Michael Steele, the perfect Repugnican

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The chairman of the Republican National Committee laughs off talk of a depression.

Michael Steele is the perfect Repugnican. Perfect Repugnicans create a godawful mess, in this case, an economic depression; then refuse to take responsibility for doing so; indeed have the gall to claim this is not a depression, merely a bump in the road. And then because it's so funny, they laugh. Ha, ha, ha.

Tana Ganeva, at AlterNet, references remarks by Steele in response to a comment that people were not spending less money than usual:

"I've heard a number of people say that across the country. [LAUGHTER] The malls are just as packed on Saturday. [LAUGHTER]


Well, maybe not. The number of companies declaring bankruptcy or closing stores and laying off people is large and growing. Does Steele not read the papers?

So far as the malls being packed on Saturday or any other day: again, not true. Maybe Steele has not been in a mall of late. I have. It reminded me of a tomb. During the week before Easter one would expect that any mall would be packed. Not so. The majority of stores had more employees than customers. In the smaller stores, the clerks sat morosely with their heads in the hands, or yawned while staring out the door - their shops were empty!


Michael Steele, the reigning representative of the Repugnican Party, thus personifies a party that has no grip on reality, and a tendency to laugh at the poor, the needy, the laid-off, the homeless and the fear-filled who constitute a rising segment of our population.

And that's why "Repugnican" is their perfect name.


Ganeva's article is here.

Michael Steele - Up in flames

There is just no hope for the Repugnican Party.

Michael Steele, chair of the RNC, guest-hosted wingnut Bill Bennett's radio program on March 6. It was an exercise in self-destruction.

According to Sam Stein at the Huff Post, Steele committed such sins as comparing Barack Obama to Richard Nixon, suggesting that the present political situation was "Armageddon between conservatism and liberalism" among other things.

Perhaps the most interesting and idiotic of the "other things" Steele said, was that our planet is not warming but cooling! Yup. That's what he said!


It went down like this: Someone called into the program and made fun of the idea of global warming. Steele's come-back was:

"Thank you, thank you. We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."


The man is a MORON! As Stein points out, "Greenland...likely had forestation some 450,000 to 800,000 years ago. But its name was derived ... from Erik the Red, who wanted to trick people into going to that island as opposed to the more hospitable Iceland."

There's much more and you can read all of Stein's article here.

RNC Chairman, Steele, on work and jobs

You may have seen this elsewhere, but if not, it is worth a look. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Steele insisted that the government can only make work, not jobs. He further insisted that only the private sector can create jobs; all the government can do is create work. And government work, which creates jobs, does not really create jobs, just work.

Isn't it wonderful to see that the head of the Republican Party exemplies so well Repugnicans everywhere: He, like the rest, doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

Man of Steele paid by Repubs to be politician

It is likely, in 2002, that the Repugnican Party in Maryland could find few blacks wearing a Republican name tag.

And that may be why the Maryland Republican Party paid Michael S. Steele, the new RNC Chairman, $5,000 per month to run "as gubernatorial candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s running mate."

Oh, the Repugs called the $5 grand a month a "consulting fee."

But, saith Steele at the time, the consulting fee was not a "condition of his candidacy." Because he was chair of the Maryland Republican Party, the "deal [was] a way to continue working on party issues while he [campaigned]."


Or, maybe, just maybe, it was like a spokesman for the Democratic Party said: "It looks to me like they've hired themselves a candidate."

You think?


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