[dirtboy]

RNC trips to other cities produced bills from a long list of chic and costly hotels such as the Venetian and the M Resort in Las Vegas, and the W (for a total of $19,443) in Washington. A midwinter trip to Hawaii cost the RNC $43,828, not including airfare.

I've volunteered for a local GOP Congressional candidate. That much change could go a long way to putting out a mailing to every pubbie in the district. Instead, it's gone towards feeding Steele's overblown ego.

This EPITOMIZES what is wrong with the Beltway pubbies - they feel entitled to this money, instead of using it to win elections.

[Servant of the Cross]

This EPITOMIZES what is wrong with the Beltway pubbies - they feel entitled to this money, instead of using it to win elections.

Exactly. Check out the last five paragraphs to this great article by Norman Podhoretz in the WSJ today. It goes right to the heart of this elitist, country-club, establishment entitlement mindset of the pompous "intellectuals" populating the Beltway GOP. Steele is part of the problem, not the solution.