The Republican National Committee’s $2,000 tab at Club Voyeur in Jon’s neighborhood last week was really small potatoes compared with the kind of dough Jim “Big Jim” Greer and his sidekick Delmar Johnson stole from the Republican Party of Florida during Greer’s term as chairman of the RPOF.

Real American Stories features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith’s interview fit that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.

– FOX News spokesdick showing just how spiteful the network can be when someone calls Sarah Palin to task for her now well-known untruthiness. LL Cool J, aka James Todd Smith, objected on Twitter that Palin was showing clips from a 2008 interview he gave to someone else in the promos for her new FOX reality show.

If it has added nothing else to the public discourse, the Tea Party should get credit for proving that fear, racism, selfishness, and mean-spiritedness know no homeland. We no longer have to struggle with “Trailer Park voters,” or “white trash,” or “ignorant rednecks” or even “residents of Glennbeckistan.” Now we can sum it all up in one tidy tag: Tea Baggers.

I want to express my appreciation to President Obama for picking up my book, getting it on the front page of The New York Times .

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with Politico, commenting on a photo taken of President Obama in an Iowa City book store.

Think Progress: On CNN’s Larry King Live last night, King interviewed two top tea baggers, Dana Loesch and Wayne Allyn Root. When asked about health-care reform, Loesch and Root criticized the new law as being “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional.” King made the point that Social Security is mandatory, and asked if tea baggers would “do away with” it,too. “I would, yes,” said Loesch. Root said he’d rather invest his retirement money.

These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there. They’re trying to label the tea party, but I’ve never seen any racial slurs.

— Dale Robertson, self-proclaimed founder of the Tea Party, quoted by the Washington Times. The only problem? The Washington Independent caught Robertson at a Tea Party rally last month holding a sign with a racial slur.

A new poll by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair found that 50 percent of respondents would support an openly gay person as the president of the United States, while 44 percent would oppose it. This was all in the context of the impending repeal of the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

A CNN poll gives Pres. Obama a 5-point bump, to 51 percent, fueled by a 12 point surge among Dems and 6 point boost from Independents. A WaPo-ABC poll gives Obama a 53 percent approval rating. It also finds the GOP’s advantage in voter enthusiasm has evaporated. Now 74 percent of Dems are enthusiastic about voting for their party in November compared with 76 percent of GOPs.

Gallup: Most people assume that the health care reform law would mostly benefit Democrats, but new polling finds that among the uninsured, 31 percent are Democrats, 17 percent are GOPs and 48% are independents.