RNC Chairman Steele Survives Another Call for His Head

After declaring the war in Afghanistan to be  ”a war of Obama’s choosing,” RNC Chairman Michael Steele appears to have again foiled his critics by surviving yet another round of calls by Republican party apparatchiks for his ouster.

Calling on Michael Steele to resign has become a recurring theme almost since the day he was elected to give the Republican party a veneer of diversity.

This time, during a Connecticut fundraiser for Senate candidate Linda McMahon, Steele can be heard claiming that Afghanistan War, begun by George W. Bush following the 9/11 attacks, “was not something the U.S. has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”

Its a fact that Bush had no strategy for the war, and took resources away from Afghanistan to conduct his military adventure in Iraq, but Steele almost sounded like he was calling on Obama to rethink Afghanistan.

“if [Obama] is such a student of history,”Steele  during the backyard shindig, “he has not understood that …that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”

William Kristol, executive editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, got out front as the first person to call on Steele to resign (again.)

“I ask you to consider, over this July 4 weekend, doing an act of service for the country you love: Resign as chairman of the Republican party,” Kristol wrote in an open letter to Steele.

Let’s never forget that Kristol and his neo-con cohorts at Project for a New American Century are responsible for the deaths of thousands of US soldiers and millions of Iraqis because of their campaign of lies that under-pinned the Iraq war.

Kristol does not seem to be aware that even many Republican’s don’t care what he thinks, and that Steele actually has more credibility at the moment than he does. Liz Cheney, another discredited neo-con holdout, has also called on Steele to resign.  Thanks to low caliber of his critics, Steele seems likely to survive as chairman until the next call for his resignation.