Wonkette

* Conservative anger orgy generates new things to hate at a grueling pace. [The Gaggle]
* Grover Norquist is still belly-dancing and wants his fellow tax-crusaders to do the same. [Think Progress]
* It’s acceptable to tolerate Rick Santorum for however long he’s talking smack about McCain. [The Swamp]
* Sharon Stone is desperate enough to play Valerie Plame in what will surely be the most boring movie of whatever year it gets released. [Variety]
* Where they know Biden best, they like him least. [Political Wire]
* Barry Hussein: advancing left-of-Stalin policies since 2004. [MoJo]
* The many sins of Keith Olbermann will now go unheralded. [Olbermann Watch]
* Just not perky enough Katie, just not perky enough. [On Tap]

* There is no political strategy. Just a list of Republicans Rahm Emanuel has allowed to live. [My DD]
* Yusuf Islam pulls the peace train into the station, now wants “Everyone to jump into the bomber van. Come on now, bomber van.” [The Jawa Report]
* George Bush only gives nicknames to those he loves, and he loves every Democrat in Congress. [The Morning News]
* Republicans not sweating election results, continue “high-fiving each other whenever they take a break from dancing jigs.” [1115.org]
* Today’s Martin Luther King memorial groundbreaking ceremony was emotionally charged for all, except for Tommy Hilfiger, the stone faced man. [The Swamp]
* Time magazine blames Democrats’ sissy looking mascot for this week’s boring cover design. [Media Matters]
* Asked about lessons Republicans could learn from the midterm elections, Grover Norquist offers, “Don’t throttle mistresses.” [FT]

• Joe Lieberman’s got a blog up, and it’s just as full of Ned Lamont quotes as you thought it’d be. [Joe2006]

• Lieberman payola! He took millions from Republicans in exchange for promises of obedient voting, if he, you know, gets to keep the job. [Insight]
• Republican plan to scare voters away from Democrats with the specter of a Pelosi speakership will fail because Americans are dumb as fuck. [MyDD]
• CBS worried that FCC will be issuing fines over NYC firefighters’ filthy mouths, thanks to Janet Jackson’s titties. [Hit & Run]
• Iran debuts a homegrown fighter plane and claims it “is similar to the F-18 but more powerful.” American pilots do a collective “bullshit” cough into their hands. [Vodka Pundit]
• Tom Delay using lobbying experience to affect outcome of this season’s Dancing With The Stars, Tucker Carlson is pissed. [Think Progress]
• The secret pork hold is on again, now it’s off, now it’s on. [TPMmuckraker]

* CIA Director Porter Goss called it quits this week, and didn’t make up a reason for leaving. Not even the standard “time with my family” excuse, which of course makes us think it had something to do with the hookers or the gambling and payola. Anyway, he’s back on the gulf shore already, and everyone is waiting to hear who the next shady character to take over the job is going to be. MORE »

Yesterday we posted this photo of RNC chair Ken Mehlman, dancing up a storm at the Bloomberg afterparty: MORE »

We’ve given the WHCD festivities lavish treatment in these pages (click here, scroll down). But our coverage up to this point has omitted one of the biggest pleasures of the D.C. party circuit: MORE »

Someone with a quick camera phone and too much C-SPAN Tivo’d was out in Georgetown this weekend and sent these pix of RNC chair Ken Mehlman to Capitol Buzz:

Well, that’ll sure put an end to all those rumors about his being a … good dancer. See, it’s the the girl who has a limp wrist. MORE »