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  • Republicans want to cut taxes, deregulate and pray about the rest.

  • Michael Steele always knows his position on the failboard.

  • ROFL, Dems secretly knew a flu pandemic was brewing. Poor Steele just can't get a break!!! I'll give him a pass if he'll quit deferring to Limbaugh.

  • And that is the exact reason why Republican Officials and the like must go. They don't want to prepare for a peoples emergency, but oh no, gotta have that windfall profit for their rainy day and their masters.

    Fuck you Michael Steele. That comment and many others like them just proves to a sceptic independant why you'all are so hated.

    Long Live Julius Caesar's Legacy to grind Republican scum down!

    Long Live America!

    Hail Caesar, Hail Obama!

  • how were we supposed to know there werent any wmds in iraq

  • Is anybody surprised at this? I mean, how many people told the GOP that McCain would be a lousy candidate? Did they listen?

    This is another feather in Duncan Black's "Nobody could have predicted..." cap.

  • The GOP must fire Steele!

  • The GOP is all fucked up. It is not even recognizable anymore. It's a circus show. Steele is probably better than Rush Limbaugh. And right now Rush seems to being ruling this party.

  • This just proves how dangerous republicans really are, cutting and slashing every ounce of money set aside for the good and protection of the american people so they give the money to the fat cat wall street business cronies that make up their base.

    Thank you Republicans, your greed and callousness may have killed us all!

  • We'll hire firemen once the fire starts.

    Brilliant Republican strategy.

  • The Bush administration stockpiled Tamaflu vaccine.

  • Stupid republication assholes strike again.

  • It is called "preparedness" It is done in case there is a problem. Typical Republicans want to wait and do NOTHING.

  • Just like Katrina.

  • Dem Sen C. Schumer had a press conference where he was happy to get rid of the porky things like the std funding, mall, flu, etc.

  • Hahaha, if Obama were to cut defense spending and a terrorist attack were to happen then OBAMA CAUSED US TO BE SUCCEPTABLE TO AN ATTACK.

    If republicans cut pandemic flu preparedness and we happen to have a pandemic flu then HOW WERE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THERE WOULD BE A PANDEMIC FLU

    Typical bullshit from the party of bullshit artists.

  • You don't have to know when a flu pandemic will come to know that you have to be prepared for one when it does come...

  • GOPers keep Steele in charge...he's so nutty he's driving more & more people to the Democratic Party.

  • I think at this point they are all nutty what is left. Specter was the last sane one. Rush truely is theri leader. It's like watchiong a trainwreck in slow motion. Not pretty.

  • stimulus money to create jobs is not the only purpose, it's supposed to create some value, such as pandemic defence in this case. Not just paying people to dig holes and then fill them again. This Steele guy must be a bit slow?

  • Considering that Mexico will now lose millions in tourism, that schools here in the US have been closed down, that people may be staying home from their jobs, I would say that pandemic illnesses might affect the economy as well

  • that is why it is called pandemic flu preparedness, key word is preparedness, you don't know it will happen but you are prepared. Did you know it would not happen?

  • 35,000 people die from the regular flu every year so far no u.s.a citizens have died,thank the media for fear mongering,and 443000 die of smoking related deaths

  • Republicans don't spent for people. They spend for their bankster butt buddies and war industry masters.

  • Much more than republicans and Bush.

  • 1st off it was proven, there has been court on intimidation, voter caging was a big one thanks to karl Rove, people have gone to jail for that already. There have alos been deaths of patriots that wanted to come clean and blow the whistle. We knew, it's just the neocons have alot of mioney and power. Well used to have power. The corporations backed them.

  • Obama won by a landslide.

    What's the point.

    Have a re-election today with McCain-Palin vs Obama , Obama will win in a landslide.

    Obama won the presidency when he won the the democratic nomination.

    The math showed that all Obama needed was one-third of the white vote to win.

    He will get one-third in 2012 and win again.

  • GOP doesnt have any more power than the DEMs do! Trust that! Look at all these rich DEMs you have! Man please! All that about people went to jail is crazy! You cant see that?

    Its a simple question, If Bush did cheat then why didn't the DEMs go at the Supreme court judge to get him fired for cheating for Bush to win? That would of settled it right their IF Bush did cheat!

    Now you have to ask yourself who so called proved it to you cause they lied to your face!

  • i ask myself how he got elected twice. I also ask myself y fox news is allowed on tv but some questions have no answers.

  • Forget FOX, why is MSNBC allowed on TV? Thats the more important question!

  • Forget FOX, why is MSNBC and CNN allowed on TV? Thats the more important question!

  • like WHAT?

  • It is called prevention Michael

  • Republicans take pride in ignorant.

  • Listen, its far more likely that more Americans will die from regular influenza than from swine flu, and that happens every year.

    Quit freaking out you bunch of mindless drones.

  • Fuck The GOP

    Fuck Steele

    Fuck Limbaugh

    Fuck Hannity

    Fuck Boortz

    Fuck conservatives.

  • YEAH!!!

    Lots of sex for conservatives!

    (I just hope you're a woman!)

  • I'm from florida dipshit, you have no clue what you are talking about.

  • Damn you missed out on a law suit then man! Wow! Only if you knew your Constituional rights and your Civil Rights, you could of sued the DNC for violating your 10th amendment rights and your Civil Rights! Damn, whos the dip shit now?

    All it could of took was you and you could of stopped Obama from being elected in the Democratic Primary 08! All it took was YOU and we all could of more than likely avoided mass Socialism!

    WOW! How do you feel?

  • actually youre wrong Democrats didnt take away the Florida or Mich delegates, they did that to themselves. Also an agreement was made to seat half so your point is not valid.

    Only person to steal an election was bush in 2000.

  • If Michigan was to have a second election, Obama would have won in a landslide.

    Detroiters and blacks determine the presidential elections in Michigan. A Republican has not won Michigan since Ron Reagan.

  • So braking the constitution to get Obama in office, disrespecting what freedom fighter DIED for is cool?

  • Huh??? That was a strange thing to say. Have you been watching Glenn Beck?

  • Its sounds strange to you cause you are not informed on how america works fully man, not to sound cocky but it is what it is...

    And yea i watch Glen Beck, why?

  • I am not a man thank you. And who are you to say I do not know how America is informed? Typical of a neocon to think they know everything. Like, who other than Glenn Beck. who really doesn't shit. I can tell who on here is totally fanatic. Or if I watch Glenn or Rush that day and get on youtube the neocons are copying them word for word on their talking points.

  • Why would what i said sound crazy? You acting like its not true! Thats why i said you dont know how America works! Period!

    And im not a Neocon! Im a moderate that leans towards conservative like you probably do.. And i can tell you are a CNN or MSNBC fan cause you dont post to much info...

  • No, they all piss me off because they are all so wrong. Fox is just way to out there radical. Seriously the republican party has been hijacked they might as well take it down. They are not true conservatives. And I draw a finline between Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. I like them both. In the mean time I will support President Obama.

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  • Call it what you wish. Whatever your definition of socialism is. So with the way things are and the way the ultra rich want it, socialism is only for the rich? And do go accusing me of not working and payin taxes. I've paid way to many in my time. I think every country needs a little socialism. I would rather see taxes going to support children or down and out parents than to freakin corporations like it always has been.

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  • Wow bigstU25 it took me awhile to educate myself on Iraq. Did you know that Saddam protected the catholics, and the sunnis. He was after the radicals that were making life hell for everyone else. Now people have no home no country really. The shiite made out. So pretty much we put the radicals in power. Why would we go after a guy that protects christians? We are the ones that sanctioned Iraq. We ran that country into the ground.

  • Well maybe you should talke to an Iraqi, most of them say it sucks. Still no electricity, most are hooked on xanx because of the stress. Many have no home to even go to. Medicine is short. The babies are being born with deftects due to fallout. So I guess he is lucky he came home. Over 90% want us gone. And my brother went on 2 tours wtf? I guess it depends on if you are really in battle or not because he said some are sitting ont their asses in AC rooms all day with great security.

  • And it is not a better country, do your research. Evengelicals are evil and they follow the Haggard type. And you to can look up the history of Saddam and you might want to talk to an Iraqi or a warrior that was actually in war. The everyday Iraqi is miserable and most likely they have lost the life of a child, brother, sister, mother, father or friend. That doesn't sound happy to me. They are left on their own. We steal their oil. Where is the justice. Bush is a criminal.

  • Yes I watched it and it actually sucked. I think Obama will suprise you. That is my view. My opinion. And you know how opinions are. They are like assholes, everyone has one. So what.

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  • WHich GOP senator are you talking about if you dont mind to share that info, or if you could share that info...

    Just dont BABBLE!

     Please present some facts!

  • But i do agree w/ you on that both parties are shit.

    But the DEMOCRATS are the worst shit you can get!

  • The GOP NEVER had a KKK senator that they GAVE senator power too in the HISTORY of the USA! FACT!

    The GOP NEVER supported a KKK member that came to the GOP! FACT!

  • ..and I can say, bigstU25, that you're completely full of shit, since my son went to the shithole Bush created in Iraq (twice), and I am a Freemason. What a fucking moron.

  • Well, well, well... If it isn't a typical liberal that are FULL of insults but LACKS all kinds of factual statements to prove your claim! I bet you watch Keith Olberman every night, huh? Cause you sound just like him.

    1st off, NO president creates wars unless the secret societies that run them instruct them to do.

    2nd if Saddam kicks out the UN inspectors when they wanted to see a certain part of his country, wouldnt you think he was hiding something? Duh!

  • So where are these weapons which would have been the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud?

    And if you're going to talk about having a discussion with factual statements, you might want to keep secret societies out of it. Anything big enough to control the entire government probably wouldn't let you go around spreading their agenda...

  • Can you believe that Alex Jones was allowed to put his documentary NWO on demand. We have it here through comcast. I'm pretty shocked. Now you know that there is no way that would have been allowed under the Bush administration. I'm going to watch it just because I can.  That is good news. He talks much shit.

  • What are you talking about? What about Farenheit 911? THat was put out on Bush's Term!

  • So let's have a re-election and watch Obama obliterate McCain.

    All Obama needs is one-thrid of the white vote.

  • If they keep letting that joker, that court jester speak...than the GOP will be a permanent minority forever.

  • Obama obvious knew about preparing about epidemics that's why he included such measures in the budget.

    That's the problem with Republicans, they are too much into short-term thinking instead of long-term thinking to make America better.

  • Steele doesn't get it. The purpose of a government is to govern. If you can't prepare reasonably for contingencies, you don't belong in government. You should do something else.

  • Steele's arguments are bull.

    A pandemic by definition occurs out the blue, all you ahve to do is provide for the worst.

    And money set aside for such an issue would eventually be money well spent, saving lives and preventing chaos.

    But then again, Republicans hate spending money for the public good - they call it socialism.

  • lets hope the Center for Disease Control can address this in a quick timely manner and hopefully stop it before it gets out of hand. But as far as your observations about us being behind the curve, you're absolutely right.

  • We got prepared for epidemic outbreaks after SARS hit here in Toronto 5 years or so back. If you Yankees were only just thinking about pandemic preparedness in your stimulus bill, it was too little too late. Trust me, money targeted today takes years for it to translate into preparedness.

    this video is purely partisan crap, Americans are starting to get on my nerves. why can't open discussion occur without political shots being taken.

  • uh, ccreation of a pandemic preparedness council would create jobs you farging sap

  • its far too little too late for that. you should have had those years ago. Our Government in Toronto conducts prep for pandemic outbreaks every year. We didn't need to wait for a stimulus bill to prepare.

  • I wonder if Steele is smarter than me. If he's more intelligent. I want to think most politicians are, for my own safety. But sometimes I wonder.

  • "How Were We Supposed to Know"?

    Um.... Because of what history a taught us?

  • Memo to Steele: Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance.

  • nail.....head....HIT!!!

  • agreed, if only they prepared for this after the last outbreak a few years back. Seems only New York is ready, with the rest of you trailing behind.

  • The GOP are gangsters. Theres no two ways about it. Stuck in an ideological paradox between neoliberal small govt ideology and big brother religious bullyism ideology, the GOP have imploded and become a gang of crazy loons.

    And the more it continues, the more that a Democrat permanant majority will seem likely.

    Good riddance conservative garbage.

  • The GOP has become an irresponsible pack of fascist loons..

  • I wonder what Rush has told his followers to think about this?

  • Michael Steal says that funding for a flu pandemic had nothing to do with a flu pandemic. And, how was he supposed to know? I suppose if something is not happening right at this moment, we should not prepare for it. Repubs are like Old Faithful: You can count on them to blow hot stinky gas out of their face holes like clockwork.

  • Mobsters

  • Sorry, only interested in KILLING more people.

  • thats the point though, leaders are supposed to be hind-sighted

    They are supposed to make decisions for long term good not for short term gains.

    This is the problem with the GOP they lack vision. They only see whats right in front of them, and this is why they keep getting fucked up, and why they make the stupid decisions they make

    Also re stimulus, they were/are anti stimulus because they are anti democrat. Thats all it boils down to. Oppose the dems even if it costs people their lives.

  • Next time buy a better chrystal ball when vote no. Such plans are preventive. Wasn't birdflu already a sign? But in his defence... the whole swine flu is getting hyped up in the media

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  • Gop is destroyed.

  • So republicans are 0 for 2 so far this year. First they were against volcano monitoring and then a volcano errupted in Alaska. Now we have the flu pandemic which republicans voted against being better prepared for.

    Every day they dig themselves deeper and deeper.

  • "how were we supposed to know?"....are you serious????...those programs are meant to be preventative...PREVENTATIVE. Which means you don't know when it will happen...but when it does you look competent and prepared. Same shit with Katrina...Republicans too scared to spend money on preventative measures...

  • Oh Michael Steele, he's so terrible i don't know if i should laugh or cry!!!

  • First Volcano Monitoring...

    Now Pandemic Money...

  • next Climate Change and global warming.

    Follow those debates the republicans are the ONLY ones who think this is crackpot science and not actual fact.

  • 30,000 people die from the flu every year in this country. I will bet most of them are old. So tell me Texas dude. Did you want it cut because it would help the elderly? How about elderly veterans? How about we make our paid government officials pay for their own medical insurance. That would free up enough to help many.

  • Totally agree with your Mychaels. Money should be diverted from pointless causes to research and medical/scientific advancement. We need more highly educated people in the governement.. unfortunately the country wants to elect people that are just like them -- you know people who are "folksy." This is why we get stuck with charming idiots -- err republicans.

  • We need to get down to even more simpler planning. Do Americans try to stay healthy or do they just expect a magic cure? Education towards fruit and vegetables would be a huge plus to our farmers and therefore our economy. Republicans do not want to work any harder than they have too. We will all be sick if they have their way.. Thanks!

  • No members in either party read the stimulus bill. It was available to read for eight hours, FAR FROM the promised five days to read the bill, yet more than a thousand pages long.

    The process was heavily flawed, and I don't remember ever having this argument about pandemic appropriations.

  • Well, at least we were prepared for Hurricane Katrina and 9-11. *eyeroll*

  • Um, that's the point you don't always know what's coming but you have to prepare for it. Kinda like how they Didn't prepare for 9-11 and more than 5000 Americans died.

  • 6 months after the vote, huh Steele?

  • I knew for CERTAIN about the pandemic swine flu 4 years ago. Why? I took a virology class at UCLA and one of my professors stressed it in great detail, wrote out the mechanism in detail!

    Steele, shut up. We knew we had to be prepared. The scientific community knows a lot if you just shut the f*** up and listen.

    Ps. I might even have a recording of that lecture from 4 years ago. Also I'm sure you could look it up in the scientific literature.

  • what a fucker. to be prepared isnt a bad thing. god i fucking hate the current republican party.

  • It's not a republican party as we know it. It has been hijacked from the neocons and we knew this long ago. Now all the true republicans are leaving. What you have left is strictly neocon.

  • this is a new high for Steeles.. LOL

  • He knew it was coming...I text'd him to let him know. He was too busy watching COP's-Mardi Gras special to read my text.

  • thats the problem: you republicans dont know anything!!!!!

  • steele is right on this one.

  • No, he's not.

  • In what way? Just curious of your opinion. Maybe if this money would've been already in the stimulus, then Obama wouldn't have had to open his 100 day speech thing with, "I need [insert money amt] to research this flu epidemic."

  • what is the anchors name that is asking him about this

  • why? do u like her?

  • well yea but I know who she is now but more so I would like to thank her for asking him about this because he makes out you could not predicted this well its funny the uk have been getting ready since the bird flu stuff started and are one of the most ready country according the the who

    so for me his we could not see it coming is a bull people have been warning about a flu pandemic for 20 years now

  • Republicans are such idiots. Of course no one knows when the pandemic is going to happen, but you prepare for it just in case. It's like you excuse yourself saying that you can't pay for the accident you caused cuz you didn't buy insurance because you didn't know if it was going to happen. Seriously, they are fuckin' idiots.

  • Steele is right!!! How could stimulus money for a flu pandemic help during a flu pandemic?!?! It would only create jobs and stimulate the economy!!!!

    oh wait.......

  • wow excuses excuses

  • token black republican

  • You're so right, Steele. If those silly Dems wanted the money they should have added the words "for the April - May 2009 swine flu epidemic with pandemic potential" to the bill. Stand your ground big guy, and pay no attention to how fast the water is rising all around you.

  • Haha!!!

  • Wow! This is the problem with the republicans, they are very simple minded. Never think ahead.

  • goddamn uncle tom

  • He is angry.

  • I had to listen to this video twice* which hurt my head* Are you F*$king kidding me?!?! You expect this kind of lame answer from rush or hannity or glen beck. Steele your suppose to be the head of the RNC. Wait nvm I just answered my own question! carry on citizens nothing to see here but same O same O GOP bs!

  • Money for an eminent epidemic? Fuck that, how were we supposed to know we had to prepare ourselves????????

    They prefer that line because it's cheaper in dollars and more expensive in human lives. Republicans are becoming a fringe, especially if they pursue this logic.

  • The GOP is clearly the anti-science party. I can't deny I enjoy watching the GOP boat as it slowly sinks.

  • Flu preparedness protects American Productivity!

    All of the Republicans who voted against preparedness do not deserve re-election.

    NO STEELE. The stimulus is not only about getting people to work .. but also *keeping* them working by not having them call in sick ..

    You and your republican party are so out of touch.

  • This man is a moron.

  • Steele: "Did we know at the time of the vote on preparedness funding that we'd have to be prepared?"

    michael steele, the gift that keeps on giving.

  • Again..... I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of "personal responsibility"?

    Yet I've never heard republicans stand up and say..."I'm sorry" or "This was my fault" to ANYTHING. It's been nothing but lame excuses or trying to pass blame on to others.

    This is why most of the country thinks you're fucking pathetic.

  • I'm an Eagle Scout and our motto is "Be Prepared." When I was starting out, a scoutmaster said that making excuses for something that could have been prepared for is not a valid excuse. In other words, "

  • In other words, "Be responsible, don't make lame excuses" like "How was I supposed to know?"

  • Steele summarized "Dem' words too complicated"

  • Emergency = Unpredictable situation which poses an immediate risk.

    Michael Steele = Political emergency the GOP should get rid of as soon as possible

  • I wonder what his IQ is? Seriously, he's pretty stupid.

  • he's playing an elaborate chess game with you and you're losing

  • About average I would guess. This makes him one of the smarter people in current leadership positions in the GOP. And far smarter than the loyalists still gobbling up the ear swill from people like Rush and Beck.

  • We don't want to spend money on preparing for a pandemic because we don't know that we're going to have one. We don't want to spend money monitoring volcanoes because we don't know there's going to be an eruption.

    Next Republican excuse: we didn't want to spend money on an army because we didn't know we would get invaded.

  • that's what is so funny about this the only reason the uk will be ok is the fact the government acted when bird flu was a worry and got enough doses of meds to treat half the pop of the uk stored just another sign that the republicans don't look long term and the excuse about who knew it would happen so you cannot blame us it has been predicted for years that a flu pandemic was coming at some point in the future so that is no excuse

  • Very good way to put that. I'm with you on that one. What the hell are they thinking? I don't think that they think at all. They are some scary people. Thank god they are not in charge anymore.

  • The money for flu is to prepare for such pandemics like the Swine Flu.

    FAIL

  • I can't actually convey in words how ridiculous it is that a grown man is using this excuse, it sounds horribly childish. The GOP and its supposed "leadership" is laughable.

  • ...that's the difference in ideology....being prepared for a public disaster is one faction....the other has Katrina as an example!

  • this is turning out to be a really fun day, with the GOP getting hit with this, one of there guys jumping, rush getting hit for backing animal rights, day 99 of the first 100 days must be a good day for Obama. the thing is the money for was voted on for this but in the omnibus bill that all of the GOP vote NO on. I hope people get well but at the same time love how even when the gop thinks they are doing right they get there asses handed to them. good day

  • Republican philosophy's only work during the good times.

  • Republicans are SO obsessed with cutting taxes, and reducing government that it literally threatens the lives of millions of people. This insanity has to end! Thank god Specter switched parties!

  • Did he say "Why pigs stink"? What a moron - doesn't he know that the nature of flu pandemics is that you can't predict when they'll happen, but you can predict that they definitely WILL happen? Shades of Jindal's obtuseness about volcano monitoring.

  • Steele is saying it can't serve two purposes.

    Like your car... it can't BOTH get you where you're going AND support the economy. Oh, wait... yes it can.

  • HAHAHA

  • "duhhh how was we s'posedtah know?"

    It's sort of your fucking job to know, jack ass...

    Instead of saying "yes, you're right, It's completely our fault. We bungled big time", he's trying to spin it, OF COURSE.

  • I'm surprised Steel didn't say : "We didn't get the 411 on the flu-shizel so we be sayin' all like; Cut down on da heph bling bling "

  • yeah steele , you did'nt know. but what about the west nile virus that's been going around in past years? or the bird flu a couple of years back that people were worried was going to become a pandemic? damn these republicans suck ass....

  • I saw this LIVE on CNN, and I couldn't get over how incredibly stupid he sounded. He needs to step down for the good of his party and the country: he's an embarrassment.

  • Michael Steele is such a dick!!!

  • That's the point of preparing for an emergency, you never know when one will come up.

  • Micheal Steele is an absolute clown. Hopefully republicans won't get smart and replace him

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