Says FOX News:
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP may have lost touch with some Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: “We screwed up,” he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party’s resurgence.
That “we” includes the last two Republican presidents and the most recent Republican candidate for president.
In “Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda,” released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where “we most glaringly compromised our principles” in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.
“We must support Republican officials who assert these principles,” he writes. “When elected Republicans vote against Republican principles, the voters must withhold their support — withhold it vigorously and consistently.”
–President George H.W. Bush for raising taxes two years after President Ronald Reagan left office, though Steele ignores the fact that Reagan raised taxes too.
–President George W. Bush for not vetoing any 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-Ariz., the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, for backing censorship of political speech through the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. Steele says 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.
Three things to say here to Mr. Steele:
- You figured this out all by yourself, huh, and it only took 20 years to do so?
- Yes, Obama is an abomination to this Constitutional Republic, but don’t waste your time blaming him for the things the Republicans screwed up under their own power. Otherwise you sound just like the “Blame Bush” Democrats.
- Mr. Steele, in 2010 you may discover what the phrase “too little too late” really means.
I’m much more Tea Party than Republican Party.
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