* Democrats going to the mat with White House over “encroachments on privacy and civil liberties.” [WP, WSJ]
* Hillary Clinton is the undisputed world heavy weight champion of getting paid. [WP, NYT, LAT]
* Al-Qaida just as good as new. [NYT]
* Hopefully Tommy Thompson is in Iowa for his health. [WP, NYT]
* Recording interviews with suspects is a “non-starter” with the FBI. Illegal use of surveillance and bungling of cases still fine, obv. [NYT]
* Nevada governor Jim Gibbons is “a fast-motion train wreck.” [WP]
* President Bush will not be throwing out the first pitch at the Nationals home opener this afternoon as both the team and the White House worry about being associated with such a loser. [WP]

Since we are bloggers and thus TOTALLY FIXATED on accuracy and fairness, we feel a need to point out that, contrary to our earlier post on the subject, Jim Gibbons may in fact be the legal governor of the great state of Nevada. Turns out that Gibbons did in fact resign from Congress on December 31 — there’s even a letter — so his oath of office in his living room as governor later that night was legal, if totally insane. MORE »

* House Iraq wrist-slap resolution day is today. Thanks to Harry Reid, Senate will be voting tomorrow while you drink. [WP, WP, NYT]
* The, “and then what” part of the resolution still escapes Democrats. [LAT]
* Other troop surge, in that other war, couldn’t get a Senate vote on a Wednesday if they promised a bowl of navy bean soup for showing up. [WP, NYT]
* Shady dealings of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons still lack hookers. [WP, NYT]
* Condoleezza Rice was this close to a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal. [USAT]
* Start stockpiling water and granola bars now - the “Y2K7DSTFU” is upon us! [WSJ]
* The blood-thirsty congress-murdering rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln. [WP]

Jim Gibbons still holds power in Nevada despite bloggers’ incontrovertible evidence that he’s not really governor. Nevertheless, it seems that he’s more likely to be hounded from the office he holds illegitimately due to the usual boring ethics charges from his Congressional days involving gobs of ill-gotten cash from defense contractors. MORE »

It’s a a damn shame that Wonkette West Coast Bureau Chief Ken Layne went on vacation just when Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, one of Ken’s least favorite people ever, was revealed to not really be the governor at all, but just some white guy in a bad suit wandering around the governor’s mansion giving orders. All the details, after the jump.

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Wonkette readers know that new Nevada governor Jim Gibbons is a violent delusional drunk and corrupt thug who keeps illegal aliens in his basement, but he’s also a world-class moron! MORE »

Why did violent, delusional alcoholic Jim Gibbons take the oath as Nevada’s newest and craziest governor at 12:00:12 a.m. on January 1? Initial reports blamed some make-believe terror threat because Saddam Hussein supporters would certainly target some nobody in Northern Nevada to avenge the Iraqi president’s hanging.

But the real reason for the bizarre midnight ceremony in Gibbons’ Reno living room has less to do with the sociopath’s terror fantasies than his cheap mafia casino power grabs and fanatical loathing for the popular, competent and sane outgoing governor, Republican Kenny Guinn.

Learn all about the pig-eyed thug’s latest filthy schemes, after the jump.

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Jim Gibbons was already famous for being a do-nothing Nevada congressman who routinely spouted asinine nonsense and basically threatened to kill a Vegas cocktail waitress just before the midterm elections that bizarrely put him in the governor’s mansion, but we can now add “paranoid schizophrenic” to his long list of personal problems.

“Citing unspecified security concerns,” the rat-eyed Republican was sworn in as the New Year arrived Monday at 12 a.m. — in the living room of his house in the grim Reno suburb of Sparks. (UPDATE: Sparks native Gibbons has apparently abandoned his grim hometown for some McMansion in Reno proper.) This couldn’t be any weirder if Michael Jackson, Liza Minelli and that dwarf from “Twin Peaks” were on hand.

Let’s catch up with the scumsack, after the jump.

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These Nevada results are almost astonishing, or they’re cooked. MORE »

The Nevada cowtown of Elko finally got another president to stop by. The last one was Herbert “Hooverville” Hoover. Today it was George W. Bush. MORE »

We’ll stop when they stop. MORE »