* Inside the Beltway: Record number of lawmakers and reporters will descend on the Conservative Members Retreat today; bloggers are invited for the first time. . . Entrepreneur hawks “George Allen for President Classic Thong.” [WT]
* Page Six: Bernard-Henri Levy jokes that Barack Obama could win in ‘08 “if he’s smart enough not to hire Bob Shrum to handle his campaign.” [NYP]
* Rush & Molloy: Memoir of former prostitute Dimitra Ekmektsis includes drugged times with Aaron Sorkin. [NYDN]

• Reliable Source: Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) had John Roberts review his screenplay in the early eighties. Said Rohrabacher, “There were a lot of people in the White House who felt threatened by the input of the writers, but John was someone who appreciated the creative element.”. . . Bob Shrum and wife Marylouise Oates sold their Massachusetts Avenue home to John Negroponte for $2.2m. [WP]
• Inside the Beltway: 45% of voters would not vote for Bush again, according to poll conducted by James Carville and Stan Greenberg. [WT]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Howard Kurtz is looking to publish a satirical novel about the news industry: “This is something I’m fooling around with in my spare time. . . The fun part is that people may recognize - or think they recognize - some major media figures.” [NYDN]