{"id":52,"date":"2009-09-23T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-09-23T01:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T09:59:00","slug":"has-steele-promised-no-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/has-steele-promised-no-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Steele Promised No Filibuster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steele may have put his foot in it yesterday.&#160; If my guess is right, it\u2019s an unprecedentedly stupid gaff on his part. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/HasSteelePromisedNoFilibuster_24B7\/Steele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Steele\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"Steele\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/HasSteelePromisedNoFilibuster_24B7\/Steele_thumb.jpg\" width=\"184\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Yesterday, in an address at Philander Smith College, a historically black college in Little Rock, RNC Chairman Michael Steele implied that the late Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed with President Obama\u2019s leadership. \u201cDr. King<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/440\/story\/1461029.html\" target=\"_blank\">would be disappointed in the political leadership<\/a> <font color=\"#000000\">of this country for failing to address the least of us,\u201d Steele said. A questioner approached the microphone and quickly turned the tables on Steele, asking whether his party was upholding King\u2019s legacy by blocking health care:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">QUESTION: In all seriousness, I\u2019m curious what you think that Dr. King would think about your party\u2019s current attempts to block universal health care? [applause] \u2026<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">STEELE: It\u2019s a great myth that we\u2019re doing all this blocking. I wish we had that kind of control with the numbers, but we don\u2019t. \u2026 As I\u2019ve said to the president many times, <\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>\u201cIf that\u2019s the bill you want, vote it up or down.\u201d<\/strong><\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Commenting on racism in our society, Steele told the audience, \u201cWhat your generation will face is very subtle. It\u2019s very quiet. It\u2019s deceiving. But it is there. And you cannot be fooled into believing otherwise.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/22\/steele-mlk-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>While that seems innocent enough on the surface, an \u201cup or down vote\u201d is historically what the GOP has demanded as an alternative to a Democratic filibuster.&#160; Having made this statement, Steele has effectively guaranteed, as head of the GOP, a health care vote in the Senate without filibuster.&#160; I\u2019m expecting no such thing, but watching that fool try to weasel (no offence to rodents who may be reading) his way out of this one promises to be most entertaining.&#160; I, for one, plan to demand that he keep his promise. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steele may have put his foot in it yesterday.&#160; If my guess is right, it\u2019s an unprecedentedly stupid gaff on his part. Yesterday, in an address at Philander Smith College, a historically black college in Little Rock, RNC Chairman Michael Steele implied that the late Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed with President <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/has-steele-promised-no-filibuster\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}