy nonsense empathetic.” “I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!” said Steele. Listen here:
Transcript:
STEELE: Good morning y’all, we’re back in the house. We’re talking a little bit of Constitution and a little bit Supreme Court. And a whole lot of saving America’s judicial system and saving our rights as citizens and not having empathetic judges decide cases, but rather judges who are actually understanding the rule of law and what the Constitution and those laws are all about. And how to apply the facts to the law and the law to the facts. And adjudicate my case. I don’t need some judge sitting up there feeling bad for my opponent because of their life circumstances or their condition. And short changing me and my opportunity to get fair treatment under the law. Crazy nonsense empathetic. I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind. Craziness.
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Was he bad mouthing Rush’s analcyst?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pmSteele is such a buffoon. Keep talking like that Steele and watch that GOP tent keep shrinking until it no longer exists.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pmit’s almost as these repugs are DELIBERATELY shooting themselves in the foot.. it’s simply unbelievable.. what drug are they on?? (apart from hubris and being in total denial about why their party is in the shape it’s in??? — and who knows what else??)
May 8th, 2009 at 2:42 pmI like Steele. I like him because he is guaranteed to say something stupid. In fact, he is such a surefire guarantee that if he were a racehorse, I would be a millionaire. Ahh his ignorance is as refreshing as a nice cocktail on a Saturday morning…
This guy is comic relief at its finest.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:42 pmWho the hell is he talking too? Did we just get a glimpse of his childhood?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:43 pmThis must be more of the Republican’s “Compassionate Conservatism” coming through.
Can’t any of these people see what a hypocritical joke they’ve become?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pmEmpathize right on your behind.
That’s called child abuse, Steele…something you can go to jail for.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:45 pmFine, you get no empathy. Some people feel sorry that you have so much self-loathing that you’re willing to be window dressing for a bunch of people that would just as soon watch you hand from a tree as talk to you. You’re nothing but a tapdancing lawnjockey.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pmPeople are often very envious of what they don’t have, and they show it by reacting angrily. Hence the Repubs’ angry reaction to the empathy word.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pmAfter the November elections in 2010 (if he survives that long) it will be………Michael Who?
So let’s let MR.”So what I’m the President of the RNC” keep talking. Move on there’s nothing more to see here.
RIP
May 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
This guy must have had one hell of a childhood.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pmSteele no doubt would like to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Code of Draco.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:50 pm‘I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!’
The gay symbolism of the party of barebackers and teabaggers. At least he didn’t say empathize in your mouth.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:50 pmIf I was a judge I would feel empathy for Steele having to kiss Limbaughs buttocks
May 8th, 2009 at 2:51 pmSteele/Palin 2012!!
**snicker**snort**snicker**
May 8th, 2009 at 2:51 pmSo much for the compassionate myth…
May 8th, 2009 at 2:52 pmConservatives quickly latched onto Obama’s use of the word “empathy,” lampooning it and claiming it is a “code word” for an “activist judge.”
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Oh, the irony. Conservatives complain about “code words” when their own code word of “activist judge” just means “any judge who rules against our agenda”.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:52 pmFinally the teabagger repugs have a plan.
oops up side your head.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:53 pm“Steele on judges with ‘empathy’: ‘I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!’”
Hey. Is this another example of teh gay tendencies?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pmThis has to be some type of Conservative “con”.
Nobody can be this dumb. Everytime I think I’ve heard the worst they have to offer, they prove me wrong.
Wasn’t there a movie called dumb and bumber…
May 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pmWhy is the response always more violence from these Rushpublicans?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pm“Steele on judges with ‘empathy’: ‘I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!’”
Yup, spoken from the RNC chairman clown. I wonder when da man and Grand Poobah-in-chief El Rushbo is going to silence his employee Mike ‘in the housz’ Steele for his behavior.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:57 pmPlease tell me there was also a video running.
I can see the 2010 commercials now !
May 8th, 2009 at 2:57 pmGive Michelle Bachman some empathy, you know she wants it, she said “You be da man!”
May 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pmStay classy Steele!
May 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pmPointless drivel from a powerless man.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pm“Empathize right on your behind.”
At least the black man worked in a “right on.” Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) must be proud. His assistant Jeff Burton floated Steele’s name for RNC Chair last fall. But Jeff is multi-talented. He was credited with outing NRCC embezzler Chris Ward.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pmNo clue about empathy is exactly why Republicans lost the last election and it is why if they don’t “get it” they will continue to lose.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:02 pmI have a very special sense of loathing for Bill Bennett. Here is a man that said the the cave from Plato’s Republic was an apt description of television. Of course that book does get abused to death by the right. *cough* Michael Savage *cough cough* So, for him to be inviting a goofball like Steele on his radio program just makes my stomach turn.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pmIsn’t justice born out of the empathy for the rights of others?
May 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pmIs that a gay joke? -=oX
May 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmNow that’s the kind of measured and thoughtful analysis that
May 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmwill bring thousands of reasonable voters back to the Big Tent.
Wayne Says:
Steele/Palin 2012!!
**snicker**snort**snicker**
LOL…I was thinking Palin/Plumber 2012!! Wolverines!
May 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmI love it ! Hope Steele, limbaugh, hannity, cheney just keep on talking. Everyday they turn more people away from the GOP.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:06 pmThe R’s 2010 motto: “The Party of Evil.”
May 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pmOkay, so we are supposed to be concerned about peoples obesity and very unhealthy lifestyles…but judges are supposed to be authoritarian hard asses who put people in prison for the slightest infraction…or maybe one of those teen rehab places so your cronies can make more of a profit.
The GnOPe Paradox…
May 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pmThey’ll want an empathetic judge when thier brought up on those war crimes …..
May 8th, 2009 at 3:07 pmI pray to God every day that Michael Steele remains the head of the RNC.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:08 pmOh yea. And the code word for you is WATERMELON MAN…didn’t you use to run around at night wearing a white sheet with a pointy little white hat? Oh, I’m sorry, a great big white hat.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:10 pmThey bad, those Republicans.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:15 pmwiley Says: “Did we just get a glimpse of his childhood?”
Quite possibly. His sister was married to Mike Tyson, a fact which begs the question as to what sort of upbringing she and, by extension, her brother had.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:15 pmWithout empathy, what is the use of law? I just read an interesting article pointing out that when a court argues the death penalty for a particularly heinous crime—like the rape of a child—and the court goes into great detail about the viciousness of the crime, that is an appeal to empathy.
The whole concept of representation is based on empathy, is it not?
May 8th, 2009 at 3:16 pmWow. When I first read the transcript, provided above, I thought it was some sort of racist parody of Steele.
Michael Steele, you are pathetic.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pmThis strikes me as a brilliant distillation of the GOP’s worldview.
Conservatives are conservatives, in my judgment, precisely because they have underdeveloped senses of empathy.
(There are other determining factors, of course, but empathy, to me, is the psychological key.)
May 8th, 2009 at 3:19 pmNow everyone, empathy is a big word and Mr. Steele possible doesn’t know the meaning. After all empathy is not word in a conservative’s vocabulary.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pmdigger Says: “…didn’t you use to run around at night wearing a white sheet with a pointy little white hat? Oh, I’m sorry, a great big white hat.”
But he wore his hood backwards “‘cuz dat’s da way we roll, baby!”
May 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pmSteele is moving up the ladder real fast to take the top spot on the daily “Loon Watch” alert..
This man is SO stupid is hurts to watch sometimes…
May 8th, 2009 at 3:27 pmHow can anyone be against a judge having empathy? People who don’t have or are deficient in empathy are narcissists, psychopaths, sadist, torturers, sexual predators, con artists,….OH! I answered my own question. Never mind.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pmI really think one afternoon, David Axelrod leaned back in his office chair and said, “I know, let’s see if we can get all the Republicans to denounce the concept of empathy.”
May 8th, 2009 at 3:29 pmSo the concept of mitigating factors in a judge’s sentencing is some sort of liberal, pansy bulwark?
Let’s throw out victim statements while we’re at it. No appeal to humanity, right, Mr. Steele? Just the law, baby!
May 8th, 2009 at 3:34 pm“I’ll give you empathy. Empathy right on your behind!”
May 8th, 2009 at 3:38 pmWho said this?
(1)Michael Musto
(2)Andrea Mackris testimony quoting Bill O’Reilly
(3)Michael Steele
(4)Bill O’Reilly’s graphic sex novel
(5)David Vitter while wearing a diaper
(6)George “Oh My” Tekia
The talking point of repugs that empathy is synonymous with activist judge (whatever that is) is another example of how they all march in lockstep, regardless of how stupid and ridiculous they are.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pmJudges are not supposed to take into account all aspects of the cases they hear? Why do we need judges if not to hear all sides and make a determination?
Repugs are accustomed to their judges simply checking in with party leaders for direction.
Who is the bigger embarrassment to the repubs Steele or limbaugh. Well, limbaugh is still being genuflected to by the repubs so guess Steele it is.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:42 pmif obama want to install an activist judge in the supreme court, that’s his perogative. he won, the republiscum’s lost. if they ever win another presidential cycle, they can appoint anyone they want to the supreme court when they have the opportunity. until then, they can SUCK IT!
May 8th, 2009 at 3:42 pmBozo The Neocootiebug Says:
if obama want to install an activist judge in the supreme court, that’s his perogative. he won, the republiscum’s lost. if they ever win another presidential cycle, they can appoint anyone they want to the supreme court when they have the opportunity. until then, they can SUCK IT!
Right on! Teh re-pubic-ans spent the entire election cycle making sure everyone knew President Obama is black-muslin-elist-socialist-communist-facist-babykiller-terrorist who wants to eat your fetus, with arugala and dijon mustard. And America chose him anyway!
May 8th, 2009 at 3:52 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
” make rulings based upon the rule of law, not based upon their emotions or feelings, empathetic or otherwise. ”
this coming from a party that constantly promotes nominess who want to overturn a woman’s right to reproductive choice and throw a hizzy fit if they don’t get their way?
that’s rich
May 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pmSo if Steele empathises right on my behind … does that make him gay?
May 8th, 2009 at 3:58 pmThe thing I want to point out with “empathy” is that I don’t think President Obama was indicating that empathy was all that a judge on the Supreme Court should have. It should be only one of the many qualities that someone at this level should have. This empathy applies to those most affected by the laws, but not on one side of those issues. I think Obama wants a judge who can see the ethical, legal, and humanitarian sides of the issue.
Besides, does “empathy” necessarily mean that the judge has to feel such an emotion to only one side. Can’t a judge be impartial by empathizing for both sides?
So far, Mr. Steele, you really have shown your inability to be a good talk show host. Stick to being the guest.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:58 pmI’m really surprised Steele is still the RNC Chairman.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:59 pmhow long will it be beofre the farce known as michael steele starts giving the side eyes while saying, “whatchoo talkin’ ’bout willis”?
May 8th, 2009 at 4:02 pmNo, no, we want Steele, limbaugh, hannity, oreilly to keep pushing their hate speech. Show how real conservatives really think.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pmSteely The Clown: Rap On!
all ya need is a fright wig and 18′ shoes!
The morons get funnier by the day.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:09 pmtonyrich300 Says:
I’m really surprised Steele is still the RNC Chairman.
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He’s really a ‘CINO’ chairman in name only.. no powers.
the guy he fired after working at the RNC for 33 years, was recently reinstated. They also took away the keys for the petty-cash drawer from him..
maybe he’s working on grabbing his own talk show.. he does fill in for Bennett a lot these days…
he’s just itching for a fight with pres obama… he hopes the pres would acknowledge him.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:11 pmMain Entry: em·pa·thy
May 8th, 2009 at 4:16 pmPronunciation: ‘em-p&-thE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -thies
1 : the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
2 : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to,and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for empathy
Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
tonyrich300 Says:
I’m really surprised Steele is still the RNC Chairman.
I’m not. He represents the party perfectly..
May 8th, 2009 at 4:17 pmEverytime Michael Steele opens his mouth is a down payment on another ten years of Democratic control in DC. Keep it up, Mike!
May 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pmWhat a moron.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:30 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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Steele makes a very good point.
“yeah, and he doesn’t even have any hair to cover it up.”
Judges are supposed to apply the law to the fact and make rulings based upon the rule of law, not based upon their emotions or feelings, empathetic or otherwise.
Tell that to all the ten commandment activist judge freaks out there.
We are a government of laws, not of men. — John Adams, 1775.
Does Dick Cheney know that?
May 8th, 2009 at 4:31 pmEver the projectionists, I knew the cons would claim some phrase was ‘code’ for liberty once Obama discussed the Supreme Court. I imagine they blind-folded someone and had them point and that was the word or phrase to pounce on as ‘code’.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:32 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
You are so right. Let’s start by rounding up all those who endorsed torture: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Yu, Addington, etc.
Oh, let’s also round up those war criminals who started a war of choice using false intel.
We shouldn’t have any judges that allow empathy to sway their judgment to let criminals like Scooter Libby walk.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:36 pmSo, ConservativeforProgress, should we have computers decide the law so that human feeling doesn’t interfere with interpretation? What are laws for?
Slavery was once legal. Segregation was once legal. It is only by empathy that bigoted laws can be overturned.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:36 pmIf you are not a viable human who has drawn a breath, no empathy. Yes, there should be no empathy for the unborn. That’s the ‘code’.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:41 pm“Slavery was once legal. Segregation was once legal.”
I’m not so sure about that argument necessarily swaying a Right-winger.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pm“We are a government of laws, not of men. — John Adams, 1775.”
So, you support prosecuting Bush Administration officials for breaking the law, correct?
May 8th, 2009 at 4:49 pmThe compassionate unitary executive authoritarian is above the law!!
/snerk
May 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pmempathy – Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives.
And they see this as a bad thing why?
May 8th, 2009 at 5:16 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Steele makes a very good point. Judges are supposed to apply the law to the fact and make rulings based upon the rule of law, not based upon their emotions or feelings, empathetic or otherwise
So, what do you think about your right wing activist judges who are making law based on their religious beliefs?
Also, if they are to go only by what it says in our constitution, then you will have to agree that our government can’t make laws governing abortion, because abortion is not mentioned anywhere in our constitution.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:19 pmShellly Says:
the guy he fired after working at the RNC for 33 years, was recently reinstated. They also took away the keys for the petty-cash drawer from him.
Actually, they took away the keys to the cash drawer period. He can no longer make any financial decisions. Talk about having faith in your chairman.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:21 pmMan perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. Aristotle
May 8th, 2009 at 5:23 pmStratRat Says:
Steele/Palin 2012!!
**snicker**snort**snicker**
LOL…I was thinking Palin/Plumber 2012!! Wolverines!
Sorry, you can’t have Joe the Plumber. He quit the GOP. He thinks they spend too much money. Where that came from, I don’t have a clue. All I hope is that he doesn’t become a Democrat or if he does, that the Democratic party stays as far away from him as they can get.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:25 pmI’m starting to feel embarrassed for ConservativeFauxProgress, These assclowns like Steele are just a real disappointment. Good for us, not so much for CFP…
May 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pmOnce again, Mikey proves he’s another Reichwhiner who desperately needs psychiatric care.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:32 pmDoes anyone else find it incredibly ironic that the people who are complaining about judges exhibiting “empathy” are the same people who want “righteous judges” who will rule based on their religious Beliefs?
May 8th, 2009 at 5:38 pmSteele won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In his first year, he was elected class president; he was also a member of the fencing team. According to Steele, he struggled academically, which he attributes in part to his active social lifewhile pursuing a major in biology ; he was nearly expelled from the university at the end of his first academic year. After earning A’s in summer classes at George Washington University, Steele was allowed to continue at Johns Hopkins and received a bachelor’s degree in international relations in 1981.
Steele then entered the Georgetown University Law Center, receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1991. He worked as a corporate securities associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. From 1991 to 1997, Steele specialized in financial investments for Wall Street underwriters, working at Cleary’s Tokyo, Japan office focusing on major product liability litigation and at its London office on corporate matters. Steele left the law firm and founded the Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm. A New York Times report added that Steele earned his law degree at night and that, though he failed the Maryland bar exam, he then passed the Pennsylvania exam. It also said his consulting business “made so little money that he almost lost his home.”
I think I’ll stick with the guy who received 70 million votes in November to pick judges , Steele , you stupid ass ………
May 8th, 2009 at 5:40 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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666cicadas Says:
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“Slavery was once legal UNTIL THE REPUBLICANS FOUGHT TO CHANGE IT. Segregation was once legal UNTIL THE REPUBLICANS FOUGHT TO CHANGE IT.”
(There, fixed it for you).
May 8th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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May 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a bill that was introduced by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 12, 1963 , dummy ; when in the hell was Kennedy ever a Republican ?
May 8th, 2009 at 5:44 pmToday’s GOP bears no resemblance to the Republicans of Lincoln. They have long-since abandoned any claim they have to their more honorable ancestors.
Today’s GOP are the descendants of the “Dixiecrats” who abandoned the Democratic party because the party advanced the civil rights movement. Since the late 60’s, they have exhibited an increasing amount of control which has culminated in driving anyone with moderate views away. Heck! They’ve even started to lose the Hooverites.
The GOP is, almost exclusively, reduced to it’s most Right-wing fringe. And that fringe continues to drive away people with any sense of political, sociological, or historical awareness.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:02 pmSteele is mind numbingly stupid. How does someone that dumb get where he is? Scary ain’t it.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:18 pmIt’s easy to judge this man’s stupidity based on the fact that he is not embarrassed by his own behaviors.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm*
Steele you want empathy, get ready for your “lynching.”
May 8th, 2009 at 7:37 pmDo right wingers realize that without empathic judges the Terri Shiavo case would never have got as far as it did ?
Then again, maybe Steele has a point.
May 8th, 2009 at 7:47 pmIn a crescendo of empathy, the diminuendo of torture.
May 8th, 2009 at 8:23 pmCasey
I’m a Democrat and I think in most ways Republican officials are behaving like jerks but I agree with Steele about this. Judges are not supposed to have “empathy” for “the daily realities of people’s lives.” That’s what Dr. Phil does. Supreme Court Justices are supposed to interpret the Constitution and the law, not base any element of their Judicial judgment on how they feel about people’s lives.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:27 amWhat a colossal dooshbag and a major embarrassment. I’m glad he’s THEIRS.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:56 amThe candidate the Right would demonize the most: Jesus Christ.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:37 amAnd that should tell you all you need to know about the Religious Right.
“But how shall justice be done in human society? It can only be done by general laws. Those can never comprehend or forsee all the circumstances attending every particular case; and, therefore, it has been necessary to introduce another principle or element, mercy. In strictness, perfect justice includes mercy, and perfect mercy includes justice.” John Adams
Then there is the case from which all of Judeo-Christian ideas of excellence in adjudication derives–Solomon and the baby, in which empathy went to the heart of the matter.
You make the call: Michael Steele’s backside or John Adams and the wisdom of Solomon.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmHere is a great article on Justices of the past, and what their lack of empathy led to.
http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=731
May 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pmMike, before you empathize on some poor judge’s backside, make sure the furniture cleans up easy. So, another CONservative “accidentally” drops his pants and shows his true self. The self-loathing here is palpable. But really, this party continues to radicalize to point now where their spokespeople are sounding like the Waffen SS.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pmHe is really such a domme.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pmtexaslady Says:
Now everyone, empathy is a big word and Mr. Steele possible doesn’t know the meaning. After all empathy is not word in a conservative’s vocabulary.
But you KNOW how empathetic they are about UNBORN life, for example. It’s just ALREADY-born life, unless it is [you should pardon the phrase] STRAIGHT and narrow, for which they do not feel empathy. Any life [young, old, starving, sick, gay, bi-, divorced, pregnant but unmarried, immigrant, impoverished, uneducated, etc.] that deviates in any fashion from being cemented in conservatism is worth nothing–but that unborn life? Now THAT, they’re empathetic about.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:20 amSteele is just jumping on the anti emphathy bandwagon after Orrin Hatch had his meltdown over the word. Hatch on ABC “This Week” last weekend accused Pres Obama of using code when he used the word emphathy. Orrin went on to say that emphathy is code word for Pro Abortion. Orrin knows that the term Pro Abortion is a figment of his teeny conservative brain. There is no such thing as Pro Abortion, that phrase is made up by the ultra right fringe. Orrin was guilty of code speech himself with that one. You have your pro choice group that favors freedom of choice on abortion and you have your pro life group that favors criminalization of abortion. There is no such thing as Pro Abortion. but then emphathy is not the strong suit of the ultra right wing cabal. they certainly are not fiscally conservative and they advocate big government as well.
May 10th, 2009 at 7:33 pmseslichat
May 10th, 2009 at 11:40 pmsesli chat
sesli sohbet
seslisohbet
Barack Obama became an Illinois state legislator, his wife moved up as well, scoring a job as ‘vice president of community relations’ at the University Of Chicago Hospital for a very generous salary of $121,910. When Obama became a senator in 2005, her ’salary’ leapfrogged to $$316,962 for the same job…and one of Senator Obama’s first acts in office was to see to it that the hospital received over a million dollars of your tax dollars as an earmark.
Well, Michelle has moved on, and guess what…that vital job of hers, worth a salary of over $300 K has been quietly eliminated.
the thing that was interesting about this job is that the first thing Michelle did was to CUT FUNDING FOR INDIGENT PATIENTS!!!!! so much for EMPATHY. Goggle it and check it out.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:36 amThe Obamas are political animals no more no less. They will use anyone to get where they are going and then get rid of them for political expediency. They are vile thugs from the Chicago mob political machinery. No more no less.
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Mr. Steele I could not agree with you more. When listening to the Democrats it would seem they believe Obama won by a landslide. He did not Sir and I’m surprised he did not win by a larger vote. My reasoning is that a goat could have won this election and one did. The vote was against Bush and the Party that went along with all his and Cheney’s bad decisions.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:32 pmNow there is no reason to change what the Party believes in just what is wrong with the Party.
What is wrong with the Party is mixed signal coming from the Party. You have John McCain that thought Barack would make a great President. Well if he thought so he should not have been running for President. The most liberal of any Senator was proving his policies would be destructive and John McCain helped him to win the election because of John McCain direct dopiness. He some how won over those which knew he could not win. Does not show astute order in the Party.
Had the Republicans won we would not be talking about Obama putting in judicial freaks to the court.
Now that he is in you and the Party better start working harder to tell the American people what this liar is really all about as you are now. Give him not an inch of maneuvering without directly calling it to the attention of the American people. They are not about to give up freedom so easily once it is determined what his judges really mean to do our great Country.
Mr. Steele take the fight to this President and make him as popular as George Bush was when he left office. Someone in the Republican Party had better get a pair of huge brass balls.