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And here's what looks like Jennifer's Match.com profile (!) Very amusing.

Moving right along, USA Today has more bad-news numbers for the White House:

"Support for the decision to go to war in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since the campaign began in March 2003, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll released Tuesday.

"The findings, made public on the same day that Iraq's first democratically elected government in 50 years was sworn in, show 41% say the war was worth it; 57% say it wasn't."

You know that unseemly, lobbyist-financed travel by DeLay? Turns out there were Democrats , too, says the New York Times

"Newly disclosed documents from an American territory in the Pacific show that the powerful Washington lobbyist at the center of federal corruption investigations here paid directly for travel to the islands by several members of Congress, Democrat and Republican, as well as two senior aides to Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, despite House rules that bar such payments.

"The lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, submitted bills to his law firm for more than $350,000 in expenses for several trips to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1996 and 1997 on behalf of the congressmen, as well as several others including Edwin Buckham, Mr. DeLay's former chief of staff, and Tony Rudy, his former deputy chief of staff. . . .

"One of them, Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, said in an interview on Tuesday that he had been assured that his trip was in full accordance with House travel rules and that the National Security Caucus Foundation had paid for it. . . . Lanier Avant, a spokesman for Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said Mr. Thompson had understood that the caucus had paid for the trip."

And don't think the GOP hasn't noticed:

"House Republicans called Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a hypocrite yesterday for not demanding investigations into new ethics questions that have arisen about the travel of her fellow Democrats," says the Washington Times . Moving along now, National Review Editor Rich Lowry punches back at the Dems on Social Security:

"In the congressional debate over repealing the estate (a.k.a. death) tax, Democrats routinely invoked Paris Hilton as an example of someone who wouldn't be hurt if the government confiscated part of her family's wealth upon her parents' death. This was a shrewd bit of class warfare in keeping with the Democratic impulse to tax the wealthy as much as possible. But the Social Security debate now features a new, perverse kind of Democratic class warfare -- a struggle to keep as many Social Security benefits as possible flowing into the hands of the well-off.

"Maybe Paris Hilton doesn't deserve her inheritance, but her astronomically wealthy father, Rick, apparently deserves every last penny he can wring from the Social Security Administration when he retires.