Wonkette

• Reliable Source: Our very own Liz Glover charms the pants off most, terrifies Tim Russert with her Barbie camera… also some other things. [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: Karl Rove makes the astute observation that Americans want to elect a woman or a black man, thinks Obama’s not beefy enough… Mike Gravel tries to sell High School students his painkillers… Virginia wants to make it a felony to steal an animal. [Examiner]
• In the Know: Nancy Pelosi snubs her biographer… MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell reported from New Hampshire without shoes on, like a dirty hippie… The middle schooler lobby pushes Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi to criminalize homework. [The Hill]
• Shenanigans: John Cornyn’s re-election campaign has some free advice for his Democratic rival… Mark Foley’s former chief of staff is going to save the Everglades. [Politico]
• The Sleuth: Someone stuck Hillary Clinton with the task of schlepping Chelsea’s dog around… Barrack Obama’s musical pick might indicate that he didn’t expect to, um, lose. [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: Larry David makes New Hampshire ladies swoon… Nicolas Sarkozy shares something in common with Donald Trump… Keith Olbermann explains the nature of his crusade. [NYDN]
• Fishbowl DC: The White House starts a thrilling blog on their Oriental Adventure… Election spam is annoying… Tim Russert knows how to pick a winner. [Media Bistro]

Just like Andy Rooney had a good point that Barry Obama shouldn’t be president because he has a black-sounding name, the counterpoint made by labor-hating scab Andy Sullivan last night on Colbert was equally brilliant. Baldilocks spent a good chunk of his four minutes pushing for Barry, sharing with Comedy Central viewers the great insight the world will stop hating us if our president is brown and named “Obama.” Thank you, Andy. And thanks for saying it on teevee and not on your blog, where we wouldn’t have understood on account of we don’t know how to read..

• Reliable Source: Miley Cyrus can’t enjoy a steak in peace… The Supreme Court Justices go out together, walk in single file… Hugo Chavez takes Naomi Campbell to the gun show. [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon traipse around New Hampshire for John Edwards… Apparently that’s what it takes to get Matt Lauer’s attention. [Examiner]
• Shenanigans: She may have made Hillary Clinton cry, but Marianne Pernold Young is voting for Obama. [Politico]
• Page Six: Norman Mailer got Tina Brown her green card… Lou Dobbs screams and cries when he doesn’t get his way. [NYP]
• Rush & Molloy: There is much attention paid to Sascha Baron Cohen’s penis. [NYDN]
• Fishbowl DC: Howard Kurtz doesn’t think Benzair Bhutto’s chances of winning her election are very good… All roads lead to Politico… Rick Klein got carded 10 years too late… Brian Williams says reporters are falling in love with Barrack Obama. [Media Bistro]

* Congressional Republicans push through change to health insurance rules at the buzzer. [WP]
* Meanwhile, Democrats fail to extort concessions from oil and gas companies. “Wait ’til next year,” they say. [WSJ]
* That’s when they’ll be relying on younger members’ “energy” and “intensity” to get everything they want from the 110th Congress. [WP]
* State department intelligence on Iranian nuclear terrorists powered by Google. [WP]
* William Jefferson wins reelection, reaffirms superiority of the American political system. [WP, NYT]
* Iraq Study Group’s report exposes rift among Republicans. James Baker and Lee Hamilton claim they got no beef with President Bush, and want to know who you callin’ “surrender monkey?” [WP, NYT]
* Barack Obama goes to New Hampshire, tells giant crowd that he doesn’t trust his own hype. [WP, NYT]
* In his farewell speech today, Kofi Annan will rip White House policies in the only dapper, civilized, and slightly accented way he knows. [USAT]
* Havana-born Republican congresswoman calls for the assignation of Fidel Castro, dog bites man. [NYT]
* Republican Presidential hopefuls kiss Bush family ass, dog bites man. [LAT]

* The 126 House Democrats that voted against the Iraq war in 2002 enjoy feeling prescient, will soon enjoy chairing powerful committees. [WP]
* Robert Gates’s confirmation hearings begin tomorrow, learn all you never needed to know about him today. [WP, LAT]
* The “other” Iraq Study Group, working for Gen. Peter Pace, recommends more troops in Iraq. So, there’s that. [WSJ]
* National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley tells Russert that “significant changes” are afoot for Iraq, still hasn’t a clue what they’re likely to be. [WP, NYT]
* Barack Obama’s massive popularity and promise is pissing off other potential Presidential candidates… [NYT]
* …like second-generation White House grasper Evan Bayh, whose exploratory committee has begun exploring. [WP]
* President Bush can’t stop thinking about those Alaskan oil fields. [NYT]
* CIA unable to sway Venezuelan Presidential elections as Hugo Chavez wins easily. [LAT]
* Steven Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, and Smokey Robinson among those “knighted” at the Kennedy Center Honors last night. [NYT]

• Bill O’Reilly to appear on Dave Letterman show tonight, will be guest reader for “Top Ten Reasons That Bill O’Reilly Sucks Goat Ass.” [Page Six]

• Yellow ribbon redux. [Tales of the Freeway]
• Harper’s bursts your Obama bubble. [The Swamp]
• Michelle Bachmann may be a fool, but she’s “a fool for Christ.” [Boozhy]
• How to steal an election. [Ars Technica]
• “Stop it Chris Matthews. You and people who share your weird, racial paranoia are hurting the country.” [Media Blog]
• Bob Corker’s attack ad on Harold Ford wasn’t pulled because of racism, but rampant anti-Canadianism. [MoJo Blog]
• Lynne Cheney thinks Jim Webb is “full of baloney.” Lynne is proud of never having baloney in her. [Hotline on Call]
• Next week’s fun: speculating about George Allen’s divorce records. [Talking Points Memo]
• Someone on craigslist has a (creepy) thing for the ladies of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. [craigslist]