“Very quickly, Chairman Steele. The feeling in some circles is that this health care train has left the station with President at the wheel, and Republicans better jump on board.”

[Steele:] “Well, I’m the cow on the tracks, and you’re going to have to stop that train to get this cow off the tracks and move forward.”

Woooooooo, woooooooo, woo — woooooooo!

That's OK. Give that bribe and distraction to the seniors, and maybe they won't be so concerned.

Obama can even say it's to help meet the costs of health care, which we need “reform” to reduce.

Do you think Reagan was a good president? Well he worked with a Democratic Congress yet when do they get credit from Conservatives for Reagan's accomplishments?

If you think Democrats are only good at spending other people's money, you need to revisit recent history, when Clinton's surplus and balanced budget evaporated into risky tax cuts, pork-laden budgets and unheard of spending by the Pentagon on two ridiculously expensive foreign wars.

I think you need to revist it and see which Party controlled Congress and the purse strings. Also take into account the tech bubble at the period. The only reason things got good were a combination of 3 factors. 1) The aforementioned tech bubble, 2) Republicans reigning in Clintons spending proposals, and 3) Divided government necessitating bi-partisanship and preventing the barb throwing and general deterioration in one party Control, first under Bush and now under Obama.

Divided government brought the rise of the power of moderates who were able to act sensibly unlike the era of far-right control and now far-left control, both which have textbook examples of stupidity.

umm, you mean like Michael Steele?

If you think Democrats are only good at spending other people's money, you need to revisit recent history, when Clinton's surplus and balanced budget evaporated into risky tax cuts, pork-laden budgets and unheard of spending by the Pentagon on two ridiculously expensive foreign wars.

Now that the “other” party is in charge, the GOP can safely go back to its naysaying role because that's a lot easier than facing the problems of ordinary Americans.

Good grief don't underestimate the GOP's skill of uncanny mind control Kathy. The Republican party, has more than once, brought our nation to the brink of financial disaster for the common, yet they continue to make inroads into the working class, convincing them to literally vote against their own best interests. Steele is simply being non-threatening as an initial acceptance mechanism. Later I'm sure that these curious initiates will be re-directed to talk-radio style bombastic personalities that satellite the party center. There they will receive their reactionary indoctrination. There, they will become the enemy of, “Liberty and justice for all”.

Many moderate voters reluctantly switched parties over the last 2 elections and the Republicans have done nothing to get them back or to lure minorities, except choose Mr. Steele as nominal head of the RNC. He seems to be out of touch with the hardcore folk in the party, and appears to be stumbling in his attempts to reach out with any real authority to new voters.

The next election could be like 1994 redux if the party played their cards right, and capitalized on current discontent with Congress. But the GOP is still the party of NO and Michael Steele can't do anything about it.