During our most sordid American midterm campaign, Congressman Jim Gibbons brought important attention to his bid for the governorship of Nevada by getting caught in some sleazy Vegas scene where he allegedly tried to drag a cocktail waitress back to his hotel room and then pretty much threatened to dump her corpse in the desert if she complained. Oh, Jim Gibbons, we have missed your stupid antics. Your nice wife Dawn Gibbons? Not so much. We hear she had divorce papers delivered to you Wednesday. MORE »

GOOD-BYE, CROOK! Dirty little Congressman John Doolittle is retiring from the House, GOP spies said today. But you can’t retire from being the target of a massive corruption investigation! [AP/Yahoo]

The man known around the world as “America’s Diplomat” will not run for president after all, maybe, because he said so on teevee Sunday morning. Known for divorcing his wives while they were in the hospital with the cancer and screwing potential new wives while leading House efforts to get Bill Clinton impeached for getting a blow job, Republican Revolutionary Newt Gingrich now says stupid laws are preventing him from illegally raising the necessary millions to not get the nomination.

Proving he’s still the same vain, hateful prick as ever, Gingrich won’t endorse any other Republican and keeps telling everybody that Hillary’s going to win.

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Chris Dodd on Rudy’s $9.11 fundraiser: “Absolutely unconscionable, shameless and sickening.” [CNN Ticker]

The problem with a venal rat-faced creep like Rudy Giuliani is that comedy just can’t keep up with him, as proven by today’s “Exploit the 9/11 Attacks for Fun & Profit” news from the campaign of America’s Huckster.

The invitation for the event, first reported by the Associated Press, described “$9.11 for Rudy” an “independent, non-denominational grass-roots campaign to raise $10,000 in small increments to show how many individual, everyday Americans support ‘America’s Mayor.’”

Giuliani $9.11 Event Comes Under Fire [NYT Caucus]

Hey, David “Diaperman” Vitter is on the teevee, saying a bunch of bullshit. Will he man up and admit anything? No. He won’t take questions, won’t talk about his diaper problems, and won’t resign. Wow. Meet the new Republicans. This is the same morality-free douchesack who demanded Clinton quit over a blowjob, which was obviously an impeachable offense. MORE »

DC club-goers awarded $260,000 from Allen Iverson after his thugs beat ‘em up! [FOX Sports]

Here it is, Scooter Libby’s receipt from the courthouse — evidence that his lawyers cut a quarter-million-dollar check (plus $400 for some fee) from his legal defense fund and had a courier drop it off. THE SYSTEM WORKS, PEOPLE. MORE »

Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence M. Small is out just a month after his obscene expense reports showed up in the Washington Post — Small made off with $2 million in ridiculous “expense reimbursements” in his three short years on the job, including hundreds of thousands of dollars out of “petty cash.” Oh, and when the inspector general started investigating the outlandish expenses, he commanded her to lay off. She didn’t. 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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Let’s take a moment to remember California Congressman Richard Pombo, a true nut and total crook who has soiled everything he’s touched for seven long horrific terms in the House. MORE »