It’s so great to know that you tipsters are gaining in skill and guile when it comes to spotting celebs. Case and point: this photo of E.J. Dionne, blathering on about Bush’s approval rating in between slurps of Vietnamese satay pumpkin fusion soup.

Update: Several of you have identified Dionne’s lunchtime companion in this photo as former Clinton advisor William Galston, now at the Brookings Institution.

Regular Wonk’d stars George Stephanopoulos, Stephen Colbert, and Jenna Bush also make their appearances, as does Laura Bush. Of course, as in life there are always winners and losers in the game of Wonk’d. The loser of the week is John Kerry, who couldn’t win a presidential election, and now can’t even fix a traffic ticket. It’s good thing then that we’ve got Wonkette-poll-dominating Stormie Janzen — and tons more, after the jump.

This is the seat of power for the, uh, whole planet, and there are celebrities lurking everywhere. If you spot one, tell us by email, with “Wonk’d” or “Sighting” in the subject line (along with the name of the bold face you spotted). Spot and send, spot and send — many thanks!

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Dustee Tucker, the HUD spokeshottie about whom we have blogged extensively, has many defenders. One of you emailed the photo at right and wrote us: “For the love, gotta get a new photo of Dustee. Here’s one from Christmas. Cropped out others to avoid the backlash I am sure I will get.”

In other Dustee-related news, we’ve heard that she is the niece of former Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Can anyone confirm?

Finally, one of you — who met Dustee while vacationing in Hawaii last week — wrote us a long email about her general fabulousness. The full message, including a dig at Dustee rival Stormie Janzen, appears after the jump.

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Last Friday, we offered you a pair of polls pitting Dustee Tucker (at left) against Stormie Janzen (at right). Both of these oddly-named hotties work in goverment: Dustee is a spokesperson for HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, and Stormie is a staffer for Sen. Jeff Sessions.

Neither poll was close; Stormie trounced Dustee in both. The full results appear after the jump — click on the “More” button for the full rundown.

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By now you’re all very familiar with Dustee Tucker (at left) and Stormie Janzen (at right). Both are very attractive young women, with highly distinctive names, who work for Republicans (Dustee for HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, and Stormie for Sen. Jeff Sessions).

Earlier today, we asked you to vote on the sexiness of their names. The polls are still open in that race, and they’ll stay open over the weekend. So if you haven’t done so already — or even if you have — please click here, and cast your vote.

Now we bring you a follow-up ballot — not about their names, but about Dustee and Stormie themselves. Here you go:

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For those of you who need more information to make an informed decision, additional pictures of Dustee and Stormie appear after the jump. Isn’t democracy grand?

(In response to your complaints in the comments to this post, we replaced the photo of Dustee that we used previously with a headshot adapted from this fawning profile. We hope that this substitution will address your concerns. Wonkette: fair and balanced!)

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We’ll be the first to admit it: we’re as addicted to reader polls as Patrick Kennedy is to painkillers. Normally we wouldn’t indulge ourselves in this fashion. But hey, guess what — it’s Friday! MORE »

Yeah, we know, President Bush gave the job to acting FEMA chief David Paulison — after pretty much everyone else passed on the job. But we think that he overlooked a worthy candidate to head FEMA. MORE »

From Al Kamen’s column in this morning’s Post: MORE »

Actually, we have a correction: “MYSPACE Isn’t for ADVERTISERS, It’s For SEXY SENATE STAFFERS.” MORE »

Fashion Week just ended back in New York. But here at Wonkette, it’s just getting started! MORE »

Ok, the, uh, proclivities of Jeff Sessions are almost too glaringly obvious to be true. MORE »

Yes, we know, you’re sick of reading about it. Well, we’re sick of writing about it! Hence this postscript to the whole saga of Stormie Janzen — the hot young Senate staffer whose sexy blog got shut down recently.

We’ve followed Stormiegate fairly closely, even obsessively, and now we’d like to close the loop on it. We wouldn’t want to leave you in suspense over the fate of the vivacious young blogress who gave rise to this pseudo-scandal (emphasis on “pseudo”).

To quote the Bard once again, “All’s well that ends well.” Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts offer this entertaining update in their Reliable Source column:

Stormie Janzen, 34, did not return calls yesterday. [Sen. Jeff Sessions's] spokesman Michael Brumas confirmed that Janzen still has a job: “We have dealt with this matter, and it’s closed.”

Oh, come on! Hasn’t anyone called offering a book contract? “I have no idea,” Brumas said wearily. “I doubt it.”

Okay. Has Playboy called? “Why are you asking me these questions?” he groaned.

Well, because we’re always on the lookout for the next Washington sex mini-scandal. Granted, Janzen’s page at MySpace.com isn’t going to get her there. Those who saw it say her writing was pretty PG-13, nothing nearly as spicy as the famous “Washingtonienne” diary that caused Jessica Cutler to lose her congressional staff job but gain a book contract. Then again, she does have a great name…

“If I can do it,” Cutler told us, “why not Stormie?”

Here’s our take on the whole matter: At the end of the day, what a government employee does in her private life is nobody’s business but her own. As long as Stormie is doing her job, and doing it well, the fact that she maintains a somewhat racy blog about her personal life — or, say, a whimsically irreverent, completely non-substantive blog about federal judges — has no bearing whatsoever on her employment.

Our polemic continues after the jump.

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