Gossip Roundup: McClellan Fields Complaints

•Names & Faces: Lacrosse team criticized for wearing flip-flops on White House visit withBush. . .Goreannounces cast of Current are unknowns. [ WP ]

•Inside Politics: White House correspondentRaghubir Goyalcomplains about two-question policy for joint-pressers. . . RNC collected $59m in first half of '05, a record for an off-year. . .Buchanansays "White House press corps has begun treatingMcClellannot like a man who misspoke, but like some defiant inmate at Guantanamo." [ WT ]

•Under the Dome: Sen. Conradreceives only one question at his press conference. . .Borkattacks Supreme Court as "one of the less attractive hangovers from the Sixties". . . Democratic speechwriterRoger Wolfsonnow writes for TNT's "The Closer". . . Associate Senate HistorianDon Ritchiewas near the London tube during the bombings. [ The Hill ]