Steele Calls RNC Phone Prank “A Good Idea”

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If a bunch of Republican-backed protesters were shouting down your town hall events, you might think the national Democratic party should bring the heat on the GOP. And that’s exactly what they did, by encouraging members to call the Republican National Committee and tell them to knock it off.

In response, Michael Steele “thought it would be a good idea” to reroute those calls right back to the Democrats. “Don’t sit there and think you’re going to direct a bunch of angry liberals to call the RNC when I know full well what that’s all about. I get the joke. My response was, talk to your own party, because they’re the ones ginning this up.”

Hilariously, Steele accused the White House of blaming the health care controversy on regular Americans “like my mother, like my sister.” Which town halls have they been attending?

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