• John McCain is still tilting towards earmark windmills, and shaking and asking his magic Twitter, rhetorically?, if, um, hellooo? it’s ever heard of another type of Internet called the Wikipedia and if so, why should the government endow public arts programs? [Hotline On Call]
• Those purple ticket people, the ones whom you might remember were inhumanly inconvenienced during Barry’s Inauguration, have for whatever reason demanded and received commemorative Joe Biden sex pin-ups from Diane Feinstein. [Ben Smith]
• Huffington Post comedy site DemocraticCongressionalCampaignCommittee.com has created a fun novelty form in which users “role play” as one of the many Republicans who were forced to apologize to Rush Limbaugh recently. Meme! [Top of the Ticket]
• Gordon Brown, dauphin of the forgotten island nation of Great Britain, addressed our Congress this morning and gave a special English-accented hello to Ted Kennedy, who was just today crowned the Governor-General of the British East India Company. [CNN Political Ticker]
• Obama is keeping his promise to Nevada, and is probably not going to dump America’s nuclear waste in its mountains after all. [Washington Post]

That secret Bilderberg meeting between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? Now they’re saying it actually happened at the NW Washington home of one of California’s lady senators, Diane Feinstein. She is also an older liberal woman in the Senate who sometimes is a loser, so Hillary asked to borrow her living room. Feinstein turned it into a Chamber of Naked Horror. MORE »

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey to the Senate floor, where more Democrats will say “waterboarding is bad” and then probs vote for him. The vote was 11-8 after senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, the new Joey Liebs, supported the nomination. [CNN/AP]

* Jim Jeffords stole Walnuts! maverick thunder in 2001 and never gave it back. [QandO]
* Diane Feinstein: so many fuckups to distance herself from, so little time. [World Net Daily]
* Army happy to accept freshly-inked killers the Marines have rejected. [Vodka Pundit]
* James Inhofe hates U2 as much as you do. [C&L]
* Rudy took down Judy the first night. [Hotline on Call]
* Predictable Iowa voters go for the whitest candidate with a cock. [MoJo]
* New jib-jab cartoon that debuted at last night’s radio/teevee dinner. [jibjab]
* Howard Dean is less of a prick than before. Hazzzzzzzzzzah! [Roll Call]

• “Bipartisan uproar” erupts over the depth and legality of the NSA’s monitoring of domestic calls; Bush defends surveillance activities, saying, “Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates.” [WP, NYT, USAT, WSJ]
• Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) may subpeona phone company executives; Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.): “I believe we are on our way to a major constitutional confrontation on Fourth Amendment guarantees of unreasonable search and seizure.” [WP, USAT, USAT]
• Senate leaders reach compromise on immigration; legislation could hit the floor next week. [NYT]
• Senate approves $70B tax plan by vote of 54 to 44. [WP, NYT, USAT]
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): “Impeachment is off the table.” [WP]

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We now have Samuel Alito’s own spin on his 1985 admission that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion. Yesterday, he met with Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), who told reporters that Alito distanced himself from the statement: “What [Alito] said was, ‘It was different then. I was an advocate seeking a job. It was a political job.” MORE »