Michael Steele, the former one-term Republican lieutenant governor of Maryland, has a new job on television! No, not at Fox News. That network has abandoned him ever since his tenure as head of the Republican National Committee only netted their party 63 seats in the House of Representatives last year. Instead, Steele…

On Friday, Michael Steele was defeated in his effort to lead the Republican National Committee for another term. Worse, he lost to a guy named Reince Priebus! Tonight, Jon Stewart summarized the day's events—and mocked Steele—in farcical fashion.

The Michael Steele Era of Politics is over. "Reince Priebus," the Wisconsin GOP chair, has won the Republican party chairmanship. His challenging job going into 2012: Shut up and smile! Michael Steele struggled with this.

Did you wake up early today for CSPAN's coverage of the Republican National Committee leadership election? It's thrilling. The candidates build secret coalitions and screw each other over all day. Who will win? Anyone but current chair Michael Steele.

Yesterday, the Republican National Committee held a debate between its prospective future chairpersons. As we pointed out, things didn't go too well! Tonight, Jon Stewart took the plethora of schadenfreude-filled content form the debacle and had at it. Watch inside.

Candidates for Republican party chairperson debated today! You all probably have it Tivo'd, so we don't want to spoil too much. But one lady candidate responded to a question about her "favorite bar," even though that question was never asked.

The Republican National Committee is having some trouble paying people on time and has acknowledged a "cashflow challenge" — the challenge being that little cash is flowing, currently. What is wrong with you, America? Donate to your Republican party, now.

The Republican National Committee's political director, who's actually named Gentry Collins, resigned in protest this morning — with a vicious four-page letter about chairman Michael Steele ruining the party's finances. If only they'd landed Gentry for chairman instead, amirite?

The Republican National Committee only has $5.5 million on hand as mid-term elections heat up. The DNC has almost twice that. This explains why Michael Steele has been giving speeches wearing nothing but a barrel held up by suspenders.

Our child-president Barack Obama turns a sprightly 49 today, and everyone's excited. The Republican National Committee, for example, have set up a website where you can send very mean birthday cards to the commander-in-chief. Which will you choose?

There hasn't been a black Republican in the House of Representatives since 2003, which is weird, since Republican politicians and voters are notoriously friendly to the African-American community. But fear not, GOP: Thirty-five black Republicans are now running for Congress!

No, not like that. More like a deeply insecure bald man who's desperate to demonstrate to the kids that he's not like those other Republican National Committee chairmen. Here are the "hip" outtakes from intern portraits taken by Mark Odell.