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• Does James Carville still count or has everyone seen him already? Caught him at National Airport Tuesday afternoon. He got some Einstein Brothers bagels, which he scarfed down and then immediately got up to go get some McDonald's, which he ate just as quickly. Photo here.
• Saw James Carville today in Pentagon City Mall racing into Nordstrom. He was by himself wearing sunglasses and more clothing than you probably need in the burgeoning DC heat. Maybe he finally got a job this cycle and needed a last minute suit.
• I just left the White House, and I was walking right behind no other than (former) Senator George Allen and his wife! Upon leaving the East Wing, he promptly put in a mouth full of dip and began spitting all over the presidential driveway! You stay classy, Macaca. His wife drives him around in their black SUV that still has an "Allen for Senate" bumper sticker on it. How sad. No football visible, though.
• I am sitting at Pete's Diner (shout out to veggie special) and who comes walking along but Elizabeth and Dennis Kucinich. I have to say that I was unsure of her hotness up to this point but she looks great in a sundress and Kucinich as her accessory. They were — no surprise — holding hands. They are inside and I don't know what they are eating but it shouldn't be too hard to guess. [Each other? — Ed.]
• Was driving away from my house in Washington, D.C. yesterday at about 2:30 in the afternoon, when who should pass me but Keith Olbermann driving a bright red Ferrari, I believe it was the 430 model. My friend and I did a double take and looked at each other — "Was that just...? Holy shit, it was." He lives in New York, and the Ferrari had D.C. plates — maybe it was a friend's? Normally I find Ferrari drivers to be pricks, but for some reason, I now think he's even more awesome.
• So, I'm driving home tonight on the Rock Creek Parkway, near the Kennedy Center. Look to my left at a late model Lexus RX 400 with Member of Congress license plates (California District 36) and there's a 60-ish hot silverish/blonde with short cropped hair and wearing fancy shades behind the wheel — it's Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), who's worth more than Jay Rockefeller and Ted Kennedy combined thanks to her marriage to car stereo magnate Sidney Harman. She's talking very animatedly into her Blackberry phone in her right hand, and I'm tempted to toot my horn to say "hey, lady, it's illegal to drive while talking on your cell phone in the District of Columbia."
• Joe Lieberman, in need of a haircut and wearing a green sweater, at Pizzeria Paradiso in Georgetown on Sunday with a middle aged couple, and young man.
• This is a few days late, but on Saturday (4/12) I was stalked by former faux President Martin Sheen. I was on M and Thomas Jefferson in Georgetown when I passed a solo, casually-dressed, strolling Sheen. I said, "Good afternoon, Mr. Sheen" to which he smiled and cheerily replied "How ya doin'!" Oddly, I had this exact exchange with him in Georgetown last Fall. Hours later, I'm waiting at the Circulator stop and he walks past me again; again solo. This encounter went unspoken. Nice guy, though.
• On a recent Wednesday, I saw esteemed DC Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry leaving B. Smith's at Union Station from a late lunch with a tall, fairly young lady. After a coworker pointed him out to me, his signature swagger (limp?) was obvious.
• Two Saturdays ago (3/22), I dined a few tables from Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein and (I believe) her husband Avi Lewis at Bistrot du Coin on Connecticut. Adorable looking couple, those two!
• Early yesterday evening (4/2), I saw Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) boarding Metrobus 96 on E. Capitol Street. Even from the state of the Big Three, he's a bus-riding man of the people!

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• I saw Al Franken walk around Dupont Circle last night. When people came up to him to star-fuck he would hand them a business card. He seemed to be enjoying attention.
• Mike Shields at La Fourchette on 18th street at 2 pm (right now) eating with two other old dudes
• Saw Larry Craig on a flight from DC to Chicago. He was irritated at the lack of a first class cabin, presumably because of stance issues.

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• Loser Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson, sitting in a way too tiny table at the Rossyln Starbucks. Appeared to be talking to two mid level government workers / or really crappily dressed lobbyists at a really tiny table. A well wishers asked to shake his hand, and he obliged.
• If you're looking for lame ass sightings: FBI Director Robert Mueller at the Starbucks at 11th St. between E and F. Two Suburbans, at least 2 armed guards. You'd think he left the Green Zone in Baghdad, but nope, just getting coffee 2 blocks from the Hoover building. His coffee was $1.83 but I'm sure we all spotted the FBI budget about 960.00 for the gas and security detail for the 4 minutes he spent in there.
• Just saw Tom Ridge buying socks at City Sports at 19th & L. Not much excitement, just sock buying.
• I saw Juan Williams at DC Coast Restaurant, eating with two other men. The whole table got very excited when they ran into two women they knew. I think he had the Salmon, but it might have been tilapia.
• Saw and spoke briefly with Hizzoner Marion Barry at the Channel Inn (oh yeah, rockin it Southwest style) last Wednesday the 26th. He looks well and drug free? He even gave me a little peck on the cheek as I was leaving. Aw. [Get an AIDS test, pronto — Ed.]
• I saw Ben Bernanke walking into the Kennedy Center Saturday night before 8. He was accompanied by what appeared to be his wife and a couple of bodyguards. I bet he was there to see it with free tickets too (I got free tickets as a benefit of having family playing in it). Then at intermission my brother saw none other than Ken Mehlman in the Men's Restroom. What's the former head of the RNC up to nowadays anyway, being glad he's not head of the RNC? [See above — Ed.]
• I'm sure I spotted Robert Novak waddling around alone outside the Opera House at the Kennedy Center Monday night. I'm assuming he was there to see Rigoletto. Didn't seem like he had a date.
• I'm pretty sure I saw Dana Milbank and family leaving Pizzeria Paradiso Friday night. I smiled at the little girl, she did not smile back. Maybe the good pizza was too overwhelming?
• Saw Senator, er Governor, Mark Warner @ opening night @ Nationals Ball Park. He looked like he was having a good time. Chatting with just about anyone who recognized him (sadly, many people). Some asshole stopped him in the middle of the aisle @ one point. He clogged up the whole walkway. Wasn't his fault though, I guess.
• I saw former Bushie speechwriter and current author/think tanker David Frum at Gold's Gym around 4 p.m. the other Thursday. David's one of the lucky few who can hit the gym mid-afternoon for long chats with his personal trainer about superdelegates and his latest appearance on Countdown and Hardball. Ah, the easy, laid-back life of big-thinking cable pundits. But here's what should have us all really worried: David, if we're going to destroy that "axis of evil" you've got to bench press more than a measly 130 pounds!

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• Does this even count? I saw Spokesman for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Alan Etter eating lunch today at Lauriol Plaza. He was with two other uniformed firemen and one other guy. looked exactly the way he does on TV. Not sure what he ordered but i hope he didn't miss out on the guac!
• I rung up George Will again at Borders 18th and L Sunday morning (3/24). Buying more books and audio books. Didn't seem to be politics related, but not baseball related either, a bit disappointing. Still not smiley, even on Easter Sunday.

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Quoth Mikey G. (pictured above):

Miami airport. Gate D47 boarding american flight 1763 to chicago continuing to orange county. Now. 2:01pm EST. Just saw and talked to mike huckabee. By himself. No security detail, not a single aide or assistant with him. Blended in with crowd and unremarkable. Rolling an odd duffel bag (blue) rollaway style and scanning the screens for his flight looking confused and not at all self conscious or presidential. Wearing a blue blazer. Exactly 1 person besides me shook their head in disbelief. I lied and said “I’m a big fan, can I grab a photo?”. He seemed very interested that I’m from california. I feel worse for sporting “formerly drunk and just awoke coming off a plane breath”, and no gum.

BLUE rollaway style?

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• Over the past month I’ve spotted former Senator Lott two or three times in the food court of National Place (13th & F NW) eating lunch. Just saw him today, and he definitely sticks out among the crowd of mid-level bureaucrats and office occupants that normally eat there. I’ve heard that he’s been seen there meeting with his new partner, Senator Breaux.
  *BJ Novak at Tryst in Adams Morgan on Friday afternoon around 1 pm with a couple friends.
• Now, I don’t normally consider seeing a famous or infamous person in a congressional office building Wonk’d-worthy, but former Iraq commander and current Army grand poobah General George Casey (with full entourage and honor guard) waltzing into Dirksen after 5:30 p.m. seemed an oddity worthy of note. Also, he is very tiny.
• I saw There Will Be Blood at the Georgetown Loews last night. It’s a film about oil, evil, greed, and hypocrisy. So who else was in our theater but Dick Cheney. I wonder if watching Daniel Plainview was like looking into a mirror…

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• I rang up George Will at the Borders by 18th and L Sunday morning (Feb 3). He was buying some books and CDs, but I didn’t notice the titles. I did notice that he looks a bit thinner on TV. Probably came after Stephanopoulos and was not in the mood for pleasantries. Is he ever?
• I saw James Carville, dressed in jeans and an Air Force sweatshirt, talking on the phone while hoofing it uptown on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (63rd and Lexington). A suited aide followed behind, also on the phone, pulling a black rolling suitcase. Carville paused and smiled (I think) while my dog sniffed his shoe. He looked rather casual and unconcerned on this Super Tuesday… does he know something we don’t?!!
• Spied Fred Barnes at the Alexandria Safeway (King St. and Braddock Rd.) grumpily struggling to get a case of water into his cart — followed by a loud coughing/hacking spell as he walked through the register area.
• 2/7, 9:40 AM, while I was riding the 42 bus south on Connecticut Ave., out the window I saw Howard Dean standing at the crosswalk with a group of people at T St. across from the Hinckley Hilton, waiting to cross Connecticut. He had on a suit but no overcoat, and a big white nametag on his left breast.

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• Dana Delany was spotted speaking at a NARAL Pro-Choice America event on Tuesday at the Omni Shoreham. She looked amazing, and was such an eloquent speaker!
• I saw Gary Sinise last night at the Capitol Hill Club. He showed up after the SOTU and poked around the lobby then left 5 minutes later. I was smoking a cig outside and could only bring myself to say, “Hey Gary man.”
• Was just with Hero’s star Hayden Panettiere in an elevator in the Capitol - very cute and very short in person. She was lobbying to save the whales with a camera crew in tow…..and lot’s of hill staffers.
• My wife and I flew back from Las Vegas in September. We landed in LAX and at baggage claim who else was there but Ron Paul. He had several people milling about and his Josh Lyman type guy came up to me and said “That’s Ron Paul. You’ve got to meet him. He’s like a cross between Bob Marley and Obi-Wan Kenobi.” I guess he figured since I’m young-ish and look like I surf a lot (I kinda do actually) that I’d react positively to that. First of all, I knew who the fuck Ron Paul was and didn’t need an explantion and second: Bob Marley and Obi-Wan Kenobi? Really? He sized me up and figured THAT combo would make me jump up and down and insist on meeting the man? Or is that just the standard pitch for the dude? Bob Marley and Obi-Wan. What does that even mean? A pot smoking jedi master? Are we fighting terrorists or Darth Vader? Anyway… they all marched off to the chant “Ron Paul for President! President Ron Paul!”. This was before we all figured out he is bat shit crazy of course, so it was kinda fun to check him out.
• Saw Ron Paul shopping at the Harris Teeter in Alexandria about an hour ago. Looking very un-presidential, I almost said I was sorry to hear about him being out of the race when I shut up realizing that I didn’t really know if he was or not. He shook my hand and said he was glad I was following the race. Saw him shortly after pumping his own gas and cleaning his windshield. He is really just like you and me! Lol, guess I really do live near DC. Now if I could just see that toe-tapper…
• Just saw former SecDef William Cohen at the baggage claim at National. Or, more accurately, I just saw him on the VIP line at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, then at the baggage claim in Newark, then at the gate at Newark, THEN at the baggage claim at National. I can’t tell who’s following whom, but I CAN tell you he travels in a full suit, tie, and pocket square, had wife Janet Langhart (large sunglasses, some sort of hat) in tow, and was accompanied the entire way by some guy I probably should have recognized but didn’t.
• Margaret Carlson and Jay Carney (or some other tall blond dude, I couldn’t see his face) had dinner at Ardeo in Cleveland Park last night… She seemed VERY happy to see him. They talked about how it takes her a day to write a column and the trouble with keeping a good nanny.

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• I just (1/17) saw Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens at the oral surgeon’s office. Exciting, I know. I think I gained about 500
  dork points for a) knowing who he was, and b) caring. But, hey, it must mean that my oral surgeon is good, no?
• Potential First Hottie (as if) Jeri Thompson and FAUX News “journalist” Chris Wallace flying in First Class from Charlotte NC to Washington DC (Reagan National) on January 11th, Chris sitting in the row behind Jeri. In a brief conversation with Mr Wallace Jeri said, of husband and future Leader of the Free World (as if:part deux), Fred, that he is “a big nerd”. Ms Thompson looked her usual well put together self.
• I saw an annoyed-looking Tucker Carlson talking to a valet outside The Palm in Dupont. He was sans bow tie, but his hair was quite fluffy.

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• Spotted Gilmore Girl and Northern Virginia native Lauren Graham shopping at Tyson’s Galleria on December 26th.
• Sat next to Sen. Jon Tester on New Year’s Eve at Central. He was dining with another guy, just the two of them. Didn’t look like either of them were drinking, maybe since the 5-course prix fixe was $95 by itself. (I opted for the wine pairing ‘natch). Seemed amiable enough. My first thought at seeing two guys dining together on New Year’s Eve at a fine restaurant was that they were a couple, but the argyle socks SEN Tester was wearing certainly confirmed that he was straight (and from Montana).
• I saw Dana Perino eating dinner at Sonoma on the Hill on New Year’s Eve. She quite cute in person, but shorter than expected. They must have phone books behind the podium.

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• Saw Skeletor (Michael Chertoff) himself (with two secret service agents and some very Republican-looking companions in tow) at Aimee Mann’s Christmas show at the Birchmere last night. Tragically, once he sat down, I didn’t have a view of his face — just the back of his gleaming head — so I can’t tell you how he reacted to Morgan Murphy’s “Motherfucking Hanukkah Fairy” rap, or whether he piped up for the “pimps only” round of Ben Lee’s call-and-response song.
• Spotted Dan Rather waiting in line and then eating his very own potbelly sandwich this afternoon (12-18) at the 11th & F location. He has a hearing aide, dressed very nicely though.
• I just saw Morgan Freeman walking out of the JW Marriott on Pennsylvania about an hour or two ago.
  *I just walked past James Carville on 7th St. in Chinatown. His head really is something from another world - and adds a white-guy cred to that which we already knew. He must be in cahoots with Al on that one; raising awareness and whatsnots. I’m not sure from whence he came, but it must have been one hell of a holiday party for him to produce that much heat.

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• Spotted Gen. Nick Farr getting off the elevator at the Woodley Park station on 12/4. It’s unclear if he’s bringing his War on Paultards to the quiet streets of Upper Northwest D.C. It would, however, be nice if he’d bring about a War on Zoo Tourists sometime this spring.
• Spotted Senator Norm Coleman last night (12/11) giddly walking down the Penn. Ave. strip with all the bars between 2nd and 3rd streets. His middle-aged aide had a hard time keeping up. He looked extremely excited to be out and kept looking into bars and passed on the Pourhouse. I wonder where he eventually ended up…he looked ready to party.
• Lunchtime, got on the westbound (to Georgetown) Circulator bus at 19th and K with Thomas DeFrank of NY Daily News, punditocracy and authorial fame. I read his press badge, that’s how I knew. Not for nothing, but he looks like the now-elderly love child of Bill Bennett and Michael Moore.

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• Saw Condi last night at 600 Restaurant at the Watergate around 7:15. In aprivate room waiting for her VIP (that’s what her security guys called him) Red jacket, black pants, blinds closed. Outside her date showed up with lots and lots of firepower. He was wearing a newsboy cap, and was stature-ly and age challenged. If I’m waiting around for a dude in a newsboy cap, it better be Brad Pitt. Girl, you can do better than this guy!
• A famous for DC type: My friend and I saw Llewellyn King having lunch at Bistro Bis today (11/29) around 1. Couldn’t tell if he was eating the sweetbreads or not though. We think it was a party of four (or possibly three), but we were so dazzled by his 20-watt celebrity that we didn’t notice anyone else.
• Saw ABC news correspondent Martha Raddatz today (Wednesday) around noon @ the corner of 17th & K. She was wear a short skirt and some fierce knee-high black boots. Apparently, she’s fond of her legs, thank you very much, because she brushed off the Results Gym recruiter who was trying to give her a free 2-week membership at their new downtown gym.
• I spotted Karl Rove, returning from a Thanksgiving in Texas (?) to BWI late Sunday night. Steerage on a Southwest 737 ain’t Air Force One, but I guess he’s back to flying coach with the rest of us. Although he did have a driver with an almost comical “K. Rove” sign on a clipboard waiting for him and his wife. He was also wearing a weird hat (perhaps in the hopes it would conceal his true identity) and carrying an iPhone.
• Spotted Ben Bernake [sic], the lord and savior of our mighty economy, at the Soviet Safeway on 14th and D SE. Couldn’t believe my eyes at first, but then I saw a guy in a fishing vest casually strolling behind him, who happened to have a huge wire jammed into his skull. This grand strategerizer was seriously considering his paper towel options.
• I saw the Ragin’ Cajun himself, James Carville, at Morton’s Steakhouse in Crystal City last week! He was with two late 20s / early 30s male associates. Neither of them were cute. But, I’m sure they were the best looking gay staffers he could pull in considering his looks! Hahaha j/k

Hey, speaking of Carville, he was seen eating in New York, too, with that wife of his: “Julian Schnabel, whose “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is getting rave reviews, dining with his two sons and Montauk neighbor Dick Cavett at Elaine’s amid the likes of James Carville, Mary Matalin and Lee Iacocca.” The man eats all over the coast, it appears.

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• I saw the newly sworn in Attorney General Mukasey @ Austin Grill Downtown the other night (11/14). He had 4 secret service w/ him
• Just saw Larry Craig and his wife (!!!) In his very gay blue honda element complete with “sportsmen for bush” sticker (insert joke here) in the parking lot by harris teeter in pentagon row
• Tim Russert was in section 121 of the Verizon Wireless Center for Sunday’s Bruce Springsteen concert. Lil Rus was playing a nasty air drum solo during Badlands too.
• Jerry Rice sat in front of me at a cultural show at Georgetown University on Friday. His daughter goes to Georgetown and she was a performer in the show. He was with some other people and we didn’t want to bother him, but it was nice to see him support his daughter. She came to talk to him during intermission; she kind of looks like Rihanna. I hear she’s nice. He was also at Midnight Madness at Georgetown a month ago, and the basketball coach got him to do the Soulja Boy dance in front of everyone.
• Sighted: former Mayor, city councilman from the 8th ward, Eastern Motors pitchman and bitch-set-up victim Marion Barry was at New Vegas Lounge on Saturday night with an unidentified younger woman in tow. We were super-excited.
• I was rewarded this evening with a celebrity sighting. I just left the 801 steakhouse in downtown Des Moines. David Gregory was in the next booth with a young man and woman (they seemed like college kids, but since I turned 40, everybody seems young). If I didn’t recognize him as David Gregory, I would have “read” him as a gay man. He seemed awfully effeminate (and I’m half of a gay couple, myself). The conversation they were having was very pedestrian. When it came to ordering wine, Gregory said he was “really into French Burgundies” because they were “fun.” I despise anyone who describes a wine as fun. He talked about how he and his gentile wife were raising their three children as Jewish, blah, blah, blah…and how he was going to spend the day after Thanksgiving at an upscale seafood restaurant in DC. Do the Gregory kids know that shellfish isn’t kosher?

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• Sure that others have already reported this, but if not, Kiefer Sutherland was seen shooting an episode of 24 in Georgetown. Fought the urge to yell, “there isn’t enought time!” No word on whether or not any pine trees were attacked.
• I saw John Boehner smoking outside Republican National HQ last night with Kate O’Beirne.
• Just saw George Allen arriving at the nyc delta shuttle terminal (8.30pm, Nov. 7). Resisted the urge to scream “macaca!” as he walked past.

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• Larry Craig stepping out of his blue Honda Element at the Russell Bldg about 6 pm yesterday. Oh, and check out #6 on the following list.
• i just saw the bear himself, david phillips, enjoying half priced burger night at whitlows on wilson. that guy is big!! he was with another man, they each had a hamburger. i recognized him by his interesting hair/mustache combo and did my best not to stare. he was rocking a leather jacket.
• Saw Robert Novak, October 25, 6 PM, in the Minneapolis Airport, Concourse C. Still wearing his vested, pinstripe suit and red tie from the Reagan years. He was alone but looked very satisfied.
• Saw Monica Goodling in the waiting room of my gynocologist’s office. She was wearing a nice suit, perhaps the same one she wore to testify before the Judiciary Committee. Didn’t she quit the Justice Department? Did someone else hire her? Or maybe a job interview? She took a cell phone call and left without seeing the doctor.
• I saw Barbra Bush (the older one) in a limo. She was cruising down Rhode Island Avenue, heading towards Thomas Circle. I have no idea if George was in the car with her, but she was conversing with someone.

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*Tommy Thompson, G Concourse O’Hare Airport Thursday night. HUGE lapel flag. Saw him first in men’s room, where many people were chatting him up (perhaps waiting to see if he had a wide stance?) Saw him again in concourse, where he totally left his bag unattended. Didn’t he just endorse the 9/11 candidate? Why does he hate America?
*Tim Russert was at 2 Amy’s on Friday night enjoying some pizza. (Bill Cosby was not with him.)
*Dennis Kucinich, in Rayburn, wearing a brown crushed-velvet jacket. It was scary, because legislators are supposed to be too old to like irony.
*I saw George Snufalafagus (I don’t know how his name is spelled - He’s the little Greek boy with the big hair who’s on the TV) cruising the Georgetown Canals on Sunday [10/14]. He looked very sad and lonely and kept fiddling with his cell phone. A missed rendezvous? He finally gave up and walked back to M Street — probably to the bathroom at the Four Seasons for some hot toe-tapping action. Yes, he is as tiny as he looks and my god his head/hair is massive.
*Justice Kennedy dining at Charlie Palmer with four or five suits. He seemed quite affable, and was escorted into the building by a rather hot official-looking man, presumably a bodyguard?
*I saw Jeff Daniels this morning (10/18) leaving the Palomar Hotel. There was also some kind of Audi convention going on so there were a lot of folks milling about. Nobody seemed to give him a second glance though.
*Saw Ariana Huffington on the red line this morning. She did not speak, but was flipping through the first pages of the Washington Post. I don’t want to sound like R. Kelly, but if I was a younger lad, I may want to get in on the ground floor with Ariana’s daughter if she ages as well as mom.
*I stood in line yesterday (Monday, November 8) behind fed chairman ben bernanke at the (un) Safeway on the Hill. his fishing vest clad secret service goon gave him away but otherwise he looked like a typical middle age, potbellied, balding Jewish dad. Was not particularly patient with the sales clerk (who was surprisingly polite) and nearly walked off without signing his credit card receipt. most notable purchase…an enormous bag of dog food.

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• Barney Frank…on 17th street obviously. With a few younger gentleman.
• Saw “Twenty Dollar Bob” Allen in the 2nd floor men’s room of the House Office Building at the Phallic Phlorida Capitol in Tallahassee on Thursday. Thankfully he didn’t offer me money or a blow job. Probably because I’m not a big black cop. Also he didn’t wash his hands. Gross.
• Saw Kenny Mehlovesmen (aka Ken Mehlman) walking VERY fast up Wisconsin St in Georgetown this evening (10/6). I don’t know what he was tapping but he looked like he just might have been bashed by Tucker Carlson.
• Saw fellow Blair H.S. alum Ben Stein having a late dinner at Bangkok Joes at about 10 on Friday night. He was with a female companion and sitting outside, hopefully not being bothered by the legions of drunk bar-goers stumbling past on their way to and from the waterfront scene.
• Seen around 6:15 on Thursday night, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. She was waiting for a table at Thunder Grill at Union Station, and wasn’t too happy about it. She was “discussing” the matter with the host and then stormed away, bringing an assistant (who was obviously carrying both their luggage and looked like a Himalayan sherpa) in tow.
• Just saw Robert Novak walking near 17th and K around Farragut. His eyes were red and as per usual he looked really pissed off about something (someone’s not putting out in the McDonald’s bathroom, maybe?).

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• A beautiful Blythe Danner spotted friday night at old ebbitt’s @ 8pm. She’s even more beautiful in real life.
• 9/28- saw Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walking through Hartsfield airport in the ATL at about 7pm….he looks like the Church Lady, but in drag, and doesn’t move his arms when he walks. Was wearing a nice suit, toting his own bag. His lackey was wearing a suit from Sears and looked like an annoying prick.
• At my rather hungover birthday brunch this morning, I spotted David Gregory and his wife (I hope!) and three kids at Chef Geoff’s on New Mexico Avenue. He was wearing a white LA Dodgers baseball hat, which he took off when his food arrived. His three children were very well-behaved and cute. His daughter, whom I guessed to be about 4 years old, looks just like her dad. [Seven feet tall??? -ed]
• Ron Paul, at Harris Teeter grocery store in Alexandria, VA, on Sunday night was arguing with the cashier about whether or not he had given him all the proper discounts that his grocery store membership card entitled him to. When that was settled, he then argued about the denominations in which his change was returned to him. He was wearing a polo shirt with blue horizontal stripes, white elastic bound shorts, white socks and white Reebock sneakers. He heard me whispering to my girlfriend about it being Ron Paul ahead of us, scowled and left in a huff.
• I saw Whitney Cunningham from cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model. She was at the French Embassy Sunday, 9/30 for DC Fashion Week. After watching the fashion show, her companion touched up her makeup so she would be ready for all the photos with her adoring fans. I think I was the only one who recognized her.
• Saw Dennis Kucinich and his pretty wife at E-Street cinema last night; 8:30 showing of Into the Wild
• Bill Richardson, with a few companions, brunching at Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown around 2:00 Saturday afternoon. Assume he was in town for his Sunday appearance on Face the Nation. Didn’t seem like anyone wanted to interrupt his meal, though he’s definitely as big as he looks on TV.

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• Saw Brit Hume at National Airport Wednesday around 6 PM. Looked like he was on his way out after walking through security. I said under my breath but loud enough for him to hear: “You report. Hahaha.” He looks a lot less attractive in person — really wrinkly face.
• Sunday 9/23 - Ohio Rep Jean Schmidt at a gas station in Cincinnati. She was on a power trip through the store and bought a banana, which she BIT INTO without peeling, before speeding off in her pink Mustang Convertible with the license plate OHIO REP.
• Saw Tony Snow eating lunch at Oceanaire on Mon. 9/24. Looked better than he did when he was last on TV. Was dining with some fat bald guy.
• I was driving home from work tonight [9/24] in Alexandria and got behind a car with Congressional plates from Texas’ 14th District. This car in question happened to run a red light. Guess who’s the Congressman from Texas’ 14th… Yep, Ron Paul
• My personal history of District sightings took a turn for the cool yesterday [9/24]. Elvis Costello strolled past me as I was waiting for the Circulator bus in front of the Four Seasons in Georgetown. He was toting a large Barnes & Noble bag, was dressed in a disheveled, rock star way and seemed to be enjoying his walk.
• Katie Couric at Landini Brothers in Old Town Alexandria Right Now [Tuesday, 1 pm]. She showed up in a town car with two other pretty blonds and meet another young brunette with a young son. They are sitting on the sidewalk at a table for 4 and you can hear her voice up and down the street. I was sitting at the table next to her as she sat down and she took my chair when I left to add to her table. She looks really snazzy in a black dress.
• Sighting: little Patrick McHenry. Last night [9/26] at the America Supports You Nascar dinner at Walter Reed flirting with Tony Stewart. Really sucking up. Now, we agree that Mr. Stewart is a nice hunk o’ burning love, but face it Patrick, he’s just not that into you.
• I was boarding the 2pm USAir shuttle to New York last Friday, September 21. I noticed we were passing two secret service agents as we boarded the plain and then, there was Hilary, sitting right next to the emergency exit, reading the New York Times. She was wearing a very puffy bright blue jacket that made her look much heavier and washed out.
• Tom DeLay, 4th floor, Cannon House office building. yesterday [9/27] around noon. was walking down the hall with an aide. i was on my way to take a piss and was kind of startled to see him. i stared at him for a bit too long, he kind of snarled back, then pretended i wasn’t there and kept talking to his aide as he walked down the hall. dickface.

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• Saw General Petraeus at the Washington Opera last night (premiere of La Boheme). He was with two third-rate security goons — note to US Army security, this is the opera, would it kill you to dry clean your suit and iron your shirt before you come. He was with a woman (wife?) who was well dressed and moderately attractive for an older lady. “Betray us” himself looks much worse in person than he does on TV, 5’ 8” or so with really, really bad skin. He needs to find a good dermatologist — stat.
• Monday night, the 17th: James Carville, in his front-row Nationals seats. With some mid-20s guy, left before the 8th inning.
• Wesley Clark is standing right outside my office in the main lobby of our building in Georgetown, alone, leaning casually on a railing and talking on his cell phone. My coworker says he’s seen him in the building before. He’s good looking. I would go talk to him but I don’t have anything to say to him.
• Just ran past Rummy and his wife crossing the Taft Bridge, headed toward Woodley Park around 6:30pm. He was making his typical facial expression (face all shriveled up, eyes squinting); his wardrobe looked really “laid back” — a suit but no tie. They were followed by two tall Secret Service goons and a perpetual dark cloud of guilt and shame.
• On my way back from lunch at The Brown Bag, I saw Henry Kissinger walking west on Eye St. NW between Farragut Square and 18th St. I bet he was rolling to hit up Five Guys down in International Square. How do you think he takes his burger?
• Spotted: very manicured Brownback on noon flight to kansas city… Perhaps to save more unborn children in his homestate??
• Had just left the peace march on Sat. 9/15 and was stopped for the light at Foxhall & Loughboro. Here comes Mary Cheney in her Jeep Cherokee hanging a right onto Foxhall. Alas, didn’t have time to beep the horn & press my breasteses against the window to show her the T-shirt I was wearing that said “Arrest Cheney First.”

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• Not sure who this should go to, but I thought you might like to know that Russell Crowe came into a Georgetown retail establishment this afternoon (Saturday) - and everyone said he was “really nice” (kind of surprising)!!! He walked into the Bicycle Pro Shop on M Street (across from the Key Bridge) and looked around at some high end bicycles. He chatted nicely with the employees and walked out with a purchase - a bottle of water!! Too funny.
• I spotted Maria Cantwell hiding behind a pair of giant sunglasses and a Bazaar magazine getting a pedi at a nail salon in Adams Morgan, of all places. Maybe the cougar trolling is better in Adams Mo than in stuffier neighborhoods of D.C.
• I saw Ezra Klein and Megan McArdle at the Wonderland bar trivia last night. They were pretty quiet, although they did argue one question about where Chernobyl happened (I thought they had a point).
• Just saw Tom Delay on 1st and C SE on the house side. He was alone and looked like a sniveling rat. He was on his way to the house parking lot to get his car. No one recognized him and no one cared.
• I saw Pete Hegseth, of Iraq Vets for Freedom, at the corner of 19th and M this morning at about 9:45. He was crossing M and running up 19th and looked like he was running late for something and I was on my bike going the opposite direction waiting for the light. I shouted: “Hey” and he turned around and looked at me but didn’t stop. So I said again: “Hey, wait up for a second.” He stopped and faced me. I told him, “We gotta get out of there.” He smiled an awkward smile and kept running.

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• We just saw Chuck Norris at the marine barracks parade hanging out with Jim Webb (guest of honor at the parade)
• Karl Rove just got off the plane I’m supposed to board at national airport. I assume my flight will now be delayed while they try to rid the plane of the sulfur smell. He was with his wife and is in dire need of a haircut.
• This humble federal employee has stumbled into two White House correspondents in two days. Coincidence? I think… so. Is it so wrong that I’m so thrilled? Yesterday, David ‘Stretch’ Gregory was behind me in line at Breadline. Focused, hard-hitting, subtle in his ordering technique. His hair as fab in person as on tv. The friend with me owns no tv, so thought I was referring to the failed resto-lounge-ateur. This morning, the unmistakable Helen Thomas was behind me at the underground Au Bon Pain in International Square. Lookin’ keen in kelly green.

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• Just visiting DC from the heartland, sat down for crab cakes at Legal Seafood, and could swear that Iman sat down at the next table. My first glance got a “Yes, you know me” look in return. Looked skinny and a tad haughty as she dined alone.
• Mark Warner and posse at Proof. Now.
• Condi Rice STILL in DC. Apparently her invitation to Crawford got lost in the mail? The Secretary eating all by her lonesome (with HOT secret service agents and that same BIG gun) at Kinkeads Sunday night at 7PM.

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• Prime Minister Elbegdorj of Mongolia, Ambassador Alphonse La Porta, and a loudly enthusiastic bunch of political supporters eating up all the meats at Fugo de Chao last night.
• Saturday August 18: While waiting in the interminable security line at Dulles, I saw Senator Jay Rockefeller waiting further back in the same line. I was surprised, and impressed, that he was waiting with everyone else and didn’t go in the premium passenger line. Also, dude is TALL. After I made my way over to Terminal D, I literally almost ran into Joel & Benji Madden and the rest of Good Charlotte as they made their way over to Subway. I refrained from making any Nicole Richie comments…
• Bob Saget eating (and drinking) with a male friend at Blue Duck Tavern in Foggy Bottom late Saturday evening. He was chatting up a rather statuesque female server, urging her to check out his upcoming HBO special.
• Just seen outside — America’s Mayor, Anthony Williams, in front of the 17th Street entrance to the Farragut West Metro station. He was wearing his mayor’s uniform — blue suit, bow suit, blue Nats baseball cap. He was standing on the curb around looking like he had nowhere to go.
• I saw Thomas Friedman walking in front of the Spy Museum in D.C. on Monday, August 20 with who seemed like his daughters. Seemed like maybe in a bit of a hurry and looking serious or blank. Dressed casually, and was not expounding on the glories of globalization in a repetitious manner.
• I just saw Condoleeza Rice leaving the dentist. I guess she goes to the same one as Cheney, which is across the street from C.F. Folks and the Palm (currently under construction) on 19th St NW. She gets a two SUV motorcade with five secret service men and at least one HUGE gun.

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• I saw Chris Matthews pouncing down Connecticut Ave. loaded down with bags from Jos. Banks yesterday (8/10). From the looks of things it was a shopping trip well worth the effort. He was so disheveled—rumpled short, hair flying—that I was pretty sure he was going to hand me a flyer from a nearby jewelry store.
• Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton sat next to me outside of the Hawk & Dove on Capitol Hill. Camera phone picture less than satisfactory. Her (female) friend said she couldn’t drink, but Del. Norton said “Oh yes, I’ll be drinking [white wine].” The two dined on delicious salads at 12:30am or so after seeing Becoming Jane. She was rather intrigued by the KegBus ( http://www.kegbus.com/) that stopped in front, but to my disappointment, she didn’t board or perform any keg stands.
• Cécilia Sarkozy, French president’s wife, who didn’t attend Saturday’s lunch at Kennebunkport because of a sore throat was seen shopping in Wolfeboro New Hampshire on Friday and Saturday.
• Saw Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) in Macy’s by Metro Center on Saturday. Probably buying that hideous suit he wore on Meet the Press on Sunday.
• Nicole Richie shopping in Georgetown this afternoon.

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• Dave Chappell is at T-Coast right now (Friday, 3pm). He is with his wife and I guess his three kids. They are all dressed real nice, like they came from church or something. We were hoping he would do something funny, but he didn’t, so we just drank a beer and stared.
• Saturday August the 4th: Saw Carl Levin and his wife around 9:10 pm ish coming out of a movie (Becoming Jane, perhaps?) at the E Street Cinema. He looked a little weak and almost seemed to be leaning on his wife for support. Aww…poor Carl.
• Earlier tonight I was on the top floor of Lauriol Plaza celebrating the birthday of a friend. Seated two tables away was Andrew Dan-Jumbo, the hunky carpenter from TLC’s While You Were Out. I did a bit of googling and discovered that he was recently arrested for trespassing at an American Red Cross Bash fundraiser. Odd. About 10 minutes after they brought out my friend’s birthday cake, and everyone sang “Happy Birthday,” the waiters brought out a birthday cake for Dan-Jumbo’s table. The cake went to a pretty, blonde girl sitting next to Dan-Jumbo, and everyone once again sang the song. But when it came to the end, Dan-Jumbo sang “Happy birthday, twenty-two year old… Happy birthday to you.”
• At national airport, i just saw Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, which is always a treat. She was sitting at tgif fridays. She’s like the Angelina Jolie of the great plains.
• At the american gate at national i just saw Grover Norquist, dragging his bags around while bluetoothing the shit out of his phone. Looks like a tough s.o.b.
• Margaret Spellings sometimes attends the same church in Old Town that I do. At the risk of going to hell, I dutifully report that I observed her put a whole two dollars in the collection plate. While wearing Chanel glasses. This same church recently added a new clergy member - the actress who played Kelly’s mom on Beverly Hills, 90201. Donna Martin graduates!
• Not only did I spot Rusty from whyihatedc, but I also spotted that dude Masi Oka, from “Heroes,” on the stage during Spoon’s set at the Virgin Festival’s North Stage on Sunday. He was there with a woman who looked to be on the Amy Winhouse diet and a reeeally cute baby wearing protective headphones.
• I just saw Dave Chappelle at the 7-11 on Maryland and 8th NE. He was with a tall woman, was stoned out of his mind, and the 7-11 clerk wouldn’t break his $50. He stood back and watched while I paid for my Dr. Pepper. I didn’t know if he was expecting me to say anything to him, so I said, “you’re funny.” He looked at me for a second and said “thanks.”
• I saw Chris Matthews pouncing down Connecticut Ave. loaded down with bags from Jos. Banks yesterday (8/10). From the looks of things it was a shopping trip well worth the effort. He was so disheveled—rumpled short, hair flying—that I was pretty sure he was going to hand me a flyer from a nearby jewelry store.

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• Was waiting for the elevator in the basement of the Longworth building when rep. Paul Ryan came up to wait for the same elevator. it was early morning and my hands were full with my cereal box, milk, donut and banana, his hands were holding a garment bag and a book— “Who Killed Health Care.”… or something like that. i started to immediately smile to myself— he is much cuter in person… much cuter… none of the interns around seemed to know who he was… “God i hope he doesnt think i am an intern,” i thought to myself… i made the googly eyes… i would like to think he made them back, but i am not sure, he could have thought i was some strung out weird girl with a tick in her eye… he was rocking out to his ipod…. adorable. when we got in the elevator i tried to see if my floor was pushed… it wasnt… i tried to reach around and press the button when he noticed my full hands and asked what floor i needed. i said four. he then got of! f on two… i felt bad.. poor guy, he probably has a small office.
• Mitch McConnell, boarding line A for Southwest in Louisville, KY. Surprisingly pleasant, despite a 5-hour delay. We passed a big “What’s Mitch McConnell Hiding” ( http://www.whatsmcconnellhiding.com/) billboard at the entrance to the airport, and probably should’ve just asked him.
• Actually not spotted in person, but on Saturday at Blue Duck Tavern, the waiter told us the reason our table was late was because the previous party included Chelsea Clinton. My response was “doesn’t she know who we are?” However, no idea if this was just a tall tale from the waiter to appease irritated customers.
• Wednesday, Aug. 1, 7:20 PM, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine was leaving the Washington (Hinckley) Hilton in a cab with three other suits. The cab paused right in front of me, and I’d know those eyebrows anywhere, although it was counterintuitive that he uses cabs and not limos. So I called his office but they wouldn’t tell me about his personal schedule. Fair enough.
• I saw Rick Santorum on 15th St. yesterday (August 1). It looked like maybe he had lunch at Old Ebbitt. He was talking on his cell phone. I hate to admit it, but he’s HOT. Plus he kind of waved/winked at me. I like to think it was because he thought I was hot too, but it was more of a “I can tell you recognize me” wave/wink.
• Last night we were driving the Zipcar from the Soviet Safeway and were stopped at a red light. Two black Suburbans pull up to the corner of 6th and Mass. Ave. NE. Secret service agents pour out of the vehicle and out steps…..Barry Hussein Obama!
• On Friday July 20th, we were waiting in the NorthWest terminal at National where we also saw Chris “I’m trying to pull off the casual Ralph Lauren Polo look” Dodd. He boarded a flight to Iowa. Hopefully he played it safe in Iowa by talking about corn and ethanol instead of arugula.
• Scooter’s riding the rails. But he ain’t eating baked beans over a sterno flame. My buddy took the Acela from NY to DC last night. Scooter was in his train car. After Vice President Cheney’s heartfelt declaration Tuesday night that, “he still has a very difficult road. He’s got — obviously he needs to find work. He’s got legal bills. He carries the burden of having been convicted. All those are not easy problems,” you’d think he was taking the fucking Chinatown Bus around the Northeast. But no. Apparently the Scooter Libby Legal Defense Fund has got some wiggle room for super-fast train rides.
• Dave Chappell is at T-Coast right now (Friday, 3pm). He is with his wife and I guess his three kids. They are all dressed real nice, like they came from church or something. We were hoping he would do something funny, but he didn’t, so we just drank a beer and stared.

WONK’D CORRECTION:

Dear Wonkette.com
Delighted to appear in your esteemed column as having been sighted in Washington on July 13th, but as I was in Athens that day (Greece, not even Georgia) it seems you’ve a bit more Googling to do. Maybe there’s an impersonator about, which may explain why he scurried off when you stared a tad.

Thanks for thinking of me, at any rate…

Bill Emmott

We apologize and reiterate that all sightings are authored by anonymous readers, unverified, and mostly unedited. We rejoin Wonk’d, already in progress.

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• Saw Patrick McHenry at Cap City Brewery. Was dining with a married woman and is even shorter in person than he looks on tv…
• Just passed Scooter Libby walking on K Street NW near 16th Street. I, much like a previous Wonk’d operative, felt the urge to “cuff ‘em” but as he was passing me I was accosted by a Falun Gong follower peddling brochures. Perhaps this is Scooter’s security detail strategy.
• Sunday, 7/22 around 5:30 p.m., saw NBC Washington grand whoozit and pie-faced raconteur, Tim Russert, ambling down Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park. He went into Rocklands Barbeque and made a bee-line for the register to order some ribs. And by “some,” I mean six full racks.
• I pop into the Georgetown Safeway on Sunday (7/22) and find myself standing in front of Boston Celtics head coach and former Marquette Warrior Doc Rivers. After I introduced myself as a fellow M.U. Grad (Class of ‘91) Doc smiled, shook my hand, and said, “Good to hear! Nice to meet you.” He then gestured to his college-aged son and said, “I’m here taking care of the Georgetown part of the family.” He said “Georgetown” with mock distain, given the Big East rivalry and all.
• Saw that late night TV guy with the question marks all over his suit walking into the Connecticut and N Starbucks on 7/25. Don’t know what the Riddler ordered though or if he used some of the free government money to pay for it.
• Congressman feeney spotted at the John Mayer concert!
• Just spotted the seemingly ubiquitous Dave Chappelle at the M Street entrance to Sea Catch. T-shirt and jeans, having a smoke and being very gracious to a couple of fans. And yes, he actually did look kind of exhausted.
• Saw John Bolton yesterday (7.25.07) walking west on 57th Street in NYC. Did my civic duty and loudly addressed him as an asshole as we passed each other on the sidewalk.
• Highlights of a Thursday night meal at CityZen: the cheese plate and Madam Secretary herself, Condi Rice. The Secretary and her small party dined in a private aread behind a partition while a trio of Secret Service agents enjoyed amuses bouche in the main dining area. No word on whether or not The American People picked up what had to have been a pretty hefty check. Small town the District is, one guy at least professed to know the Cabinet diva as she walked by, getting himself and his dining companion a friendly handshake before Secretary Rice moved along and tried to exit through the bar. When the Secret Service agent corrected her course, she said “damn, where were you in ‘03 when we were barreling into Iraq?” Okay, that didn’t happen. Truth be told, however, Condi in person has a star quality about her that, paired with her great style - no Matrix boots tonight, but a sharp white frock with black embroidered Asian frog-style buttons and black skirt did the trick - really helps you forget for a moment her utterly shameless complicity in running this country into a total fucking ditch.

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• I’m not sure if she qualifies for a mention here but I know they love her over at Gawker — Dawn Eden, everyone’s favorite bornagain virgin and fired NY Post writer, having recently moved from NY to DC to become the director of the “Love and Responsibility Program” at the Cardinal Newman Society (this info courtesy of her blog) (I guess the book sales from “The Thrill of the Chaste” started to peter out and who else but the Catholics will pay you NOT to have sex?). Anyway I saw her looking short and somewhat dumpy on K street between 15th and 16th, ostensibly about to cross the street to go to that huge scary Catholic “bookstore” I’ve never seen anyone go into. She needs some new highlights. Welcome to DC Dawn; it’s way harder to find a good hairstylist than a virgin round these parts.
• Spotted Patrick Fitzgerald leaving the Cardinals/Giants game in St. Louis on Saturday, July 7. Walked in a group with him for several blocks on the way to our hotel. He was dressed in a madras short sleeved shirt and khakis, spoke in his distinctive cadence, and was accompanied by a couple with a baby (possibly relatives). I wanted to speak, but what could one say, post commutation? “Congratulations…oops - sorry about that…” I decided to keep my mouth shut and leave the poor man alone.
• Saw former Economist editor BIll Emmott heading up 19th street near Penn Ave (as if he were coming from the IMF and World Bank buildings) on Friday afternoon (the 13th). When I took a second glance, he seemed to realize I recognized him, and scurried up the street at a slightly quicker pace. Think it’s weird I recognized the guy? Google his picture and you’ll see what I mean.
• Just saw John Bolton on the Orange Line at Metro Station. I suppose it could have been a look-a-like, but the bushy moustache seems pretty hard to imitate. I hear it’s so big because it’s full of secrets!
• Minority Leader John Boehner dined at Wilmington’s Conley Ward Steakhouse Sunday night ( http://www.conleywards.com). Situated on the banks of the Christina Riverfront, this restaurant lies in the shadow of some of Wilmington’s most prominent banks. Boehner’s party sat on the patio drinking red wine; Boehner chain smoked. He was accompanied by five young professionals, probably staff. They got a really yummy looking tower of onion rings that looked a little bit like this
• Former U.S. Attorney General John “Let the Eagle Soar” Ashcroft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M789kRvbziM) was spotted having breakfast at the Hay-Adams Hotel on Wednesday morning. He seemed to enjoy his meal and his hushed conversation with companions.

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• Yesterday [7/2 at around 5:30] I spotted Joe and Hadassah Lieberman at the Foggy Bottom Trader Joe’s. The Missus was already at one of the cash registers and the Senator was agonizing over whether to go with the Bavarian Hefeweizen or the Vienna Lager. The ‘weizen was the winner. Both looked great and were very lovey with each other. Shopper Joe exchanged some pleasantries with a few Joe shoppers.
• Henry Rollins at the Evens Ft. Reno show. Looking decidedly less muscle bound than in past years, and sort of old. Also, Ian Sevonius looking like a Neil Gaiman character.
• This afternoon I saw Paul Begala having lunch outside at the over-priced, over-rated Peacock Café in Georgetown. He presumably was turned away from Café Milano, as he was wearing a button down and blue jeans, and was with a slovenly friend in black t-shirt and black pants. I was staring at his forehead as I approached, trying to decide just how obnoxious I should be, when he glared at me — so I kept my snark to myself as I walked past. If he didn’t want to tempt people to make asses of themselves, the partisan hack should have gotten a table indoors.
• I saw former White House Counsel Harriet Miers at Elephant and Castle (12th and Penn.) at lunch on July 4th. She was having lunch with TX Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht and was deeply engrossed in conversation. She was unnoticed and ate quickly and left before I could say anything.
• Ralph Nader, last Saturday, walking in his typical crumudgeonly way along Dupont Circle in front of Books-a-Million. The temperature had to have been near 100-degrees, but Ralph was attired in a jacket, plaid shirt, and Dockers from, I’m estimating, the 1980s. He wasn’t sweating. In light of this, I thought about mentioning to him that the world’s gone to hell since 2000 and thanks for nothing, but that, like the man himself, seemed passe.
• Scooter Libby, walking out in the open just like a free man, corner of 12th & E. Resisted urge to perform citizens arrest.
• Since I know he’s a fan favorite… Saw Conrad Burns at an event in the Rayburn Building on 7/12. Things I learned observing and listening to him: 1) Fell off a horse during Fourth of July vacation and hurt his leg 2) It took him 45 minutes to hang a picture in his home 3) Likes to talk to/gawk at young female interns 4) Has no qualms about picking his teeth with a toothpick in a room full of people 5) STILL CRAZY!

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• Saw Carl Levin on Friday [6/22] driving his beat ass gold Saturn with “Carl Levin” bumper stickers on the block of G St. SE. that John Boehner lives on. He was pouring a can of diet coke out the window and onto the street while driving.
• Elizabeth Kucinich was prominently placed in the PrideFest parade in St. Louis, MO. She was riding in a decidedly non carbon neutral black Mustang convertable.
• Ted Koppel was at Cantina Marina this weekend. You can’t tell from the picture but the place was crawling with 20 year old interns. His head is even bigger in person, if you can possibly imagine that.
• Was on a flight back to DC from Madison, WI on Monday afternoon with Senator Russ Feingold. He was completely unassuming with a sport coat and jeans and was virtually unnoticed by everyone in the airport - seemed like any other business traveler. When we were walking on the jetway to get onto the plane I said “Hello Senator” he replied with a brief and stiff “Hello Sir” and a nod of the head, which was either a polite but short acknowledgement or an “I’m too important to talk to you”. Given that the Supreme Court had gutted McCain-Feingold earlier that same day, I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt and am leaning towards the former.
• George Tenet at the Borders in Friendship Heights. Nobody recognized him as he was in a white polo shirt, blue shorts and flip-flops. Staff only realized who he was when he said something along the lines of “Oh, that’s where my book is now.” Bought one hardcover and left after chatting with one of the managers.
• Just saw Sen. Brownback in the Dirksen cafeteria talking to one of the Hispanic cashiers in Spanish. “hay mucho trabajo….en Iowa…(then proceded to think of other states). His tie was just hanging around his neck untied. There were some young Republican zombies in line behind him pretty star struck. Never mind that he switched his vote against the immigration bill at the last second yesterday.
• Was walking back from the Penn and 2nd hot dog stand when I saw our (future) first elfin president, Dennis Kucinich, leaving the Capitol Suites. He was being picked up by a woman in a couple-years-old Volvo who must have been a staffer because she was not nearly as hot as his wife. There was an awkward moment as they idled at the stop sign at the intersection, waiting for me to cross the street as I stood there waiting for them to go. I finally took the initiative. Kucinich sat in the front passenger seat.

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• I sat next to Michael Steele (former lt gov) of Maryland in Franklin’s in Hyattsville on Saturday. Apparently, he comes in there several days a week. He kept his head down over a hard back book the whole meal. No one bothered him, but then again, why would they? Who in Prince George’s County, outside of his immediate family, cares at all about this man?
• Saw the discharged Adam Kokesh at Deli Club in Claredon last night. He was wearing his stupid tee shirt and sucking down rum and cokes. He was with two ladies who seemed to be some sort of PR team, and was taking interviews on his cell phone throughout the meal. From what I heard I think he honestly believe he should run the country, kind of an ass.
• I saw Clint Borgen walking through Reagan Airport. He had a laptop bag strapped over his shoulder and a couple of college-aged girls were getting their picture taken with him. He appeared to be traveling alone.
• John Edwards at the American terminal at National on Wed morning. SS detail outside, but he was all alone with nary a handler waiting in line with the rest of the peasants (well….peasants who fly first class). Jeans, blue blazer, and of course, perfect hair. Looked like a totally nice guy.
• Saw Don Rumsfeld at the corner of 17th & L walking with two suited security types. He noted the line at Potbelly’s and remarked that he regrets not buying more stock in the sandwich chain. I couldn’t get up the nerve to ask if he had any other regrets regarding, for example, the 3,500 dead American soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, the damage to America’s standing as a moral leader in the area of human rights due to our policies towards torture or the abuses at Abu Ghraib, or for the long term damage being done to our military by virtue of being bogged down in an endless and unwinnable war. Also, he was way shorter than I imagined he would be.
• Saw Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea from 90210) at the Orioles game last Friday. My friends and I went back and forth about whether it was really her - somewhat because she wasn’t dressed like a mid-90s high school student but mostly because she was in Baltimore (wtf?). Anyway after the game I looked her up on IMDB and looking at recent picture, in addition to her being from Arizona and rooting for the Diamondbacks, assured me that it was her.
• June 20, about 6 p.m. on Dearborn Street in downtown Chicago, I walked around the corner of one of the federal buildings and didn’t realize until he had almost passed me that the tall, slightly stooped, tired-but-determined looking guy in the government-lawyer-blue suit was Patrick Fitzgerald. He was alone, carried no briefcase, papers, etc., and looked exactly like every other commuter in the Loop on their way home from work. Can’t say for sure but he appeared headed for the subway stop adjacent to the building. He may have looked tired since his office is currently prosecuting two huge cases: the fraud trial of Canadian media baron Conrd Black and the biggest organized crime racketeering case in Chicago in about 20 years.
• Didn’t realize it until I landed at Dulles, but was the same flight from London on Wednesday (6/21) as Fred Thompson. Or, as the teenager who spotted him in the customs line said, “Fred Chandler” from Law & Order. The former senator had a Tumi carry-on and was sporting the Obama look (suit, no tie). Appeared to be travelling w/ a similarly-attired companion whose shirt was unbottoned to mid-chest and was carrying a stuffed duty-free bag. Only word I heard Thompson say as the lines snaked past: “Alzheimer’s.” The customs agent told me he told Thompson he’d vote for him if he ran. British Airways also lost my bags.

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• Saw mia farrow at national airport waiting for her flight to white plains. Overheard her talking to someone about the hearing she came from—she compared it to sitting through six straight college lectures. I think I heard her mention chad—the country, not the yuppie d-bag—but I can’t be sure. No mention of woody though.
• Sat behind Congressman Mike Arcuri (D-NY) on the 9:15 US Air flight to Syracuse Thursday night (6/7). As much as I could tell, he didn’t say a word to anyone around him. There was a local tv news crew set up at the terminal when we arrived - I assumed set up by his media folks…. but turns out he passed by without anyone’s second glance, and the news crew moved on to interview a couple of teens from another flight.
• Last night (June 10) the Little Woman and I were downing margaritas at Rosa Mexicano at 7th and F Street. The place was packed with revelers from the Pride Week celebration. So who better to offset all the fabulousness than House Minority Leader John Boehner? He emerged in a cloud of cigarette smoke from a black SUV. He chained his way through four or five more smokes while waiting with his large group for a table.
• At quarter to 1, I saw Senator Byron Dorgan standing on the corner of Mass and 4th Street, NE, in front of the White Tiger restaurant. I was impressed by how well he was dressed (for a North Dakotan) and how fake his hair looks in direct sunlight. He was talking to an middle-aged staffer who desparately needs Extreme Makeover: Capitol Hill Edition.
• Around 1:30, I saw former Montana governor and RNC chairman Marc Racicot in the bottom floor of the Washington Square office building (Conn and L Street, NW) eating lunch with an assistant. The place has a restaurant and a post office, so people congregate there at the tables to eat their lunch. No jacket or tie: the governor must work hard for a living now! You think he’d at least eat at Morton’s, which is on the second floor of the building. He appeared to be eating with the assistant, but not actually speaking to her. Big-timer!
• Henry Kissinger is sitting across the aisle from me on the acela to nyc. having a deep convo. about google with his companion “you know, they have a section for news too.”
• Saw Peter Welch (D-VT) greet John Yarmuth (D-KY) with a righteous thumb to thumb soul brother handclasp today. Yarmuth was hip.
• Spotted Charlie Rose crossing Lexington Avenue in Manhattan yesterday (June 12) as I was headed to the subway; he’s much taller (at least 6’4”) and rugged in person than would otherwise appear, so I’m guessing the crack crew over at PBS pretties him up for the teevee.
• magical tele-diagnostician bill frist eating lunch at rosa mexicano sunday 6.10. with wife and son. frist junior unable to consume guacamole without leaving a hefty amount under his chair for the busboy to clean up. wife surprised that black waiter comes from maryland, not africa. probably. all in all a laugh riot.
• I was at the Uptown last night for the sneak preview of “Talk To Me,” here’s a crappy cellphone camera pic of Taraji P. Henson and Don Cheadle with director Kasi Lemmons. The movie was awesome, really great D.C. stuff. Don Cheadle was excellent as Petey Greene. They whisked him away to the airport as soon as the credits rolled, alas. The low point of the night was seeing Omarosa (sp?) from The Apprentice strutting around before the film down in front of the screen, making sure everyone in the room saw her. After the movie she pushed past me in the lobby so she could gush to the screenwriter: “That was GREAT WRITING.” She looked rough.
• Waiting outside of the June 12th Mika concert at the 9:30 Club, my friends and I saw a couple of guys get out a cab and walk over to the club, then suddenly realized that one of those guys was Kal Penn, of Harold and Kumar fame (?). He and his friends chatted outside until the doors opened (and scored backstage passes, so jealous); a couple of people went up to him and quite a few stared, but mostly he was left alone, which was cool. Hope he enjoyed the show, I definitely did!
• Saw Adam Kokesh at Wonderland on Thursday (6/14) just before the Ra-Ra-Raputin show.
• Saw recently discharged Adam Kokesh at Wonderland last night with some chick in Teva sandals. He was wearing his “uniform,” i.e. that damn t-shirt he’s always wearing and was (for the record) Not Hot.

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• I saw David Gregory walking around the track at Georgetown’s Yates gymnasium. He was pretty sweaty and with a small Hispanic dude. They both had tennis rackets.
• Sat behind George Will at Saturday night’s [6/2] Nats game. Surprise, surprise he’s kind of a turd.
• Friday (6/1) I saw House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer coming out of Roland’s grocery on 4th and Pennsylvania, SE. He hopped into an SUV, which was doing the traditional “Capitol Hill Important Person Double-Park” and screwing up rush hour traffic. I didn’t see what he bought, but he was carrying his own groceries.
• Tuesday (6/5) I saw Bill Delahunt in front of his house (the one he shares with George Miller, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer). He was trimming the ivy that was growing out of control in his front yard. He had a pair of manual shears and was cleaning up the trimmings from the front walk by himself. He was in shorts and a T-shirt and looked like anyone’s dad doing yardwork. I guess that was on the chore wheel this week for him…
• I saw Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) in Philadelphia on the corner of Market and Front Streets on Saturday [6/2] evening. He was strolling with a younger man and two younger women - perhaps his children? Couldn’t find any information about his family on his website biography, so who knows. They could have just been drinking buddies. As I don’t think he thought anybody outside of the DC/NoVA region would even know who he was, he looked more than a little surprised when I said “Good evening, Congressman”. I’m embarrassed I knew who he was. You can take the political junkie out of DC, but you can’t take DC out of the junkie.
• Was having some dinner and margaritas on the hill with some fellow HELP committee staffers and who should walk in to La Loma: Benjamin Mckenzie (Ryan from The OC). He ordered a few mexican beers with his entourage and moved back to the patio outside. He wasn’t amused when my femal friend yelled “Ryan, you’re so hot.” Why was he on the hill?
• Rep. Jim Moran was at Irish Times last night [6/6] sitting by the jukebox.