Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele told students at a historically black college in Arkansas yesterday that Martin Luther King Jr. would be disappointed with President Obama.
“Dr. King would be disappointed in the political leadership of this country for failing to address the least of us,” he said.
As Think Progress points out, a student then approached the microphone and asked, “In all seriousness, I’m curious what you think that Dr. King would think about your party’s current attempts to block universal health care?”
“It’s a great myth that we’re doing all this blocking. I wish we had that kind of control with the numbers, but we don’t,” Steele responded. “As I’ve said to the president many times, ‘If that’s the bill you want, vote it up or down.'”
