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That’s ostensible born-again Christian Tom DeLay and ostentatious, drunken God-hater Christopher Hitchens making nice with each other at the Hill’s book fair last week! Some puckish individual thought it would be funny to sit them next to each other and watch them squabble about religion or something. Little did they know that Hitch’s hatred of all gods would dovetail nicely with DeLay’s hatred of the Muslim god and they’d have a high old time together while hawking their lame books. MORE »

This week, our omnipresent eyes and ears spotted Brit Hume, Jean Schmidt, Tony Snow, Ron Paul, Elvis Costello, Katie Couric, Patrick McHenry, Hillary Clinton, and Tom DeLay, then wrote about spotting them in emails, which they sent to us. And now all those emails are posted after the jump!

See someone sorta famous in DC? Tell us all about it in an email with the subject line “Wonk’d” or “sightings.”

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This week, Russell Crowe, Maria Cantwell, Ezra Klein, Megan McArdle, Tom Delay and Pete Hegseth were all spotted being various degrees of famous at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.

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A little going-away party was held for Ken Mehlman on the roof of Charlie Palmer’s last Tuesday. Liz Glover and Liz Gorman crashed it. Glover’s video is above, Gorman’s pictures are here.

Ken Mehlman Reception Gallery

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Justice was finally served in the Lone Star state today as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to un-drop charges of conspiracy against Tom DeLay. MORE »

* It’s not the Scientology that Mitt Romney loves, it’s the Travolta. [The Caucus]
* Hillary’s bad taste also in question: Does she only listen to the noise from Bono’s charity, or the shit his band puts out too? [Political Radar]
* Former Abramoff crony turned U.S. Attorney refused to prosecute himself. [Wampum]
* RIP Tom DeLay’s PAC. [Capitol Briefing]
* Joe Lieberman is still as crazy as when you voted for him. [Horse's Mouth]
* Brooklyn congressman knows what he’s gonna do when the bad boys come for him. [HuffPo]
* Gingrich and Hegel hang out with the unions, nonchalantly inquire about members willing to work for 10 cents an hour and no bathroom breaks. [Political Insider]

* WALNUTS! thinks it’s his staff’s fault he’s not raising any money. [Political Insider]
* Tom Delay’s word of the day: treason. [Horse's Mouth]
* Nevada rednecks want to exile Harry Reid. [Battle Born Politics]
* Dana Rohrabacher puts terror-curses on people if he detects even a hint of an eye-roll at some dumb shit he just said. [Think Progress]

* Luckily, Brian Ross already has “DC Madam’s” number in his prop phone. [The Blotter]
* Barry Hussein will be in New York stealing money from Hillary all week, enduring what David Letterman calls humor tonight. [NYP]
* Elizabeth Edwards is shocked to find that a “rabid Republican” lives near her barony in North Carolina. [AP]
* Southern states fly flags at half-mast on the death-day of the confederacy. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Tom DeLay is back dropping Hitler-bombs. [A Tiny Revolution]
* Geezers think sound-byte culture destroys political discourse; whipper-snappers can’t pay attention to anything longer. [PrezVid]
* Ann Althouse gets The Bends. [Althouse]
* ’60s weren’t that different really — same military failures, same unsubtle obscenities. [Worldwide Standard]

* Justice Department functionary fears being “scootered,” pleads the fith. [Above the Law]
* Army recruiter’s racist homophobic rants made hilarious by use of caps lock. [Pandagon]
* John Conyers can buy and sell you. [After Downing Street]
* Vast majority of government business done over Hotmail since “whitehouse.gov” addresses make it harder to the get at the Cialis and Ambien. [War and Piece]
* Mormons abandon support of Iraq war. What’s next, drinking coffee? [Passport]
* Entire Conservative Union board quits after appointing Tom DeLay to itself, but that might just be the chron talking. [Chron]

* Presidential hopefuls travel to Las Vegas this weekend to IM with voters. [Think Progress]
* If it costs $950 to have lunch with Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, then it must cost at least two grand to not have lunch with them. [Charitybuzz]
* Movie-line jokes about Fred Thompson’s candidacy to wear thin rapidly. Laugh now. [Vodka Pundit]
* The Other 85 U.S. Attorneys keep truckin’ along in their partisan hackaday lives. [Robert Reich]
* Doing things like letting Jack Abramoff out of jail. [Guardian]
* Tom DeLay didn’t write or read his own book. [Political Wire]
* Bill O’Reilly’s hatred of NBC will be tested. [Intoxination]
* Why is James Inhofe such a dick? [Firedoglake]

* Heard on the Hill: Al Gore: Sinister agent of the Queen of England? … House members outraged over changes to taco salad procedure … Orrin Hatch uses obscure loophole in Mormon doctrine to say “shit” and get away with it. [Roll Call]
* Reliable Source: Bill and Hill drive across the street, gladhand Ellie Smeal, get a table before she does. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Clintons too cheap to feed their followers … People keep buying Thomas Friedman’s damn book for some reason. [Examiner]
* Shenanigans: Jesse Jackson Jr. has a Segway … Chris Shays leaps over a fence for some reason. [Politico]
* Page Six: Eric Bogosian disses Tom DeLay, who is no longer permitted to kill men on a whim. [NYP]