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• Reliable Source: Mark Foley had a cameo in a bad action movie, playing a confressman. The picture’s pretty great… Alberto Gonzales stopped by GW lawschool to lecture, arrest everyone. [WP]

• Yeas and Nays: The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute “Great American Conservative Women” pinup calendar is finally out! Another great picture… Republicans be confident. [Examiner]
• Under the Dome: Happy people don’t vote… Air America is picking up Armstrong Williams. [The Hill]
• Paullyblog: Daryn Kagan pretends not to hate CNN for firing her. [USN&WR]

Getting busted for painkiller abuse: sad/funny.
Getting busted for unprescribed Viagra: HYSTERICAL. MORE »

* Names & Faces: Rush Limbaugh wrongly identifies a politician as black. [WP]
* Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Rush Limbaugh and Daryn Kagan are said to be “kaput.”. . . Chelsea Clinton is keeping her new boyfriend, Marc Mezvinsky, to herself. [NYDN]
* Page Six: Gerald Ford would reportedly blame Secret Service agents for his flatulence. [NYP]

• Reliable Source: William Rehnquist’s home is on the market. . . Air America host Mike Malloy declines invite to Conservative Political Action Conference because of he believes the “conference participants represent what we fought against in WWII.” [WP]
• Inside the Beltway: Newt Gingrich will “consider” running for president in ‘08. [WT]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Rush Limbaugh and Daryn Kagan might be “on the rocks”. . . Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. get million-dollar deal for book on Sen. Hillary Clinton. [NYDN]

Well, that was quite a 48 hour period to go through to get my cherry popped. Resignations and indictments and intrigue and, of course, all of today’s waiting, WAITING, WAITING! Here’s what I have learned in the past 48 hours:

• The Note needs to stop frontin’ like they were Thomas Pyncheon or something.
• Rush Limbaugh needs to sober up and realize that his squeeze looks like Steven Tyler.
• Scooter Libby: soooo getting pardoned!

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Bush on CNN just now:

“We got a lot of rebuilding to do…. the good  news is and it’s hard for some to see it now but out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic gulf coast… out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — the guy lost his entire house — there’s going to be fantastic house. I look forward to sitting on the porch. Out of New Orleans is going to come that great city again.”

Not if Hastert has is way. But, hey, as long as Trent Lott is taken care of.

Fwiw, even Daryn Kagan saw through that bullshit: “That was rather an odd thing to be watching. The President finally making it to the Gulf Coast after five days and then spending a big chunk of time — when he could be out seeing the damage — getting a briefing that, frankly, he could have gotten back at the White House.”

Geez. No nookie for you tonight, Daryn.

UPDATE: Official transcript after the jump. And, uhm, oops: “And I’m not looking forward to this trip.”

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The blog “What’s Happening at CNN” — talk about your niche markets — has a juicy (if true) tidbit:

“It is being whispered at CNN/Atlanta that Daryn Kagan has been passed over for any and all promotion due to her relationship with Limbaugh. If she has a job at the end of the year at CNN it will be a miracle. Bosses are not happy with her boyfriend and his daily bashing of the network.”

Should this bear out, we would be very disappointed in CNN. (Well, we are already, but that’s another story.) Isn’t dating Limbaugh itself punishment enough? MORE »