I've speculated as to whether God created Michael Steele's tenure at the RNC simply for the purposes of cosmic comic relief, seeing as the financial crisis appears so bleak. You can see in our feature we've got this story about a bizarrely thrown together request for proposals Steele's team sent out looking for bids for rebuilding the RNC website.

He caught a lot of grief because the RFP seemed so laughably put together. But he's also drawn suspicion from a few GOP insiders who think it was thrown together so haphazardly because Steele has already decided on some friend's firm to give the contract to.

Now, normally, fun as it is chronicling the Steele/RNC trainwreck, we wouldn't waste too much ink on how they recruit their web designers. But this little wrinkle caught our attention today because, not to put too fine a point on it, Steele's got a bit of a history for running organizations that pay nice chunks of change to contractors even when it's not completely clear what work they did or whether they had the expertise or even the legal right to do it.

If I were a stakeholder in the GOP, I might be just as concerned with what's going on at headquarters as I was with what Steele was doing on TV.

Meanwhile, Sean Quinn says that Steele's fate could be sealed if the GOP gets a bad result in the special election to replace Kristen Gillibrand in New York-20 later this month.