Number 1 dumb thing: RNC Chairman Michael “The Disaster” Steele:

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again caught in the crosshairs, this time over comments he made regarding the war in Afghanistan in which he calls it “a war of Obama’s choosing.”

He adds: “This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”

Factually false and politically stupid. Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is suggesting Steele step down. He should. He won’t.

The second stupid thing today comes from former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s Robert C. Byrd Memorial Service.

"He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.

"And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians," he added.

Fleeting? Not hardly. And only a politician would have the tone-deafness to say use the “anything to get elected” excuse for inexcusable behavior.