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I am encouraged that maybe the Republican party might start standing up for itself and stop whining. RNC Chairman Michael Steele gave a speech to states party chairmen at an event at National Harbor. The text of speech is here:

So, today I’m going to talk to you about some very important turning points for our party.

The first turning point is this: Today we are declaring an end to the era of Republicans looking backward.

We have just endured two successive elections where we were soundly defeated. As a result, many of us, me included, have done some soul searching. We have looked closely at the places we went wrong, we have talked openly and publicly about our mistakes and our deficiencies.

If you don’t learn from the past, you are of course destined to repeat it. This has been a difficult, yet healthy and necessary task for our party.

People are sick of politicians and political parties who never own up to their mistakes. We have done so. We lost our way on spending and we owned up to that. We came to Washington to change it and in some ways we let Washington change us, and we owned up to that. We’ve taken some important steps to recover our values and our senses, and we can say we see the world with a clearer head and a sharper vision.

The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over. It is done. The time for trying to fix or focus on the past has ended. The era of Republican navel gazing is over. We have turned the corner on regret, recrimination, self-pity and self-doubt. Now is the hour to focus all of our energies on winning the future.

Read the whole speech!