Channeling Senator CrankyTwitter: U got some nrve, Steele.

Mr. Steele? After last night's little exhibition by Joe Wilson, just STFU, ok?

It's not an inappropriate political tool when you're carrying on the man's lifelong fight. It's inappropriate when you criticize the speakers at a man's funeral. But Republicans wouldn't know anything about that.

Just one more piece of evidence Michael Steele has no common sense.

Michael Steele is truly amusing. I really can't fathom how he got that job in the first place.

I was waiting for this (and actually, somewhat surprised it didn't come up last night) as a way to "change the conversation" and create some sort of phony shinny object for the media to fixate on. Let's not help the GOP out in it's quest to get us talking about something else TPM.

Steele was silent when his fellow GOPers and other cons waited less than a day to dance on Ted's grave. I guess that wasn't political.

Ahhh, the Wellstone Counter, an old Repug favorite.

Has anyone ever heard any republican defend any Kennedy's sensibilities at any time previous? Nah--never happened, never would have,

Maybe Steele has a point....

In 2004 after Ronny Reagan died - did George W. Bush come out and say that now was the time to end medicare before the entire country turns socialist? NO....

(well - he did come out and try to end social security).....

but he did not try to milk Reagan's death to try & kill a program that Reagan hated - Medicare.

So there......

Exactly--I would bet good money that Ted Kennedy wrote that letter with an eye to its being made public, and even if he hadn't, he'd have been the first to encourage Obama to use it if he thought it might help the cause.

Not to mention that Barack Obama is a very decent guy, and he would never have used the letter if he had even the slightest suspicion that it would be exploitative.

No, the whole thing is that Republicans are desperate to delegitimize any appeal to Kennedy's memory made by Democrats, because they fear that might be the factor that gets it past the obstructions they are trying to put up. (Appeals to Kennedy's memory to try to convince things to move in the direction the GOoPers want them to go is perfectly OK, of course.)

We ought to start a group, or movement, "Democrats who support of Michael Steele as RNC Chairman"

So Michael Steele watched the speech last night and the part that struck him as "bad form" was that Obama mentioned Teddy Kennedy?

Not the mob now known as the Republican caucus?

You know, apropos to nothing...

There has been TONS of O's and 1's flying on the intertubes re: "LIAR" Joe Wilson...

But no GOP rebuttal to having the president call their "Death Panel" ploy a LIE.

Is this an admission by the GOP that it was all B.S. ?

That's the way we roll at the undertaker's.

Good form: Paying and busing homeless men from Philadelphia to hand out voter literature in Maryland that egregiously lies that local black politicians have endorsed you.

Bad form: Heeding the dying wish of a man who actually fervently endorsed you, and gave you a letter explicity stating his position on this topic. Fulfilling the last legacy of last knight of the could-have-been American Camelot.

Stay classy.

At the conclusion of the speech, you could easily see Vicki Kennedy turn to both Mrs. Obama and then Mrs. Biden and say that the speech was "magnificent." It is very easy to read her lips as she speaks to both women. I am sure she knew what the President was going to say ahead of time. She was obviously the most honored guest sitting between the two women. Steele, proves again, that he does not think before he speaks.

My goodness me, the delicacy and consideration of the man!

MSteele must really believe that everyone (except himself) lives in a fantasy world. Does anyone really believe that President Obama did not speak to Senator Kennedy's wife about using the letter....after all, she was invited to be present at the speech?

Rational discussion does not appear to be a part of the GOP agenda...so I can either ignore his inane comments or call him an idiot. Tried the first- nope, doesn't work. So he is an idiot and all the GOP rhetoric is reduced to noise, now if I could just find the volume dial, because they are acting like upset children that believe that screaming loud will somehow be the solution to their problems.

I don't hold out much hope for the GOP to grow out of this phase and start acting like adults anytime soon. At least with most children, this was a phase, with the GOP, it is a terminal disease.