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(h/t CJR and BayNewser)

Photo Opp: Jake Gyllenhaal is on M St in Georgetown w/ Reese Witherspoon right now. They were just in Hu's Shoes. Both wearing baseball caps. Not sure why I'm posting this...

In honor of Sen. Ensign's little tryst, our friends at FamousDC have been hard at work sifting through the "best" political scandals of the decade. My personal favorite? Vito Fossella and his "love child." That's not only quality scandal, its klassy too.

The list is below but check out their explanations for each honoree here.

10. Sen. John Ensign + married staffer who was apparently paid in dollar bills.

9. Rep. Don Sherwood + back rub rejecting mistress

8. Rep. Tim Mahoney + His jobless mistress

7. Rep. Vito Fossella + mother of his child that was not his wife

6. Sen Larry Craig +....

5. Sen. David Vitter + D.C. Madam Hooker

4. Sen. John Edwards + Cici from Poison

3. Former Governor Elliot Spitzer + $$$$$ Hooker

2. Rep. Mark Foley + pages

1. Marion Barry + "the bitch"

Thank goodness Politico got to the bottom of this one. What we learned in this video- April Ryan has a thing for men with power, Congress Daily's George Condon is completely comfortable checking out other men (TWT's Jon Ward, not so much) and CBS' Mark Knoller isn't a fan of NBC's Chuck Todd, looks-wise, of course.

Also here at FishbowlDC, we're starting the countdown until the blonde interviewed at the end gets a show on cable TV...

A tipster tells FishbowlDC that "24" star Jon Voight spent several hours this morning at The Washington Times. He met with employees and posed for photos. He was in town for last night's NRCC dinner.

The crack (no pun intended) investigative team at ABC News nabbed this exclusive photo of Dana Milbank parading around Tom Toles' party in his underwear... Toles', that is.

We think they frame it best here on the blog... "Not exactly doing nude cannonballs into the pool or setting a sofa on fire. But, it's Washington. You take what you can get. Given the crowds at these things, this is probably preferable to the nude cannonballs."

What really cracks us up though is that "Dana Milbank's Daring Midnight Panty Raid" shares a blog with headlines like "Panel: War Spending Is a Mess" and "Report: Feds Eye Another Murtha-Linked Firm."

Looks like everyone on Politico's web team got the purple memo this week. Web producers Dianna Heitz, Steve Hagenbuch, Ariel Alexovich, Jacqueline Klingebiel and Becca Milfeld all showed up to the office in grape.

That was one of the questions posed to Ana Marie Cox in this week's "Balance of Power," an online chat with Tucker Carlson on washingtonpost.com.

Dallas: Ana, if Tucker was a daiquiri, what flavor would he be?

Ana Marie Cox: ...Tucker is more like a mojito than a daiquiri, I think: tart but cool, disarmingly sweet, with lots of grit at the bottom.

A girl can dream right... The blog "the full ginsburg" put together this promo of DC's dream "Real Housewives" cast.

But according to Carol Joynt, whose own name has been thrown into the ring of speculation, "No "real" housewife of Washington, DC, will ever go on national television and drink white wine all the long day, wave around a black card, let cameras follow her to the Botox salon, fire verbal bitch slaps at her supposed "best friends" and risk the kind of embarrassment that is guaranteed by the exposure." Check out the rest of her piece on New York Social Diary here.

We're doing the patriotic thing and taking a three-day weekend. Have a good Memorial Day and we'll see you back here Tuesday on FishbowlDC.