Mooooove Over, GOP.
14 10 2009Today on FOX…
“The feeling in some circles is that this health care train has left the station with the president at the wheel, and Republicans better jump on board,” says our host.
“Well I’m the cow on the tracks,” proclaimed Steele. “You’re gonna have to stop the train to get this cow off the track to move forward.”
Oh, dear. I hate to break it to him, but trains don’t actually stop for cows. Not even close. It takes about two miles to stop a train, so nothing with four legs and hooves is a particularly effective train stopper, really. There aren’t many cows in these parts, but last year the Alaska Railroad reports that 148 moose were killed by trains. Nobody was hopping out of the engine and shooing them off the tracks, or coming to some kind of collective agreement about train policy before the moose would agree to move.
Trains here even come equipped with “moose scoops” (known elsewhere as “cow catchers”) so that the hapless creature does not end up underneath the train, causing all kinds of collateral damage to the machinery.
So, if Barack Obama is a conductor, and the train is healthcare reform, and House and Senate Democrats are on board, and Michael Steele is a cow on the tracks…. guess who wins?
October 14th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
yes Trish! I remember that!
Louden Wainwright III “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doqTSev-_lQ
Enjoy!
FWIW, Louden is also the guy who wrote and performed the “M*A*S*H theme “Suicide is Painless”
October 14th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Average GP40-2 Locomotive: 141 TONS. (no train, one engine only)
Average AK male moose: 1500 POUNDS. (bull, by his lonesome)
Michael Steele: ~200 POUNDS. (without brains)
Even the moose can splatter M.S. all over the place, never mind the locomotive. Oh, and the locomotive? It is not the largest one out there…
Never try to out run the train at a crossing, never try to mess with Brian! Either way, you’re not going to win, ever. Also.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Now that is one big pooper scooper!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Love this post AKM.
You gave me a laugh.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:17 PM
If you really think about it, the analogy is spot on.
Steele and the rest of the GOP are cows on the track and the health care reform train is going to do to them what real trains do to real cows. And moose.
I hope there aren’t any train tracks near Brian, Brenda and the twins.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Haven’t read all the posts, but I would like to point out that a cow is female. So what we have here is Steele, dressed as a cow, in drag trying to stop a train. I gotta tell you: I’m impressed. So, could ya put a dress on the there picture? And maybe some lipstick?
October 14th, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Ruh roh!!! Someone mentioned Flyinureye. Can’t wait until tomorrow or the next day.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Poor cow… how udderly ridiculous!
October 14th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Where’s the giant “Like” button here?
I’m half Steele’s age and even I know it’s called a “cowcatcher” for a reason*. I doesn’t scoop them to safety — it clears the tracks of the carcass.
*OK. I’m a Boilermaker, and one of our logos happens to be a upshot of a steaming locomotive with the uni’s name in the cowcatcher. The man is still made an idiotic metaphor.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Keep on truckin’ those freight cars, Dems, the cows on the tracks are just that. Dumb and in the way.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Steele will be crying like Rush Limabaugh when he lost his bid for the Ramms football team. YEAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
October 14th, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Come on, peeps. Let’s stop the cow abuse. Steele is a skunk. He stinks.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:10 PM
kraut, let’s not blame the skunks!
October 14th, 2009 at 7:15 PM
If you can’t stop well ahead of time you are supposed to hit it and not veer away for the safety of the driver/passengers no matter what vehicle(Public Option) or animal (mostly Republicans).
We get flyers and Public Announcements (even from Repub Congressmen!) every year in MI during hunting season.
I’ve never heard of a deer or cow deliberately try to kill people with this tactic. Perhaps it is a new suicide mission? Eeeks!! Could there be terrorist cows? How long before the rest of the animal kingdom signs up? (o:
P.S. 4 G-kids doing better, son (caretaker) worse and my hubby (with COPD, not flu) can hardly breathe and won’t quit working. Older son may force him to go to emergency TMO. I am doing the best I can. Thanks
October 14th, 2009 at 7:21 PM
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-259
10/15/09 is a day to blog for Environmental Awareness!
October 14th, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Now THAT personifies “mad cow!”
October 14th, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Hysterical! LMAO! Needed this break. Steele is sorta pitiful and I am truly sorry that he is. How can the GOP be so useless to its astroturfed base (’taliban’ = ‘the base’) and clueless too?
Palin/Steele 2012, please?
October 14th, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Good luck Michigander, they big brave guys are the hardest to get to go to the doc!
October 14th, 2009 at 7:34 PM
THE big brave…
October 14th, 2009 at 7:34 PM
michigander I have COPD and if he is having trouble breathing don’t take chances.I took my self to the emergency room and found out I had pneumonia.So please take care all of you.The Emergency room doctor wanted me in the hospital at least for a few days,but we had just changed insurance at work and i did not know what hey would cover so I talked him into giving me a prescription,a very strong one and since i lived close by he said ok but if I felt worse at any time to get right back.
October 14th, 2009 at 7:35 PM
sorry they would cover
October 14th, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Meant to say I am about 3/4 thru Republic Gomorrah,I though it would be kind of dry as I don’t usually read nonfiction,just a few,but I could barely put this book down once I got into it.Why I bring this up is if you read the book you may know why he possibly called himself a cow LOL
October 14th, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Well, this thread totally made my day! I just read through all the comments and they are priceless, not to mention AKM’s assessment. Thanks to all. LMAO at #51 jammer5!
Like others here, I am hoping for an interpretation from flyinureye.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:27 PM
It’s more like Michael Steele is the train wreck not the cow! He is the gift that keeps on giving.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:54 PM
This made me laugh!
October 14th, 2009 at 8:58 PM
boodog – Thank you, so true but scary at this point. I think he doesn’t want to go because he’s afraid it will wipe us out or he will be hospitalized. It is that bad. We have a $10,000 deductible because that is the cheapest premiums we can get which is still approx 1/4 of our income. We both have serious pre-existing conditions. Nothing is covered unless we have a catostrophic illness. We don’t have the money for preventative and don’t want to get stuck in a hospital cuz we’re dying. I am probably not making sense. I’m whipped and need to sleep.
jojobo1 – Thanks, I hear you, last fall we made hubby go to a redi-care, they gave him breathing treatments and we had to pay the pharmacy prescription up front but the rest we just finished paying. This is so off topic….
I feel like I’ve been run over by a herd of cows….’Night all and comfort hugs (o:
October 14th, 2009 at 9:36 PM
testing
October 14th, 2009 at 9:38 PM
(((((((Michigander)))))))),
October 14th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Hugs from me too, Michigander. We need health care reform SOOO BADLY!
October 14th, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Take care, michigander.
Back on topic, I love this picture. It’s the best one I’ve seen of Michael Steele. Just goes to show that he never thinks things through before he opens his mouth and lets insane ideas fall out. Wonder if he is wishing he could take back that particular metaphor.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:58 AM
I agree with earlier post that Steele was put in place to create a buffoon figure of a black politician in the hopes that President Obama would be diminished in the process. I don’t think it’s working. I really don’t.
The danger with Republican buffoonery is that it looks so Republican. I know what minstral shows were meant to do, but I don’t think you can put new wine in them.
The image is the Republican’s choice and now they own it. Poor dumb P.R flop.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:05 AM
By the way, does Steele remind anyone else of Gracho Marks or is it just me?
October 15th, 2009 at 4:31 AM
(Didn’t want to show disrespect to the real Groucho Marx-or just too lazy to spell?-Let’s spin it, Michael. I can’t wait to see the follow-up cow on the track interview.)
October 15th, 2009 at 5:15 AM
It is increasingly evident that in their first Black RNC head, and in their first female VP choice the Repo’s deliberately chose the stupidest people that they could find. They just had to look good in expensive clothes and talk a lot.
Michael needs a few hints
1) The bull is the male of the breed
Steele chose to be the female.
2) Bovine is not a synonym for intelligent
So Steele chose to be a stupid barn yard animal.
And to act like a stupid barn yard animal.
3) Yup, to all that AKM said about trains not stopping etc.
4) He had just said he wasn’t an obstructionist
Then claimed to be exactly that
5) He also wanted a Rodney King moment
Does he want a bunch of white cops to beat his brains out and tase
him or does he want that to happen to Obama?
Either way he sounds like a white guy threatening to whup a black guy
for Driving While Black and no being servile enough
Has Steele looked in the mirror lately?.
But
My big question is
Do the RepoTaliban have their air head mouth pieces audition to see who comes up with the best word salad. ‘Cause they got some real winners
October 15th, 2009 at 5:24 AM
81 Riverside Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 3:58 AM
I agree with earlier post that Steele was put in place to create a buffoon figure of a black politician in the hopes that President Obama would be diminished in the process. I don’t think it’s working. I really don’t.
I agree. But did they expect the two to become buddies becasue on is Black and one is half Black?
Was Obama supposed to go easy on Steele or order his staff or his whole party to lay off the Black guy, and his party?
Do they think that Blacks will flock to them because of Steele. Women didn’t flock to Palin?
LIke Palin did they just grab him for his “looks” and not give him an IQ test?
It’s really hard to figure what they hoped to gain, and why they continue to cling to Steele, Palin, Bachmann, etc., when in the long run they make the party look bad.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:31 AM
76 michigander
I hear you.
You can’t get the medical help you need becasue you can’t afford to pay of the treatment, and what’s the point of getting well if you are crippled by debt. Then your brain goes nuts because it’s trying to think of a way out and it can’t so it goes round and round and round looking for something that’s not there.
It’s just so crazy making.
Keep us updated.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:25 AM
Michigander………if he can’t/won’t go to the hospital then make him take care of himself! it’s too bad you can’t get some antibiotics from Canada or Mexico. My parents go across the border to Mexico for them.
Mudpups, does anyone have antibiotics they can send Michgander? Can you buy them over the internet? I have no clue.
As for Michael Steel, he’s dumb as a steaming cow pie. But good fertilizer for the Dems. He’ll get butchered sometime soon. Oh dear, that made me think of Fried Green Tomatoes, gross.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Dear god! Think about it: If Steele is the female cow, who’s the bull? On second thought, even the thought of Steele getting straddled by a wingnut bull, if one even exists, is enough to raise nightmares for months to come.
Dang it, Steele, why didn’t you come out as an actual male bull, and save us all these bad dreams?
October 15th, 2009 at 6:45 AM
“Mudpups, does anyone have antibiotics they can send Michgander? Can you buy them over the internet?”
Do NOT go here. You can do a lot more harm than good by just taking any anti-biotic. You can make sure he DIES, if you are not careful. Anti-biotics are geared toward specific germs and if you give one that is not called for, you can kill off the good bacteria in the person and set them up for even more horrendous diseases.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:02 AM
Steele, in a move to further distance himself from any semblance of reality, has agreed to dress himself as cow in drag, and position himself on the nearest railroad track.
Snidely Whiplash has stated he will refuse to tie him up, saying, “Even for a guy as evil as me, I refuse to do cows in drag.”
Duddly Do-Right, in a separate interview, said, “I’m retired.”
Nell Fenwick said, “Oh He’s so cute! Can I milk him?”
Transportation officials have stated the terrorist alert levels will not be raised, as trains have cow catchers on the front in order to keep the tracks clear.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:26 AM
Marnie, you are right on target. I still don’t think the Republicans would have picked SP if she had not just given birth to a special needs child. She was young, pretty, and extremely socially conservative, in complete contrast to McCain. Those are all the “qualifications” she needed to have in their book as they wanted someone who would appeal to their base, and it was pure bonus that she is someone they could easily manipulate later. Their choice was obviously a major tactical blunder, since they already had the base votes, and needed to be pandering to all the independents and moderates in both parties to win.
The choice of Steele as the Republican leader, based, apparently, on nothing more substantial than his skin color and ability to say inane things in front of the media, is backfiring big time as well.
The majority of people in this country elected President Obama over the hero and the zero, because he is an articulate person of substance with leadership skills. The contents of the package are more important than the gift wrapping on the outside of the box, and we know it, no matter how badly the Republican leadership wants us to believe otherwise. They need to stop insulting our intelligence with their choices and make sure the decent, smart people among their membership have seats on the train, before the whole lot of them get run over by it.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:27 AM
Now this is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-cAy24MEuM
October 15th, 2009 at 7:56 AM
goppers love to throw each other under a train… steele is just another self-fulfilling prophecy.
October 15th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
and speaking of dead cows… now #12 on amazon:
Going Rogue: (Hardcover)
‘hardcover’ or hard sell?
October 15th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
sorry….meant barnes & noble.
October 15th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Mikey Cow on the tracks = Beef for dinner. Or, Blood On The Tracks (hat tip to Bob Dylan)
October 15th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Steele doesnt even realize he is the token cow!
October 15th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
I wonder if Sarah knows that going rogue means living all by yourself, away form you herd (think GOP) and its protections and support. She gets too rogueish she’ll end up with no party, no income, and then her family will dump on her big time. Even the most adoring spouse or child is eventually going to realize they are being used on the one hand and neglected on the other.
‘Course its also difficult of think of a rogue as female. A human rogue generally being a male of questionable virtue and being socially not acceptable in “nice” society.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Michigander—-I get some meds from a Pharmacy in Canada.
I saved $108l.00 on an eight month supply.
You do need a precription from your doctor, which you must fax to this pharmacy.
As a first time customer–you will have to give them some info about the person who will be taking these meds.
It is best to give them a call to get all the info you need to purchase your first order.
They are located in BC Canada.
http://www.Northwestpharmacy.com
I faxed the precription and my check to them for my order.
We are very pleased that we found this place, as my husband will have to be on this medication for the rest of his life.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:19 PM
boodog – Thank you, so true but scary at this point. I think he doesn’t want to go because he’s afraid it will wipe us out or he will be hospitalized. It is that bad. We have a $10,000 deductible because that is the cheapest premiums we can get which is still approx 1/4 of our income. We both have serious pre-existing conditions. Nothing is covered unless we have a catostrophic illness. We don’t have the money for preventative and don’t want to get stuck in a hospital cuz we’re dying. I am probably not making sense. I’m whipped and need to sleep.
jojobo1 – Thanks, I hear you, last fall we made hubby go to a redi-care, they gave him breathing treatments and we had to pay the pharmacy prescription up front but the rest we just finished paying. This is so off topic….
I feel like I’ve been run over by a herd of cows….’Night all and comfort hugs (o:
I just wanted to ad that my new insurance would not pay for the emergency room treatment because I was not admitted to the hospital,Go figure,They did however reimburse me for 80% of the antibiotic.I had to pay out of pocket for the emergency room care even though it did in effect save my life.