What’s First for the RNC’s “Man of Steele?”

Chairman “Man of” Steele starts his first week as chairman of the RNC, and as you can expect, everyone and their moms has advice for what he should do first and what he should do next. Jen Rubin, one of my Top 5 conservative opinion movers, had a list of seven steps he could take to set the party on the road to recovery.

All seven were great ideas, but the first one really popped out:

Steele should offer to debate DNC Chairman Tim Kaine coast-to-coast on the Democrats’ stimulus plan and the economic crisis. This is the number one issue on voters’ minds, and for once the Republicans are making headway. The public is souring on the House Democrats’ spend-a-thon disguised as a stimulus bill. And Republicans have an attractive message: cut the pork, reduce taxes, and, if we must spend gobs of money, do it on worthwhile infrastructure and needed national defense projects. Steele is a capable and likeable figure who could communicate this message well. And a debate offer would signify that the Republicans aren’t afraid to take on the administration when it is wrong. (It would also give Steele a high visibility platform to re-establish the GOP’s populist credentials, by among other things, taking on the Obama administration’s not very New Politics — including the White House’s proclivity to hire ex-lobbyists and tax cheats.)

DNC Chair Tim Kaine responded to Chairman Steele’s election by saying that he hopes we can leave politics aside and work together by bending over for the Democrats and calling it bi-partisanship. A debate would force Kaine to have to actually have to man up defend the merits of the crap sandwich the kids are calling the 2009 Fiscal Suicide Act, and not just rely on the talking points he sends to other Democrat activists like NBC News and the New York Times.

A Michael Steele debate would also be good for the party because Steele is “uniquely qualified” to speak on a number of issues facing Americans that other Republican’s…aren’t. Point of fact, this quote of his from “Fox News Sunday” yesterday…

We did it right here in my home town of the District of Columbia. The president of the United States, when he was a U.S. senator, blocked three times – tried to block three times legislation that would enable poor black children in this city to go to the high school that I graduated from, what they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to do. So create those opportunities. Put people on a pathway to earn a job, earn an education, so they can empower themselves. I don’t need the government to do that.

Chairman Steele is going to be a very interesting cat to watch in the weeks and months to come.

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