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• Heard on the Hill: Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), in a closed Senate Armed Services Committee meeting: “We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we’d be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.” (The Senator’s office disputes the word “we.”) … Chris Matthews to George Allen: “Matthews continued, ‘I’m not going to call you Sen. Ma….’ He paused a beat, then continued his joke with, ‘Caucasian.’” [Roll Call]
• Yeas and Nays: The Congressional Softball League fracas continued on into last weekend’s championships… Senator John Kerry chatted with Tim Robbins at Olives Restaurant. [Examiner]
• Reliable Source: Confused readers, possibly mistaking Amy and Roxanne for Rich Coen, wonder why Reliable Source would cover Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. [WP]
• Lowdown: Bruce Willis is not eager to call himself a Republican. [NYDN]
• Washington Whispers: George W. Bush uses and gives out personalized Sharpies… Self-described former “geeky [congressional] page” is performing one-woman play in the Rayburn building. See just how geeky here. [USN&WR]

Softball Season means the putting aside of political difference to come together in a celebration of drinking and pretending you’re still in college. It doesn’t necessarily mean the putting aside of other predjudices, as this email from an LA to Senator Larry Craig shows.

Since the team moniker was “The Tribe,” I just assumed that [AIPAC] meant “American Indian Political Action Committee.” But when The Tribe took the field, there were no war cries, no war paint, and they were wearing baseball jerseys instead of bird bone body armor and buffalo-skinned loincloths. Instead, there were semi-nerdy folks of all shapes, sizes, with little battle preparation. I soon learned that “AIPAC” really stood for “American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee.”

Haha, good one! Hope you got out of there with your scalps still attached! Hey guys, who brought the twelve-pack of firewater?

Oh, wait, they were Jews? There wasn’t any money on the game, right? ‘Cause good luck collecting from them!

Full email, after the jump.

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* You have to respect hookers. Who else could take a regular oldho hum corruption case and make it really get interesting? This one could get very good, so keep watching — it’ll all be here.
* It’s just wait on see on our old buddy Karl too. All the orange jumpsuit pics will be here once we get ‘um.
* In the category of news that’s not news, but everyone wants to hear anyway, George Clooney spoke at the National Press Club. Swoon, swoon, loving sigh, swoon. Seems also that the light from George’s star burns so bright, it extinguishes other lesser, previously scheduled, stellar formations.
* Scott McCllelan has only been gone for a week and already Bush has a new lamb to lead to slaughter. They say Tony can take it though, that he’s a cool customer and part time rock god, but we’re reserving judgment til an .mp3 comes through. We did get a chance to go see for ourselves that everyone else was more than happy to line up for the gravy train.
* The kickball kids must have been too drunk to talk to reporters, and the non-profiter’s Ultimate league has already gone underground, so the Wall Street Journal (the paper to read if you really want to know what’s going on) put a little piece about Hill softball up on the front page and now all the staffers are a twitter. They’re not really fooling anyone (we already know what’s in the red cups) but the hitting and catching is a nice garnish.
* Don’t think we forgot there’s a huge party tonight. Wonkette’s gonna be there, and we’ll tell you all about it so it’ll be just like you were too.

The Wall Street Journal’s goofy Hill Softball piece is a fun little slice-of-Washington-life piece… that happened to run on A1, for some reason. The grafted-on “symptom of greater sea change in political climate” angle seemed a bit forced to us (contents of the funny emails aside), and it looks like Anthony Reed, Hastert aide and subject of the story, agrees. He sent this email around to Hill softballers this morning: MORE »

You guys got your famous-for-DC minor media figure stalking booklets handy? Good. Let’s begin. MORE »