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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016804.php

The Washington Monthly:

Yesterday, [Michael] Steele spoke to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about the Republican position on the economy, and inexplicably, stuck to the same position, arguing, “What this administration is talking about is making work. It is creating work.”

When Stephanopoulos responded, “But that’s a job,” Steele added, “No, it’s not a job. A job is something that — that a business owner creates.”

Stephanopoulos, looking confused, asked, “So a job doesn’t count if it’s a government job?” Steele stuck to his guns, insisting that hiring someone to perform a service isn’t an actual job because government contracts “have an end point.” Apparently, a job is only a job if it’s indefinite.

Reflecting back on Rush Limbaugh’s witty election rhetoric, I’ve come to wonder whether Michael Steele would consider himself the GOP’s “magical negro”?

(Via Matthew Yglesias.)