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There are plenty of laughs in this National Journal article about the thousands of unemployed Republican staffers now begging for Bush Administration jobs, but our favorite is this part — which proves the GOP knew all along that the midterms would be a bloodbath:

The White House has told GOP lawmakers and their staffs that it froze many political slots throughout the government before Election Day just so the administration could be ready to absorb furloughed Republicans. “They were prepared,” said one senior House leadership aide, who asked not to be named.

And don’t miss the charming tale of the 23-year-old Capitool with all of nine months on the job before his MoC was defeated. We’ve collected a few gems from this turbo, after the jump.

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The celebrated 2006 midterm elections, already beloved for featuring more man-on-page action and bitch-choking than any other election since the Era of Good Feelings, are finally drawing to a totally anti-climactic end. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) has defeated some loser. The recount will be certified on Friday, and then we can all get back to Vilsack Fever. MORE »

Having successfully destroyed the “Republican Revolution” and inexplicably avoided prison, Tom DeLay is now launching a ” Grassroots Action and Information Network” and has a brand new blog. MORE »

Finally, we can put Cocktober behind us: The Republican House Leadership has just concluded that the Republican House Leadership is totally innocent of wrongdoing in the Mark Foley cover-up. MORE »

Way back in 1984 — the Van Halen reality, not the George Orwell novel — Alaska’s new governor Sarah Palin was an Alaskan beauty queen. She would’ve been 18 or 19 at the time. The only problem with this great tale is that it appears she was in college in Idaho at the time. Meaning, it’s obviously true. Topless Alaskan beauty queens … hooray for America. MORE »

Remember that whole “first 100 hours” business where the victorious Democrats would immediately raise the minimum wage, do some ethics stuff and, most critically, enact every recommendation of the 9/11 Commission? MORE »

Some random guy in Pennsylvania decided to get rid of every single incumbent in the Pennsylvania House and Senate and actually managed to evict a total of 47 legislators through primary losses and retirements forced by voter outrage.

How did Russ Diamond pull this off? He spent less than $200 to start a web-based political action committee called PA CleanSweep and recruited 97 oddballs to run on a simple anti-incumbent platform, all because the Pennsylvania politicians had given themselves a huge pay raise atop an already huge pile of benefits.

Learn how four divorces, public drunkenness and your girlfriend’s abortion equal Political Success, after the jump.

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What does it say about America when the two most-loved politicians are a twice-divorced opera-loving Manhattan dandy and a charismatic young Hawaiian dope fiend known for reading a speech on teevee and being half black?

Decline and Fall, that’s what. A new national poll proves Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama are the most popular politicians, with respective rankings of 64.2 and 58.8 (out of 100). Next up is John WALNUTS! McCain with 57.7 and Condoleezza Rice with 56.1, proving that even a rich, incompetent former Exxon executive can overcome the soft bigotry of race.

But guess who’s at the very bottom of the list? We’ll roll all the numbers, after the jump.

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