After insisting he’s not ‘crowing’ about GOP victories, Steele gloats by striking the Heisman pose on MSNBC.
After insisting he’s not ‘crowing’ about GOP victories, Steele gloats by striking the Heisman pose on MSNBC.
This morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on CBS’s Early Show and attempted to convince the audience that he was humbled by yesterday’s GOP victories in New Jersey and Virginia, saying, “We’re not crowing, we’re smiling.” But just an hour later on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Steele dropped all pretense and struck the Heisman pose to gloat:
Of course, the GOP’s favored candidate, Doug Hoffman of the Conservative Party, lost the special congressional election in New York’s 23rd district, despite attracting heavy conservative endorsements from the likes of Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Sean Hannity, and eventually the RNC and Newt Gingrich. The district now has a Democratic congressman for the first time since the mid-19th century. Watch Steele’s two morning segments here:
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The Heisman?! Good Lord Steele. Come up with something a little more original, you bloody GOP hack.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:44 amThese Repugs are so stupid. So they won two stinkin Governorships? Big friggin deal. Corzine was hugely unpopular and Deeds campaign sucked. The GOP should look at the race in NY and cringe. A Dem won in a district they the Repugs had for over a century. And if the Dems don’t wake up and get something done, they are toast. If anything, this should put fire under the dems as*es.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:51 amIf he’s a Heisman poseur, I’d just give about anything to be the linebacker about to hand him his lunch…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:51 amThank God we revoked his Black card a long time ago.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:52 amAre we sure that’s the Heisman pose, and not just some stupid dance move this idiot is trying?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:52 amThis is sort of like the victory celebration that the Detroit Lions had when they beat the Washington football team. When you’ve been beat down for so long, you celebrate any victory.
This was more a loss by the Democrats than a victory by the Republicans… and a clear indication that the Democratic victory of 2008 came with a price tag that the Democratic Party better start trying to pay off…..
November 4th, 2009 at 9:53 amUncle Tom,
November 4th, 2009 at 9:54 amBITE ME!
Its OK, Steel is a joke and everyone knows it. The wingnuts certainly don’t give him any credit.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:55 amAs for the Dems, as Kos put it this morning; “Give us a reason to vote for you, or we sit home. And you aren’t going to make up the margins with conservative voters. They already know exactly who they’re voting for, and it ain’t you.”
Dems would do well to heed that advice.
Let’s see what pose he casts after losing the special election in MA in a run-up to an underwhelming effort in the midterms.
Realistically, the Dems will lose some seats in the Hosue and Senate…unless the teabaggers go on a rampage and completely disrupt the GOP.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:55 amWhat a clown. TP, keep this footage…we’ll need it later. Congratulations, REPRESENTATIVE OWENS. Dewshbaggers, better luck next time, you just keep workin’ your magic there. :)
November 4th, 2009 at 9:55 amI suppose you can’t blame Steele for some unrestrained glee — he’s no doubt relieved that he got a couple of victories. Especially since getting Republicans elected is pretty much his entire job description. Never mind that neither Democratic candidate in these two races was a strong one.
Steele’s curiously silent on the New York 23rd, however. I would think this would be a big issue with him, and I wonder what his feelings are about the infighting within his party between moderates and extremists, the strategy of publicly kicking a legitimate moderate candidate out of her race, and how that all worked for them.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:56 amChristie is a hack. NJ will pay for their payback of Corzine. Deeds was a weak Dem candidate, and VA is part of Dumbassistan anyway. They’re both governors. What can they do? opt out of
the public option? Turn down stimulus money, then take it and take credit for it? The Dems gained a seat in the house. Centrist republicans repudiated a candidate of their own stripe who declared himself a disciple of Glen Beck. And Humpty Hump is blowing smoke up his own ass and calling it a big win.
BFD.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am7. Uncle Ho,
Seriously. Uncalled for.
Not the least of which is that Uncle Tom is the HERO of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, and the thought of Michael Steele doing anything heroic of self-sacrificing is just wrong. On so many levels.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:58 amThe wins of GOP governors will be unfortunate for the people of Virginia and New Jersey. If the people of these states thought they had it bad under Democratic governors, they have seen nothing yet. How long will some people continue to be Fooled by these Wizards of Oz? How long will they continue to circle the Yellow Brick Road? Republican politicians will not deliver the change these people seek but instead will impede it delivering more good and services to big corporations and insurance companies which will only continue the decay of these states. This is very unfortunate indeed because the GOP primary objective is to say no the people and to spead fear — The Party of No and Fear — deceptive Wizards of Oz! As for Steele and most of the GOP elite, they have no class.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:58 amI say let them gloat. The more they believe the nation is center right (It’s not) the more the ‘Tea-Baggers’ and the Repug leadership will pull a stunt like in NY. Now the Dems better wise up. People are impatient. They better get sh*t done, or the people will throw them out on the as*es.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:59 amTeabaggers, are you embarrassed yet? You should be.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:59 amI usually try to abstain from talking about people’s personal flaws, but this man is an embarrassment to the Republican party.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:00 amWait until these Repugs reject Stimulus money and the State coffers dry up. I have a feeling VA and NJ will go Blue in no time.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:00 amI am so sorry that our gay brothers and sisters were on the receiving end of naked repiggie nastiness in Maine, where the “protect marraige” crazies won the day.
Hopefully, the next time the issue arises in Maine, it will pass.
The Hoffman loss in Watertown was a pleasant surprise, since everyone was proclaiming a victory for him up until yesterday.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:01 amDam Steely if you were smart you would wrestle your job ans the rnc back from the wacko `s,, you can start by saying see my candidate won how about yours???
oh thats right you coward down and let them pick whos who in your zoo.
LOL>>>RNC DANCING CLOWN
November 4th, 2009 at 10:03 amCan’t speak for VA, but the Dems have such a commanding lead in the NJ legislature that they’d block any attempt by the fatass piece of shit governor-elect and make his 4 year term a living hell. Dems shut down the gov’t over Corzine’s boneheaded fiscal policy in ‘06. Just wait to see what happens when Christie tries exerting “power”.
NJ will swing back to the Dems come 2013. And it depends on who owns the White House in 2012 for VA.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:05 amUmmmmm, Desmond Howard he ain’t!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:07 amMr. Steele,
They don’t award the Heisman Trophy to players who sit on the bench all season. Try again.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:07 amYou Be Da Man, Token Steele! You Be Da Man!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:09 amI’m getting pissed. MSM is saying this is a sign that the Dems are moving to fast. Bullsh*t! People WANT Health Care reform. They WANT regulations on banks. I’m tired of these Talking heads framing the debate. MSM knows young people rarely vote in these kinds of elections. The old geezers are the ones who usually vote in these elections. And they were the only ones who DIDN’T vote for Obama. WTF?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:10 amHeisman pose?
The “Nero pose” would have been more appropriate for Little Mikey. He’s fiddling; his party is burning.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:12 amEnnuidivine;
Uncle Tom bent over backwards to please his “massa’ and was killed anyway.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:15 amSteele is hardly heroic, he’s just like Uncle Tom by his bending over backwards to please his “massa” as well. Witness his kissing Flush Limpdick’s butthole a short while ago. The Repiggies will not hestitate to throw him under the bus when his usefulness expires.
The real losers in NY23 are Republican leaders.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:19 amNewt lost because he endorsed what Republicans call a RINO.
Palin lost because she endorsed the ultimate loser, and Pawlenty too.
Republicans can crow about a couple of Governorships, but Corzine was a former Goldman Sachs executive, and that put him in a hole to start. Deeds got nailed because Virginia is an open primary state and Republicans crossed over and voted for Deeds over McAuliffe who would have been a stronger and would have brought the Clinton machine to the race. Republicans can crow about it, but the real story is that Palin’s candidate lost, and the radical right is in full blown rationalization that it is a good thing.
27. Uncle Ho,
Sure. In the horrific minstral stock plays that came decades after the novel. Stowe intended Uncle Tom to be a Christ-like figure, who would take the physical abuse of his masters without ever submitting spiritually and ultimately sacrificing himself.
Steele does come off a bit minstral-y, but he’s no Uncle Tom
November 4th, 2009 at 10:19 amThe Republicans talking heads have been filling the airwaves since their victoty last night screaming :
“It is a mandate….. It is a mandate….. It is a mandate….It is a mandate….against Obama”.
This GOP sounds like the LA Clippers winning two NBA games and as a result they claim:”We are on our way to win the NBA championship”.
No Republican said it was a mandate against Bush when Democrats won NJ ,and Bush was the president then.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:24 amsteel is the very definition of the age old use of the the term “Uncle Tom”.
Ennui, why do you feel compelled to be the board monitor. You corrected me for calling republicans republics in a thread where the object of the thread was a republican who called us the democrat party.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:24 amI say let them gloat. They got their base out and it voted. Progressives and Dems did not get their base out to vote in any numbers, and we lost in NJ, Virginia and the gay marriage vote in Main.
This should be a wake up call to all progressive’s and Democrats that we need to continue to fight and vote in large numbers, even when the President is not on the ticket. 2010 will be the real test, and if we all vote this will be forgotten and not a big deal. So, like I said… Let them gloat.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:26 amWhere is all the press about the loss in NY? Hmm.. It seemed to have vanished off the radar. The fact Sarah Palin and Dick Armey blew it doesn’t deserve MSM attention? After days of coverage and the Repugs spending millions it’s not a story anymore? Jeez.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:32 amIf Steele thinks an election night on which the Dems win two more health care reform votes for the House is a resounding success let him. At best the lesson is that Republicans running as moderates can win against unattractive opponents while the lunge to the right creates problems. I don’t expect the Limprod/Beck crowd to buy into that.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:34 amSarah Palin has made her latest appearance on her Facebook page saying that the race in the NY 23rd wasn’t over, but just postponed for 1 year.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:35 amSarah thinks that she can avoid wiping the egg off her face by having it both ways.
#35, Yeah! That’s the Repugs excuse and rallying cry, “It wasn’t a LOSS, just wait a year!” LOL! Talk about revisionist history.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:38 amFred says:
Ennui, why do you feel compelled to be the board monitor.
Agreed.
I’ve been on this blog since day one.
A mixture of ideas, opinions and some good intellect is what’s kept me here.
If I needed a hall monitor, I’d go back to grade school.
Google Guys are fine. It’s a wonderful tool, but I choose to use my own thoughts and words. If one chooses to constantly correct others, be prepared to to experience the same.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:40 amThey lost two House seats, one of which they’ve never lost and one that they’ve had for the vast majority of the last 100 years, and he’s doing a touchdown dance. That’s the modern repub party for you.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 amHence why I’m not restricting free speech by voting anyone down.
Anyone wants to comment on one of my posts can…and does.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 amYou know what the real “minstrel show” is? Gangsta Rap.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 amHow is losing a House seat that you’ve had forever in New York a mandate for republicans?
How is losing a House seat that you have held for the vast majority of the last 100 years in central California a mandate for Republicans?
How does a moderate Republican governor make a blue state red, especially when that state’s legislature is dominated by Democrats?
Republicans and their toadies in the media are grasping at straws.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 amWinning a seat in district that a Democrat/Pro-American hasn’t held in over a century is “coming apart at the seams”? HA HA HA Priceless.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 amJobs and economy?????????? jobs and economy my ass..Dems will lose almost everywhere as long as they deliver more of the same Bush/Chaney Republican like bullshit. We asked for change and got ‘money changers’. WTF! How can Dems win on the Republican Party platform of money for banks and a cabinet full of wall street financers and bankers. Dem Party..RIP!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:50 amOne step closer to becoming a regional party only…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:52 amAnd the Democrats will still hold the majority in the both the House and Senate. HAHAHA pwned
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 amI for one am content to let the tighty-righties believe in their delusion that the results of this minor election mean they’re all set to cruise into 2010.
Let the MSM ignore NY-23 so that the Republicans don’t learn the lessons of kowtowing to the teabaggers.
Let the Democrats recognize that they’re vulnerable and need to accomplish the things that the people demand of them, not the things that their corporate backers demand.
I’m happy to give Michael Steele his faux-Heisman moment. Maybe even “congratulations” are in order. All it does is further the divide between them and reality.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:54 amCorrection, Matt: an EXPANDED majority.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:55 amMike Steele……….you’re an ass-clown!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am#12 Dirty Hippie says:
“Christie is a hack. NJ will pay for their payback of Corzine.”
#14 Angellight says: “The wins of GOP governors will be unfortunate for the people of Virginia and New Jersey. If the people of these states thought they had it bad under Democratic governors, they have seen nothing yet.”
#21 EnnuiDivine says:”…the Dems have such a commanding lead in the NJ legislature that they’d block any attempt by the fatass piece of shit governor-elect and make his 4 year term a living hell. Dems shut down the gov’t over Corzine’s boneheaded fiscal policy in ‘06. Just wait to see what happens when Christie tries exerting “power”.”
I’m in NJ and I voted for Corzine because Christie is a current Republican.
NJ will “pay” precisely because Christie and the Legislature will be at loggerheads over so many issues, at a time when infighting is the last thing the state ( and the nation) needs.
Apart from, or perhaps because-of, that, Christie might try to make his bones with the national GOP which appears to be the Teabagger/Fundie bigot Party, to enhance his own status and make himself look busy with their stupid issues.
In short, I suspect there won’t be much governing but there will be a lot of posturing on invented issues for the next four years.
And whilst that is going on NJ will continue to lose 40 cents on every dollar paid into the Fed–the highest contribution of any state in nation.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:03 amhenry wallace says: “How can Dems win on the Republican Party platform of money for banks and a cabinet full of wall street financers and bankers. Dem Party..RIP!”
The Dems certainly risk losing votes because of the reason you cite, but politics isn’t actually a single-issue game.
Despite the appallingly lack-luster performance of the Dems (and Obama) on health-care and finances, DEMS are STILL more trusted and approved-of than Republicans. I think your obituary is premature.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:12 amRalph and Dr. Matt—It has not yet dawned on the republicans/conservatives that the dems picked up two House seats in districts that have historically voted republican, or else they’re in deep denial. Two more votes for hcr.
More evidence of cognitive dissonance, and not being able to see the forest for the trees.
A party cannot influence legislation if it can’t get its’ candidates elected to Congress.
Congressmen can vote on national issues, like healthcare reform, governors can’t.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:14 amI really wonder if it would have possibly served us better to lose NY 23..
This would have encouraged their extremist agenda and made them shun more moderates… this would have made them promote more Conservative party candidates – It’s possible we could have won several seats by the loss of one…this win causes them to revert to a moderate strategy (maybe, that is unless their friggin idiots – oh.. right).
Either way.. a win’s a win – and everything else is speculation. I imagine facts don’t enter into the Republican ’strategy’ anyway.. and they’ll continue devouring their base unhindered by the harbinger of NY 23.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:17 amFor the most part, red districts voted red, blue voted blue.
Only surprise was the Scozzafava debacle. So I take it Steele is bragging about that outcome ?
November 4th, 2009 at 11:31 amThe GOP really lost twice in New York. First, their candidate was forced out of the race! Then, the independent candidate they co-opted lost. It’s funny.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:39 amGood analogy and comments by 5th Estate @ 51 & 52!
November 4th, 2009 at 11:49 amSteele and the republicans celebrating over victories in New Jersey and Virginia while losing a congressional seat which the republicans have held for over a century is a lot like the US Cavalry celebrating the death of some Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:54 amFrom Amanda’s post;
“This morning, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on CBS’s Early Show and attempted to convince the audience that he was humbled by yesterday’s GOP victories in New Jersey and Virginia, saying, “We’re not crowing, we’re smiling.””
Well, of course you’re not ‘crowing’, Steeleye Mike, you’re ‘ravin’; ha ha ha…. How’d your national level races work out for ya? NY-23 and CA-10. Oh, I know, I know, they’re just a couple of representatives, BUT, they do get to vote, in the House, on national issues, Mikey, and from your limited experience as a lt. gov., you may know that governors don’t get to do that.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:08 pmI was thinking along similar lines, but more specific; I likened it to a defensive lineman ostentatiously celebrating a sack in the first quarter on a 3rd-and-13, when they’re already trailing by two touchdowns.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:15 pmeh. the gop had some wins yesterday. we’d gloat too, but we ran bad campaigns.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:17 pm#57 Uncle Fester Lurks says:
thanks for the kind words.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pmBut of course the LIBERAL MSM (ha) only reported on the two Republican victories…
…and not the EIGHT Democrat victories.
Far from Balanced
November 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pmLawrence O’Donnell had the best comment to Mickey Steele. When Steele was talking bout being high on the moment, Lawrence reminded him and said, “two votes, two votes for Obama’s HealthCare got elected yesterday, two more vores for Obama HealthCare!“
November 4th, 2009 at 12:39 pmI doubt Michael Steele ever played a down of football. But if he wants to suit up, I’ll be on the other team looking for him.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pmWe know that the win of two governorships is not a landslide, nor is it a referendum on Obama. These political offices are not on the national level and are mostly about local issues. If there was a referendum on Obama, then look to the Congressional races. They were won by Dems. This means that the Republicans can win on local levels but are stymied on the national level. The biggest loser was the teabaggers, along with all the people who endorsed Hoffman. That pretty much ends Beck and the teabaggers claim that there has been a massive shift in public opinion.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm“After insisting he’s not ‘crowing’ about GOP victories, Steele gloats by striking the Heisman pose on MSNBC”
God, what a clown. Christie will be NJ’s nightmare as Governor. Christie better pray that any of his investigations don’t turned into indictments. Also, two Democrats won Congesssional seats last nights. So, Mike can strike a pose for all I care. The bottom line is that there are two more seats filled in Congress.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:40 pmThe general crowing over these victories, which were nothing if not expected, is just embarrassing, and of course the media is playing along. Even NPR thought the Dems should take warning. Imagine my surprise when I checked online and discovered the Dems had actually made gains in the House! That didn’t show up in the paper or on the radio. What a bunch of incompetent bobble-heads.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pmFred – ED is 22, and he’s 100% right about everything. Just ask him!
November 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pmScoreboard, babies.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:35 pmThis clearly shows why the GOP is going down hill. Steele seems to forget two Congress seats were won by Democrats. Now each State has it’s choice. Sadly New Jersey will soon have a special election for a new Govenor as Christie is under investigation for crimes committed during the Bush years. Yes Christie is brought and paid for as Karl Rove and others who Christie owes favors start to call them in.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pmDr. Matt, let’s go easy on the troll here. After all, having been so used to double-digit losses, two governorships to him is proof that the Democratic Party is destroying itself…
November 4th, 2009 at 6:01 pm