Ask a Hill Staffer: Worse Than Incest

Each week here at Wonkette, we take your questions and pass them off to a congressional employee — it’s like writing your congressman, but without pretending anyone important will ever see your letter. We think the endless rain got to our Anonymous Hill Staffer this week. He seems a bit down. Though it easily could’ve been your depressing questions.

After the jump: Intraparty sex:Interparty sex::incest:cheating. Or something.

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Oh, It’s Pretty Clear To Us

THE PRESIDENT: I also said that — let me make sure, Steve, that you — first of all, I’m impressed that you’re actually paying attention to it. The people I saw in the press pool weren’t. They were, like, Elisabeth was half-asleep — (laughter) — yes, you were.

Bussssssted.

Press Conference of the President [White House]
Bush Concedes Iraq War Erodes Political Status [NYT]

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The People’s Excruciatingly Tedious Business

Flush from reporting the breaking news that tourists are often confused, the Washington Post breathlessly delivers the scoop that government workers are often bored. Once we were able to get the blood rushing back to our head, we heeded Amy Joyce’s tale of Bruce Bartlett’s many lost afternoons as deputy assistant secretary for economic policy in the Treasury Department:

boredom occasionally drove him from his cushy Washington office to seek relief at the movie theater. One afternoon, he ran into a friend who was a senior official in another department.

“It was kind of awkward,” he said.

Even more awkward? That senior official was Dick Cheney, and the movie was Stuart Little 2. —HOLLY MARTINS

Boredom Numbs the Work World [Washington Post]

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