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To: Ruffian who wrote (305857)	5/20/2009 1:46:25 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793782

Just watched some of Steel's speech tonight on Gretta. Much better than I've seen him before. Steel mentioned .. that Obama talks a good talk, but watch his walk..... Still no transcript that I can find yet, but CNN had these quotes: "The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,". "It is done. The time for trying to fix or focus on the past has ended. The era of Republican navel gazing is over. We have turned the corner on regret, recrimination, self-pity and self-doubt. Now is the hour to focus all of our energies on winning the future." "Too bad the chattering classes inside the Beltway are too busy fretting over phony disputes and intra-party intrigue to notice that a change has indeed come to America" "But it's not the one the Obama administration wants aired on the nightly news. "Those of you who live outside of Washington know what I'm talking about. Those of you who actually attend Lincoln Day dinners and county party events, those of you who toil in the vineyards, spending time in communities, in diners, in barber shops, and in coffee shops where real, everyday people can be found. You know it is real. You can see it and feel it. This change comes in a tea bag." "Our comeback will not begin in Washington," "Our conversation with America will not focus on Washington. Our Republican National Committee will no longer rely on Washington. We will look to the rest of America instead." "The last Democrat president declared that the era of big government was over," "Can some(one) please send President Obama a copy of that memo? Because this new Democrat president has ushered in a new era of left-wing, old school, top-down, Industrial Age, bureaucratic Big Government the likes of which our country has never seen." "In some ways, we let Washington change us and we owned up to that" "We've taken some important steps to recover our values and senses, and we can say we see the world with a clearer head and a sharper vision." Comment from the Writers of the article: Steele delivered a speech full of red meat, serving up heaping portions of criticism to leading Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep. Barney Frank, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The national committee chairman, though, saved his most scathing critique for Obama on issues ranging bailouts and banning guns to potentially taxing soft drinks. From this source: May 19, 2009 Steele: GOP era of apologizing is over Posted: 05:29 PM ET From CNN's Mark Preston, CNN's Peter Hamby (Updated at 5:30 p.m. with additional information)