Republican Disarray: Michael Steele Fighting Off RNC Board Members Taking His Authority

The Washington Times is reporting this a.m. that a movement is afoot at the Republican National Committee to move much of Chairman Michael Steele’s spending authority to the organization’s treasurer and executive board.

The Times received a copy of an email Steele sent to the usurpers.  In part, he writes:

In the e-mail, Mr. Steele said the resolution “amounts to nothing short of a completely unprecedented usurpation of the authority of the RNC chairman, and a transfer of the chairman’s authority to the executive committee and the treasurer. No RNC chairman has ever had to deal with this, and I certainly have no intention of putting up with it either.”

It’s one thing for their to be some public wrangling over the GOP message.  The Party just had its ass handed to it six months ago.  Things are real bad when the governance structure is under attack and crumbling.  How long has Steele been chairman?  Is it five or ten minutes?

Another sign of the fall: Republican luminaries Jeb Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney and others are setting up the “National Council for a New America,” in a bid to begin rebranding Republicans.