Poor President Obama. So many policy announcements in Tuesday’s press conference that he would expect at least a 24-hour news cycle to cover the issues. Not so much. The only topic Washington political-media types are talking about today is Gov. Mark Sanford and his bizarre secret trip to Argentina. “I moved my lunch so...
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A dramatic Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) hemmed and hawed about apologies and lies during a news conference Wednesday until finally admitting what was really going on: that he has cheated on his wife for more than a year with a woman in Argentina. Sanford, when he finally cut to the chase, said, “I have...
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Reese Witherspoon is my IBF (Imaginary Best Friend), and right at this moment, she is within a five-mile radius of me filming a movie. Reese, in all her blonde perfection glory right here in Washington is like Queen Elizabeth changing my oil at Jiffy Lube. I have been so obsessed — not using that...
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Reese Witherspoon is my IBF (Imaginary Best Friend), and right at this moment, she is within a five-mile radius of me filming a movie. Reese, in all her blonde perfection glory right here in Washington is like Queen Elizabeth changing my oil at Jiffy Lube. I have been so obsessed (not using that word...
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From beyond the grave, Anna Nicole Smith is continuing to fight for money from her brief marriage to an 89-year-old Texan billionaire oilman, J. Howard Marshall. The Playboy model, reality show star and celebrity train wreck who died of a drug overdose in 2007 and her lawyer Howard K. Stern have spent 15 years...
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One of the side effects of the “Who is Liz?” capers — the nasty e-mails from the executive assistant to Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) to a lobbyist trying to set up a meeting for a client — was to establish Legistorm as the Washington power player of last week. Did you know that the...
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The e-mail chain between Elizabeth (Don’t call me Liz!) Becton, a staffer for Rep. Jim McDermott, (D-Wash.), and a Democratic lobbyist who is a friend of a friend of mine has been forwarded around Washington all week because it perfectly encapsulates the frustration of lobbyists in both parties in dealing with some of the...
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Nothing gets Washington atwitter (old-school atwitter, not Twitter) like a good sex scandal. In the real world, people remember where they were when Kennedy was shot or the space shuttle exploded. In D.C., we remember where we were when we watched the Gov. Jim McGreevey train-wreck of an “I am a gay American” press...
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Frank Sinatra sang it best: “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell you brother, you can’t have one without the other….Try, try, try to separate them. It’s an illusion.” Love and marriage. Weddings and white dresses. Flower girls and first dances. Church bells and pronouned...
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Every Friday, my reward for the week is US Weekly magazine in my mailbox. I immediately read it cover to cover, which, admittedly, with the limited text, takes about an hour. Today I skipped down to my mailbox, unfurled US Weekly and reeled back in HORROR. The cover story is once again that horrible...
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Mr. Clean-Up-Washington, President Obama, once again has shown that his ethics rules are merely a disingenuous effort to pander to the public. As the Washington Post reported today, Obama has named big-dollar, unqualified political donors to key embassies. For Britain, he appointed Louis Susman, a businessman and lawyer who raised $730,000. For France, it’s...
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Cocktail party chatter in Washington this weekend was all about Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotamay… KIDDING! Cocktail party chatter in DC this weekend was really all about who will be and who should be cast in the newest franchise of the Bravo reality show, “Real Housewives.” The Washington Post did a piece on some...
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