You almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost. The pitch is just pathetic.
“The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,” Steele will say in a speech to the RNC’s 2009 State Chairmen’s Meeting, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. “It is done. We have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror. From this point forward, we will focus all of our energies on winning the future.”
Oh, if only words were wings.
Problem is that hardly anybody is interested in what Michael Steel and his Party are peddling.
The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly every major demographic subgroup. Since the first year of George W. Bush’s presidency in 2001, the Republican Party has maintained its support only among frequent churchgoers, with conservatives and senior citizens showing minimal decline.
It makes it all the more curious why Republicans think their full scale war on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, complete with the demand that she resign, could actually work. Desperation meets delusional.
Newt Gingrich offers up a most bizarre charge that she’s no longer fit to be Speaker. But that actually came after Rush Limbaugh uttered the hilarious notion of whether Pelosi will really break the glass ceiling and resign her job, like a Republican man would do. Someone on one of the cable shows today said Pelosi would likely be able to keep her job through Memorial Day.
In what alternative universe do Republicans, in their current state, get to grab the talking point and run with it at a time when Democratic power is at a high after an Administration that ran this country into the ground, including our image and prestige abroad?
The fact that Speaker Pelosi got one briefing that’s causing such a ruckus is nothing compared to the reality of what Bush and Cheney supervised. Do I have to actually write this down?
But having to listen to the self-righteous Mike Huckabee opine on how Speaker Pelosi should “resign” is really the kicker.
It’s gotten to the point that I’m not really interested in what anyone thinks of Pelosi, because allowing Republicans to turn this in on Democrats while they twist talking about torture into a game is so infuriating one can only judge that some Democrats have a self loathing so strong that they’d rather hand over the keys than stick it to the people who got us into this mess in the first place.
Having Norah O’Donnell tell Matthew Ygelsias that Bush-Cheney’s torture debacle will not be investigated because Democrats don’t want it, just as Pelosi is being asked to resign, was as Alice in Wonderland as I want to watch.
But something tells me it’s going to get worse. That is unless Democrats wake up and hand the Republicans what they deserve. A real investigation that gets to the nub of our national nightmare. Or are our leaders too stupid or lazy to keep the spotlight trained on the bad guys long enough to finish the job, happy instead to let the scandal linger so that we never really know the truth?
May the gods damn the weak if the guilty are let to slip away.
