Washington 60 Seconds -- Which Job WOULD Michael Steele Be Good At?

Good morning, Capitolists! As a daughter of the South, your faithful scribe is way excited about the Final Four this weekend, but not too excited that Dook and the ACC are showing up for the southern states in the hard court showdown. (It's an SEC thing.)

We can't always get what we want, but the Capitolists can get what they need in the next 60 seconds, with the latest news from Washington.

- Now Taking Entries We haven't spent a lot of time this week on the dirty details of Michael Steele's seemingly tenuous hold the RNC chairmanship, but Politico sure has. To read all about Steele's very, very bad week, check out Jonathan Martin's latest installment HERE. And then shoot us an e-mail (with the link to the right) about which job you think the very friendly but management-challenged Steele might be better at. We'd like to suggest a gig at Fox News co-hosting a show with Sarah Palin called "Hip-Hop Polar Bear Stories." Give us your suggestions and we'll name the winners next week. Dirty or mean suggestions need not apply.

- Insurance Companies Pay for State Play. USA Today has a fascinating report about campaign donations from the insurance industry, not to members of Congress but to governors and states' attorneys general who have led the charge to legally challenge the constitutionality of the health care bill. One expert says the money's just started flowing from the companies who "know that they have to be players at the state and the federal level."

- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. President Obama pivots back to the economy today with a visit to a North Carolina battery factory that he says is an example of jobs created by stimulus funds. The president will speak in Charlotte a little before noon, and will no doubt hear about the city's battered economy and a Charlotte Observer report that the company he's visiting has not yet hired any new workers as a result of the $49 million stimulus grant.

- 'Capsizing Guam' Explained. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) was more than a little surprised when a comment he made at a sparsely attended congressional hearing last week went viral yesterday and was even featured as Yahoo's top news story. At the hearing, Johnson told a top Marine official he worried the tiny island of Guam would "capsize" because of the large number of American military there. Yesterday, Johnson put out a statement saying that "the subtle humor of this obviously metaphorical reference to a ship capsizing illustrated my concern about the impact of the planned military buildup on this small tropical island."

- Tea Party Buzz Kill. Scott Ashjian, the Tea Party candidate running against Harry Reid (and accused of being a Reid plant by other Tea Partiers) will avoid a potential 14 years in prison related to writing bum checks, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The contractor-turned Senate hopeful covered outstanding checks and court fees yesterday in Las Vegas and will announce today who he thinks is at the bottom of his PR and legal woes. "The GOP elitists are pulling out all stops trying to get me to check out," he told the R-J. We humbly suggest he leave the word "check" out of his announcement today.

- We'd Like to Thank the Academy . . . And finally, just so you know you haven't wasted the last 60 seconds of your life, the Daily Beast has honored the Capitolist by naming this column one the top 25 "most influential voices of the American center." OK, we squeaked in at No. 25, but like my math teacher always said, at least there's plenty of room for improvement. To see who beat us out for slots 1 through 24 (including our all-time-favorite South Carolina scribe), see John Avlon's list HERE.