Why Doesn't Mr. Steele just ask McCain how well that brilliant concept and strategy worked out for McCain with his “Hispanic outreach” director and leader of La Raza, Mr. Hernandez?
It isn't president McCain, now is it, Mr. Steele?
Christ, the GOP could write a book on how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory these days...
http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2009/07/14/senate-obsolete/
Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete?
by Robert Nelson on July 14, 2009
in Economic Policy, Federalism, Public Finance, Social Policy, Tax and Budget
Syndicated columnist Neal Pierce has been writing about state and local affairs since at lease the 1970s. In a recent column, he asks, “Are State Governments Obsolete?” It might have been more appropriate to ask whether state governments actually exist — at least in the traditional constitutional sense. Blessed by the Supreme Court and other judicial rulings, state governments have become administrative appendages of the federal government.
In one area after another in the twentieth century — matters of transportation, public health, land use control, education, wildlife management, etc. — the federal government assumed powers that had traditionally been reserved to the states. States might still have an administrative role, but they are now working under a very tight federal leash.