First, Joe YouLied! Wilson, now Steele said 'flipping a bird to the American people'

tmarket · Dec 21, 2009

You had Republican representative Joe 'You Lied!' Wilson shouting down the president in a speech to congress in September, to which even the former president George Herbert Walker Bush said "How low have we gotten here? ".

Apparently lower, Mr. President. Now the Republican national committee chairman Michael Steele just said he's not happy with Democratic efforts to pass a health care reform bill, saying the measure which cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday amounts to "flipping a bird to the American people."

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Steele says the Democratic health care bill is 'bad for America.'

(CNN) - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele made clear Monday he's not happy with Democratic efforts to pass a health care reform bill, saying the measure which cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday amounts to "flipping a bird to the American people."

"This is a bad bill. It's bad law. It's bad for America. It is bad certainly for individuals and enough is enough. I am tired of the Congress thumbing their nose and flipping a bird to the American people," Steele said on a conference call with reporters Monday. "I am tired of this Congress thinking it knows better than me and my family how to provide for our health care now and in the future."

Steele was joined on the call by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the current head of FreedomWorks, in an apparent show of solidarity against the measure that narrowly passed a cloture vote in the early-morning hours Monday. Armey's group and the RNC have occasionally butted heads in the past year over the best way to tap into disapproval with Democratic policies, but Steele said Monday he is "honored" to work with "grassroots activists, tea partiers and others who are fighting the good fight."

FreedomWorks, which has provided much of the organizational heft behind the Tea Party movement, clashed with the RNC last fall when they endorsed an independent conservative in a New York congressional race over the GOP-backed candidate. As a result of the divided vote, the Democrat in the race won the conservative district for the first time in more than a century.

Letting bygones be bygones Monday, Steele called Armey "a man of principle, a man who has been able to reflect in a genuine way the voice of a lot of Americans out there."

"It's nice to know in this fight that you have individuals who are willing to stand up with you and lead the charge, individuals who you can follow into battle and who can follow you into battle and try and make sure we do what's best for the American people," said Steele.

UPDATE: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Steele's comments "obscene" in a Capitol Hill press conference Monday afternoon.

"I'm more worried about an example being set by a party leader with something so obscene, I think that's something people should be worried about," Reid said.
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Mercor · Dec 21, 2009

Here are the words from Cuba, your intellectual base.

HAVANA â Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference.

kut2k2 · Dec 21, 2009

Quote from Mercor:

Here are the words from Cuba, your intellectual base.

HAVANA â Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference.
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Suddenly we're supposed to give a rat's ass what Cuba has to say about our president?

Who are you going to quote next; little Kimmy from North Korea?

What strange bedfellows you Obama haters cozy up to.

M Jared · Dec 21, 2009

I don't agree with the disrespect Bush or Obama has gotten.Its the office the Presidency.Regardless of who's in it,respect the institution

kut2k2 · Dec 22, 2009

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I don't agree with the disrespect Bush or Obama has gotten.Its the office the Presidency.Regardless of who's in it,respect the institution
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I have no problem with disrespect when it's deserved. But what these Obama haters have been dishing out is anything and everything to try to put Obama down, whether it's deserved or not.

"Hahaha! Obama looked bad when he tried to get the Olympics in Chicago. Who cares that it was a loss for America as well? Just so long as it's a loss for Obama!" That's the kind of nihilistic hatred that's been spread on this forum and every other political forum even before Obama was inaugurated. It's like an orgasmic hate-fest on the right, much the sort of thing that I imagine takes place at klan rallies, only nonstop now.

Lucrum · Dec 22, 2009

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...saying the measure which cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday amounts to "flipping a bird to the American people."

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It would be despicable conduct unbecoming...except that it's true.

fhl · Dec 22, 2009

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drjekyllus · Dec 22, 2009

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You had Republican representative Joe 'You Lied!' Wilson shouting down the president in a speech to congress in September
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But Wilson was correct. Hussein lied. I don't really understand why Democrats think this story is good for them. You have a democrat addressing Congress and lying, and someone calls him on his lie. Why do democrats think this story helps them?

bugscoe · Dec 23, 2009

Quote from tmarket:

Now the Republican national committee chairman Michael Steele just said he's not happy with Democratic efforts to pass a health care reform bill, saying the measure which cleared a procedural hurdle Sunday amounts to "flipping a bird to the American people."
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