How is Steele a joke, the first Black RNC chair who helped the GOP win control of the House and created the wave year of 2010?
He didn't 'create' the 2010 Republican wave. We can argue all day about the actual effect of campaign resources on elections, but it's pretty widely accepted that unpopular presidents end up facing midterm backlashes. Obama was an unpopular president presiding over a slow recession recovery while also supercharging the cultural grievances of conservatives by simply existing as POTUS.
Republicans could have had a literal elephant running the RNC and they still would have destroyed the Democratic Party across the nation in 2010.