Michael Steele "Cow On The Tracks" Trying To Stop Reform Train (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Seriously...is Steele really Sacha Baron Cohen?

Is Ashton Kutcher going to jump out and say "HA!...Gotcha...You've been Punk'd"?

Michael Steele "Cow On The Tracks" Trying To Stop Reform Train
Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner

Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, asked on Thursday whether his party would have to jump on the health care reform "train", responded that he was a cow on the tracks trying to stop it.

The strange analogy came at the end of a Fox News exchange in which Steele denied that Republicans were giving in on reform.

"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," the host said.

"Well I'm the cow on the tracks," Steele responded, as his interviewer laughed. "You're gonna have to stop the train to get this cow off the track to move forward."

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[JuniperLea]

1. I bet I know a Peacetrain that would gladly test his obstruction!

Wouldntja? :hi:

Edited to say, they don't call it a cow catcher for nothin'!

[Peacetrain]

2. Stand back.... plowing through at full throttle..

:hi: you betcha Juniperlea

[JuniperLea]

5. Train kept a rollin all night long!

:hi:

[wndycty]

3. Here is video of Michael Steele on the tracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1_uNerox8

[CakeGrrl]

13. DailyKosTV has packaged that into a nice split-screen:

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002253/

MC Steele, don't ever leave us!

I wonder if the WH is taking bets on what they can get him to say next?

[ksoze]

4. This is utter nonsense.

[HamdenRice]

6. Doesn't he know old style locomotives were made with "cow catchers"?

That's that triangular pointy thing at the front of the old style steam locomotive -- the cow catcher. It picks up the cow and throws it to one side or the other without derailing the train:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(locomotive)

[YOY]

8. New ones have it too.

Still in the front. Not so pointy anymore though. See the Acela below.

[YOY]

7. Actually you don't stop a train for a cow.

See that bull dozer thing in the front? That thing is literally called a "Cow catcher".
Kind of makes them fly off away from the train. Sadly broken and not living anymore.

[frazzled]

9. No animals were harmed in the making of that metaphor

sorry, could not resist

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. LOL! I just read this on Wonkette.

Steele is the best!

[Monk06]

11. Steele might want to rethink that analogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihcqsvdZMk

[KingFlorez]

12. Trains move too fast to stop on a dime

If there is a cow on the tracks, chances are it's going to be too late for the train to stop. I guess Steele means that he's about to get run over.

[Spheric]

14. Our new Health Care Reform anthem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1hp1Rhhu8

Can't beat Chuck. :D