[See NewsBusters for more.] For his Friday show on MSNBC, MTP Daily host Chuck Todd tried his hand at comedy as he confidently proclaimed that Republicans will blame Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson for inflation because that is all they have. Giving the “Republican” perspective for the panel discussion was former party chair Michael Steele who agreed and claimed Jackson’s confirmation hearings will provide Republicans good opportunities to raise money.
After Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod declared that Republicans will be unable to attack Jackson’s qualifications, Todd turned to Steele and declared “I’ve sort of put this, this way: if the Republicans could attack on inflation they inflation would, but there’s, because that they, meaning they don’t have really a win in here… They want to just simply keep an issue alive that they think might help, and, I guess, trying to do a crime it, is that they think here, like, even if, you know—you know--, at least keeps that quote, unquote ‘in the news.’”