Steele On Health Care: 'They Are Right. We Do Want To Delay'

Hotline:

RNC chair Michael Steele said in a memo released Thursday that GOPers should do everything they can to stop health care, arguing that position is in line with public opinion.

"I urge everyone to spend every bit of capital and energy you have to stop this health care reform. The Democrats have accused us of trying to delay, stall, slow down, and stop this bill. They are right. We do want to delay, stall, slow down, and ultimately stop them from experimenting on our nation's health care," Steele wrote in the memo. "And guess what, so do a majority of Americans."

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Comments

[Billar]

08:25 PM on 12/12/2009

You Lie.

[LadyTee]

09:36 PM on 12/11/2009

blizb, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your logical and well written comments. Thank you. Fanned and faved.

[dunkel]

03:32 PM on 12/11/2009

The GOP wants to delay, but they have NO POWER to stop any dang thing the Dems wish to pass NONE.

"A man can fail several times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame someone else."--John Burroughs

[HST]

12:49 PM on 12/11/2009

Why don;t the rest of the GOP come right out along with Steele and say that they want to obstruct any healthcare reform legislation? (could they be afraid of the reaction?)

Not matter how many times they lie, polls continue to show Americans support the public option and healthcare reform in general. The GOP has officially divorced themselves from the truth!

[barkrudedog69]

01:12 PM on 12/11/2009

The last poll from Rueters showed that 59.9 percent support the public option....

If it were the Senate....guess what.....it would not pass......

[HST]

04:11 PM on 12/11/2009

Public Preference:
Current System or Universal Coverage?

Current system: 32%
Universal coverage: 62%
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/healthcare031020_poll.html

For/Against Healthcare reform:
61 percent For / 28 percent Against (CBS News Poll, Nov. 13-16),
56 percent For / 32 percent Against (CNN / Opinion Dynamics Poll, Nov. 13-15).

http://www.southernchestercountyweeklies.com/articles/2009/12/10/opinion/doc4b1fbe2d2d1c7379301888.txt

[SocialNote47]

11:46 AM on 12/11/2009

You this man is sooo stupid. But at least he's honest. For once... Still a loser though..

[slking609]

11:37 AM on 12/11/2009

F%^ him!

[rcozad]

08:29 AM on 12/11/2009

Funny how the Republicans always state that the the Public Option is unpopular regardless of the fact that EVERY reputable poll ranges from 58% to 78% in favor ! Leads me to believe that they have, being very conservative, have resorted to forecasting the future on the entrails of ducks!

[Grunty1]

10:46 AM on 12/11/2009

When something polls well in reality, that means it polls poorly in the Rushpubliverse.

[rcozad]

11:49 AM on 12/11/2009

I am at a loss, how can a party that has been in the Presidency more often than the Democrats from the 50's to the present become so out of touch with reality. I am from Arizona and am a product of a mixed marriage ( my wife is a registered Republican) so was graced by a robo call from McCain. He (it) also stated that the American Citizens don't want public health! Obama said he would call them out when they lie, right! Well Obama they are!

[barkrudedog69]

01:14 PM on 12/11/2009

as time goes by there is less and less support for the public option.

[Welib]

01:15 AM on 12/11/2009

Steele looks like Mr. Potato Head doesn't he?

[barkrudedog69]

01:13 PM on 12/11/2009

If someone said that about our President they would be called a raci.st......

[DreamsofProgress]

11:51 PM on 12/10/2009

Doesn't it tell you something about the Republican party when the elected HEAD of said party has absolutely zero influence within it? Or that none of the representatives in Congress listen to him at all? And that EVERYTHING he says immediately gets forgotten by most Republicans? (Hip hop urban message, anyone?)

I somewhat feel bad for PuppetMcConservenstein, but he DID join he GOP.

[OldBro70]

06:13 AM on 12/11/2009

Did'nt feel sorry for him when he lost to Ben Cardin in the Maryland Senate race.

Hip Hop Jargon

Michael Steele is a "Zero who is a Zero"

[MauricioC]

11:50 PM on 12/10/2009

Unkle Remus strikes again.....

[Loveforlife]

10:23 PM on 12/10/2009

Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry may be related. They were for it before they were against it.

I'll explain. Pelosi on Public Option. Kerry on the War.

[Benztown]

07:57 PM on 12/10/2009

As he lost himself, he found the white male party niche for stupidity coated in radical ultra Christian ideologies that are often cruel to women and minority. The Grandiosity of making believe he is one of them.

[mamapower]

10:56 PM on 12/10/2009

Now thats deep!

[OldBro70]

06:15 AM on 12/11/2009

Mr. Chairman, Zero.

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

07:45 PM on 12/10/2009

Steele
The recent poll where Republican voters were asked who they'll vote for in 2010, Republicans came in THIRD.
Democrats are their first choice followed by the Tea Party.

So beat it, or I'll tell Stormfront and David Duke where you hide at night.

[barkrudedog69]

01:15 PM on 12/11/2009

what percentage was the tea party and Republicans combined compared to the Dems?

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

09:32 PM on 12/12/2009

That won't matter the tea party are purging Republicans, they will even vote Democrat to purge the Republicans who don't pass their PURITY test.

So look for a very very tiny Republican Party after 2010. BTW any Tea Party members of Congress will have ZERO chairmanships of placements on powerful Congressional committees, they will be absolutely USELESS chair fillers. Remaining Republicans won't trust them, any farther than they could throw them.

[tmf945]

07:22 PM on 12/10/2009

Go stand on Limbaugh's lawn Lantern Jockey...

[mamapower]

11:02 PM on 12/10/2009

Exactly!

[barkrudedog69]

01:17 PM on 12/11/2009

Two r.acists that see eye to eye.....Call it for what it is....a rac.ist comment.

[OldBro70]

06:18 AM on 12/11/2009

I think we can be critical but not uncivilized, that is what differentiates from them other folks, get my drift?

[vonPinto]

06:13 PM on 12/10/2009

I am ashamed of this guy.