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Jesus, didn’t Michael Steele shame himself enough times last week to realize that he should never talk about anything related to health care, publicly, again? He must really care about passing this very detailed Seniors’ Bill of Rights he introduced last week, which would heroically prevent lawmakers from EVER making any cuts to Medicare, a program which he also hates and considers indicative of why government programs are inherently dysfunctional. Good for Michael Steele!
But doesn’t he realize that the very old Republicans and independents with whom he’s trying to curry favor with this video are TERRIFIED OF HIS RACE? Get Pat Boone in the next ad, maybe? After all, he’s built a half-century’s career out of converting black peoples’ work into more palatable fare for flocks of old white racists.
Needs more autotune.
This guy has ZERO credibility, it was a proven fact in the 2006 Senate race that Michael Steele hates puppies!
If he likes this Seniors’ Bill of Rights idea so much, why isn’t he covered by it? HUH??!?!
I had a hard time focusing on any of that as I kept waiting for someone in the studio to run out and straighten Steele’s tie.
Needs more Boston Terrier, preferably one with $4000 neuticals furnished by a MARKET DRIVEN health insurance program.
Palin/Steele 2012!
Jim, if you can promise he doesn’t rap, I’ll watch it.
facehead: What, you think I watched this?
You have the right to remain silent. Exercise your right!
Plus, Pat Boone has a much less threatening “stimulus package” than Michael “Lexington” Steele.
Fuck that. I say send them all to the carousel.
Mandatory death panels.
Also.
Needs more old puppies.
Yeah, bureaucrats, stop cock-blocking doctors with a granny fetish.
“No government involvement in end of life care”? Does “paying for” equal “involvement”? I’m thinking it does, which means as soon as the docs say you’ve got something that will eventually kill you, Michael Steele wants you to lose your Medicare. Suck it, seniors.
Seniors already have a bill of rights. It’s the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and there’s not a wasted word on there (Hey, I don’t want troops quartered in my house). Unlike these six items (five of which are seniors related, the sixth about veterans) which are protecting seniors from proposals not proposed.
He should do the in-flight safety videos for the airlines, and maybe Kimberly-Clarke’s videos teaching girls what to do when they get their periods.
Sounds like the RNC has been stealing ideas from those communists in the British Labour Party. I’m pretty sure that NHS patients in the UK got a “Bill of Rights” a few years ago. All very Tony Blair, of course: back in the good old days, your life would be ended in front of a malicious Death Panel, and you’d be happy about it!
He forgot, no abortions for seniors.
facehead: What? No no no no no. Promise me he does rap; then I’ll watch it.
I love it when he gets all jiggety wid dat hippity hop stuff!
Daayyyymmmnn, that’s a big-ass hip-hop Senior’s Bill of Rights! Big Ups M.C. Steele!
Just got off the phone with elderly friend who went to private retina specialist because Kaiser will not administer Avastin (something that gets shot in the eye to stop bleeds into the eye aka macular degeneration aka blindness). This treatment will cost her tens of thousands. Just ’cause she don’t wanna be blind. But we don’t want no government to get between seniors and their doctors.
OT, but … it is a story about Afghanistan with the phrase “… taking vodka shots out of buttcracks … ” in it; from Mother Jones (via HuffPo):
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/animal-house-afghanistan
Noodle Salad: Steele’s Boston Terrier has gone Galt.
Need more autopuppy.
You be da man, Mr. “Steele,” if that is your real name.
Old white people stuck between two black men. Which one to choose…
Lascauxcaveman: I suspect his rapping sucks cause he’s not really black. The GOP couldn’t find a conservatard the same color as Barry, so they just hired Mr Hooper off Sesame St and powdered him with cocoa.
Michael Steele was a man
He was a big man
But a bear was bigger
So he ran like a wigger
Up a tree
Extemporanus: So that’s where Andy got his idea…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg
I don’t know, I trust him; because he turned and looked me right in the eye.
Is his belly very large, or is his head just very small?
In either case, this video would be better if Nancy Pelosi had him tied to a chair while a comical Asian dictator berated them both.
he is callin’ out Barry now. sheesh. Obama is gonna slam dunk that one out of the court or something.
stupid move michael steele.
But he looks so friendly and mild-mannered! For a black guy and all…
you know he’s just gotta be the loneliest man in the world.
Doesn’t Steely Mike know that in the United States of the America Also, if old, scared, terminally stupid white people want a nicely dressed black man to come into their home and tell them they are there to save them, they will simply answer the door to the Jehovas. Duh.
TGY:
Just like the car salesman that’ll give you a great deal on a Neon.
ShamWow guy still does it better . . .
“Hey, that’s the colored orderly who used to work here, the one that stole my angel Hummel figure! Er, I think it was him, looks like him anyhow. Hands off my Medicare, socialist! Nurse, I think I’m wet.”
Fucking Urkel grew up into a real horse’s ass.
Fucking fear-mongering fucks.
Neoyorquino: “Hi, it’s Mike with Slap Cock! You’re gonna love my TruckNutz!”
For some reason I want to buy a “hover ’round” now.
I’ve been thinking, maybe after we death panel a bunch of old people, we can send them through a woodchipper and water the tree of liberty with the slurry that shoots out the other end.
You’re right. It would be more of a “mulch”. I’m sorry I mentioned it.
And still, nary a single Oreo thrown. Dude’s just begging for it, seems to me.
teebob2000: He does look like Urkel. What a douchebag. (Steele, not you.)
How about rationing boner pill ads during televised golf events? Why didn’t that make the list?
Cheney/Steel 2012!
(Chains of Steele?)
“Make it illegal to ration care based on age”!!!!???? Micheal Steele wants Medicare for everyone!!! Yippeee!!!
Senior Bill of Rights
- Right to drive until declared dead - NOT brain dead
- Right to wear a hat anywhere
- Oldest in the room always gets the remote control
- Right to early bird special if you’re late because you couldn’t park
- Right to opt out of school taxes and any other taxes you don’t use anymore
I’d rather get between a lion and a pork chop than get between a senior and their doctor…
Where is this minstrel show playing?
Shouldn’t that black man be tap dancing or something?
(His name is “ManTan,” right?)
Motherfucker needs a bow-tie.
I think it’s insensitive and despicable that Michael Steele insists on wearing blackface every time he makes a public appearance.
Johnny Zhivago: Right to ‘inadvertently’ queue-jump
Right to tell the same boring-as-fuck stories every half hour forever
Right to whine incessantly about diabeetus
Right to temporarily forget about diabeetus when at dessert buffet
grevillea: Perfect, plus
Right to complain about “young people today”, while clueless about receiving the two largest wealth transfers in US history - Soc. Security & Medicare - courtesy of the soon to be fucked “young people today”
geminisunmars: No, no. The GOP promises “no bureaucrats” between seniors and their doctors, presumably neither government nor private. So I guess they are proposing massive healthcare reform to correct exactly your friend’s problem. Right, Mike Steele?
Everybody involved in government or politics is BAD - except for us, because we’re just like you! -clueless. We don’t know nothin’ ’bout policy or nothin’ like that which proves, we can be trusted!
Plus, is that suit from the future, or the past?
What? No ice tea? Mutha fukin waiter, get’m sum teeee!
I honestly think that the Derik-Zoolander-as-merman-pitches-bottled-water commercials showed more grace, class, and sincerity than anything Michael Steele has said or done in his lifetime.
WHY IS TEH GOP CODDLING (CUDDLING!??) ILLEGULZ WITH THIS SEÑORES RIGHTS NONSENSE?!! DEPORTE THEM ALLL NUKE THEIR PUEBLOS AND CONVERT THEM ALL TO CHRISTIHANNITY (AND COLMES!?!!!!!!)!!?!?
Word, soul brotha. That’s my favorite Hip-Hopublican right thurrrr!!! Aw yeah! Ya’ll know I’mma be votin’ his ass in the oval office come 2012. Can’t wait on that shit.
geminisunmars: Yikes. My mom got that treatment I think for her macular degeneration. It worked - yay! She has good insurance that paid for it. She complained a couple of times that she thinks they gave her more treatments than she really needed, so the doc could get the extra insurance $$$. (We’ll never know if he really did give her too many treatments - there’s really no moral to this story. Just touched a nerve for me when you mentioned that.)
Michael Steele just eyefucked me. HOTTT.
bluetom00: Visine® stat!
Uh, hate to mention it, but he’s having a stroke on camera. Can’t open his left eye more than halfway. Check it out. Anyhoo guess I’ll skip his advice about health care.
Why does Michael Steele want to put health care decisions in the hands of the judiciary who are all terrorists?
If we are lucky, some redstate will decide they want him to run foor the Senate, and he might win. Having tried Maryland and Illinois, he still has 48 other opportunities.
Yet the RNC is perfectly happy to get in between patients and doctors if the patient is a woman of childbearing age, elderly and wants the power to have control over their own death, wants the benefits of weed. It is all hands off if people want to transfer wealth over to the medical industrial complex.
Riddle me this: After the eight year cluster fail of the Bush administration, why are we even listening to republicans?
dum librul:
Win!!11!
Michael: No one is going to listen to you unless you go crazy and yell a little bit..