Mooooove Over, GOP.
Today 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?
It’s not going to be pretty.
Michael Steele is a walking malaprop. Love it when he opens his mouth.
I thought cowcatchers when I read about this earlier today at HuffPo.
As if we needed solid proof of Steele’s cluelessness…sigh
Cow Catcher, Moose Scoop, Moron Muncher, whatever; let the train roll on!
I know a black lab that got flipped by a cow catcher and lived to bark about it, so Steele may be injured, but not finished by his stupidity.
Nonetheless, it’s a good thing people are getting on the train. Hope it has the things Americans need instead of just what the so-called “health industry” wants.
Fun article on HuffPo about Michael Steel and the new RNC website..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-sinker/notice-anything-different_b_319701.html
Where did they find this guy….and why haven’t they dumped him yet?
Shoo cow shoo, or should that be, shoo bull shoo, no, I was right the first time, shoo cow shoo.
This thread is making me laugh so much, thank you AKM, I’m having a bad day at work, but this thread cheered me right up. Steele is such an (sic)moran.
All abroad for BBQ steak?
What up?
I’m not surprised Steele isn’t knowledgable about trains and cows. He’s clueless all the way around.
I worked for CPR (Canadian Pacific RR) as a Brakeman many years ago and I remember once when a group of sheep were on the tracks and we couldnt have stopped if we wanted to (which never was considered). The engineer hit the whistle repeatedly (we were on a ‘slow’ order’ so we were only going app. 20 TO 25 MPH) and a small number of them ran, but NOT outside of the rails, and I watched what looked like big white pillows flying up and past. Steele is as dumb as these sheep staying between the rails as they ran, and will affect real change as little as these sheep affected as our train..which was not at all, in fact from the inside of the ‘cab’ I couldn’t even hear the sounds of their impact.
WooHoo!! (ChuggaChuggaChugga…)
PooperScooper and people transportation, who knew?
Can we git one of those for elected officials? Some sort of “Constituent Train”?
OT: Cat Stevens, “Health” Train: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg
Swear to goodness, I was just trying to figure out what to have for dinner and had been considering ordering from the Chinese restaurant up the street. Now I think I totally need to get an order of “Moo! Shooo!” beef , with a H/T to this thread.
Ok really – does Steele imagine that cows are activist oriented and that’s what motivates them to stand strong and brave on the tracks in front of oncoming trains?? This has been cracking me up all day! I keep imagining what Flyinureye might create from this . So many ideas!
The train’s left the station with the majority of the country on board.
“Moo! Shooo! beef” … lol, buffy!
Steele = utter nonsense.
Shovel on the coal, boys, it’s full speed ahead!
As simple sarah was a “token” female, steele is a “token” black for the repugnant ones. The sad thing is it took a real effort to find these losers.
Yesterday huffpo had a headlie that Olympia Snowe was the true “maverick”
female repub not the dimwit. Lots of chatter from the wack-a-doodles on the net today regarding princess winkey’s new group stfu or whatever it is. They can hardly wait to flush their money down the toilet, errr contribute to sister sarah’s new ploy to steal $ from the elderly and real Amerikans.
Dept of “am I reading the Onion?” aka “you just can’t make this stuff up”
Over at c4p they are very proud that, nyah nyah:
“As it turns out, there is a GOP gubernatorial nominee in 2009 who thinks Gov. Palin is an asset. Not in Virginia, not New Jersey – but let’s not forget that the Northern Mariana Islands are also electing a Governor this year.”
The candidate even posted a picture of himself with the Palins “on a stopover” last month. Now that is some substantive vindication from the Republican Party.
ummm, well if Obama is the conductor who’s driving the train? Just asking . . .
mmmmm….steak! everyone come and pick your prime cut….let’s have a BBQ!
you betcha
“headline”
Sarah is headed to the kitchen to put a pot on the stove.
I sense there will need to be a big pot of ‘ chili ‘ cooking soon.
Maybe she will invite Greta…. again..?
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saurkraut…. you can use your line from yesterday here as well.
My dad retired form the Alaska Railroad and he always called it the “moose gooser”.
Lin in AZ: that’s the coolest response … and no, it won’t be pretty BUT we are gonna look anyway, aren’t we? Yep! Bwhahahahaha!
I agree, where did they get this guy, no really I would like to know. I couldn’t stand to look it up so I am hoping that you know and can give me the nutshell version, after all if you know you have already suffered so why should I.
What a putz.
This is what I’m thinking about the train metaphor:
Trouble with you is
The trouble with me
Got two good eyes
but we still don’t see
Come round the bend
You know it’s the end
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams
there are times i am loss for words. this is not one of them. Michael Steele is a silly son of a #!@@^&* and a @#!%%^%%*&^. also. too.
Daily Kos has a video that makes AKM’s point
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002253/
(Alas, an animal was harmed in the making of that movie, but not intentionally. As she said, it takes two miles to stop a train.)
I had to close my eyes at the end of the one…
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002253/
AKM, YOU know that it takes two miles to stop the train,and I know that it takes two miles to stop the train, but why should we tell HIM?!
merlinAK @17…WE the PEOPLE are driving the train!
this sorry excuse for a human, ‘mikey the mensch’ Steele was put into place as an insult to the president specifically and Black people in general. he is an embarrassement now and he always has been. like Clarence Thomas but without the brains or education.
O’jays lyrics to “Love Train”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQvmCzILBfE
People all over the world (everybody)
Join hands (join)
Start a Health Reform train, Health Reform train
People all over the world (all the world, now)
Join hands (Health Reform ride)
Start a Health Reform train (Health Reform ride),Health Reform train
The next stop that we make will be Phoenix
Tell all the folks in Alaska, and Kentucky, too
Don’t you know that it’s time to get on board,(GOP)
And let this train keep on riding, riding on through
Well, well
People all over the world (you don’t need no money)
Join hands (come on)
Start a Health Reform train, Health Reform train (don’t need no ticket, come on)
People all over the world ( ride this Health Reform train)(Ride this Health Reform train, y’all)
Start a Health Reform train (Come on,Health Reform train), Health Reform train
All of you Tea-baggers over in Faux News
Tell all the folks like Beck, and Limbaugh, too
Please don’t miss this train, (GOP) at the station
‘Cause if you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
Well
People all over the world (Sisters and brothers)
Join hands (join, come on)
Start a Health Reform train (ride this Health Reform train, y’all), Health Reform train (Come on)
People all over the world (Don’t need no tickets)
Join hands (come on, ride)
Start a Health Reform train, Health Reform train
Ride, let it ride
Let it ride
Let it ride
People, ain’t no war
People all over the world (on this Health Reform train)
Join in (ride the Health Reform train)
WooHoo! Chugga chugga chugga chugga Chugga…
I had no idea there was a pooper-scooper/people transporter train all in one.
Can we get one for our current pooperPolitcians with the HealthTrain?
CatSteven’s Peace Train, think “Health Train”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg , Hope the moderaters let this through.
bubs…Clarence Thomas has brains???
Hit it, scoop it, move it………… Lets get the healthcare reform on the train
Someone should really forward this ‘take’ on his statement to Steele. He just doesn’t get it. Methinks he has Obama envy.
As a rancher, I sympathize with the (real) cow on the tracks. But the train man was exactly right when he calls the cow a dumb F***. If Michael Steele wants to call himself a cow, I simply have to agree. They are typically just not very bright animals.
lol jwa!
Steele sure has a fine set of udders on him in that photo.
Milk that puppy.
Big Slick: I think I just had a flashback! Thanks for the lyrics…haven’t listened to any Dead for quite sometime
(you really just did bring me back to some fun times in my life when we used to go around to shows eating any and every substance that was put in front of us…wow, what a long strange trip it has been and it is certain to be an even longer and stranger trip for this country from the looks of it!)
hey justa!! glad your DH wasn’t hurt. the people you gave the meat to are lucky to have you and hubby as neighbors. don’t worry the truck will be fixed. you are a good lady and all will be well….bubs…… Clarence has a very small and dim brain but Mikey has absolutely nothing between his ears except his nose.
Southpaw, the train engineer said what we’re all thinking. Thank you for sharing that video.
Rachel is out yet again – Allison does a fine job, but we certainly miss Rachel……….so if she’s feeling well enough to read this blog – GET WELL SOON! WE MISS YOU!
Egad, I don’t suppose there’s some more knowledgable Republican out there from say, Wisconsin, who’s quietly taken Steele aside and pointed out that guys who refer to themselves as “cows” are emasculating themselves. A cow is a female bovine; a bull is a male. Unless Steele thinks of himself as a steer, which is almost as bad as calling himself a cow.
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jc in co said, “Lots of chatter from the wack-a-doodles on the net today regarding princess winkey’s new group stfu or whatever it is.”
Close enough, jc … SUFON.
I was reading Mrs. TBB’s Spanish translation of the Palin organization acronym, and I guess it’s NSFW or here. But I looked up alternate translations for the word she was talking about, “sufón”, and it also means “siphon” in English.
Pretty appropriate, considering Palin’s predilection for other people’s money.
Amazing, isn’t it? Steele actually believes he has the power to stop the train? Uhhhh….hate to also tell him that he has ZERO power.
But, speaking of cows on tracks……..kind of…..
Anyone remember that song from the 70′s….Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road? I couldn’t help think of that song when I read this piece. But, I do love the graphic of the cow!!!!!!
Steele must think he’s Superman, but he’s just a cow, and a squished one at that.
oh dear….
Kent Jones on Rachel tonight had a completely embarrassing Louisville, KY, tourist ad campaign. I tracked it down on the intertubes:
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/10/have-a-pathetic.html
I haz a sad for the rest of Kentucky….
I’m not one to slow down and watch wrecks, nor do I want to imagine anyone getting hit by a train. But . . .
I’m perfectly capable of imagining Steele in a straight to video movie standing on the tracks, arms raised, saying “Stop! You must consider the Republican plan–don’t get sick, and if you do, die quickly!” Eyes widen as whistle blows and screen goes black. Next scene, his widow (is he married? No matter; it’s just based on a true event) all in black, hat with veil, dabbing her eyes with a black lace hankie at the gravesite. “I know he was a moron (or moraine), but I l-l-loved him! Boo hoo hoo!” Next scene, the day after, she’s on a date with Glenn Beck.
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”
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.
Now that is one big pooper scooper!
Love this post AKM.
You gave me a laugh.
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.
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?
Ruh roh!!! Someone mentioned Flyinureye. Can’t wait until tomorrow or the next day.
Poor cow… how udderly ridiculous!
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.
Keep on truckin’ those freight cars, Dems, the cows on the tracks are just that. Dumb and in the way.
Steele will be crying like Rush Limabaugh when he lost his bid for the Ramms football team. YEAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Come on, peeps. Let’s stop the cow abuse. Steele is a skunk. He stinks.
kraut, let’s not blame the skunks!
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
http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-259
10/15/09 is a day to blog for Environmental Awareness!
Now THAT personifies “mad cow!”
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?
Good luck Michigander, they big brave guys are the hardest to get to go to the doc!
THE big brave…
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.
sorry they would cover
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
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.
It’s more like Michael Steele is the train wreck not the cow! He is the gift that keeps on giving.
This made me laugh!
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:
testing
(((((((Michigander)))))))),
Hugs from me too, Michigander. We need health care reform SOOO BADLY!
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.
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.
By the way, does Steele remind anyone else of Gracho Marks or is it just me?
(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.)
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
“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.
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.
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.
Now this is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-cAy24MEuM
goppers love to throw each other under a train… steele is just another self-fulfilling prophecy.
and speaking of dead cows… now #12 on amazon:
Going Rogue: (Hardcover)
‘hardcover’ or hard sell?
sorry….meant barnes & noble.
Mikey Cow on the tracks = Beef for dinner. Or, Blood On The Tracks (hat tip to Bob Dylan)
Steele doesnt even realize he is the token cow!
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.
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.
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.