Michael Steele Is The Perfect Leader For The GOP
Michael Steele both loves and hates Medicare. He is both opposed to government-run health care and doesn’t want any cuts. He doesn’t wants cuts to Medicare, but he does. Yeah, I don’t understand it either. I’m sure it’s an art piece, though, and Steele is some kind of existential genius. Does anyone have a B.S. to English translator?
h/t Talking Points Memo
Tags: Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Republican Bamboozlement
This is priceless. Just priceless. Even Steve Inskeep can’t step high enough over the BS.
The best part is where Steele thinks the word “nuanced” means something bad.
I guess Steve Inskeep just shouldn’t have used a two syllable word with the chairman….
The GOP doesn’t do nuance.
Or empathy.
Or good sense.
Really — this clown actually goes through the entire gamut of Stupid GOP Talking Points from “we have to preserve medicare” to “we have to cut the costs of medicare”. And we don’t trust the government to do either. For this government program. They are all starting to sound like the Quitta from Wasilla now.
Think Progress has the whole transcript, for people who don’t want to listen. TP highlights this exchange:
I keep expecting him to rip off his make-up and reveal that he’s actually Sacha Baron Cohen. Some kind of bizzare, satirical performance art is about the only logical explanation. Either that, or the GOP had certain criteria they were looking for, and even they couldn’t stomach Alan Keyes.
Some kind of bizzare, satirical performance art is about the only logical explanation.
Or he is, as I believe, an idiot. And, speaking of idiots…
“My belief, based on reports in the news and from my private network of seasoned agents and provocateurs, is that this White House is a carousel of incompetence. How else do we explain the ravening push on all fronts — health care, the environment, fiscal reform, intelligence reform — and a foreign policy of humility and apology? Unsurprisingly, the president is in trouble on every front. Remember White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s callous enjoinder, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste”? This White House is a serious crisis.
According to sources with whom I confer, the Obama White House is the most tightly controlled White House in years, with the president, Mr. Emanuel and White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod micromanaging practically everything. They make up what is called “the Politburo,” and the news story waiting to be written is that their control is as stultifying as was Jimmy Carter’s control of his White House. Stupendous failure is in the cards.”
……….R. Emmitt Tyrrel, The Washington Times
And, as polls indicate, the American people are beginning to figure it out; the facade is crumbling.
An overly controlled management style is hardly evidence of idiocy. And the most tightly controlled White House before Obama’s was the one immediately preceding it. Unless you were bitching about that, you shouldn’t be bitching about this.
R. Emmitt Tyrrel is working for the Washington Times for a reason, and it ain’t ’cause he’s conservative. It’s because nobody else would hire him.
He doesn’t ‘work’ for The Washington Times…he is nationally syndicated. In any case, shooting the messenger doesn’t negate the content of the message.
If the messenger is a wingnut fearmongerer with more conspiracies than facts — it sure does negate the message.