Michael Steele, Chairman of the RNC, just keeps getting wackier. A few weeks ago he declared that Congress was "thumbing their nose and flipping the bird to the American people". While promoting his new book, "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda", Steele busted out with:
"Our platform is one of the best political documents that's been written in the last 25 years. Honest injun on that. It speaks to some core conservative principles on the value of family, faith, life, economics. Those principles don't change."
Honest Injun? In the year 2010? Who says that? Where do you even learn to say something like that?
In the book itself, Steele accuses GOP leaders of having abandoned conservative principles. When those same leaders began to criticize him for blind siding them with the release of the book, Steele responded:
I'm telling them and I’m looking them in the eye and say I’ve had enough of it. If you don’t want me in the job, fire me. But until then, shut up. Get with the program or get out of the way.”
More details and video here.
Part of the GOP criticism of the book was that Steele wrote while he was supposed to be concentrating on his job as RNC Chair. Steele stated that most of the work was done on the book in 2008 and all he did was a bit of polishing last year. Makes sense to me.....But the inconvenient part is that TPM points out many of the events covered in the book didn't take place until 2009: The stimulus bill, the health care debate, foreign policy, ACORN, the party switch of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Tea Parties and the 9/12 March on Washington, etc.
Let's hope the RNC comes to their senses and makes Steele Chairman for life.
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