I second that! I

Just think, the more people the repub party can kill by stopping healthcare reform, the happier they'll be. They care about nothing but big business and ignorant rednecks.

A tone. A theme.

The guy needs to "atone" for setting a theme of ignorance....

Sounds like a good Republican to me. Facts? What are those? I'm trying to paint a picture here, don't bother me with specifics. I have no idea what's actually being proposed, but it's my job to tell you it's a bad idea, so here we are.

Once again, Steele is tone-deaf and clueless, a perfect spokesman for the tone-deaf and clueless insurgents who have no ideas beyond intoning Ronal' Reagan.
Republicans should change their mascot from elephant to seagull. Seagulls fly in, make a lot of noise and shit all over everything.

Yeah, you know Billy the thing is last week he was talking about bringing diverse people to the party with "fried Chicken and Potato salad", so yeah he does not really give a shit about the details, his job is simply to not understand a whole lot about any particular subject but to have an influence on the optics of any number of issues. And hey, you might be cynical but if our country and the people who live in it would rather listen to "framing" rather than take the time to participate in the civic process because that is what is 'most' easy for 'most Americans' as you say then I am afraid we are all doomed. Not to be too much of cynic back at you but I have more faith in the American people after 8 years of Bush, than I have had in a long time. According to the latest poll numbers 'most Americans' want universal health-care and 'most Americans' want health-care reform, but unlike you I can not speak for all of them. From my perspective the difference between those that are asking for a delay as well as those that are asking for more time is where you start your conversation from.

The question for me becomes, "do you believe that health-care policy (which includes all of medicare/medicade, the VA and private marketplace) as it is today (status quo) is sustainable? For me the short answer is NO, and in the long answer includes things like avoiding sweeteners that will push the problem down the road, we need something close to single payer. I am pretty sure we can all admit with some chutzpah that the GOP is not in the business of real reform but are merely defending the status-quo as well as the upper echelon of our US Tax Bracket.

Michael,

Come here...
Closer...
Listen very carefully to me.

WE ARE TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK!

You moron.

-- Scott --

What a tool....

That pretty well sums it up. Maybe he could run on a 2012 ticket with Palin. ("When you care enough to send the very clueless.")

"Again, that is one of those areas where there is different opinions...I don't do policy," he said. "My point in coming here today was to begin to set a tone, and a theme if you will."

Shorter Steele: "I'm just the FUD man. I don't do reality."

Repubs are dangerously close to imploding over their Obama Derangement Syndrome. This is about governing and legislating for constituents and the Americans who cannot afford health coverage.

Instead, for the GOP, it is all about "getting" Obama ... Rather vulgar, I think ...

Palin-Steele in 2012. My first thought was, what could be more hilarious to watch? Dumb and Dumb-ass. (Not sure which is which.) Then I remembered how the press ignored McCain's blunders during Obama's European tour (Joe Lieberman became his fact-fixer)and the fact that George W. was re-elected. Not so funny if they won. Still, I'd love to see the YouTube videos.

OF COURSE Michael Steele doesn't do policy.

He's the head of the REPUBLICAN National Committee, and the Republican Party has taken a sacred vow (almost as sacred as a C St vow) NOT to do policy.

If he tried to do policy, they'd fire him, he'd lose his health insurance, and he'd see what all this is about. Then he'd re-register as a Democrat.