Michael Steele stepped in it again. This one is just incomprehensible, but he seems to be saying he doesn’t like empathy (we can tell by the rest of your party, thanks):
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Transcript:
STEELE: Good morning y’all, we’re back in the house. We’re talking a little bit of Constitution and a little bit Supreme Court. And a whole lot of saving America’s judicial system and saving our rights as citizens and not having empathetic judges decide cases, but rather judges who are actually understanding the rule of law and what the Constitution and those laws are all about. And how to apply the facts to the law and the law to the facts. And adjudicate my case. I don’t need some judge sitting up there feeling bad for my opponent because of their life circumstances or their condition. And short changing me and my opportunity to get fair treatment under the law. Crazy nonsense empathetic. I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind. Craziness.
Empathize right on your behind – what does that even mean? My advice to Michael Steele: please stop trying to be hip.
For more fun, Think Progress has a compilation of Steele’s greatest hits.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08k3maGGVM&feature=channel[/youtube]