GOP goes kinky

Republicans at a sex/bondage club?! Unfortunately for the Republican National Committee and its chairman, Michael Steele, that’s part of a new scandal over recently reported RNC expenditures. Filings with the Federal Election Commission show expenditures for more than $1,900 at a Southern California club that features topless dancers wearing horse bridles and, well, you get the idea. It was part of an outing to cultivate youngish, future GOP donors. The RNC put out a statement saying Steele was nowhere near the sex club and that a staffer who approved the expense had been fired. As damning, though, are other listed expenses Steele was party to: $17,000 for private jets, more than $35,000 for upscale hotels and another $43,000 in non-air travel expenses for the committee’s winter meetings in Hawaii. They certainly don’t fit the image of fiscal responsibility coveted by the party and suggest real tone-deafness for current economic conditions. And, it allows Democrats free shots such as this one by spokesman Brad Woodhouse: “We think their extravagant spending and their high burn rate speaks for itself.” Touche.

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