If you squint really hard, you can see Eric Cantor.
It’s official: Steele fatigue.
News that the RNC spent more than $340,000 on a party retreat to Honolulu — at a time when Republicans can barely scrape enough change from the couch to do laundry — is producing mostly yawns and obligatory mentions. That whole Voyuer thing? So three weeks ago.
The Hotline, trying gamely to muster up some outrage — anyone? anyone? — notes with alarm that:
The amount the RNC spent in HI is likely to eclipse the amount the national committee will spend on a crucial special election to replace ex-Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D) next month. Abercrombie quit to pursue a GOV bid; in his place, 2 prominent Dems and a strong GOP candidate are running in a May 22 winner-take-all election.
Not the Abercrombie race!!! Is nothing sacred? The Washington Post dutifully reports that both parties like to spend their money. With no one of name really stepping up to demand he step down, Steele perseveres. Yesterday he was in Chicago, wondering why African-Americans would ever vote Republican:
“You really don’t have a reason to, to be honest — we haven’t done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,” Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.
Ha! Wow.
