White House Turns the Screw on Steve Scalise

Time reports:

The White House is not formally taking a position on the fate of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who admitted last month to addressing a white supremacist group twelve years ago while a state legislator, but it’s not missing the chance to turn it into a black eye for Republican leaders either.

A day before the new Congress is to be sworn in, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that Scalise’s fate lies with his Republican colleagues after he admitted to speaking to a group linked to Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Scalise maintained that he did not realize it was a hate group at the time and apologized for his mistake.

“Who they choose to serve in their leadership says a lot about who they are and what their values should be,” Earnest said Monday.

No word yet on this story of Rev. Wright of Barack Obama fame.