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The Grand Masters of the Republican party gathered in New Orleans – which, in case you didn’t hear , was the site of Hurricane Katrina – this week for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. As the first major gathering of the GOP’s 2012 hopefuls , the SRLC provided a platform for some truly hyerpbolic one-upmanship .

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… It was a somewhat eventful year, I suppose. Speaking in Grant Park November 4th, Barack Obama summed up our situation in 2008 as “two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.” We would add one more seismic event to that list—the skinny guy with the big ears who dazzled a nation and gave us hope. I’m speaking, of course, of Michael Phelps.