Wonkette's Week in Review: Bitch Slaps and Wiretaps
* The Senate confirmation hearings for soon-to-be CIA Director Michael Hayden began this week . In the great tradition of the adult film industry, there will be two versions of the hearing; one for cable and one for pay-per-view, er, Senate Members' Ears Only . We were actually pretty relieved that the hardcore hearings were closed, that shit was long enough . Finally, the denouement: he's an idiot .
* While the doors were shut on the on the double-extra secret intelligence hearings, the Congressional Catfight kept rolling on. The matches really started getting close. The combatants were fighting (capped) tooth and (manicured) nail .
* Tony Snow gave his first televised press briefing this week. It was about as funny as - cancer.
* Anyway, back to the stuff that matters. The catfight between Katherine Harris and Barney Frank was so close it confusingly fucked up our software. Time for a runoff! Which of these two house-side hustlers is the more stylish flirt ? You voted, we crunched the numbers, and Katy found that it's hard to keep your feet dry when you're kicking in skulls !
* Readers hungry after the initial taste of blood got us to add a wild card spot to the catfight.
* The Harris vs. Pelosi "Battle of the Botox" is still raging; voting ends Monday.
* We threw our considerable political clout behindtwo pairsa pair of lovely ladies. One wants to be the governor of Nevada , and the other wants more girl-on-girl action in Sacramento .
* Meanwhile, from the "no news is no news" file: the Watergategate scandal continues to simmer , Karl Rove is still not indicted , and the immigration debate continues to rage (with President Bush giving a boring speech that didn't really please anyone).
* That crazy science. One minute pollution is slowly causing the Earth to cook us to death, the next -- CARBON DIOXIDE: WE CALL IT LIFE .