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In 2003, Jeffrey Ray Nielsen here was arrested in California for having sex with a 14 year-old boy he met online when he was 33. Of course, he met him online when he was employed at a prominent law firm that agreed to hire him as a favor to the current head of the Orange County Republican Party, Scott Baugh. Yes, that’s right, it’s time for another Republican child sex scandal!

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It seems like ages since Jack Abramoff and his BFF Bob Ney got sent to the slammer, which must be why Bush’s Department of Justice seems to have totally forgotten about Jacky-boy’s other crimes and bribe-takers, right? I mean, they’ve totally got, like, religious discrimination cases to prosecute and Democratic voter fraud to uncover and stuff, and that’s hard. But someone hasn’t forgotten about an incident at the end of the Clinton Administration in which Jacky was working to get these two boobs (Don Young of Alaska and Dana “Don’t Make Any Sudden Moves” Rohrabacher of California) to help him discredit a U.S. diplomat… on behalf of the country in which that diplomat was serving.

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Foreign students at our Universities: are they stealing our confidential Art History secrets? Dana Rohrabacher accuses those hot international students of putting information into their “human computer” and sharing it with foreign militaries. David Wu stands up to look at him v v angrily. [Inside Higher Ed]

* WALNUTS! thinks it’s his staff’s fault he’s not raising any money. [Political Insider]
* Tom Delay’s word of the day: treason. [Horse's Mouth]
* Nevada rednecks want to exile Harry Reid. [Battle Born Politics]
* Dana Rohrabacher puts terror-curses on people if he detects even a hint of an eye-roll at some dumb shit he just said. [Think Progress]

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While the spineless Democratic Majority won’t impeach Bush because it would hurt his widdle feelings or whatever, Republican congressmen are ready to sack up and start the proceedings. MORE »

• Reliable Source: The Bushes gave Kenny Chesney special cowboy boots to commemorate his East Room performance. . . Alberto Gonzales says it’s “unclear” whether his parents entered the country illegally. . . Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is returning $23,000 to an indicted producer. [WP]
• Under the Dome: James Gandolfini thinks Bush should “reinstate the draft, send 500,000 troops and finish it.”. . . Two members of the Grateful Dead fundraise for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). . . John Edwards and Jack Kemp join forces to encourage people to save for retirement. [The Hill]
• Heard on the Hill: Euan Blair is no longer a Hill intern, and one question lingers: why? [Roll Call]
• Page Six: Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey will be on “Oprah” in the fall. [NYP]

* Reliable Source: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) worked with indicted film producer. . . Laura Bush attends birthday party for Mary Ourisman. . . Brady Campaign sends orange “Innocent Bystander” shirts to the White House. [WP]
* Inside the Beltway: Bush named a Dubai Ports World senior executive as U.S. maritime administrator on January 25th. [WT]
* Rush & Molloy: Bob Woodward fears that the next domestic terror attack will make 9/11 “a footnote” and will make us a police state; he also continues to peddle rumor of Cheney running in ‘08. [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]