Steele Speaks and, to Quote Reagan, the Bombing Starts

By Dana Milbank
WashPost
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, working the room at a luncheon gathering of party officials yesterday, had the same parting words for each man he met: "Stay out of trouble." Or, if speaking to a couple, he would tell the woman: "Keep him out of trouble."

Coming from Steele, this advice had an ironic ring.

The RNC chairman has managed to get into trouble with comic regularity during his first few months on the job. His latest brush with trouble had come only minutes before the lunch, when Fox News broadcast an interview with Steele in which he complained that party leaders -- the very people he was about to have lunch with -- have "their knives bared" for him.

"I was thinking of changing my cologne," he confessed to Fox's Carl Cameron.

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