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On this National Day of Celebration (Elvis Presley’s Birthday), let’s remember the most important moment of our greatest president’s administration: when a bloated pop star visited the Oval Office for a half hour.

All the wonderful facts about this most wonderful occasion, after the jump.

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• Congressman says Baghdad and Manhattan are twinsies, cites availability of goods on street corners and porno video stores as examples. [Think Progress]

• Rick Santorum continues to go after the “virgin vote,” appealing to their sensibilities by likening the Iraq war to Lord of the Rings. [Salon]
• John Boehner eulogizes PageFuckerGate, brandishes The Eternal Hammer of Tax Policy. [Hotline on Call]
• Gorby reiterates: they’re real, and they’re spectacular. [Goldenfiddle]
• Ain’t no Alabama Congressman gonna spend his time learnin’ bout no “mozlawms.” [Hullabaloo]
• Republican incumbent in Wyoming race sees lead slip to only 7 — actual voters, not percentage points. [Political Wire]
• Bill O’Reilly will make you hate yourself, one way or another. [Fishbowl DC]

* Marsha Blackburn is voted “hottest woman in politics.” It’s good to know that all the money DeLay’s PAC gave Marsha went to the makeup counter at Saks. [Politics 1] MORE »

* Greenpeace kids should know that with just one little “free” sign, all that trash becomes a donation to the community. Viva Trotsky! [Princess Sparkle Pony] MORE »

Sometimes we’re accused of being too liberal, and sometimes we’re accused of being too conservative. But we think that we’re “just right,” based on the presence in our inbox of this message, nestled in between “Dear Blogger” emails from the Wall Street Journal. MORE »

Congratulations to the National Republican Congressional Committee for sending us today’s most amusing/depressing press release:

TROTSKY STUMPS FOR ANTHONY WEINER! MORE »

The final entry in “Complaints From People We Made Fun of Yesterday Day” is courtesy Ben “Wolverine” Domenech, propietor of SCANDALOUS conservative blog Red America. He directed us to a clarification he posted below the original Livejournal post concering his being a loser in college:

Couple things, Ben: MORE »