re: #216 The Ghost of a Flea

I don’t agree with Steele on basically anything in policy, but that was just disgusting and tawdry and small. How pathetic a man, how pathetic a party, for that to be considered a clever or adroit statement. How callous a man, how thoughtless a party, to need that kind of pettiness to fuel them.

To be fair to the other people at the table, my impression was that they were shocked by the statement and did not consider it clever or adroit.