GOP spent thousands on luxury jets, adult clubFollow

I suppose we could speculate that at no time has the DNC ever spent money in a wasteful or potentially embarrassing manner, but it's more likely that no one happened to be paying attention when they did...

“What you will notice is that there are no expenses on here related to sex clubs,” said DNC Spokesman Hari Sevugan. “The DNC, unlike the RNC, does not conduct business while watching women engaged in lesbian bondage scenes…Unlike RNC expenses for redecorating the chairman's office or table service at a bondage club, these expenses were not for personal use but for the actual functioning of the party, and activities that added to the coffers, rather than emptying them.”

Two words...Barney Frank




This man used taxpayers money to fund his boyfriends gay sex ring.

For some strange reason I didn't see that in the original article.

Or we could look a little bit closer at exactly who is paying for Edwards love child. Wasn't Edwards a presidential candidate for the Democrats?

Oh, the DNC spends money too. However...

The RNC "has been on the defensive this week because of some questionable expenditures," First Read notes, and is "pushing back today by sending around a list of what the Democratic National Committee has spent money on, including more than $2 million on luxury hotels and caterers, $75,000 for car services, and $262,000 for 'other events' at the Kennedy Center, Fenway Park, and a D.C. nightclub."

The only problem is that there is nothing shocking in the list of Democratic expenditures that comes close to matching what Republicans spent on "bondage-themed nightclubs" and private jets.

Even worse, they've kept the story going for another day.

As a DNC statement points out, "if Republicans want to compare our spending to their spending and allow us to say 'Michael Steele approved spending money at a Hollywood sex club' a few more times -- that's fine with us."

To their Conservative base? Yes. Hypocritical in every way.

Ugly,



Conservatives won't care this time around. All they'll care about is getting the dnc out of there so that can't f*ck anything else up.

When liberals are pointing and screaming about GOP spending you know they know they're in trouble.

They just spent the country into oblivion and you really think it's important that the rnc spent a few grand on a bondage themed fundraiser?

(#1) Since Michael Steele became RNC chairman in January 2009, "a growing number of prominent GOP donors has stopped contributing to the RNC, choosing instead to direct their money to outlets such as the party's Senatorial Committee," the Daily Caller reports.

"According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, at least eight of the RNC's top individual donors have declined to contribute in the past 14 months... Each of the individuals had a record of contributing thousands to the RNC in past years but since 2009 have chosen to direct their money to the NRSC, National Republican Congressional Committee or individual campaign committees."
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(#2) In the wake of the expense scandal at the Republican National Committee, the Family Research Council urged supporters to stop donating to the RNC "and instead contribute to its own coffers or to candidates with like-minded goals," CNN reports.

Said FRC president Tony Perkins: "I've hinted at this before, but now I am saying it -- don't give money to the RNC. If you want to put money into the political process, and I encourage you to do so, give directly to candidates who you know reflect your values."

Earlier, we noted big Republican donors are already bypassing the RNC.
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(#3) As troubles at the RNC mount, the Wall Street Journal reports "a group of former Republican officials are starting an outside political group that could compete with the RNC for wealthy donors and prominence."

"The group, American Crossroads, hopes to raise $52 million from wealthy Republicans and corporations, according to officials involved with the organization. The goal is to mount an independent campaign to help Republican candidates win in the November elections."

The new group "will be run by former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and Joanne Davidson, a onetime RNC co-chair. Former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie and former White House adviser Karl Rove are informally advising the organization."
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(#4) Sarah Palin has asked the RNC "to remove her name from an invitation that suggests she might attend a series of committee fundraising events timed to coincide with next week's Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans," CNN reports.

Though Palin will speak at the early cattle call for potential 2012 presidential candidates, she will not be participating in any RNC fundraising event.

All they have to do to win is run against obamacare.

You guys are really in panic mode aren't you?