If you were hoping that Michael Steele would bring a new approach to Republican Party politics, here’s some bad news. Less than 24 hours after being elected chairman of the RNC, Steele praised House members for their lockstep opposition to President Obama’s stimulus bill, saying “the goose egg that you laid on the president’s desk was just beautiful.”
More from CQ Politics:
Michael Steele, the new national GOP chairman, urged House Republicans at the end of their three-day retreat to stick to their stand against the $819 billion stimulus measure as they plot their strategy for the 111th Congress.
A day after he won election as RNC chairman, Steele told the gathering at the Homestead resort that the minority party had sent a strong message to President Obama by joining together to oppose the version of the stimulus passed by the House (HR 1).
“This week the emphasis will shift to the Senate, and I am hoping they listen and learn from the very important message that you sent this week,” Steele told the GOP lawmakers, who had closed ranks and cast 177 “no” votes when the bill was before the House.
The Politico reports that Steele also “jokingly told members” that “we’re living in an era of bipartisanship.”
UPDATE I: Steele repeated his “goose egg” comment this morning on Bob Ehrlich’s radio show. You can listen to the audio of the interview, his first as RNC chair, here.
3 Responses to “Steele Praises House GOP Partisanship: Stimulus Bill ‘Goose Egg Was Just Beautiful’”
John Lofton, Recovering Republican on 31 Jan 2009 at 9:36 pm #
FYI, might want to listen to my exclusive interview with Michael Steele and comment. Thanks. JL.
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1205
And forget, please, “conservatism,” please. It will not “save” us because it has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com
American Street » Blog Archive » Whats A Wingnut To Do on 31 Jan 2009 at 10:17 pm #
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BT on 01 Feb 2009 at 10:37 am #
If you think about it, the bi-partisan vote on the Stimulus package was “NO”.
Both Republicans (All of them) and Democrats (10 of them) voted NO.
Only Democrats voted yes.
It seems that the partisans were in the majority.