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Chris Matthews to Clinton’s campaign manager, Terry McAuliffe: “I wish I had you on my side in life. You’re the best.” Yeah, too bad he has to keep toting that dumb broad Hillary around. Men: BOOO!

Earlier this year, LA scenester, Paris Hilton hanger-on, and occasional lame “fashion designer” Anand Jon was arrested and charged with 32 counts of sexual assault, mostly for raping or trying to rape underaged models. At left, former DNC head and current Clinton campaign head Terry McAuliffe poses with a little boy who supports Mr. Jon, in a photo taken at last month’s Friends of the South Asian American Communities gala in Beverly Hills, a celebration of Indian Independence and giving money to Democrats.

FOSAAC celebrates 60th Independence Day [News Asia]
The Designer Who Liked Models [NYT]

* Heard on the Hill: Nancy Boyda uses vomiting to get closer to hunky firefighters … Chuck Grassley has boring accident. [Roll Call]
* Yeas and Nays: Newt Gingrich shills for shitty Australian beer … Senators enjoy narco-terrorist bananas. [Examiner]
* Shenanigans: Barbara Lee and Raul Grijalva harness the power of hip-hop … Terry McAuliffe has lots of frequent flier miles. [Politico]
* The Sleuth: Planes safe from terrorism, as convicted felon Scooter Libby is sticking to Amtrak. [WP]
* Page Six: Judith Miller spotted dining with the owner of the New York Daily News. [NYP]
* Washington Whispers: Hillary Clinton considers asking daughter Chelsea to serve as First Lady … Secret Service excited about letting losing candidates fend for themselves. [USN&WR] MORE »

* Reliable Source: Another goddamn book party. Terry McAuliffe sez Hillary pases “the beer test.” [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Hillary should get a pearl necklace, sez local jeweler. [Examiner]
* Shenanigans: Would you like to see a video from Terry’s party? Of course you would! [Politico]
* The Sleuth: Barry Hussein Obama studied taekwondo. Terrorist taekwondo. [WP]

* Al Gore is planning a global warming concert/rally that will “dwarf Live Aid.” Hopefully, it won’t feature that dwarf from live aid, Bono. [FT]
* Next time Barry Hussein is dropping a deuce and thinking, “Gee, I wonder how I should run my Presidential campaign,” GQ will have him covered. [GQ]
* Donatella Versace thinks Hillary Clinton should wear more skirts and dresses. Donatella Versace also thinks a half ounce of yay is breakfast. [Suitably Flip]
* Wyoming plays the “I know you are, but what am I?” game with New Hampshire. [Election Central]
* John Edwards’ campaign bloggers were a hard target, new softer enemies include “subversive knitters.” [Michelle Malkin]
* Dennis Hastert ruined the free Air Force plane use for everybody. [Think Progress]
* Tonight’s book party for Terry McAuliffe is totally crashworthy, for the guest list and for the two-grand bottles of cognac. [Washington Whispers]

* Thanks to Terry McAuliffe, Bill Clinton is an inspiration for gays on the whole Korean peninsula. [Hotline on Call]
* Prove you’re biggest Bush hater in your town: buy the “impeachbush.com” domain name today! [Ebay]
* Fired Time staffers: Don’t blame the internet for your kid’s impending malnutrition. [BuzzMachine]
* Sam Brownback will make a big announcement today— that he’s running for President. Get your mind out of the gutter. [CQ Politics]
* Barack the vote! [Café Press]
* We know must-see-TV takes a back seat to must-drink-on-Thursday-nights, so here’s the Colbert/O’Reilly videos you missed. [Alternet]

* Heard on the Hill: John Cornyn, John McCain record promos for weekly televised fascism-porn program 24… First 100 Hours of Democratic Regime started yesterday at 1-ish… Rep. David Wu stopped by security at Longworth. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: It’s remarkably hard to sue Ana Marie Cox. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Terry McAuliffe, Frank Luntz release books… Stupid congressional college football wacky betting shit… New member pins for 110th Congress are RED. [Examiner]
* Rush & Molloy: Some Repubs doubt Rudy Giuliani will actually run for president, because he might not want to stop making lots of money. [NYDN]

* Heard on the Hill: William Jefferson already violating House ethics rules, uses official letterhead, House internal mail service to hit up other members for donations… Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.) to marry some dude on March 31… TV journos upset that Nancy Pelosi won’t let them broadcast from Statuary Hall today. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Pelosi’s “Celebration Concert” tonight at the National Building is off-limits to the press. Attending: Tony Bennett, Carole King, Wyclef Jean, Bruce Hornsby, three former Grateful Dead members, Richard Gere and Amy Brenneman… Fed Chair Ben Bernanke spotted buying funnyman Dave Barry’s Money Secrets. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Busty blondes love horses: Barbi Twins join Bo Derek in lobbying against horse slaughter. ‘It’s like eating the flag,” says Sia. Quote of the year… Freshman Rep. Zack Space, who replaced Bob Ney, almost hired a cabbie named Ney… Despite being done in Congress forever, Rep. Shelley DraculaCunt Gibbs represented Texas’ 22nd at Ford’s Lying in State party… Nancy Pelosi held a tea party yesterday, Wonder Woman was there for some reason. [Examiner]
* Under the Dome: Robert Byrd is addicted to Red Bull. Vodka too, we assume… “Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) is the proud possessor of an original copy of Ford’s pardon of outgoing President Richard Nixon.” [Hill News]
* Rush & Molloy: Former DNC head Terry McAuliffe had great luck raising money from godless Hollywood types, Mike Bloomberg. [NYDN]

* Heard on the Hill: Both Clintons to host parties for Terry McAuliffe, who wrote a book about bein’ Terry McAuliffe… GOP “spin masters” form crisis management firm in preparation for rain of subpoenas… Trent Lott’s son (a lobbyist) has a CD out. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Bob Erlich was on The Wire, looks “hot” in a state trooper’s uniform. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Boehner speaker Kevin Madden went to Bullfeather’s with Nancy Pelosi’s flacks. Everyone’s totally cool! … LOL: “Fran ‘Nanny’ Drescher was escorted to the Honors on Sunday by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.” [Examiner]

• Heard on the Hill: Sen.-elect Bob Casey flew into DC first class… Most of the challengers who appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show lost. [Roll Call]
• Reliable Source: Marie Claire photoshopped the picture of Elizabeth Vargas breast-feeding at her anchor’s desk… A couple days before the election, Terry McAuliffe walked into a Syracuse bar, ordered a round of drinks for the house, told everyone to vote “early and often.” He neglected to say who for, and the Democrat lost the district. [WP]
• Yeas and Nays: More Shelley Sekula-Gibbs: Nick Lampson won’t be getting her office… Lady journos find Maryland Governor-elect Martin O’Malley hot hot hot! [Examiner]

• Heard on the Hill: Because the whole politics thing is an elaborate farce, Terry McAuliffe and Ed Gillespie, former heads of the DNC and RNC, respectively, are bestest buds and wrote their probably-identical books at the same time… “Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) flew first class to Washington, D.C., on Monday while his wife was stuck back in coach.” [Roll Call]
• Yeas and Nays: A book is being published of drawings by presidents, leading to the inevitable “Republicans are better doodlers” joke. Ronald Reagan, our first six-year-old president, repeatedly drew himself as a cowboy… Former Senator Toe-Suckin’ Bob Packwood was out a-lobbying the Senate yesterday, rode the senators-only elevator. [Examiner]
• Under the Dome: Ed Gillespie (again) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will perform a routine together at the DC’s Funniest Celebrity contest… House Majority Leader John Boehner forgot Deborah Pryce’s new coinage for kangaroo courts: “Terrorist tribunals.” … Joe Lieberman to Michael Chertoff: “I prefer to think of you not as a member of the peanut gallery, but as Buffalo Bob.” Chertoff: WTF are you talking about, old man? [The Hill]
• Rush and Molloy: Bill Clinton is hosting a big-ass conference to bring about world peace or something, Laura Bush is Wednesday’s “guest of honor.” Also, Billy Crystal did his hacky Catskills routine at Bill’s birthday party in Toronto for some reason. [NYDN]

• Reliable Source: In the past year, Bush received $17,316 in personal gifts and Cheney netted $39,722 worth. . . Woody Harrelson and Kristin Scott Thomas are filming in Foggy Bottom. . . Dresses worn by “political ladies” hit eBay for Gulf Coast charity. . . Nancy Pelosi seen lunching with Zbigniew Brzezinski. [WP]
• Heard on the Hill: Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) calls CNN’s Joe Johns a “smartass”. . . Gore’s film premieres tonight at the National Geographic Society’s Grosvenor Auditorium. [Roll Call]
• Page Six: Advisors to Katherine Harris may be plotting a tell-all book and documentary. [NYP]
• Cindy Adams: Condoleezza Rice to the NFL?. . . St. Martin’s is throwing a party at the Cosmos Club for Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, and Terry McAuliffe [NYP]

Yesterday we gave you two blind items for your consideration. Here’s the first (originally from Page Six):

WHICH Democratic party moneybags is getting divorced because he diddled with a candidate’s daughter? To cap it off, his wife, the mother of his children then had a go with her personal trainer (a woman)…

In the comments, the dominant response was George Zimmer, the founder and CEO of Men’s Wearhouse. By email, this additional response: “Terry McAuliffe with one of the Kerry daughters…. Or better yet, McAuliffe with one of the Bush twins. I would prefer the latter.”

And then the second item:

The daughter of a potential 2008 candidate was having a very spirited going-away party at the Tortilla Coast on Thursday night. Apparently she’s leaving Washington to work for her dad back at home. Quite a few staffers from various congressional offices were on hand, as well as close friends, roommates, and God only knows how many male admirers. Word is that in her new position she’ll be raising money for ‘08.

We received one, highly detailed response, which included some additional information about the alleged candidate in question. Check it out, after the jump.

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