If you’ve not delved into the wacky world of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), you owe it to yourself to get up to speed on the story (good place to start).

In the latest shenanigans the former party chairman Jim Greer, under indictment for allegedly defrauding the party, is now suing the party for $120,000 severance he claims he was owed.

At the same time, the Greer mess is bleeding over into the governor’s race (you’ll recall that Greer’s trouble already deeply implicates Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate race), where outsider GOP candidate Rick Scott is trying to use Greer against establishment candidate Bill McCollum. That prompted Greer’s successor as party chairman to pop Scott for that effort, even though Scott is the frontrunner for the party nomination.

Sound like fun yet?

It must be something about the oppressive summer heat that brings out the “death panel” craziness this time of year because it’s back again — on Fox, of course.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) continues to deny that his (now former) aide convicted of threatening his girlfriend with a knife worked on women’s issues for the senator; instead he worked on issues like … abortion.

Is Meg Whitman’s California campaign team, made up of a lot of ex-McCain staffers, trying to copy the Obama 2008 playbook?

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is at it again.

On opposing exceptions for abortions in cases of rape: Make “a lemon situation into lemonade.”

On Obama forcing BP to set up a $20 billion fund for blowout damages: “Government shouldn’t be doing that to a private company. And I think you named it clearly: It’s a slush fund.”

And then later: “Having had some time to think about it … I shouldn’t have used the term ‘slush fund’; that was incorrect.”

There is a Lindsay Lohan connection to U.S. politics after all.

Marine Gen. Jim Mattis will be President Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. Central Command.

Just yesterday Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle called BP’s $20 billion escrow account a “slush fund,” echoing Rep. Joe Barton’s comments a few weeks back. But she’s apparently realized that that’s too toxic even for Sharron Angle. She’s now released a statement saying she was wrong and taking it back.

Obama on anxiety some Israelis feel toward him: “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”

I’m wondering if Sen. Vitter means something different from everyone else when he says an aide is assigned to “women’s affairs.”