Steele Lashes Out: Critics Should 'Get a Life,' 'Shut Up'

Michael Steele has a message for Republicans criticizing his leadership: Shut up.

"I tell them to get a life," he told ABC News Radio on Thursday. "If you don't want me in the job, fire me. But until then, shut up. Get with the program or get out of the way."

The Republican National Committee chairman is under fire for saying that the GOP can't take back the House in 2010 -- and that the party isn't even ready to lead. And donors are upset with Steele for giving paid speeches and promoting a book while leading the party.

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[ThermoChemist]

09:14 PM on 01/08/2010

Don't hold back Steele! Tell us what you really think about the GOP. Like Van Jones did:

VAN JONES' OPINION OF THE GOP [Sep. 2009]
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_09/019741.php

"In the exchange, Jones was asked why a Republican president working with a Republican Congress can pass more of its agenda than a Democratic president working with a Democratic president.

"Well, the answer to that is, they're a**holes," Jones said. He added, "Barack Obama is not an a**hole. Now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity."

[OT]

03:02 PM on 01/08/2010

How do you not like this guy. Wrong or liberal he is genuine. Unlike Obama.

[HerbTee]

01:38 PM on 01/08/2010

It looks like Mikey Steele's tes tic les are finally starting to descent into "angry black man" territory...LOL. Mikey, as far as ReTHUGS go, you'll NEVER be one of them and they'll NEVER accept you as one of them. So you might as well tell them all to kiss your @ zz whenever you feel like it.

[ECB]

12:14 PM on 01/08/2010

Mike, Ron Christie and Clarence Thomas, think YOU are a joke.

[Shelia Washington]

02:12 PM on 01/08/2010

They are correct he is a Joke and an embarrasment. He's only in that postion to criticise the President in a way some of the GOP are afraid to do. I never seen such big ears.

[ECB]

04:11 PM on 01/08/2010

I never paid any attention - But you are right he is a D U M B O , in two ways.

[lightbulb10]

11:25 AM on 01/08/2010

Hands up, Harry Trumans

[lightbulb10]

11:23 AM on 01/08/2010

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/163237.asp

Hey, if he could do it.

[VietVet67]

11:07 AM on 01/08/2010

Mr. Steele, have you figured out why you have this position?

[fdavidm]

09:00 AM on 01/08/2010

As a life-long Democrat, I love Michael Steele. Keep him exactly where he is. By making him the face of the Republican Party, this ignorant man is doing more for the Democratic Party than one can possibly hope for.

[realpolitic]

08:37 AM on 01/08/2010

Steele is the most impolitic man out there. He does not realize with his very position comes criticism. If he wants a quiet life, he should retire.

[ThermoChemist]

01:30 PM on 01/08/2010

A [political] lesson lost on Palin..!

[realpolitic]

03:43 PM on 01/08/2010

Yes, she's so vindictive. If you slight her, even an imagined slight, expect to read about it in her next book a decade from now.

[Shelia Washington]

02:16 PM on 01/08/2010

Why would he retire...............he's getting rich or richer off of the GOP!

[realpolitic]

03:42 PM on 01/08/2010

Yes, he's collecting speaking fees when he is just supposed to be getting his RNC salary for now. It is a no no!

[seattlejames]

05:42 AM on 01/08/2010

Let's face facts, Steele is a Republican token who has gone rogue by believing he has real power and influence.

[rougebaisers]

02:56 AM on 01/08/2010

Get a life yourself. You are a black man in a white party of no.

[mamapower]

03:05 AM on 01/08/2010

Tell it sista!

[Shelia Washington]

02:14 PM on 01/08/2010

Thank you.

[AlwaysRightLeftist]

02:17 AM on 01/08/2010

What "program"?

[ThirdSection]

12:27 AM on 01/08/2010

Here's what the headline should have read:

STEELE SETS HIGHER DEBATE STANDARD FOR RIGHT WING

[Jaxy]

12:21 AM on 01/08/2010

Michael Steele is the real-life embodiment of Irony. With a moustache.

[publicenemy2009]

09:51 PM on 01/07/2010

That loon michellebachman was right we she said "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man.'' (for the Democratic Party)

The gift that just keeps on giving.

Thanks a lot re-poop party! Lmao!

[seattlejames]

11:44 PM on 01/07/2010

Listening to and believing Bachman was his second mistake. I'll let you determine what was his first mistake. While she was yelling "you da man", those white conservative men were saying, "you still da boy".