This week’s Wonk’d features everyone you love to hate: Tom Delay putting giant brown things in his mouth, Anne Coulter taking some good meat, Lynne Cheney staying safe under a brand new helmet, and Rick Santorum just being the whack otis he usually is. If you’d like a lighter mood for Friday afternoon, you’ll also get Howard Dean’s charming cab habit and Martin Sheen in DC for real and not just in your heart. All these lovely tidbits, plus a sign from God that Ralph Nader should probably hang up his wagging finger of shame.

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• Heard On The Hill: Rep. Jerry Nadler is that guy who will steal your seat at the Tune Inn. [Roll Call]
• Inside the Beltway: Rep. Dennis Kucinich asks, “Do we think about what hate does to our own hearts? Isn’t it time to put on the invincible armor of human compassion to explore human relations as the science of the human heart, in which we always have the capacity through courage, communication, patience and understanding to turn hate into love, and to beat our swords into plowshares.” [WT]
• Washington Whispers: Fox News’ senior VP John Moody: “Let’s NOT call it the ‘hometown of Jesus’ though many would argue the city’s favorite son turned out pretty well.” [USN&WR]
• Lowdown: Hosts of “The View” are total fucking losers. [NYDN]
• The Scoop: Luke Wilson on psychiatry: “My style is to think, Yeah, I really need to go see somebody, and then not do it, and then get over it and think, You know what? I’m okay! I actually saved some money!” [MSNBC]

Time for your weekly look at the life of leisure that is a gig on Capitol Hill. This week, your questions were all indicative of creepy anti-social tendencies and our Anonymous Hill Staffer’s answers were all sorta mean. You guys were meant for one another.

After the jump: competitive eating, pornography, intern ass, and the Secret Service. You know, typical fare.

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