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I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

No one could have predicted…

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let’s finish the job.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I really should read my own blog.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Let me file that under fuck it.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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Pretty good stuff from Michael Steele toay:

“You wear your hat one way. You like to wear it, you know, kind of cocked to the left, you know, because that’s cool out West,” Steele said. “In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys like to wear the brim straight ahead. Now, the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, you know, because that’s how we roll in the Northeast.”

He left out wearing hats made of tin foil.

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  4. 4.

    asiangrrlMN

    In the Midwest, we wear our hats brim forward, thank you very much.

    Shorter Michael Steele: I’m a cheap whore. Name your price.

  6. 6.

    Dennis-SGMM

    This is the kind of cutting edge thinking that will restore the GOP to electoral dominance.

  7. 7.

    Jack T.

    Next, Chairman Steele will be starring in a remake of the Starter Hat commercials with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

  15. 15.

    demkat620

    Oh. Dear. God. This guy has to be listening to that Pat Boone Metal album.
    Please keep on talking, Mike. The GOP needs you.

  18. 18.

    Beauzeaux

    At long last, after reading Mr. Steele’s bold and incisive comments, I finally know what it’s like to feel completely nonplussed.

  19. 19.

    SpotWeld

    And sometimes you wear an onion on your belt, because that’s the style at the time?

  20. 20.

    Dennis-SGMM

    @Seebach:
    They were going to replace him with a Razor Clam but the clam tricked them all out of their lunch money during the job interview.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Darkness

    Now, the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, you know, because that’s how we roll in the Northeast. it makes it easier to discern how I hold my hand to my forehead in the shape of an “L”

  22. 22.

    Ned R.

    @SpotWeld: Reminds me of one of my favorite random lines from Blackadder:

    And in Genoa, ’tis now the fashion to pin a live frog to the shoulder braid, stand in a bucket and go “bibble” at passers by.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Kevin

    @Dennis-SGMM:

    They were going to replace him with a Razor Clam but the clam tricked them all out of their lunch money during the job interview.

    HAHAHA!

  30. 30.

    Common Sense

    All I can think of now when I hear Michael Steele is the dad from Better Off Dead (which will always remain one of my all time faves — it’s something myiq and I could even agree on).

    Right Off!

    On, dad. Right on.

  31. 31.

    Susan Kitchens

    Speaking of hats, I wanted to say something about jaunte chapeau, but then, oh dear, I can’t remember if we’re supposed to hate the French anymore or not. I suppose we could talk about Freedom Hats: they must be big, as big as a tent (just ask Jim DeMint). Okay. Yeah. Freedom Hats. That gets us back on safe ground, then.

  32. 32.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Seriously, was Nixon ever this bad?

    Under Nixon anybody in the GOP in a position of authority and visibility who publically embarrassed the party by acting like such a complete moron would have ended up hospitalized after being mysteriously beaten half to death in a dark alley by “leftist goons” who left behind SDS leaflets at the scene of the crime but for some strange reason spoke with Cuban accents and smelled of Marlboros and Aqua Velva.

  34. 34.

    Joshua Norton

    Ah, yes. The new “rebranded” Republican party. Michael Steele is all a dither about restoring the party’s “roots”. Too bad he’s not aware that the glory days he pines for would have him on the outside looking in.

    The New GOP motto – “Our country’s problems just come and go, but intolerance lasts forever!”

  36. 36.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    He’s a spoofer infiltrated into the GOP to bring it down from within.

    He’s also one of the more sensible figures the GOP has at its national level.

    Which of those two facts is more pathetic?

  37. 37.

    SpotWeld

    The GOP isn’t dead.. it’s just quietly muttering to itself in the corner of the activity room of the nursing home.

  38. 38.

    harlana pepper

    @Susan Kitchens: I believe McConnell was talking just the other day about how much we hate the French, but that they are way ahead of us on a lot of things, so we should be more like them, not to improve our conditions (since they can’t admit how fucked we are) – I guess just to spite them or something. (eye rolls)

  39. 39.

    Kevin

    Sargent Herc (to a kid walking down the street): “let me ask you a question, where do you guys get those hats with the bills over the ears like that? I go into all the city stores and the only ones I can find are the ones with the bills in the front.”

    Kid: “nah, it’s the same, just turn it sideways on your head”

    Herc: “Thanks”

    I’m imagining Michael Steel as Herc.

    (The Wire was the best show)

  41. 41.

    Punchy

    “In the Midwest, you guys like to wear it a little bit to the right. In the South, you guys like to wear the brim straight ahead

    WTF does this mean? To the right…..how? Is that an allusion to conservatism in the Midwest (questionable), and the “straights in the South” a hint at the South’s anti-gay rhetoric?

    Can someone translate?

  42. 42.

    Comrade Kevin

    Fucking around in a crap game
    Niggas think I’m soft cause now I’m in the rap game
    And I don’t hang out as much
    Bang out dope cuts
    Standing on stage and I’m grabbing my nuts

  45. 45.

    Common Sense

    I can’t wait to hear Steele’s take on the baggy pants ’round your knees phenomenon.

  46. 46.

    trizzlor

    This is silly but is it really report-worthy? When was the last time Politico head-lined some southern senator saying he “didn’t just fall off the turnip truck” or went “hog wild” or a dozen other stupid white person expressions.

  48. 48.

    mandarama, Eager Minion

    @R-Jud:

    Around here, we Roll over Lionel Ritchie with a Tank.

    I liked their stuff better when they were “Deathtongue”.

    Middle of the road, man it stanks

  53. 53.

    Captain Haddock

    Fuck the hat, if I were a republican I’d be wearing a bag over my head.

    Boo-ya!

  55. 55.

    canuckistani

    Arnold Rimmer is cooler than Michael Steele.

    What if this is the best Michael Steele in all the Multiverse? The “Ace” Steele, as it were?

  57. 57.

    Punchy

    @Comrade Kevin: Oh no you dih’hint!

    God damn it’s a brand new payback
    From the straight gangsta mack in straight gansta black
    How many muthafuckers got to pay
    Went to the shelf and dusted of the AK

  59. 59.

    The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    And yet, I spent 2001-2009 saying to myself: “Man, I thought I hated Nixon, but what wouldn’t you give to have Nixon back right now?” That ought to tell you something.

  60. 60.

    patrick

    An unhip white guy trying to talk like a hip urban black is sad.
    An unhip black guy talking like an unhip white guy trying to talk like a hip urban black guy is sad squared.

  61. 61.

    JK

    The head writer from the Daily Show is moonlighting by writing material for Michael Steele.

    Steele simply can’t be this funny on his own.

  62. 62.

    os

    the RNC owes republicans and black people an apology. why would they do this to other republicans and black people? lol

  63. 63.

    Bubblegum Tate

    Nina Blackburn: So, guys, what’s the deal with the hats?

    Ice Cold: That’s what NWH is all about. We got a whole hat philosophy, you know what I’m saying? I mean, see, back in the days when there was slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, you know, with the sun beating down them. Hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.

    Tone Def: Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.

    Ice Cold: You know, so by the time they got back to the plantation from being in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So what we saying with Niggaz With Hats is, “Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckers.”

    Tasty Taste: And we ain’t too tired to bust a cap in yo ass.

  64. 64.

    Sarcastro

    “So, were you ‘down’ with the Bush administration’s ransacking of America?”

    “People be talking about how the Bushies was all lazy and shit, but you try funneling the funds from a defense contract to your own private Swiss bank account and then go back for the Justice Department kickbacks? That’s some work for your ass right there. But, uh, actually… we was out of town when that shit went down.”

    “Word. That dude on TV? He just looked like me!”

  67. 67.

    Ash Can

    And my Great Uncle Joe wore his hat home sideways after my parents’ wedding, because he was plastered.

  68. 68.

    Tax Analyst

    …”Now, the Northeast, I wear my hat backwards, assume a wide stance in my stall, give 3 distincts taps with my right foot, and then reach for that (wink, wink) “piece of paper” I just happened to drop just beyond that extended right foot, you know, because that’s how we roll in the GOP.

  69. 69.

    Dennis-SGMM

    And the beat goes on:
    Hispanic Dems furious over GOP terrorism video

    Hispanic Democrats are furious and demanding an apology over an image wedged in a new GOP web video on terrorism that shows members of the Hispanic Caucus sitting at a table with President Obama.
    On Thursday House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Intelligence Committee Ranking Republican Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) released a 1:24-minute web video “highlighting the Administration’s lack of a comprehensive strategy to confront and fight the terrorist threat,” according to a Boehner office press release….’
    …The strikingly dark and ominous video starts by asking; “What are Democrats doing to keep America safe?” It then launches into a series of video clips highlighting what the GOP charges are dangerous decisions by the Obama administration, including the decision to close the suspected terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and the more recent decision to release previously classified Bush administration legal memos detailing enhanced interrogation techniques – techniques that Democrats have said are torture.

    More GOP outreach.

  72. 72.

    Blue Raven

    @canuckistani:

    What if this is the best Michael Steele in all the Multiverse? The “Ace” Steele, as it were?

    How do you want that explained? If it’s in terms Lister would understand, you may be out of luck.

  73. 73.

    The Other Steve

    John Cole gets quoted by Christian Science Monitor!

    Tin foil hats
    Predictably those on the left are lampooning the news.
    “The only people left in the Republican Party are crazier than an outhouse rat…” writes John Cole over at Balloon Juice. “They are the people who feverishly emailed each other stories about Obama’s birth certificate, and who are convinced that joking about Obama’s teleprompter and making impassioned speeches about earmark reform are the only route to electoral recovery.”
    Uh…..well, we just occasionally mention Obama’s teleprompter. Here, here, here, here, and here. But we’re not crazy or anything.

  74. 74.

    The Moar You Know

    Michael Steele is a gift from God for Dems. Most of his own party would rather hang him from a lamppost than listen to him, and the rest of us find him an unending source of unintentional comedy.

    When did you ever think you’d hear the head of the RNC use the phrase “that’s how we roll?”

    We live in such awesome times.

  75. 75.

    b-psycho

    Has anyone ever actually seen Michael Steele wearing a hat? I don’t recall any pics proving he wears one at all, let alone which direction he wears it.

  80. 80.

    Alex Milstein

    Isn’t Michael Steele from Maryland? On what map does Maryland sit in the northeast, where apparently folks roll with their hats backwards?

  81. 81.

    Dennis-SGMM

    @Alex Milstein:

    On what map does Maryland sit in the northeast, where apparently folks roll with their hats backwards?

    The same map where Putin can loom over Wasilla, Alaska.

  82. 82.

    slightly_peeved

    I roll d20 + 8 vs. Reflex for 2d4 + 4 damage with my Magic Missile. That’s how I roll.

    And I’m still hipper than Michael Steele.

  83. 83.

    Mike in NC

    This is the most amazing thing I’ve read in days:

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is the author, along with Jackie Gingrich Cushman, of the forthcoming book “5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours”.

    So the Newtster and his third wife really feel they can tell other people how improve their lives? The hypocrisy is just fucking incredible. He’ll be all over Fox flaunting the book, I’m sure.Gingrich/Sanford 2012!

  85. 85.

    slightly_peeved

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is the author, along with Jackie Gingrich Cushman, of the forthcoming book “5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours”.

    I guess his principle for a successful life is to leave his family and join hers.

    What are the other 2 principles then?

  86. 86.

    CaliMatt

    @ tax analyst: exactly!

    us gayz have a piece of conventional wisdom about “straight” guys who wear their ball-caps backwards (hint: the brim gets in the way…). It was mainly directed at frat dudes, but i think it may be quite applicable in this circumstance as well.

  88. 88.

    Ruemara

    @canuckistani:

    If this is the “Ace” Steele of all the universes, I’m gonna get my glove, get my ship and judge the frack out of all those multiverse until there’s no more of this pox on time and space.

  89. 89.

    cosanostradamus

    .
    Ass-hat? You betchya!

    Reminds me of the skateboarding dog cartoon on “The Simpsons” when some cornhole company was trying to look kewl with the tweens.

    You know what? It’s time for a coup de grace for the Repukelickin’s.
    .

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    @slightly_peeved:

    I roll d20 + 8 vs. Reflex for 2d4 + 4 damage with my Magic Missile. That’s how I roll.

    I have no idea what this means *exactly*, but I vaguely understand it’s somehow nerdish and/or geekesque. However, the reference to your “Magic Missile” threw me off a little.

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    Oh goodness. I just watched the video on MSNBC. That is just seven kinds of crazy.

  94. 94.

    grumpy realist

    The only greater EPIC FAIL I can think of is if Michael Steele said he wanted to “connect to my d00ds in the ‘hood” and put up on YouTube a shot of himself breakdancing in a suit and tie.

    Watts had the class and self-respect to quit after the Nth time the RNC tried to parade him around as the Token Negro. I admire him for that. How much longer is Steele going to remain up there on stage making a fool out of himself?

  100. 100.

    grumpy realist

    Hmm, looks like Watts might be getting back into politics…see Wikipedia article

  102. 102.

    demimondian

    Michael Steele is far, far smarter than you people understand. He’s actually a special agent for Sarah Palin, working in secret to guarantee that she wins the 2014 Presidential Election.

    And you know what? He’s right — she can’t lose it, so it must be hers to win.

  104. 104.

    Steeplejack

    @Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse:

    I wasn’t aware that I was wondering, but I found your link disturbingly interesting. The only time I read Archie comic books was sitting in the orthodontist’s waiting room back in the ’60s–and even then Riverdale seemed like a distant place that time had passed by. But Betty and Veronica were hot.

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