• Terry Moran puts Scott McClellan into a "throe hold": "Q But they're killing more Americans, they're killing more Iraqis. That's the last throes?"[C-SPAN and video]
• Hemmer says goodbye. And goodbye. And goodbye. Henry the Intern blogs it: "The clip show begins. Hemmer is caught saying of O’Brien, 'She makes me so nervous.' There’s a 'white girl supermodel rap' about Hemmer and endless clips under the song 'Forever in Blue Jeans.'" [Gawker]
• Aren't Congressmen who try to hold hearings cute? Dana Milbank thinks so: Conyers "started calling himself 'the chairman' and spouted other chairmanly phrases, such as 'unanimous consent' and 'without objection so ordered.' The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along." [WP]
• And those Congressman are even more adorable when they get angry:
"In a typically derisive and uninformed passage, Milbank makes much of other lawmakers calling me 'Mr. Chairman' and says I liked it so much that I used 'chairmanly phrases.' Milbank may not know that I was the Chairman of the House Government Operations Committee from 1988 to 1994. By protocol and tradition in the House, once you have been a Chairman you are always referred to as such. Thus, there was nothing unusual about my being referred to as Mr. Chairman."Tee-hee! [Atrios]
— WONKETTE
