How Michael Steele went from decrying the race card to playing it
When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last December compared opponents of health care reform to senators who supported slavery in the 19th century, RNC Chairman Michael Steele was apoplectic...
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When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last December compared opponents of health care reform to senators who supported slavery in the 19th century, RNC Chairman Michael Steele was apoplectic.
“It was not a sober moment for Harry Reid at all,” he told CBS. ”[I]n fact, I’m kind of sick and tired of the left and Democrats in this country when they get in trouble and don’t get their way and their backs are up against the wall on legislation or whatever it is their trying to do, they go to that card, they play that race card…”
It was a pointed rebuke of Reid that was shared by other leading Republicans — and it looks a tad duplicitous in the wake of Steele’s recent response to criticism he’s received over the committee’s expenditures on high-end hotels, private jets, and a bondage-themed nightclub.
On Monday, the RNC chairman told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that, as an African-American, he is being held to a higher standard than his white peers.
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