Steele adviser issues bizarre explanation for "scurrying mice" comment

America Blog  Mar 11 09

In a rather bizarre update, an adviser to embattled GOP chairman Michael Steele issued a clarification to an incendiary statement Steele made to columnist Cal Thomas, in which he appeared to suggest that Republican members of Congress were "scurrying mice." The adviser now says that when Steele referred to people on "the Hill" as "scurrying mice" he really meant people working everywhere else BUT the Hill. Ben Smith has more: Anderson emails that, the reference to "the Hill" aside, Steele was referring to "political operatives," not Congress."It’s ridiculous, unfair, and inaccurate" to suggest otherwise, he emails. Full story...

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