Steele Flushes Again, Calls Out GOP Leaders Who Passed Big Budgets, TARP and Medicare Drug Bill

RNC Chairman Michael Steele is still flushing GOP leaders down the crapper in his new book:

In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

"We must support Republican officials who assert these principles," he writes. "When elected Republicans vote against Republican principles, the voters must withhold their support - withhold it vigorously and consistently."

...[T]he GOP chairman directly or indirectly criticizes:

• President George W. Bush for not vetoing any spending bills during his first five years in office. He calls Bush and other Republicans "enablers for big government" and derides the Bush administration's Troubled Asset Relief Program as "a massive government slush fund."...
• Republican lawmakers in general, who allowed spending to rise from 2001 to 2004, went along with TARP and McCain-Feingold, and supported the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.

"We must quickly learn our lessons, return to our principles and move on," Steele concludes.

It seems like somebody in Missouri played a huge role in shepherding those Bush-era budgets through the House of Representatives, helped twist arms to pass the Medicare drug bill (which still isn't paid for) and was a leader for the GOP in TARP negotiations, even begging Republicans who disliked the bill to change their vote and pass it.

Who was that?