Steele: ‘Change…is being delivered in a tea bag. And that’s a wonderful thing.’
Steele: ‘Change…is being delivered in a tea bag. And that’s a wonderful thing.’
In a speech in Maryland today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele boasted about the renewed “energy” of the conservative movement. “The energy of our base,” he said, “is strong, it is real, and it is hungry for success.” “You can feel” this grassroots energy, Steele said, proudly touting the lobbyist-organized tea bag movement:
STEELE: Those of you who live outside of Washington know what I’m talking about. Those of you who actually attend Lincoln Day dinners and county party events. Those of you who toll in the vineyards, spending time in communities in diners, barbershops, and coffee shops, where real, everyday, hardworking Americans can be found. You know it’s real. You can see it, and you can feel it. This change, my friends, is being delivered in a tea bag. And that’s a wonderful thing.
The tea bag line was immediately greeted by loud applause. Watch it:
Topic Cloud
ArchivesBlog Roll
This “speech” was filled with lies and talking points. It’s easy to speak in front of a bunch of bobble heads too.
Get on talking Steele!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:09 pmBut will this change bring riches to the American people? Perhaps in the form of a pearl necklace?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:09 pmI think we are watching the implosion of the GOP. Tea bagging? Again with the tea bags? I wonder if the GOP ever put numbers in their budget? What a flock of nutjobs.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:09 pmWhen they were in power, they strutted around like the Master Race. Now they’re just folks.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pmStratRat Says:
Tea bagging? … What a flock of nutjobs.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
_________
*giggle*
May 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pmDelivered by the tea bag by a wind bag.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:13 pmChange may be delivered in a tea bag, but you’ll still need a permit to dump it.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:14 pmChange in a tea bag? Oh, he’s saying America, the only change you get is if you dunk yourself repeatedly in hot water and then let yourself be tossed out while somebody enjoys the fruits of your labor?
Or is this some strange allusion to water boarding and Americans should get used to the idea?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pmHee hee, did Mikey say that on purpose?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pmThe GOP’s teabag was diagnosed with testicular cancer a loooong time ago.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pmSteele steeped in teabags!
Black or Green, Mr. RNC?
You do realize that you’re a token, put in place for appearance sake only, don’t you?
Prepare to be dropped as quickly as O’Reilly’s ratings, Mikey.
Wake up & smell the teabags before fondling!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pmThats some pretty weak tea, and the flavors aren’t exactly the kinds I would drink.
There’s Bigotry, Hatred, Ignorance, Pettiness, Buffoonery, and Just Plain Dumb.
And it’s all White, with a few colored dots in it.
No thanks, I dont want any of your tea.
Black, Hispanic, Gay, Women Republicans= Stokholm Syndrome
RIP
May 19th, 2009 at 2:19 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
You mean that ‘movement’ being promoted by Fox News, financed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and organized by Republican governors?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pmthat sounds like a sack full of change, Mikey.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm#7 ConservativeForProgress
Dear Mr. Conservative,
Last week, you told me that 7,500 American soldiers died in combat during the Clinton years. You’re a liar. Clinton did the flyovers in Iraq and joined the U.N. peacekeeping action in Serbia but not one American soldier was lost in combat.
Can you prove that you’re not a liar? I’m still waiting for a reply.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pmMost people won’t notice the teabaggers as the patriotic among us will be busy on July 4 celebrating America.
Only the bitter little right wing cowards will be crying in their tea.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI’m still waiting for C4P to tell us how his first waterboarding went. Oh, and maybe he even got a teabagging with his waterboarding.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
July 4 is fast approaching, and the tea party movement is growing. We have been Tonguing Everyone’s Anus’
May 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pmIf you’re worried about being taxed so much, ConProg, why did you support an invasion that has wreaked so much havoc and huge obligations on the taxpayers?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:24 pmI thought we just got ‘change’ with Obama….do these tea-bagging dolts really think we want to ‘change’ back already?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:24 pmOh looky, CFP is promoting his corporate sponsored tea bagging event.
FLAG HIM! HE’S SPAMMING!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:25 pm.
How do you identify a (R)ushpublickin’?
They’re the one’s with Oxy breath from being tea bagged by Limpballs.
Dear Michael Steele,
Breath mint?
.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:25 pmIs this the new Republican idea?
Tea boarding?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:26 pmAnd for the kiddies:
Tea boarding with Sponge Bob Square Pants!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:30 pmright wingers think they can develop a movement of people that just got tax cuts and are willing to go out and protest a minute increase on the richest people’s taxes
only morons will protest their own tax cut in order to complain about the tax burden being made a bit more fair
which is why you see so many morons at these Fox “news” corporate teabag rallies
May 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pmThe teabaggers may actually be deliberately ignoring their own pay stubs so as to prevent any interference (you know, with facts) with the standard-issue talking points that fear-monger the “democrat party.”
The republican party is no longer a major party, it is a bizarre sociological experiment.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pmChange in a teabag?
Yeah, that’s about how much change the Republican party is capable of.
A teabag doesn’t hold much change, guys.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:32 pmjust wait until the repugs introduce the new million dollar coin with Reagan’s face on it!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pm“Steele the RNC clown: ‘Change…is being delivered in a tea bag. And that’s a wonderful thing.’”
Steele + renewed “energy” of the conservative movement = Program with empty promises.
If you are looking for Mike ‘in the housz’ Steele to give fresh new ideas to the GOP party, then you will be waiting for the cows to come home. But then again ‘dat’s how he rolls.’
May 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pmdelafield Says:
Dear Mr. Conservative,
Last week, you told me that 7,500 American soldiers died in combat during the Clinton years. You’re a liar. Clinton did the flyovers in Iraq and joined the U.N. peacekeeping action in Serbia but not one American soldier was lost in combat.
Can you prove that you’re not a liar? I’m still waiting for a reply.
Actually, he claimed that 7500 servicemen had died on Clinton’s watch. But of course none were COMBAT deaths.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pmThe republican party is no longer a major party, it is a bizarre sociological experiment.
Like I said on a previous thread, they’re The Gong Show without a gong. One performance after another, all crazier than the last.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:39 pmThe tax cuts for the rich expire at the end of 2010. It’s a congressional contract with a segment of income earners and the congress declines to renew it in the country’s best interest, that’s all. You’ll simply return to the Clinton years.
And that’s President Obama being nice, because if it were any other dem, these country-wreckers would be paying Nixon-Ford era tax rates. The war titans, the banks and other honchos, they have created the largest tax obligation in U.S. history right down to burdening the individual — including burgeoning health care costs.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:39 pmChange? In a Tea bag? WTF…
…the moronic Sour Grapes Sore Losers Pity Party was a laughable event…
…it meant nothing…had no impact at all…just a bunch of bigots and idiots…
…whose side lost BIG TIME and now are all pissed off.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
May 19th, 2009 at 2:40 pm‘Change…is being delivered in a tea bag. And that’s a wonderful thing.’
Sounds like the product roll-out for Lipton’s newest addition, Guantanamo Breeze.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pmyou know there are a lot of mouth breathing hicks that are telling each other
“man, them republicans might have been ok until they put that damned nig@##$er in charge!”
burnt by their own bigotry
gotta love it
May 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pmBobble headed teabaggers. That has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?
May 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
July 4 is fast approaching, and the tea party movement is growing. We have been Taxed Enough Already. http://www.teapartyday.com/
As I am sure someone else has noted, the right side did no moaning and groaning when Bushco blew the deficit straight to the stratosphere – he even did off budget so as to look good on paper.
BTW: I don’t mind paying my share of taxes. We have huge infrastructure and educational needs which require funding to solve. Does the right side think we can operate a huge country with over 300 million citizens without spending any money? How is that possible. Also, do they know Obama will lower the taxes of all but the wealthiest? Do they read?
May 19th, 2009 at 3:30 pmThe “free” market, silly. It solves everything if we just let it work on it’s own.
May 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pmSteele speech talked about “turning the page”, but he never said what was on the page. He talks about new ideas without having any.
May 19th, 2009 at 3:37 pmOnly wimps “teabag.” REAL conservatives go meatbaggin’.
Because when I’m complaining about taxes (usually in a public spot that was funded by taxes) I need to have my bag of MEAT!
May 19th, 2009 at 3:41 pmI do wonder about that whole July 4th strategy. Really, I want to celebrate my country’s independence and patriotism the way I do every year. Even though people have the right to assemble and protest peacefully, I personally don’t want a protest to disrupt that good feeling that comes with the celebration of our country.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pm“The energy of our base,” he said, “is strong, it is real, and it is hungry for success.” “You can feel” this grassroots energy, Steele said, proudly touting the lobbyist-organized tea bag movement.
If that’s true Mr. Steele, then how do you explain this:
The number of people who identify themselves as Republican:
18%….http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP-GfK_Poll_Topline_April_2009.pdf
21%….http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html
Both polls show that the Republicans have lost 4% of their members in the last couple of months.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pmWhat’s with all the spamming trolls these days. Has TP decided not to get rid of them any longer? Why is that?
May 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pmHakan ve josquen:
Lütfen link ba?ka bir yere gönderin. Biz hakk?nda sohbet türkçe ve porno siteleri bak?m yoktur. Ve güle güle te?ekkürler!
May 19th, 2009 at 4:28 pmGrrr. Wordpress has no respect for UTF-8. :(
May 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
July 4 is fast approaching, and the tea party movement is growing. We have been Taxed Enough Already.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Actually, I think that’s a bowel movement you’re feeling.
Tell us, Conservative, how much more in taxes are YOU paying this year?
May 19th, 2009 at 5:00 pmI admit I know no Turkish but no word ends in 5 b’s…
May 19th, 2009 at 5:03 pmNot only can’t GOPers get along with anyone else, now they can’t even get along with each other.
The party of no and the party of ‘does not play well with others’.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:27 pmfirst one’s funny:
Steele doesn’t mention Socialists or quitting in big speech
May 19th, 2009 at 5:29 pmChristian Science Monitor – ?58 minutes ago?
By Jimmy Orr | 05.19.09 One of the de facto leaders of the Republican Party, GOP Chief Michael Steele, gave a big speech today at a special two-day meeting of the Republican National Committee.
Michael Steele speaks but doesn’t say much Baltimore Sun
Steele Threatens to Quit if RNC Undermines Funding Authority FOXNews
The Associated Press – CBS News – MyStateline.com – U.S. News & World Report
all 571 news articles »
http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ncl=dtPXhg2zbWHVhWMMtA3SA1QFkoeAM&topic=n
ush’s biggest deficit was $400 billion
Does that include the two wars Bush started?
May 19th, 2009 at 7:17 pmChange delivered in a tea bag. That doesn’t work on so many levels.
May 19th, 2009 at 7:18 pmKeep your tea I’ll take my change!
May 19th, 2009 at 7:20 pmI’ll see you your tea bag and raise you one AIG bonus!
May 19th, 2009 at 8:31 pmRNC Chairman Urges Stronger Attacks on Obama
Washington Post – ?56 minutes ago?
By Perry Bacon Jr. Seeking to reassert himself as a party leader, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele yesterday implored GOP members to stop “navel-gazing” and sharply attack President Obama.
waaa! he made fun of me in front all those people! waaaaa!
May 19th, 2009 at 9:15 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
July 4 is fast approaching, and the tea party movement is growing. We have been Taxed Enough Already. http://www.teapartyday.com/
***
wrong link i think.
what were you really
thinking about?
**
bad news for you.
how old are you, cfp?
:::
here, this will cheer you up.
:)
:)
May 19th, 2009 at 11:27 pmMichael Steele is so close to mentally challenged they shuold transport him around to make speeches in a short bus.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:50 am.
I see Think Progress is becoming a place where teens can surf for PORN.
.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:23 am