The head of the RNC is not doing what he was elected to do…..as reported in the Politico.

A month after Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee, key party leaders are worried that the GOP has made a costly mistake — one that will make it even harder for them to take back power from the dominant Democratic Party.

Steadily becoming a dependable punch line, Steele has brushed back Rush Limbaugh, threatened moderate Republican senators, offered the “friggin’ awesome” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal some “slum love,” called civil unions “crazy” and promised more outreach to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings” via an “off the hook” public relations campaign.

On the organizational side, Steele does not have a chief of staff, a political director, a finance director or a communications director. Last week, one of the two men sharing the job of interim finance director was forced to resign.

Steele, who has been traveling aggressively since taking the job, says the vacancies at the top of his organization are by design. He said he’s re-examining the whole structure with an eye to streamlining it and will have most of his team in place by the end of March, after he begins implementing reports from transition teams that are planning the party’s own first 100 days.

Jim Dyke, a communications consultant to Steele, said: “The public process has raised some eyebrows, and that has some people concerned. But the internal process is actually unprecedented and right on schedule. And when people find out about it, they are going to be very pleased.”

But so far the GOP has got to be worried to the point of going bald with the antics of their new chairman.  So far the only thing that this man has accomplished is to piss off workers, midgets, Rush and RNC members…he, Steele, might want to hire some people to help him in his interviews…so far he has done a horrible job of representing the RNC.

A spokesman for Michael S. Steele defended the new Republican National Committee chairman yesterday against claims by a convicted felon that Steele misused campaign funds from his 2006 Senate bid.

Curt Anderson, a political consultant and Steele spokesman, said the allegations had been “fabricated” by Steele’s former campaign finance chairman, who was seeking a more lenient sentence in an unrelated criminal case.

The Washington Post outlined the accusations in yesterday’s editions, including a claim that Steele’s campaign paid money to a company owned by his sister for services never performed, and the improper use of tens of thousands more in campaign money.
The accusations come from Alan B. Fabian, a former finance committee chairman for Steele’s Senate bid, as he was trying to cut a deal with Baltimore-based federal prosecutors. Fabian, of Hunt Valley, was indicted in August 2007 on fraud charges.

Steele denied the allegations through a spokesman. But attorneys said the confidential charges, which appear to have been mistakenly disclosed to a reporter, would dog Steele and endanger Fabian by branding him as a snitch.

Steele, Maryland’s former lieutenant governor, was elected national party chairman on Jan. 30, becoming the first African-American in the position. The Post described four instances of alleged wrongdoing raised by Fabian, who claimed Steele paid a law firm $75,000 for work never done, which the firm denied; improperly transferred more than a half-million dollars from a state campaign account to another account; used state campaign funds to pay for federal campaign expenses; and gave $37,262 in Senate campaign funds to Brown Sugar Limited, a defunct business run by his sister, Monica Turner.

And so it begins……Now the Repubs will have to do damage control on ALL the talk shows and will be a story for the next week…..it will be interesting to see who cover this and if it is given equal coverage by the media.