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As the RNC gathers for its big meeting, and to elect a chairman (reports suggest Duncan, but don't count out Krazy Katon Dawson!): 

--Dan rightly takes Jeff Jacoby to task for perpetuating the bogus CBO report figures, but I'll do him one better: the House Minority Whip (and 19th Scariest Conservative!) repeating the lie to Marc Ambinder last night as his #1 problem with the stimulus bill: "I think first of all you have to focus spending on actual stimulus. You've got CBO saying that  only 25 percent goes out in the first year."

--Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, rumored to be facing a challenge from the religious right in 2010, surveys the nation's problems and singles out.