MC Steele told some Maryland Republicans last night that the GOP needs to be more like him. Really.
Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele lashed out at GOP infighting Tuesday and urged the party faithful – some of whom have criticized his erratic statements – to be more like him: "unconventional, unpredictable … to do from time to time the unexpected."
How’s this for unconventional?
Thursday’s press conference given by House Republicans was expected to be the unveiling of the GOP budget proposal; but the document announced by Representative John Boehner(R-OH) turned out to be a simple blue-print of conservative values, lacking any real budget numbers.
Unpredictable? Got that covered, too.
Sarah Palin is out and Newt Gingrich is in. Congressional Republicans decided Tuesday to ditch the former GOP vice presidential nominee in favor of the former House speaker for the critical House-Senate fundraising dinner in June 8 in Washington. It’s the marquee Republican event to raise money for GOP House and Senate candidates.
…
Sources familiar with the Palin snub fumed about how the governor handled this.
"She was a disaster," one Republican source told FOX News. "We had confirmation."
And unexpected? Booyah!
Paul Ryan reaches deep into the conservative movement’s storehouse of ideas on America’s most pressing policy programs and comes up with an innovative agenda of tax cuts mostly tilted toward the wealthy and corporations paired with a five-year freeze on discretionary spending.
It’s Steele’s house. They’re just livin’ in it.
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oh you funny Blue Texan –
apparently the other kids are not done playing with Congresswoman Foxx’s carcass yet – I’ll let ‘em know you’re here.
That pic still cracks me up.
I still think of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction when reading about Bible Spice. She’s always gonna bite the hand…
Don’t hurt me Steele!
. . .that includes privatizing Medicare
linky
I love this Republican. Really I do.
The lack of number demonstrates the Grover Norquist Repug Budget. It was precise. Nothing for the feds, nothing.
Not content with simply looting some the Treasury, the republicans have decided that all the federal budget needs to go to deserving people with incomes over $1 million.
Brilliant Bohners Budget Brings Beautiful Benefits.
“Sarah Palin is out and Newt Gingrich is in”
So we’ve replaced an Idiot with a small slimy amphibian?
Duncan for Steele. Similar deal.
HIGH-sterical photo to this post, Blue Texan! Love it.
Me too … “Greatest Twits” is *priceless*
I think that Gingrich gets bonus points for ticking off the Baptists by converting to Catholicism … we could win a landslide just by pitting those two groups against each other …
Today a Catholic, tomorrow a snake-handler. Oh, wait…
707 !!!
What quote had me grinning all day ?
Colbert: “I love Glenn Beck’s sanity and I fear for its safety !”
I know… Often the question are asked: Am Snake-Handling amongst Republiks a professional courtesies? Also…
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political control they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devil they empowered and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and “advocate” the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.
The survival of today’s shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom “caught between the devil and the deep blue sea” is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.
Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and their disgraceful and shameless licking of Rush Limbaugh’s storm trooper boots is costing them their viability.
LOL!!
Its safety…is it being kept wrapped in flannel in an undisclosed location and taken out, say, at tax-time?
The gall of Beck to have carped about 9/11 families using their ties to that tragedy for their own purposes when he’s using it as a cheesy marketing shtick to garner new viewers.
The rightwing in this nation is so batshit insane they are almost beyond parody.
-G
Baptist? Which denomination:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stag…..y.religion
It has become obvious that the Rethug party has become a lunatic fringe. Outright lies have become the norm as is the case with some of the latest claims with regards to the costs of cap & trade
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/…..-3100-tax/
Beck is nothing if not a self-serving bastard. It’s why he fits so well into the right wing club.
Yes, it comes out in late winter, sees its shadow, and runs back down its hole.
Max Cleland
Nine-Eleven Families
The family of Graeme Frost
Beyond words, their lack of shame.
I guess this is part of what they meant by “lean-forward” policy.
i like how when steele says anythihng nonsensical or something that creates controversy, he does what every intelligent insecure person does— ‘i meant to do that, i knew exactly what i was doing, oh yes, it was part of my master plan. i was taking the temperature of the republican party to see where we are and where i need to lead them’ taking it with a rectal thermometer maybe,. cuz his head is already up there.
“can’t touch this”
this video/audio pretty much captures the hilarity and disparity of michael steele. painful to watch while it is happening, years later, funny as hell when paired with something of a greater depth.
is not what you think.
10.5 million hits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
(ot–why all of a sudden has WMG been making youtube yank songs?)
Margot !
Didja see Colbert last night ? It was priceless !
michael steele as felix the cat–maybe he and his buddies can all do what is done at the end of this cartoon. perfect happy ending for all of us–6:40m
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..annel_page
I can’t wait to see how badly this shakes up Palin. She’ll absolutely blow her wig. You can’t invent comedy that’s this entertaining.
Hey.. did the phantom rethug budget (the version with numbers) just not show up today or did I miss it?
Oooooh. One of the those coinkidinky things…just saw that Guiding Light is going off the air after 72 years and we decided that it must have started on the radio. Talking about when tv was invented, Felix was the first image broadcast.
Gingrich cost the Republican Party its very soul.
Palin is the new soul of the GOP.
Gregg Levine is upstairs!
Note: Bring your spash-guards
Grayson Seeks tor Restrict Bonuses; Sends Cavuto’s BP Through Roof
At the rate she is going she will soon be the new sole of the GOP
hey demi–
i used to watch that. didn’t know it was goin gooff the air. hunh.thanks.
found some tangerine orange pansies today, gonna go pot them up.
bbl.
You’re not calling her a heel, are you?