The Washington Times today offers sad insight into the miserable lives of all 16 of their regular “readers.” Here are two particuarly tragic examples: MORE »

Have you been missing the political insights of our former favorite Letter to the Editor writer, Nadine? She quit writing to us a while ago, because — after months of running her delightful ideas in a feature called “Nadine Tells All” — she discovered we were posting her e-mails and threatened to sue us. Imagine spending all your time sending e-mails to Wonkette pleading for attention and then threatening to sue when the editors actually publish your rants. Getting a letter published is the crazy person’s version of winning “American Idol” or the Megabucks Lotto — unless it’s not.

Eventually she was convinced of the fact that we have the legal right to publish her nutty tales because she SENT THEM TO US FOR THAT PURPOSE, but we never received another one. Anyway, we have a new treat for you — a very important letter about the “Wizard of Oz scandal,” the OSS, CIA and Bill Clinton’s role in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” after the jump.

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Subject: Possible letter to the editor on behalf of Michele Bachmann
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:42:08 -0500

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The Huffington Post has a strongly-worded letter from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to President Bush regarding troops levels in Iraq. It’s a bold rebuke to the “troop surge” plan that some administration officials suggest may be next. Reid and Pelosi, referencing testimony from General John Abizaid, declare that additional troops wouldn’t solve the security crisis in Iraq, and say that the American people gave the Democrats a mandate to solve the problem without increasing the size of the American force. And here’s how they’ll do it: MORE »

As other fire-breathing southern conservative Republicans have become entirely too predictable in their rhetoric and pet causes, Rep. Virgil Goode has managed to take a couple of the old tropes and spin them into something fantastically backwards and offensive.

To start with, it’s a letter responding to a constituent who never actually wrote him. Just take a look…

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Former Examiner gossip and queen-of-all-media Karen Feld has a small bone to pick with Wonkette. So she sat right down and wrote a letter to our bosses. It’s reprinted in its entirety after the jump, but here’s the gist:

What documentation does he have that I suffer from dementia?
And that I am a dog abuser?

Pareene gets a stern, rambling talking-to, after the jump.

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The AP has tracked down a letter that explains so, so much: Back in May, the Florida state Republican Party wrote a letter to Katherine Harris promising her absolutely no support from the party and politely asking that she drop the hell out of the race. Which is, uh, not news. But boy is it embarrassing! MORE »

Presenting, in the words of one operative, the “Craziest Dear Colleague EVER.” It comes from Representative Dave Weldon, MD (OB/GYN). It continues the proud tradition of creepy old white guys in congress displaying healthy interest in the reproductive cycle, and it’s headlined “Fetus Farming: What Is It? Why Must We Ban It?”

To answer those questions, look after the jump. Or just make them up — it’s what Dr. Representative Weldon did!

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Arlen Specter (R-Sad Sack) is one of those Senate Republicans who likes to put up at least a facade of independence. Which, despite the total lack of results ever, is fun when it leads to stories like the one in the Times today about how Dick Cheney told the rest of the committee to block testimony from TelComs, but didn’t tell Arlen about it beforehand. Which leads to that strongest of Washington weapons, the angry mildly peeved letter: MORE »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here in Patrick Kennedy’s psyche, composes a follow-up letter that gets to the point a little faster. (Getty) MORE »

* President Ahmadinejad can send a mix tape with any songs he wants, all Bush hears in his head is the remix to that Outkast song — Bombs over Tehran. [Arms Control Wonk] MORE »