Wonkette

A week ago today, we bitterly presented the World’s Worst Wonk’d. The “D.C. celebrity sightings” consisted of George Will buying another fucking book at Borders, and a fireman who had once been on local teevee. We demanded that you people get it together, and you got it together! Huzzah for Wonkette Operatives! This week, Fred Thompson, Robert Mueller, Tom Ridge, Juan Williams, Marion Barry, Ben Bernanke, Ken Mehlman, Robert Novak, Dana Milbank, Mark Warner, and David Frum were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. The most voyeuristic fun ever in Wonkette’s Five Long Years of History, after the jump. MORE »

One problem for Republicans these days is that they’re totally hated by voters under 30. A new study says that “Young people react with hostility to the Republicans on almost every measure and Republicans and younger voters disagree on almost every major issue of the day.” MORE »

• Patrick Fitzgerald “has assembled evidence that suggests Cheney’s long-standing tensions with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame.” [WP]
• Miers tells Schumer: “No one knows how I would rule on Roe v. Wade.” The White House tries to focus on her qualifications. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT, WT]
• Conservative “apparatus” built by Rove “has splintered over Miers and broken free from its commander”; “rarely have they turned against a president so normally aligned with them on such a central, legacy-building priority.” [WP]
• “Confluence of crises. . . has some critics asking whether [Andrew Card] needs to clean house or assert himself more forcefully. . . before [Bush] is downgraded permanently to lame duck status.” David Frum: “The lesson of both Katrina and Miers is that the system of decision making in the White House no longer meets the needs of the president.” [NYT]
• Bush’s approval rating slips to 39% in Gallup Poll; only 29% approve of Congress. [USAT]
• DeLay could have saved his position as majority leader if he accepted deal to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. [WP, LAT, USAT]

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Howie Kurtz is from Brooklyn and he knows a good street fight when he sees one. The Post’s media masturbator does his thing this morning on David Frum’s role as top bruiser in the righty gangland war over Harriet: MORE »

• She’s got some vocal critics: “she’s the first Supreme Court nominee whose eyeliner is thicker than her curriculum vitae.” [Luttig's Liar]
• Ryan Lizza notes that “loyalty to Bush trumped intellectual firepower,” and that she once signed a document advocating same-sex couples’ right to adopt. Hmmmm. [&c.]
• Give her this, she knows her daily political tip sheets: “The Note for call[ed] me a ‘a trailblazing, conservative, consensus-y, strict constructionist’ — and then I stopped reading! The Note is always TOO LONG!” [Harriet Miers's Blog]
• Frum hates her, no he doesn’t, yes he does, wait… Nasty comments by National Review neocon mysteriously removed. [Al Franken Show Blog]
• Miers totally responsible for Dan Rather’s downfall. [Attytood]