AUDIO- NPR corners Michael Steele on health care reform

By GottaLaff

Poor Michael Steele. He actually had to face an interviewer who challenged him, and all he could say was:

"You're doing a wonderful little dance here and you're trying to be cute."

Via NPR:



Michael, Michael, Michael, as I mentioned in a post about Mark "STFU Already" Sanford, know when to stop. Okay? Okay:

[...] Steele told Inskeep this: "No one is trying to scare people with sound bites. I have not done that."

Oh, really? Here's what he said on "Morning Joe" last week: "[T]here’s clearly an attempt by at least the House members to put in place a structure that causes concern for the American people in respect to end of life decisions. I think that’s a legitimate point. You don’t have to call it death panels if you don’t want to. You can call it a panel. I call it rationing."

And here's his Washington Post op-ed from Monday: "[W]e need to outlaw any effort to ration health care based on age. Obama has promoted a program of 'comparative effectiveness research' that he claims will be used only to study competing medical treatments. But this program could actually lead to government boards rationing treatments based on age... Obama's government-run health 'reform' would pay for seniors' meetings with a doctor to discuss end-of-life care. While nonthreatening at first, something that is quite normal for a family to do becomes troublesome when the government gets involved. Seniors know that government programs that seem benign at first can become anything but. The government should simply butt out of conversations about end-of-life care and leave them to seniors, their families and their doctors."

Actually, keep talking, Aluminuminuminum. Not only is it entertaining, but the hole you're digging for yourself and your party is big enough to hold, well, and elephant.