With All Due Respect… Republicans Need To Shut Up
Seriously, they need to shut up! And I’m saying this for their own good.
Step One: Someone needs to put a stop to Michael Steele’s foot in mouth tour. Let’s review Steele’s greatest hits…
“We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles,” Steele told the Washington Times. “But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
“Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad,” said Steele.
“Let’s put it in the context here,” said Steele. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment.” “Yes, it’s incendiary,” Steele added. “Yes, it’s ugly.”
Followed by…
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” said Steele. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.”
And then there’s the question if he’s serious, or just joshing, about cutting off Republicans who voted for the stimulus. Now, today, he claims part of his job is ticking people off. And while Steele is a liberal blogger’s dream, the adage less is more has never been so appropriate.
Step Two: Republicans in the House and Senate need to shut up…
…until they have something of value to add to the discussion. I’m not kidding. These guys and gals could really benefit from a period of reflection. Hoping Obama fails is not a political strategy – its desperation. And as far as who’s in charge… Republicans have become the heartbroken soul after a bad break-up who suddenly finds themselves on the rebound. My advice is for them to take it slow. There’s no need to Rush headfirst into an abusive relationship. Look at your potential list of leaders (Palin, Jindal, Steel, Rush, Cantor, etc.) and realize that being leaderless is not the worst situation.
Step Three: Conservatives needed to shut up years ago, because, well… they scare people. Now, I’m not counting on Conservatives to shut up, therefore it is the civic duty of all Americans to shut them up. They need to be banished back to the fringe where they belong, to a place where abortion and gay marriage out trump every other issue. Oh, they’ll don a fiscally conservative mask when it suits them, but their priorities are clear. They’d have no trouble spending a trillion dollars to stop gays from marrying.
Step Four: Rush Limbaugh doesn’t have to shut up. In fact, I want him to talk more. That said, everyone listed above would be wise to shut up about Rush.
Now… I’ll shut up.
Tags: Republicans
Pandora skates past two defense men, it’s a break-away, she winds up, she shoots, she scores.
Brilliant post.
Thanks, nemski. Needless to say it was fun to write!
Everyone should just savor this paragraph.
As a partisan Democrat, I hope Steele keeps talking. The comedy value is priceless! (Off the hook, in GOP lingo)
Steele is going to be fine, Mr Obama is not. The market is sliding south, jobs are tanking and consumer confidence is dipping. Did I mention how bad the credit markets are?
Is this the kind of change we wanted? No one has to hope Obama fails, it is going to happen no matter what Republicans do or don’t do. The man is a creature of teleprompters and entertainment needs.
Americans (most) do not know or care who Steele is, they know who Obama is and his poll numbers are slipping badly. By 1 July he will be under 50%.
Hoping Obama fails is not a political strategy – its desperation.
This is very true — and they are placing a bet against us as a nation and community. And this isn’t about regulatory schemes, this is about two things:
1) A nation trying to figure out a way to recover from the worst economic downturn of my lifetime.
2) A President elected on the promise to address very specific problems.
Rs are in utter denial about both of those things. Which isn’t to say that they shouldn’t weigh in on the solutions, but no one is going to be fooled into thinking that NYET is a solution to anything. (Remember when we were all guilty of treason for being opposed to the Iraq War?)
And Protack the Liar is back!
How many mortgage companies did you call today?
Any guesses on how close I am to hitting the spam button?
Cassandra refuses to deal with substance.
I think it is un-American to shut anyone up. Conservatives need to stand up now more than ever. The future of this nation is being mortgaged for junk. The security of this nation is being weakened. The culture is being undermined. The Constitution continues to be forgotten.
Speak now.
Examples, David, and be specific.
David, it is awfully rich for you, of all people, to call out anybody for not dealing with substance.
The future of this nation was already mortgaged for junk. That would be the giant deficits and debt leftover from the BushCo looting. (There was a surplus when he came in, remember.) Now we need to fix what you folks so kindly broke. So help with that or walk on.
Republicans seem only to find their love of dissent when a Democrat is in the White House. Republicans are also new at frugality. Investing in America = too expensive, throwing away billions in Iraq = hooray! when you’re a Republican.
Now see, Protack and David just made my point about the need to shut up. They keep talkin’, but they ain’t saying nothin’.
The culture is being undermined.
WTF does that mean?
pandora, don’t you love it when your thread gets hijack with inanity?
nemski, read abortion and gays.
Ha! Like I said they just prove my point. And because I don’t have to link to their nonsense it saves me time.
Push that button, girl…we need relief NOW.
(great post)
nemski, read abortion and gays.
I keep on forgetting that the Great Socialist Agenda will force women to have abortions and me to forsake my wife and bed with a sodomite.
Fox News Poll finds Obama more popular than Reagan ! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/obama-preferred-over-reagan—-in-fox-news-poll.php Will apologize to Rush later
Damn I am already in bed with a woman — so abortion isn’t an issue either. Am I getting anything out of the Great Socialist Agenda?
Am I going to have to throw a temper tantrum?
Do you have a copy of the Agenda? I seem to have misplaced mine together with my copy of the Gay Agenda.
Protack’s a moron if he believes the Dow is a day-to-day indicator of presidential success, if any at all.
This is the DJIA (from Wiki):
“The average is computed from the stock prices of 30 of the largest and most widely held public companies in the United States. The “industrial” portion of the name is largely historical—many of the 30 modern components have little to do with traditional heavy industry. The average is price-weighted. To compensate for the effects of stock splits and other adjustments, it is currently a scaled average, not the actual average of the prices of its component stocks—the sum of the component prices is divided by a divisor, which changes whenever one of the component stocks has a stock split or stock dividend, to generate the value of the index. Since the divisor is currently less than one, the value of the index is higher than the sum of the component prices.”
This is what some people think of such a narrow indicator:
“With the current inclusion of only 30 stocks, critics like Ric Edelman argue that the DJIA is not a very accurate representation of the overall market performance even though it is the most cited and most widely recognized of the stock market indices.[10]
Additionally, the DJIA is criticized for being a price-weighted average, which gives relatively higher-priced stocks more influence over the average than their lower-priced counterparts, but takes no account of the relative size or market capitalization of the components. For example, a $1 increase in a lower-priced stock can be negated by a $1 decrease in a much higher-priced stock, even though the first stock experienced a larger percentage change. In addition, a $1 move in the smallest component of the DJIA has the same effect as a $1 move in the largest component of the index. As of February 2009, IBM is the highest priced stock in the index and therefore has the greatest influence on it. Many critics of the DJIA recommend the float-adjusted market-value weighted S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, the latter of which includes all U.S. securities with readily available prices, as better indicators of the U.S. market.
Another issue with the Dow is that not all 30 components open at the same time in the morning. On the days when not all the components open at the start, the posted opening price of the Dow is determined by the price of those few components that open first and the previous day’s closing price of the remaining components that haven’t opened yet; on those days, the posted opening price on the Dow will be close to the previous day’s closing price (which can be observed by looking at Dow price history) and will not accurately reflect the true opening prices of all its components. Thus, in terms of candlestick charting theory, the Dow’s posted opening price cannot be used in determining the condition of the market.”
This is Protack’s false idol
Impressive, VC. And here I was expecting you to ask me why my post wasn’t entitled STFU! I am so ashamed.
I was expecting a little more vitriol from ya, P!
The Daily Show ripped Protack’s a-hole argument to shreds last night.
Slow on the uptake, I think he is! And couldn’t you just sense the misplaced pride he had for his self, like “Yeah, I got them with this infallible corollary -hehheh!”
Damn, if that’s his logical reasoning skills on display, I hope he doesn’t pilot commercial! I’d rather trust my life with this guy!