You Must Listen to this interview with Michael Steele on Morning Edition.
The host (Steve Inskeep) has Michael Steele for breakfast.
<< warning>> do not listen to the interview if you are eating cereal with milk. You will not be able to keep the cereal off the table.
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Some quotes below the fold.
STEELE: Sure there are issues in the insurance market that we could regulate a little better and that we can control better to maximize the benefits to consumers. That's something that, yeah, we can rightly reform and fix.
(Steve pounces)
STEVE: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You would trust the gov-ern-ment (Steve draws out the word for emphasis) to look into that?
STEELE: No, I'm talking about private, I'm talking about citizens, I'm talking about...
(Luckily for Steele, Steve interjects before Steele can finish, giving the RNC chair a little more time to try and escape the logic trap he talked himself into.)
STEVE: Who is it, you said that's something that should be looked into. Who is it that should look into that?
STEELE: Well, who regulate the insurance markets?
STEVE: That would be the government.
STEELE: Wait a minute. Hold up. You're doing a wonderful little dance here and you're trying to be cute but the reality of this is very simple. I'm not saying the government doesn't have a role to play. I've never said that. The government does have a role to play, the government has a very limited role to play.
STEVE: Mr. Chairman, I respect that you feel I'm doing a dance here. (Steele laughs). I just want you to know that as a citizen I'm a little confused by the positions you take because you're giving me a very nice, nuanced position here.
STEELE: It's not nice and nuanced, I'm being very clear...