Washington Times:

Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds of millions of dollars in party funds and contracts, The Washington Times has learned.

The "good governance" agreement revives checks and balances Mr. Steele resisted implementing for RNC contracts, fees for legal work and other expenditures that were not renewed after the 2008 presidential nominating contest.... It represents the first time in memory that rebel members of the Republican Party's national governing body have successfully taken on the party's historically powerful national chairman and his loyalists.

I tend to agree with Steve Benen at Washington Monthly:

"Keep an eye on what the anti-Steele contingent might try next. They don't like Steele, and clearly don't trust him, and just learned that they can win fairly easily when they challenge his leadership. They have no incentive to stop seeking additional checks on him, especially since Steele seems to need the party more than the party needs him."

Further proof that Michael Steele is a token and can't bring himself to admit it. Kinda pitiful when you think about it.

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