The National Journal Group throws a mean party, so when they invited us to celebrate their blessed gay marriage to MSNBC (oh, we only give it ’til November — you know how those types are), we put on a tie and everything and cabbed it to the Watergate. The cabbie correctly pegged us as a “blogger,” picked up two well-dressed Republican-looking additional fares at a Georgetown hotel, and told them we were “a liberal Democratic tree-lover vegetarian” as they uncomfortably and politely laughed and silently pleaded to make it to Sequoia before we said something leftist.

Oh, right, the party! Learn all about it, after the jump.

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Put the kids to bed early, Ma, KATHERINE HARRIS IS ABOUT TO APPEAR ON HARDBALL!

Slightly time-delayed live-blogging will appear shortly.

Update: Follow the madness, after the jump!

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Outside the Beltway has posted video of right-wing zealot Chris Matthews’s recent appearance on Jay Leno. MORE »

* Jack Valenti does look like one of Tony Soprano’s buddies, but Glickman? He looks more like one of Tony’s accountants. [MAFIAA Via Information Leafblower] MORE »

Found Object: DeLay on Hardball [HuffPo]
Earlier: From the Desk of Chris Matthews (and Friends)

Ok, our buddy/tablemate Brian Montopoli pointed this out in the earlier-linked MRC dinner post, but Chris Matthews can’t catch a break. The reactionary conservatives at the MRC hate him. The whiny bleeding-heart ideologues with poor hygiene at Media Matters hate him. And we think it’s getting to him. How else to explain this (from aforementioned bleeding-heart etc. etc.)? MORE »

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Earlier this afternoon, a Capitol Hill source advised us: MORE »

* Reliable Source: NBC flack on David Gregory: “Of course he was not drinking. Do you watch Imus? If so, you know how he jokes.” [WP]
* Cindy Adams: Bush “wears a thin, made-to-fit, barely noticeable mouth guard when biking.” [NYP]
* Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Tucker Carlson promises his week-long vacation is not the end of his MSNBC program; “Hardball” will be repeated in its place. [NYDN]