Steele Considered Buying Private Plane
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 29th, 2010 4:42 am by HL
Steele Considered Buying Private Plane
Two knowledgeable sources tell the Daily Caller that RNC chairman Michael Steele “once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel.”
“While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily identifiable private plane expenses for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine in the DNC’s last three months of filings.”
Democrats Stable After Health Care Push
“After steering the landmark health-care reform bill through Congress, the Democratic Party’s leaders have emerged mostly unscathed,” according to a new Washington Post poll, “but they have not received a notable boost in approval ratings.”
“Shifts among core constituencies suggest that President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) may have reaped some benefit from the legislation’s passage, but the public’s take on the Democratic Party has not budged, and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV)) appears to be losing popularity. None of the central players in passing health-care reform appears to be winning favor with the bill’s opponents.”
Raise Someone Else’s Taxes
A new Quinnipiac poll finds that although 84% of Americans say the middle class will have to make financial sacrifices to reduce the federal budget deficit, more than three quarters of them oppose raising income taxes on the middle class or limiting the growth of Social Security and Medicare.