My pal oyster checks in from the SRLC in New Orleans:

Most importantly, there was no word yet on whether potential Senate candidate Stormy Daniels will make a surprise appearance at the conference. (Wild rumors were circulating yesterday that she wanted to meet Sarah Palin and perhaps lay some groundwork for an eventual endorsement.) Stormy recently made a highly publicized switch from the Democratic party to the Republican party in the wake of the embarrassing RNC/Voyeur club scandal.

From another post:

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I got nothing, so here’s something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMG5B-Lwokw

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Orly, your favorite lawyer-dentist:

In her latest quest to reveal President Obama’s “true” birthplace and have him removed from office, birther queen Orly Taitz has filed motions trying to combine her lawsuits with one filed byseveral attorneys general challenging the constitutionality of health care reform.

In a motion to intervene filed in a Florida court this week, Taitz asked to be added to the health care lawsuit with the attorneys general.

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This could have been handled better …

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R): 1) declared April Confederate History Month in the Old Dominion without bothering to mention slavery; 2) sort of apologized for the omission; and 3) added some language to the declaration acknowledging that maybe slavery hadn’t been such a hot idea. This asshole is the wingnut’s wingnut. [TPM]

These leeches – the Young Eagles:

As we’re guessing you know by now, that’s the RNC-created program for young donors whose night out at a bondage-themed LA club ended up on the committee’s tab — triggering the latest round of speculation over whether Michael Steele can survive.

Is it J. Roby Penn IV, the Young Eagles’ mid-Atlantic regional director and 29-year-old heir to an oil-and-gas fortune, who tells visitors to his Facebook page, “My ancestors, actually, weren’t on the Mayflower. They sent the servants over first to get the cottage ready”?

Scum.  GOP scum.

The GOP’s Young Eagles [TPM]

Mellbell wanted to see how the raisin and pine nut meatballs came out last night, so here it is … recipe and commentary after the jump.

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