* Heard on the Hill: Steny Hoyer’s dog died… “Naked pictures posted on the Internet of an aide to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R), son of House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R)” are all over the internets… John Boehner can’t pronounce “Tuskegee.” … Stephanie Herseth is now Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Fred Thompson has had some very bad roles in some very bad movies… There are still-living people on these Star Wars stamps!!! (Though their careers aren’t HA!) [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Don’t worry, Michael Steele fans: he will lose a race for something again very soon… Obama’s book to be translated into Spanish… Kucinich: J/k, don’t actually “monitor” the other candidates. We’re all friends! Would you like a vegan brownie? [Examiner]
* Washington Whispers: Here comes Tenet’s book… Here comes the Susan McDougal movie… Condoleezza Rice: “I’m better in the morning than I am at 9 o’clock at night.” [USN&WR]

Behold Harriet Miers, far from Dorothy, Rose, and Sofia, yet smirking all the way to the hearing room. She’s in today’s Wonk’d, along with Mark Foley in the role of the sassy friend with all the best zingers and Barney Frank playing the lovable dummy. Make the jump for these golden girls, plus Rick Santorum as the hateable dummy, Jesse Jackson, Jr. as “the black one,” and one very hungry Stephanie Herseth.

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Bad news, single men of Washington — Stephanie Herseth (D-SD), the only cute and normal member of congress, is engaged. For real, this time. And not to some Wikipedia-vandalizing nerd she doesn’t know. MORE »

Hello everybody. This is your guest-blogger here. It’s a well-known fact that the Wonkette regulars have a sick, twistedly sexual, and frankly sad obsession with Katherine Harris. Thus, I thought I’d use this platform to reveal my own secret and much healthier Capitol Hill crush, South Dakota’s at-large Congressperson Stephanie Herseth. That’s her over the right. Isn’t she adorable?

Anyway, usually she keeps a fairly low profile and thus manages to stay off this site’s lecherous radar, but in the last week or so she’s found herself entangled in an imbroglio that involves fake fiances, fake fetuses, and a vandalized Wikipedia article. More on the madness after the jump.

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* Heard on the Hill: Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.) are sporting new hairstyles. . . Tourist enters the Cannon House Office Building unknowingly bleeding from his leg. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Maury Povich and Connie Chung speak at Nathans, but allegations of sexual harassment against him “were the big unspoken subtext of the day”. . . Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Lisa Ling, and Christiane Amanpour, on behalf of Vital Voices, will give awards to Kuwaiti suffragists. [WP]
* Under the Dome: System of a Down band-members lobby lawmakers “to recognize the Armenian genocide that killed 1.5 million people 91 years ago.” [The Hill]
* Fox 411: Neil Young’s new song about impeaching Bush “contains the most pungent attacks on a US president in pop-rock since The Ramones recorded ‘Bonzo Goes to Bitburg’ in the late 1980s.” [Fox News]