On cue M Steele offers some Monday comic relief: "The AMA doesn't have credibility on HC reform"

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/61653-steele-takes-shot-at-ama
Steele takes shot at AMA's credibility

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele took a shot at the American Medical Association (AMA) on Monday, saying the organization doesn't have "credibility" on healthcare reform.

"The AMA is — does not have the credibility on this healthcare issue, as they would like to project," Steele said on "Fox and Friends" Monday morning.


Steele was trying to downplay the significance of the AMA's support for the House healthcare bill(s), but the timing of the chairman's remarks was a little awkward. The RNC held a conference call this morning touting the support of former AMA President Donald Palmisano.


Steele's comments also hint at a strange twist in the healthcare debate. The AMA has traditionally opposed major healthcare reform, and has been an ally of Republicans on issues like tort reform.


The association came out in opposition to a public option earlier this summer, though it still supports the bulk of Democratic-sponsored reform.

Fucking priceless.

The AMA is a group traditionally sympathetic to the Republican Party. The RNC is having a conference call with the AMA President today. The AMA opposes the public option.

And now Steele says that they don't have credibility on health care reform. You just want to pass this guy a permanent microphone so that everything he says would be recorded for future use.

[RepublicanElephant]

1. what happened, steele? ama forget to put your monthly check in the mail? nt

[GrantDem]

2. Steele: Greatest RNC Chairman ever.

[GrilledCheeses]

3. It never ends...

and I never stop :rofl:

He's genius i tell ya, genius!

[Cha]

4. But, steele does?

Now, he's getting the US Doctors pissed at the goppies?

[jenmito]

5. K&R. He was due to give a stupid comment. n/t

[jefferson_dem]

6. Drudge tries to juxtapose image of Obama pitching to doctors today with image or Doctors protesting

from September 10. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0909/658215.html

:rofl: They got nuthin...

[goclark]

7. Shut Up "Lil Mike

You are a finished fool.

PS/ Have you noticed that the Rethugs keep him in the job.

Is this the best they have?

[Cha]

8. "GOP leadlers to michael steele..." Cross posted from GD.

jeffbr (222 posts) Mon Oct-05-09 08:27 PM
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GOP leaders to Michael Steele: "Sit down, BOY, and let us do the thinking"

"Steele, Back to Not Thinking About Policy"
By Lee Hockstader

The Politico carried a scoop Monday reporting that GOP leaders told the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, to quit meddling in policy. The story is remarkable not only for its detailed depiction of top congressional Republicans slapping down their own party’s nominal leader, but also for the suggestion that Steele, never one to get his hands too dirty in actual substance, got burned for appearing to have done just that.

Before he got comfortable on the Sunday morning chat shows in his current job, Steele was famous mainly for having said, in the midst of his dismal, substance-averse and losing campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2006, that the race was “not about issues.” Being a senator from Maryland was really more about leadership style, according to Steele, who never met an issue he bothered to master -- or even read up on very closely. And now GOP leaders are commanding him to return to what he does best -- not thinking about policy...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/steele_back_to_not_thinking_ab.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6704703&mesg_id=6704749

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9. lol