I’m Bored. Thank Goodness For The Village Idiot
Is there a bigger idiot than Michael Steele?
HOST: Very quickly, Chairman Steele. The feeling in some circles is that this health care train has left the station with President at the wheel, and Republicans better jump on board.
STEELE: Well, I’m the cow on the tracks, and you’re going to have to stop that train to get this cow off the tracks and move forward.
Cow on the tracks? What up with that? (and, yes, I know his blog name was yanked over stupidity, still… it existed) I’d pay good money to see this geniuses SAT verbal scores, especially any questions on analogies. A quick internet search of cows on the tracks provided this:
Some people discovered a gruesome scene in Dodge County.
That’s where a freight train ran into about two dozen cattle that had strayed onto the tracks.
The train was going about 50 miles per hour at the time.
Bloody remains were scattered for over about a mile and a half.
No one on the train was hurt.
I’m kinda okay with that outcome.
Tags: Michael Steele, Republican Crazy
Quite surprisingly, former Phillie (and soon to be former Senator) Jim Bunning had the best quote: “If you look at that analogy, the cow is not much of a match for that train.”
Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.
It is a typical attack to avoid discussing a point made by a black man by insulting his intelligence. It is reminiscent of Jim Crow or the black baboon slur of the Civil War. If we called President Obama such a name as id*t what would we be called?
I agree with him that someone needs to wake up these people and say the train doesn’t need to move at all because it is heading over a cliff. Republicans had better stay off.
It is a typical attack to avoid discussing a point made by a black man by insulting his intelligence. It is reminiscent of Jim Crow or the black baboon slur of the Civil War.
Oh dear. Except that Michael Steele has been proving himself over and over to be the Republican Village Idiot for some time now. This blog has been documenting the atrocities for quite some time now. It isn’t as though he has done anything other than had his authority AND his profile put in check by repub legislators and controllers. Heck, he hasn’t even gotten to beyond hip yet.
But it is typical of repub rhetoric to take a bunch of well made points and tell the world you are being victimized by that. Which, of course, you are not. And if Steele was making a bunch of interesting and smart moves that didn’t leave people with lots of opportunities to point and laugh you wouldn’t need to resort to that tired bit of business.
You avoided the point. If one of my guys called President Obama the village id*t for misstating what is in the health care bill, what would be said by you guys?
I discussed the point of republicans needing to stay off the train in the next comment.
I don’t understand your point David – Steele shouldn’t be called an idiot because he’s an African American?
If you want to call Obama an idiot *shrug*. Steele tried to make an analogy that not only didn’t make any sense, it meant the opposite of what he was trying to say.
Oops. The stock market topped 10,000 today. Thank you Barrack and the dems for passing the stimulus package, saving millions of jobs that would have vanished without it and creating close to a million new jobs. Without it, this country was looking at a Great Depression.
Your point was not avoided. And you pretty much proved one of mine. You never even read what I wrote, right? The rule is that if you spend a career doing dumb ass stuff that lets people point and laugh at you then you are always at risk for being seen as not especially bright.
The point being that Steele has a body of work that pretty much proves he isn’t the brightest bulb in the box.
So far, RD is the only one who has called Steele an idiot. The original post simply implies he’s not a genius. He’s certainly not a genius. And he does have one hell of a way with words. If he’d made RD’s analogy instead of the one he concocted, no one would be discussing his…um…gaffe.
(Gee, where have I heard that word “gaffe” used in political discourse lately….? I don’t think it was in reference to Steele…)
RD plays race card….. head hurts… going back to bed… too much rage.