Famous DC has the goods on this delicious TV moment:

If you like trivia, you’ll love Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Washington Wire:

“The Mountain State is used to picking winners. Every nominee has carried the state’s primary since 1976, and no Democrat has won the White House without winning West Virginia since 1916,” the campaign said in a memo.

Hillary Clinton’s Ohio victory speech:

“You know, they call Ohio a bellwether state. It’s a battleground state. It’s a state that knows how to pick a president.  And no candidate in recent history, Democrat or Republican, has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary.”

Of course, don’t tell Barack Obama any of this…

Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that’s largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain.

Hey, Obama, we like trivia! Hillary: keep ‘em comin’!

If you were watching C-SPAN last night, you saw an amazing moment in political history — the thunderous standing ovation Israelis gave President Bush at Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference.  Even the upcoming Republican convention is unlikely to match the emotional outpouring of raw support and love the Israelis showed for Bush.

Peres’ speech offered a grand historical sweep of U.S. presidents’ support for Israel.

And here’s what Peres recently told Lally Weymouth:

So, how does this president impress you?

I think Bush did something very courageous, and that was to topple Saddam Hussein. Imagine today that we would have in the Middle East both Ahmadinejad and Saddam Hussein. Bush [made] a decision and should be given credit for it. The problem with the Europeans is, they are right but they are always late. And here to be late is to be wrong. To be right means to be on time. Would they have been right on Hitler, the whole [of] Europe would look different.
What about President Clinton?
Clinton was a friend. Bush’s father was a friend, and President Ronald Reagan was a friend.

If Barack Obama becomes president, we’d be curious to see who calls him a friend.  Judging from by this Al Jazeera report from Gaza, the answer might be quite evident.

Earlier this week, the Select Committee to Investigate the Voting Irregularities of August 2, 2007, met to review House voting procedures and heard testimony about the sequence of events during roll call vote 814.

Here’s how C-SPAN describes what happened, from their video from the hearing:

Roll call vote 814 was on a Republican motion to recommit the fiscal 2008 agriculture spending bill (HR 3161) back to committee with instructions to amend it. The instructions to recommit would have banned Welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. The presiding officer at the time, Representative Michael R. McNulty (D-NY), ruled that the motion had been defeated because he was reading the electronic tally board which read 214 to 214. Republicans argued that the tally board did not reflect votes that were still coming in. After the gavel came down the electronic tally board showed a vote of 215 to 213.

Here’s YouTube coverage of what happened, from C-SPAN…

And here’s the money shot the Republicans used…

Also, check out Famous DC’s most excellent take.

The Hill newspaper surveyed a bunch of Senators about whether they’d accept a vice presidential offer.

One was understandably funny:

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho): “I would say ‘No, Hillary.’ ”

So, what would a Clinton-Craig ticket announcement look like?

Sure, they still might be one in a million, but that didn’t seem to discourage anyone in Dumb & Dumber.

Zombie!

In salute to Tony Kornheiser, who’s taking the Washington Post buy-out (reported by Fishbowl and Dan Steinberg and On Frozen Blog), we show again our favorite picture of the bald wonder:

Hillary Clinton has turned the corner.

Proof?

Two pieces of evidence.

1)  This assertion in her West Virginia victory speech last night:

“I am more determined than ever to carry on this campaign … This continues to be a hard-fought race.”

2)  Her new campaign speech writer, formerly of the Iraqi Information Ministry: