Bad news for Crazy Curt Weldon: The National Republican Congressional Committee is cutting spending on his doomed Pennsylvania race and shuffling that money to help out some other GOP guys who have a better chance. Oh well. He’s going to jail fairly soon, so losing his House seat is the least of his problems. MORE »

What’d Weldon do now? Taking a break from taking massive bribes from sketchy Russian defense companies — sorry, we meant “innocently funneling bribes to his daughter’s company” — Curt decided to do some Opposition Research by hitting up the Pentagon for dirt on Joe Sestak. MORE »

Every week, our Anonymous Lobbyist answers your questions about how laws get made and why they probably shouldn’t. If you have a question about the dirty business of doing business in Washington, ask us.

This week: we asked for questions, and you guys delivered. There’s enough creepy varations on “what do you look like naked” to last us ’til Christmas! Other pressing matters, after the jump.

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• Once democrats retake the congress, Bush will be headed to South America, after the impeachment. [FrontPage Magazine]

• Bill O’Reilly is so far in Bush’s head, he sees what the president sees, knows what he knows. [300 Dollar Wonder]
• Oh God! Yeah, God. Just like that, God. Don’t stop, God! [Boozhy]
• Curt Weldon emails his supporters to let them know the “left wing liberal attack machine” is much more dangerous than his Serbian warlord golfing buddies. [Hotline on Call]
• Weldon apparently not just blaming Democrats out of paranoid reflex, actually believes in a DOJ conspiracy to get him. [TPMMuckracker]
• Rick Santorum knows Pennsylvania loves killin’ terrorists. With just one shot, cause “two is pussy.” [Tristram Shandy]
• RNC uses fear mongering technique pioneered by LBJ in the ’60s. [The Swamp]
• Blogger who hates Jerry Weller says “The Rumor” about him isn’t true. Seeing as Weller is a GOP incumbent, that must just mean he’s done something much, much worse. [The Capitol Fax Blog]

• President Bush happily signs so-called “torture bill” into law, calling it, “a way to deliver justice to the terrorists we have captured.” John McCain notably absent from signing ceremony. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]

• First-in-a-decade revision of outer space policy “is not about developing or deploying weapons in space. Period.” So, expect giant lasers and/or death rays up there any minute. [WP]
• Former House clerk and crucial Foley case link Jeff Trandahl is a total boyscout, neckerchiefs and all. Loved to bust pages under his supervision for smoking the chron. [NYT]
• Duke Cunningham’s corruption has a number: $70 million in contracts steered towards his kick-back buddies. [WP, NYT]
• Jim Webb, proud redneck. [WP]
• Hanging out with genocidal war-profiteers in rogue nations is a normal weekend for Curt Weldon. [WP]
• Government denies pension benefit to the partner of Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of congress. [WP]

Curt Weldon’s usual Russian scam was to get a Pentagon contract for some old Soviet company. Then the company would pay his daughter a half-million bucks for “consulting.” But Crazy Curt’s weird fixations make even such a simple con sort of entertaining, because one of his Russian deals was for a flying saucer. MORE »

• Pennsylvania Congressmen Curt Weldon has homes of friends and family raided by the FBI for shady lobbying contacts between himself, his daughter, and a massively corrupt Russian oil company. [WP, NYT]

• Former FDA chief charged with conflict of interest over stocks he held while in office, surprisingly does not blame Democrats. [WP, NYT]
• When Dick Cheney appears in second-tier backwater cities his visit is heralded “like a rock star coming to town.” He is adored by 6 year-olds, others who read at that level. [NYT]
• Barack Obama is more like an actual rock star; at least he uses drugs. [NYT]
• Mark Foley’s hill staffers are still holding their ankles. [WP]
• In Connecticut senate race, the Republican candidate polling in the single digits may be key to Lamont victory. [WP]

Imagine that you’re running against this entrenched Republican congressman in Pennsylvania, a guy who wins with 59% or 65% in a district that voted for Kerry and Gore. The general anti-GOP mood can at least make it a close race, but you really need something special to take it home — maybe some fresh TV news video of the FBI raiding the homes and offices of the congressman’s family and friends. MORE »

Curt Weldon, who’s held his House seat in the suburbs of Philly since the Bronze Age, seems to be in a bit of a tussle this time around, at least when it comes to fundraising, with Democrat Joe Sestak: admiral, PhD, and damn handsome sumbitch. Sestak claims that Weldon is losing sight of what’s important: MORE »

* The Supreme Court bench-slapped the White House in the Gitmo military tribunal case. Tony Snow is unfazed: “Oh, those wacky Supreme Court justices, who knows what those guys mean!” MORE »

Here is a goofy picture of Curt Weldon we found on the internet. MORE »