Reuters reports that current UN envoy John Bolton will not get his Senate confirmation vote any time soon. Basically, Lincoln Chafee can’t vote against the guy before his primary against that real Republican, and without Chafee, there’s no confirmation. MORE »

Photo by Liz Gorman, mustache by Frederick’s of Hollywood.

Crazed nutjob/American Ambassador to the UN John Bolton is apparently quite a catch. The man’s a bit media shy, seldom available to the press for one-on-one interviews. Unless, of course, you’re a big-breasted woman with a position on Israel somewhere to the right of Meir Kahane — as, conveniently enough, crazed nutjob/blogger Pamela “Atlas” Oshry is, helping her to score (ugh) two exclusive, bubbly interviews (”yeah, baby”?!?) with the man (one of which we’ve previously touched on [ugh again]).

Sadly, if you don’t display a banner on your blog identifying yourself as a “fan of disproportionate response,” you have a slightly harder time of it. Even with boobs! After the jump, learn the tragic tale of rejection by a man who looks like he ought to try to keep his options open.

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• Second “I had an abortion” campaign launched, first was in ‘72. [Feministing]
• “More and more there is the sinking sensation at the Times that the Internet isn’t Kansas.” [Romenesko]
• 68% of Americans support bringing all troops home by the end of this calendar year or by one year from now. [Eschaton]
• Slutty kid may offend Muslims. [LGF]
• Atlas Shrugs interviews John Bolton: “You remember Godfather, Frank Sinatra, it was supposed to be Frank Sinatra, he’s crying, you’re godfather. Same thing happens, somebody slap him. So how could you have so much faith in the Lebanon government? I mean, I want to believe, John. I believe in you. I want to believe.” [Atlas Shrugs]

• New bipartisan congressional report shows that the Homeland Security Department abuses no-bid deals, poorly trains managers. “32 Homeland Security Department contracts worth a total of $34 billion have ‘experienced significant overcharges, wasteful spending, or mismanagement.’” [WP]

• Bush’s draft bill for putting terror-detainees on trial excludes defendants from their own legal proceedings, unlike Rwanda and Yugoslav tribunals. [NYT]
• Bush presses Senate Foreign Relations committee to make U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton permanent. [WP]
• In NSA Senate testimony yesterday, civil liberties advocate James X. Dempsey said “he would prefer to see no legislation at all, allowing the National Security Agency to continue wiretapping Americans without warrants, than Congressional approval of procedures outside the scope of the 1978 law that created the secret court.” [NYT]
• Rice: “I am a student of history, so perhaps I have a little bit more patience with the enormous change in the international system and the complete shifting of tectonic plates, and I don’t expect it to happen in a few days or even a year,” [USAT]

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They have a way with words and graphic design. (Getty) MORE »

Photos, as always, by Liz Gorman.

We figured it out: if one open bar = good Washington party, an endless succession of open bars over the course of the entire night = the best Washington party. The rest of it’s just window dressing. Trust us.

Having clipped on our bow tie and slipped into our scuffed patent leather shoes, we went down to the Hilton a little after 6. The red carpet was out, with camera crews set up on one side and a couple dozen disposable camera-wielding gawkers behind a vinyl barrier. If they had bothered to rent a tux, they could’ve just sidestepped the divider and sauntered on into the receptions, as no one bothers to check names until the dinner actually starts. Once we got past the bank of photogs, we were confronted by the black-clad Reuters models for the first of what would be many times — eager to generate a little last-minute buzz, they’d decked out a couple models in black Reuters t-shirts and armed them with drink menus (as seen here last week). That might’ve been a bit too tacky for the crowd, as we can’t remember if anyone we know actually went to the Reuters “mixology lab” or whatever the hell it was called. The full reception report, after the jump.

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• Reliable Source: Herbert Haft’s mansion sells for a record $20 million. [WP]
• Inside the Beltway: Bush roots for Florida in NCAA game. . . Bush: “I kinda like being on the same platform as Senator Burns because he makes me sound like Shakespeare.” [WT]
• Inside Politics: Sen. George Voinovich believes John Bolton is “a changed man”. . . GOP congressmen call for House vote on RU-486. [WT]

In the words of our tipster: “This is the look that comes over your face when you’re staring at the two people you hate most.” MORE »

We may not have a celebrity sightings map yet, a la Gawker Stalker. But who knows, maybe we will someday…

In the meantime, we have to do celeb sightings the old fashioned way. Check out this week’s crop, available after the jump. And please email us with your sightings in the future, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line. Thanks!

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Atlas Shrugs scores an interview with John Bolton, and asks the tough questions. MORE »

Just because you’re famous, or famous-for-D.C., doesn’t mean you don’t need to buy stuff.

Actually, we take that back; it kinda does! Usually celebrities can have their household help or personal assistants do their shopping for them. But sometimes they buy their own stuff — and when they do, Wonk’d sightings are the hilarious result!

After the jump (click here), live vicariously through your fellow Wonkette readers, as they hit the supermarket with Bill Cosby, shop for electronics with Donna Brazile — and give Dick Cheney the finger.

(And please continue to email us with your sightings, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line. Thanks!)

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