RNC still whining after DNC smack down

[ProSense]

STEELE DOUBLES DOWN....

Shortly after Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele blasted the U.S. president. It was widely seen as an unseemly attack, even generating criticism from conservatives like Pat Buchanan and GOP operative Scott Reed, the latter of whom said Steele "should not have done that." For its part, the DNC noted the similarities between Steele's criticism of the president and the Taliban's.

Last night, Steele doubled down, sending out a fundraising appeal to RNC members, telling them that the Nobel Peace Prize has become "meaningless." Responding to the DNC's criticism, Steele (or, more accurately, the staffer who writes these letters) wrote:

(W)hen challenged to answer the question of what the president has accomplished, Democrats are lashing out calling Republicans terrorists. That type of political rhetoric is shameful.

The Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control. And truly patriotic Americans like you and our Republican Party are the only thing standing in their way. (emphasis in the original)

So, in one sentence, Steele is outraged by "shameful" incendiary rhetoric. In the next sentence, Democrats and international leftists "want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control."

It's almost whiplash inducing.

As for the bigger picture, we've reached an interesting time in partisan politics. At RNC headquarters, the day the U.S. president wins the Nobel Peace Prize, their first reaction is to attack. Their section reaction is to ask for more money as a symbolic protest of the president's latest honor.

[saltpoint]

1. A survey of

assholes may have to be undertaken to determine whether the same assholes who question Obama's award yesterday are the same assholes who oppose U.S. membership in the United Nations, and if the assholes of the first demographic are the same assholes in the demographic that thinks the Founders were fundamentalist Christians, and whether there is an overlay in the group of assholes who think the earth is six thousand years old and the group of assholes who think it's perfectly fine to blow wolves out of the wilderness from small airplanes.

DU may need to set up a Know Your Assholes forum.

[Mz Pip]

10. that could make for

quite an interesting Venn diagram. I would suspect that there is an intersection region that includes each and every one of these.

[krispos42]

14. Not as exciting as you'd think

More of a circle, really.

[Mz Pip]

15. I do think you're right

They overlap, though I have seen several posts on DU that lead me to believe #1 may not be all inclusive of the others.

[krispos42]

17. Yeah, but the it wouldn't be as funny....

:D

[C_U_L8R]

2. I've never seen such a pathetic group of crybabies

The rightwingers cheat, lie and then they turn around whining and wailing.... what dismal losers.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. They can sure dish it out, but....

Anyone remember The Dixie Chicks? Hello!

[Kdillard]

4. They love dishing it out but they can never take their own medicine.

They also seem to have a hard time learning from their mistakes. The DNC did not say anything that was untrue.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. Well, to be fair they haven't had much experience in "taking their own medicine".

We've been letting them run wild for the last eight years for the most part.

[depakid]

13. and it's LONG past time that stops

No more apologies.

[treestar]

22. Yep, who were they calling terrorists for the last 8 years?

They are absolutely brazen when it comes to their double standards. It's OK if you're a Republican.

[Arkana]

5. That type of rhetoric is "shameful"?

Then why did they use it for eight years?

[Peacetrain]

6. Even Limbaugh said they were agreeing with the Taliban...the republicans

That is how much they hate Obama.. and when the DNC called them out, their screed was already out there.. They said it themselves.

Edit for site: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910090029

[Arkana]

7. They can keep whining, but there's eight years worth of statements from them

that look almost exactly like this DNC press release.

[Gman2]

8. the only response I get is, all this is whipping up the base.

If their base is so debased as to need insane claims, to keep them from dissintegrating, what does that say about all but the base? I say we hammer back every time they claimn that it is helping the base. That the base is almost dead, and perhaps you had better forget lies and slander and administer CPR. And thats not cockamamie Palin ramblings.

[City Lights]

11. Wah, wah, wah!

Mikey and his Repubicans can dish it out, but they can't take it!

[emulatorloo]

12. Steele may be Psychotic, or maybe he is just mirroring the base. Thanks for posting

this. . .fascinating.

[Lord Helmet]

16. LOL. They're spinning their wheels.

[Puzzler]

18. Well, if it's "meaningless" then there's nothing to worry about!

Right, Mr. Steele?

However, the RNC clearly thinks the prize still has huge significance, otherwise they'd not be whining about it so much.

[Cha]

19. If Michael Steele got his head out of ass for five freakin'

minutes and had a brain..never mind, the whole michael steele getting it is..well, hopeless.

[and-justice-for-all]

20. Fuck those corporate whores...the "What is truely worng with this country" party..nt

[Peacetrain]

21. Hey we were not the ones saying they agreed with the Taliban

Their fearless leader rush was.

We just pointed it out to them

;)

[DailyGrind51]

23. Steele is an RNC scapegoat who will be "sacrificed" when he becomes inconvenient.