Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York is a poop, according to MSNBC contributor and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele.
And no, that is not an unfair paraphrase of his comments this week on MSNBC. That is quite literally how Steele described the 36-year-old congresswoman during an appearance on Joy Reid’s program.
Stefanik is poised to oust Republican Rep. Liz Cheney from the No. 3 post in House GOP leadership. The Wyoming lawmaker is at odds with her caucus over her opposition to former President Donald Trump. Stefanik, who was establishment before she was MAGA, is different from Cheney in that she is a vocal supporter of Trump, even if she has not always been very Trumpy in her policy preferences. At MSNBC, this apparently makes the New York lawmaker… excremental.
Seriously.
“So she is — she is as much defrauding Republican, Trumpy voters as [Steve] Bannon was accused of, right?” Reid asked Steele and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.
Responded Steele, “The question is, was she full of crap then when she was hanging out in Bushworld and Romneyworld? Or is she full of crap now? I don’t know. So, either way, crap is crap, and it is the best reflection of where the GOP is right now, as they are about to knock out a principled woman for crap, and I think we need to be honest about what it is. Donald Trump brought the gold toilet into the RNC, into the party, and everyone is — thinks it’s a pool.”
Reid laughed.
“And they’re just diving in,” said Steele. “They’re just diving in.”
“And here’s the thing,” said Reid, “they’re diving in, and the poop toilet is full. It’s not like they’re diving in, and it’s empty. It’s full.”
Steele added, “And there ain’t a plunger around.”
“No plunger,” said Reid.
Robinson interjected at that point to offer his own perspective.
“This party has gone off the rails,” he said. “Yes, it’s gone into the toilet. Wherever you want to say it’s gone, it’s gone. And no one should be optimistic about this party in the — in the foreseeable future, because I think this is where it’s stuck.”
Reid then asked Steele, who used to be an adviser to the disgraced Lincoln Project, whose principals leveraged their credentials as former “GOP operatives” to scam gullible “resistance” voters out of their money, to offer his perspective as a one-time plugged-in Republican on the current battle between the MAGA and establishment wings of the GOP.
“Michael, but can you discern, as a Republican, what is it that they would want to do if they got power?” the MSNBC host asked. “Because all they seem to want to do right now is fall on their knees and worship Donald Trump. So let’s say they get power. What is it that they want to do? What are they going to do to us?”
“White it up as much as possible,” said Steele. “You know, most people say light it up. No, they just white it up as much as possible.”
“Basically hold power forever — essentially just lock people of color out of being able to vote,” said Reid.
“Hold power,” responded Steele, “I think you got a sense and a glimpse of it during the four years of Donald Trump of what an extended, unchecked, unfettered power base would look like in this iteration of the party.”
Accusations of racism and poop jokes: This is what passes for meaningful, insightful commentary MSNBC.
