Shopping spree at Nieman-Marcus:  $75,062.63

Another shopping spree at Saks Fifth Avenue:  $49,425.74

Baby clothes for out-of-wedlock child:  $92

Hair and make-up work to make one self look like Tina Fey:  $4,716.49

Spending other people’s money like drunken sailors:  Typical

For everything else, use the Republican National Committee’s credit card. The Palins sure did and oh boy how they must have thought they had just won the lottery.

But I don’t blame them. What do most Americans do when they’re given access free money, whether from their home equity or their credit cards? They spend it! And since of course our economy revolves around buying things (Remember, your President wants you to go out and shop til’ you drop and defeat the terrorists!), providing one with an account to go buck wild in Nieman-Marcus is simply doing one’s patriotic duty.

Speaking of the RNC and prolifigacy with other’s people’s money, apparently there’s a big brouhaha in Florida over state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer’s luxury lifestyle.  According to Politics1 website  Greer apparently uses party funds to fly a lear jet across the state, has run up $500,000 in charges on an American Express account, has spent $3.5 million on absentee ballot mailouts and has used state party funds to print the party newsletter on glossy paper in color with 11 photos of Greer himself to mail to RNC members across the country because Greer plans on running for RNC Chair next year. As you would expect state party coffers are exhausted, the McCain campaign is furious the state party has nothing left to help their cash-strapped efforts which led to, according to the website, the “frustration reaching such a level of fighting that Greer was denied a seat on McCain’s campaign plane when McCain hopscotched around Florida a few days ago.”

By golly I’d say the way Republicans spend money, Greer would be the ideal choice to lead the RNC. Maybe he can come up with a new campaign slogan:

“And you thought the Democrats were the party of big spenders? Vote Republican!