One day after penning his blatantly false op-ed for the Washington Post, where he declared the Republican Party the new protectors of Medicare, RNC Chairman Michael Steele paid a visit to Fox News:
... on Fox and Friends this morning, Steele undermined his new argument that Medicare is a sacrosanct program that must be protected by calling it "a very good example of what we should not have happen with all of our health care." Asked to respond to Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) argument that "if you like Medicare and you don’t want to make any cuts to it, then you’re basically defending a single payer system," Steele launched into an attack on the program, implying that it would be better if it were privatized:
I mean the reality of it is that, you know, this single payer program known as Medicare is a very good example of what we should not have happen with all of our health care.
... Government cannot run a health care system. They’ve already shown that. Trust the private markets to do it the right way. If there are reforms to be put in place, let’s deal specifically with those reforms.
Yesterday, Steele argued against the idea of making any changes to Medicare, and today he's arguing to privatize it? Of course you can appreciate the mixed, muddled messages coming from Republicans on this -- it has to be very confusing to suddenly champion a program that you've opposed for more than forty years.