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Directly after RNC head Michael Steele gave his stirring call to arms for the GOP, former Connecticut congressmen Chris Shays gave his own unintentionally hilarious take on how the republicans will regain power: by becoming the party of ideas again. Don't laugh, he was serious. But Michael Steele didn't appear to get the memo yet, as Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC asked Shays what new ideas Steele proposed:

SHAYS: "I didn't hear any new ideas. But that's the point -- I mean, we need to be talking about ideas."

Another example of why Shays got tossed last November and why House Republicans are an extinct species in New England. The GOP is the party of ideas all right. The party of very bad ideas.

Virtually certain now of McCain's imminent defeat Chris Shays effectively tosses McCain under the bus. In an interview with the Yale Daily News:

NEW CANAAN, Conn. - The first ballot has yet to be tallied, but some Republicans are already hammering nails into the McCain-Palin campaign's coffin.

Locked in a tight congressional race, Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut's 4th district is the latest in a slew of Republican incumbents, including Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, to concede a near-certain victory to the Obama camp.

"I just don't see how [McCain] can win," Shays said in an interview here on Sunday.

Shays, the Connecticut co-chair of McCain's campaign, said he was disappointed by the standards of McCain's race, which has increasingly relied on mudslinging.

"He has lost his brand as a maverick; he did not live up to his pledge to fight a clean campaign," Shays said.

And for AP :

"He's taken the thing that is most valuable, his (maverick) brand, and he's not staying true to it," Shays said. "I admire John McCain more than you can imagine. He would make a great president."

But, Shays added, "I don't see how he wins if he isn't true to who he is ... a straight shooter talking about the issues."

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(h/t Scarce) Chris Shays, Champion of the Environment. Watch and cringe.

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So far we've seen Lieberman endorse John McCain for President and Susan Collins (R-ME) for Senate. And now it looks like we're about to see him endorse yet another Republican, Chris Shays (CT-04). And this wouldn't be at all surprising, given that Shays and Lieberman campaigned together in 2006 after Lieberman was freed from the shackles of the Democratic Party by Ned Lamont.

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On Friday's Countdown, Keith gives the bronze award to Rep. Chris Shays for his hyperbolic attack on baseball players, the silver to Fox Business Network for scraping the bottom of the barrel by using a psychic to discuss market forecasts and to perpetual winner Bill O'Reilly for his bizarre and lame Godwin's invocation to slam Tim Robbins' recent appearance to promote John Edwards.

Billo is Billo.  We expect him to say something stupid.  But Republican Chris Shays' inane comments the other day about baseball players testifying before Congress about steroid use being "the wors[t] behavior in anyone in my 20 years in public life in Congress" were rightly vilified. After all, he is also the man who thought Erik Prince of Blackwater was doing "a perfect job" before Congress only a few weeks ago. Putz.

 via MyLeftNutmeg:

Shays: "I can't think of hardly anything this new Congress, my Democratic colleagues have done to help our soldiers win in Iraq and allowed them to come home succeeding rather than failing to help the Iraqi people live in a safe and free Iraq. Free from terrorism, free from foreign intervention.

It also "blows him away" that Condi has to come before Congress to examine the question of whether the Iraqi government is corrupt.

Chris, Chris, Chris, isn't America a foreign intervention? He wanks away while Condi Rice is in for a hearing. Listening to Chrissy, you can understand why there has been no oversight of the Bush administration while the Republicans held Congress. Waxman slams him and Blackwater at the end of the clip. CT, what will it take to get rid of this clown?