mcsteele.thumbnailMC Steele’s new book is out today, which means he’s bustin’ out some new fresh takes.

Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele offers a simple explanation for why the GOP all too often lost touch with typical Americans since the Ronald Reagan era: ”We screwed up,” he claims in a new book offering a blueprint for the party’s resurgence.

That ”we” includes the last two Republican presidents and the most recent Republican candidate for president.

And how did they do that, MC?

  • President George H.W. Bush for raising taxes two years after President Ronald Reagan left office, though Steele ignores the fact that Reagan raised taxes too.
  • President George W. Bush for not vetoing any spending bills during his first five years in office. He calls Bush and other Republicans ”enablers for big government” and derides the Bush administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program as ”a massive government slush fund.”

Now I haven’t checked the exit polls of the 2006 and 2008 elections recently, but I’m pretty sure that taxes and spending were not among the biggest reasons the GOP got their asses bounced out of power. Weren’t the Bush tax cuts the biggest tax cuts evah?

No, I think the Republicans lost because of a series of epic disasters like failed wars and historic financial crashes and you know, most Americans’ lives getting shittier under GOP policies. Could be wrong.

MC, the GOP didn’t “screw up” because they weren’t true to their principles — they screwed the country up because they were slavish to them (see tax cuts while launching unnecessary wars, deregulation uber alles, massive deficits due to tax breaks for billionaires, terra terra terra, Terri Schiavo).

Finally, it’s kind of odd that Newt wrote the introduction to this book.

Wasn’t the “Republican Revolution” 6 years after St. Ronnie of California left office?