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Mel Martinez will be the new chair of the Republican National Committee, according to the teevee. MORE »

* It was a whole week of amazing 2006 Midterm Election madness, starting with a “I’ll choke your wife if you choke mine” deal between Congressmen McChokey and McSmacky.
* George Allen spent about 72 hours above the pop singer Madonna, in a ranking of influential American Jews.
* Completely unsurprising election day clusterfucks.
* Voters realize at the last second that terrorism is scary, but still care more about having their money stolen and the troops in Iraq.
* GOP pollster makes predictions — half right, half wrong, but still loses job.
* We spent election night at CNN’s blog slumber party. Exciting as that sounds, all we could do was keep asking ourselves the same question over and over.
* Oh yeah, those fake predictions we made, were on the money.
* Other highlights from our insane all-night election coverage, including a dispatch from Jim Webb’s never ending victory party.
* Of course, the party did eventually end — for George Allen … Macacaship Down!
* Not 12 hours after we collapsed on our desks, Rumsfeld was out, Robert Gates was in, and the 2008 Presidential race had started.
* The goodbyes are the hardest part: Godspeed George and Conrad and Mehlman.

Barely a day after they outed him, CNN now reports that RNC head Ken Mehlman, exhausted, will out himself… as head of the RNC. (You see what we did there?) MORE »

Last night, we brought you the thrilling news that Bill Maher “outed” RNC chair Ken Mehlman. On Larry King Live, of all places. CNN apparently caught what Larry missed (”you don’t go to the same bathhouses I do”), but only in time to severely edit the West Coast feed. MORE »

RNC chairman Ken Mehlman has never been accused of being heterosexual. But Bill Maher shocked Larry King on Wednesday night by mentioning what has only been rumored in Washington for years: Mehlman is (allegedly) a gay homosexual. MORE »

Exploiting inter-personal power dynamics to one’s advantage is what Washington is all about — Neil Bush knows it and has mastered the art. And while John Negroponte takes it one day at a time, Mark Warner and John King get bossed around by their kids. These, plus Ken Mehlman on his downward spiral, using Google Earth to find Barbara Bush, and avoiding the notorious Evan Bayh stink-palm, behind the curtain.

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Confronting GOP bigwig (but total unknown outside of DC) Ken Mehlman about his rumored homosexuality is soooo 2003. So for kicks, Blog activist Mike Rogers is seeking a partnership with James fucking Dobson in order to help make “the left” look just as craven and duplicitous as Ken and his compatriots paint them. MORE »

We were going to write a scathing intro about the importance of Wonk’d and our deep sadness at the paltry sightings we’ve been getting lately, until someone sent a nice juicy George Bush tip this morning. So there’s that, plus a haggard Ken Mehlman, an indiscreet Harriet Miers, a myopic (in more ways than one) Tom Friedman, Mr. Mayor-for-Life, and your favorite “member” of Congress, below the fold.

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• Heard on the Hill: Ken Mehlman goes to a birthday party at the Rock and Roll Hotel, awkward time had by all. Extensive quoting of Biggie… “Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), ranking member on the Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to Mehlman on Monday asking him to ‘fess up about whether he took U2 concert tickets from Jack Abramoff“… [Roll Call]
• Yeas and Nays: Male politicians make numerous amusing grooming faux pas… “Meet the Press” producer Betsy Fischer threw a cocktail party with Dina Powell, assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs at the State Department. Everyone in bed with everyone story #5,673. [Examiner]

The House Government Reform Committee released a lengthy report on convicted defrauder/super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s contacts at the White House, and every news outlet in the country has been going over it looking for the most damning detail. We’ve learned that Jack was best buds with Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove, and that they got lots of presents and helped Jack’s clients any way they could. But our musically-inclined baby brother Idolator found the most important news: White House officials have terrible taste. MORE »