Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Updated 1:09 p.m. By Perry Bacon Jr. and Garance Franke-Ruta The chairman of the Republican National Committee took a victory lap Wednesday morning. "Assume the Heisman position. Yeah baby. That's my moment," said Michael Steele on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," crowing over GOP gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey. As for a Democrat winning New York's 23rd district in a special-election contest -- the first such win by a Democrat there since 1872 -- Steele said, "We'll be back in that game next year. We'll take the seat back. I'm not worried about that." Later, at news conference at party headquarters, he declared the wins a rebuke to the "incredibly arrogant government in Washington." "As recently as a couple of months ago, Republicans were being written off," he said. "Many of you were writing our epitaphs."