• Bitter Mike Huckabee thinks that Palin was selected over him as McCain’s doomed vice president girlfriend because she “looks better in stilettos.” [New Yorker]
• Looks like the impossibly named Saxby Chambliss is only two points ahead of Jim Martin. [HuffPost]
• Sloppily conceived parody Ted Haggard is back! And it feels so good to be mounting the pulpit again. [Yahoo News]
• Noted racist Virgil Goode has officially lost to Tom Periello in Virginia. Goode is now seeking a recount. [Daily Kos]
• The NSA listened in on Tony Blair’s British phone calls to the former President of Iraq, all of which were conducted here. [TPMMuckraker]
• BONUS LINK: Here is Wonkette Associate Editor Sara K. Smith — sans “K” — discussing last week’s news of the good, bad and nonexistent varieties. [Weekend America]

Former British Prime Minister and newly minted Catholic Tony Blair is secretly hot for John McCain, and now we have a single innocuous-sounding out-of-context quote to prove it! In an interview with the Times Online, he suggested that he prefers American politicians who embrace free trade — which might have meant Hillary Clinton if her most famous free-trade advocate hadn’t just stepped down. So instead Tony will have to settle for John McCain, for whom he is, as we said, secretly hot. MORE »

U.S. President George W. Bush has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for “fighting terrorism and promoting world peace,” according to a BBC News report. Bush has successfully promoted peace and democracy in many terrorist nations, including Iraq and Afghanistan, while making Americans safer and more prosperous at home. MORE »

New-age “Cool Britannia” third-way bullshitter Tony Blair didn’t get his dream job (Pope of the UN/EU) so he’s taken the next best thing: a lecturing gig at Yale! Tony has always loved the Ivy League types, and it didn’t really matter whether Bill Clinton or George W. Bush were in the White House — they went to Yale, so he loved them like brothers. MORE »

Best British Prime Minister ever Tony Blair resigned today, leaving Number 10 Downing Street as the single most beloved Briton the world has known since charming, irascible drunk Arthur. MORE »

The President and the Prime Minister will reportedly put on PJs, make popcorn, rent Crossroads, and weep softly into each other’s arms at the terrible messes they’ve both made of their unprecedented chances at greatness. MORE »

After 10 weird and ultimately pathetic years, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is stepping down. Like his role model, Mick Jagger, Blair is the ultimate sellout and opportunist. He never even cared about which party he might join — only that he would somehow become prime minister. This explains how he was Bill Clinton’s “Third Way” BFF until George W. Bush squirmed into the White House, at which point Blair immediately turned into dingbat neocon.

Let’s give Tony a nice big “Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish,” after the jump.

MORE »

* Rahm Emmanuel wants Democrats to keep hangin’ tough, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hangin’ tough. [Election Central]
* John Warner is definitely retiring - all hail the return of Macaca! [MyDD]
* Pat Leahy calls “Nixon” on missing RNC emails. [C&L]
* Everywhere Bush goes, documents just disappear. [Salon]
* Hillary’s rap money tainted by Imus. [The Hillary Project]
* Tony Blair is mad racist, son. [Guardian]
* How biz-czar. [HuffPo]

Beloved Bush lackey Tony Blair is pulling 1,500 troops from Iraq. MORE »

One of the last rats to abandon the sinking, burning ship, Tony Blair is set to announce 2,600 of the British troops in Iraq are coming home, leaving just 4,100 that MoD officials say should be mostly home later this year. MORE »

* Names and Faces: Wayne Gretsky celebrated New Years in DC, at Morton’s Steakhouse. $850 tip. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Ford press sec Ron Nessen says pardoning Nixon was an act of great courage… Lonesome John Edwards picked the wrong week/day/year to announce his candidacy for President… Cap Police sent out an alert last Friday reading, “At 6:30 p.m. this evening in the Upper Senate Park, cannons will be test fired. This will create a loud noise.” [Examiner]
* Page Six: Tony Blair will apparently move to Miami after he steps down, according to always-accurate British tabloids… Katie Couric did not make Condoleezza Rice cry. [NYP]