Michael Steele may lose control of Republican purse strings

By GottaLaff

Using my unusually sensitive powers of perception, I'm sensing a lack of faith (there's that word again) in the RNC chair. Let us pray for him:

A battle over control of the party's purse strings has erupted at the troubled Republican National Committee, with defenders of Chairman Michael S. Steele accusing dissident RNC members of trying to "embarrass and neuter" the party's new leader.

Randy Pullen, the RNC's elected treasurer, former RNC General Counsel David Norcross and three other former top RNC officers have presented Mr. Steele with a resolution, calling for a new set of checks and balances on the chairman's power to dole out money. The powers include new controls on awarding contracts and spending money on outside legal and other services.

Mmm, I love the smell of Rushpublics eating their own in the morning.

Needless to say, it's not surprising that they are going for public flogging of Steele, who was seen as a figurehead color cover for the color-aroused, retro GOP. What's sad is that I'm sure Steele really thought he was going to break some serious new ground, and take the party in another direction -- perhaps feebly -- but even meager steps were met with the wrath of Rushbo and his party wingnuts. A Steele supporter, however, gets right to the point -- it's cutting the balls of head of the party out for all to see.

"I urge you to reject this hostile attempt to embarrass and neuter the chairman of the RNC," Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus wrote in an e-mail to the 168-member national committee.

Drowning in their own spew.