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Explaining Michael Steele

What's his deal?

Calvin Trillin

April 8, 2010

So what, pray tell, could be the deal With RNC chair Michael Steele? Republicans would like to know Just why this guy spends so much dough. The answer’s really not bizarre: He simply wants to be a star. Just witness, please, at what great rate From his lips sound bites emanate. His spending’s, then, beyond reproach: You don’t encounter stars in coach.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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