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Remember the Madison Club? They’re an exclusive all-girl “social club” made up of blonde sorority chicks. They’ve seen better days, membership-wise. Last we heard, they were trying to spice up their recruitment drives by adding a couple more brunettes. We never, ever thought they’d take it this far: MORE »

Did you know that The McLaughlin Group is still on the air? It is, broadcasting live each week direct from 1986. Last Sunday’s was apparently insane. We didn’t catch it, but HuffPo’s Rachel Sklar, Pat Buchanan fetishist, did, and she’s posted the video. MORE »

Hello, I’m Joe Biden, and I’d like to wish you all a very happy Black History Month. As some of you may know, some of my best friends are black, and I appreciate the opportunity to celebrate them each and every year for 28, and occasionally 29 days.

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* Gerald Ford: greatest President since the last one that died. [WP, NYT, USAT]
* President Bush dips his pen into the inkwell of free-market editorials. [WSJ, NYT]
* Strategy memo stolen from Rudy Giuliani’s campaign mildly shocking for the 292 million Americans that don’t live in New York City. [WP]
* Massachusetts will put gay marriage on a statewide ballot in 2008 — get ready for two years of marketing gayness to Irish-Catholics. [WP]
* No one has a clue if Barack Obama’s bong hits will become poll hits in a Presidential race. [WP]
* Democrats really, definitely launching “100-hour legislative blitz,” just as soon as the “Lets get ready to rummmble” guy shows up. [NYT]
* Hippies plan protest at Capitol tomorrow, will discuss impeachment over vegan burritos. [WP]
* African-American members of Congress from the South assume leadership positions in the House, finally. [WSJ]
* Military’s “emergency-funding request” reads like a Pentagon Christmas list. [WSJ]

* Campaigning for House majority leader as fierce as it is because Nancy Pelosi has hated that rat bastard Steny Hoyer since 1960 and she’s not stopping now. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* A thin layer of Iraq hearing was placed on top of a hearty serving of 2008 posturing in the Senate yesterday. [NYT]
* Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott elected as Senate Minority Leader and Whip respectively. After which Lott gets verklempt, cries, and makes the Capitol press corps visibly uncomfortable. [WP, WP]
* In Georgia, two more House races have been called for Democrats, seven still counting. [NYT, WP]
* Government diction experts assert that 35 million Americans are not going hungry, they just have “very low food security.” [WP]
* A record five House committees could be chaired by African-Americans. [WP]

• President Bush signs border fence bill that neither himself nor Democrats think will actually get built, or if built, do any good. [WP, NYT]

• Opponents of gay marriage cheer pro-gay decision from New Jersey court, hope it will motivate large numbers of anti-gay voters whose homophobia had been dormant. [WP, NYT]
• IRS commissioner’s dubious ethics largely ignored by White House’s ethics lawyer who is his wife. [NYT]
• Hedging their bets for the next Congress, some corporations make last minute contributions to Democratic candidates. [WSJ]
• In a campaign season with record ad spending, you still only remember the ridiculous ones. [WP, WSJ]
• Gas prices may be down, but Exxon-Mobil’s profits aren’t. [WP]
• Black voter turnout negatively affected by ” past shenanigans,” positively affected by hatred of the Bush administration. [NYT]
• Donald Rumsfeld takes criticism from Republicans who don’t have a pressing campaign requirement to be against him, they just are. [WP]

• New poll shows Democrats favored by 2 to 1 among the important independent voters who have soured on Iraq. [WP]

• Black and Latino voters once supportive of GOP turn to Democrats as previous campaign promises go unfulfilled. [LAT]
• President Bush no longer saying “stay the course.” Difference between old course and emerging new course unclear, though might involve setting up progress benchmarks in Iraq. [NYT]
• In a sign he intends to run for president Barack Obama talks about getting high with a room full of magazine editors. [NYT]
• Academics disagree about whether the midterm elections will constitute a Democratic “wave” or a “wavelet.” Larry Sabato sides with the “wave year” camp. [WP]
• Long-shot candidate in California incites rash of corny headlines, may be “washed” into House next month. [WP]
• Dennis Hastert’s top aide testified before the House ethics subcommittee yesterday in a sign that the “Who knew Foley was a perv and when?” investigation may be drawing to a close. [ ]
• Former Enron CEO Jeffery Skilling expresses remorse while maintaining innocence, but the sentence is 24 years and 4 months in Federal “pound me in the ass” prison. [LAT]

• Heard on the Hill: Lobbyists both Democratic and Republican are itching to raise money for Senator Joe Lieberman’s reelection campaign. [Roll Call]
• Yeas and Nays: Patrick Gavin’s crush on Tucker Carlson continues unabated with a visit to Tucker’s “Dancing With the Stars” rehearsal. [Examiner]
• Under the Dome: As we reported a week ago, Senator John McCain’s helicopter was not attacked by rockets in Georgia. [The Hill]
• Reliable Source: Tom Cruise madness… A PG County office-seeker is running an ad featuring characters from The Wire. [WP]
• Rush and Molloy: Condoleezza Rice says blacks don’t know how much George W. Bush has done for Africa. [NYDN]

Wal-Mart’s very own paid Civil Rights Leader/apologist Andrew Young abruptly resigned from his position yesterday after giving an interview in which he said his employer was good for the urban working class. Which is basically what he was being paid to say, except for the extra bit he added about the folks who aren’t so good: MORE »

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Do you think the Secret Service has to throw themselves in front of his hammer if he’s about to hit his thumb? MORE »