Blood in the water

From hiring celebrity chefs and jetting off to exotic Kenwaii to draping himself in huge gold watches, repugs are fuming over Michael Steele's spending habits:

"Steele is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers -- expenses that are infuriating the party's major donors who say Republicans need every penny they can get for the fight to win back Congress.

I thought that was already a given? Huh.

“Most recently, donors grumbled when Steele hired renowned chef Wolfgang Puck to cater the RNC's Christmas party inside the trendy Newseum, and then moved its annual winter meeting from Washington to Hawaii. For some major GOP donors, both decisions were symbolic of the kind of wasteful spending habits they claim has become endemic to his tenure at the RNC."

Mr Steele, who supposedly represents the party of fiscal discipline, could not be reached for comment.