[BigWaveBetty]

(PAGESIX) MEMO to Tom and Kathy Freston: Oil the lock on your bathroom door. Arianna Huffington was briefly trapped inside the MTV chairman and his wife's ground-floor toilet during a fete for Huffington's new book, "Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America" (Miramax Books), at the couple's historic East 66th Street brownstone formerly owned by Andy Warhol. A waiter heard Huffington banging on the door and opened it in time for the flame-haired gadfly to give a Bush-bashing speech to Barbara Walters, Al Franken, Harvey Weinstein, Kurt Vonnegut and Tina Brown.

Hell, forget the oil, get a bigger bathroom, shove all the above toads in and nail the damn door shut!

[daisyscarlett]

I don't watch the 9/11 Hearings much...can't stand the partisanship and particularly loathe Ben-Veniste. But do read about them to keep up and was so pleased with Ashcroft's testimony yesterday and his surprise guest... LINK

"One could detect the power of Ashcroft's bombshell in the subsequent questioning. Richard Ben-Veniste's edge turned to smarm. He greeted the two surprise guests who had accompanied Ashcroft to the hearing, his respected former deputy Larry Thompson and Solicitor General Ted Olson. Ben-Veniste referred to him as "Mr. Olson," and offered renewed condolences on the death of Barbara Olson on 9/11. With Olson on Ashcroft's side, there was no way he could look bad."

"Ben-Veniste's only pointed question proved an embarrassment, repeating as it did morning press stories fed by Democrat leaks to the effect that Ashcroft would be asked about why he had started flying in government planes and not commercially before 9/11. When Ashcroft replied that all his personal flying had continued to be done commercially, as was his wife's, Ben-Veniste was left red-faced, grasping at a dwindling number of straws."