Talking Points Memo caught Michael Steele in a Q&A at the National Press Club where he admitted he didn’t know the basics of the healthcare debate.
In a Q&A at the National Press Club just now, Steele was asked if Republicans support an individual requirement to get health care (also known as an individual mandate).
“What do you mean by an individual requirement?” he asked the moderator. After she explained, he dodged the question.
“Again, that is one of those areas where there is different opinions…I don’t do policy,” he said. “My point in coming here today was to begin to set a tone, and a theme if you will.”
In the ongoing chapters of Mark Sanford’s delusions of grandeur, he wrote an op-ed for his home state paper, The State.
It is true that I did wrong and failed at the largest of levels, but equally true is the fact that God can make good of our respective wrongs in life. In this vein, while none of us has the chance to attend our own funeral, in many ways I feel like I was at my own in the past weeks, and surprisingly I am thankful for the perspective it has afforded.
So, is he Abraham or Moses this time? Mark Sanford just can’t shut up, can he?
For a change of pace, a former head of the NRCC repudiates the Bush doctrine:
Rep. Tom Cole, in a candid new assessment of the state of the Republican Party, says the GOP lost its majorities in the House and Senate because of the Iraq war and calls for the party to abandon former President George W. Bush’s doctrine of unprovoked aggression….
“Experience suggests that the Bush doctrine of ‘pre-emptive’ war is ill-suited to America’s values, traditions and democratic institutions. It ought to be discarded.”