Republicans have “screwed up”
in the years since Ronald Reagan,
won’t win back the House in the fall elections,
and might not be ready to lead even if they do.
Sounds like the words of a partisan Democrat throwing a few political darts at the GOP, right? WRONG! Those are actually the words of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who has many within his party seething mad for this “foot-in-mouth” free wheeling verbal moment.
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In an interview last week for his new book Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda, Steele seemed to use many of his fellow Republicans for target practice. He berated:
– President George H.W. Bush for raising taxes two years after President Ronald Reagan left office, while ignoring the fact that Reagan raised taxes too.– President George W. Bush for not vetoing spending bills during his first five years in office. He calls Bush and other Republicans “enablers for big government” and derides the Bush administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program as “a massive government slush fund.”
– Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, for backing censorship of political speech through the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, saying the GOP erred in allowing itself to be associated with “a national political speech code.”
– Republican lawmakers in general, who allowed spending to rise from 2001 to 2004, went along with TARP and McCain-Feingold, and supported the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) pointed to Steele’s comments as further evidence of a civil war within the GOP and party disarray. “If the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee) hasn’t convinced the Republican National Committee chairman they can win, it’s no wonder that Tea Party activists, Republican small donors and Republican House members are not confident and have failed to invest in the NRCC,” said DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider.
This dude is such a clown I know Republicans are looking at every way possible to get rid of him.