"So did you hear about Arlen Specter?" Inside the Beltway asked Sen. Diane Feinstein, California Democrat, as she was enroute to the Senate floor on Tuesday.
"No, what?" she asked.
"He's become one of you."
A puzzled look crossed her face.
"He's just become a Democrat."
"No," she gasped.
"Yes."
A huge smile crossed her face.
"I think it's teriffic. Maybe now we'll get the votes we need."
NEW SPECTATOR
"Gillibrand Welcomes Senator Spector [sic] to Democratic Party"
Or so read an early copy of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's news release on Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to jump the Republican Party ship. She misspelled the Pennsylvanian's name an additional four times in the statement.
Then again, the Democratic senator from New York - and many on her staff - are new to Capitol Hill, given she was recently appointed to fill the seat of former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
FESTIVAL EIGHT
We told you earlier this week about Washington's upcoming inaugural juried political film festival, Politics on Film, and now we've obtained the final list of domestic feature films chosen from among the more than 100 submitted.
Without further ado, the 2009 screening selection for the May 7-10 festival:
1. "The Response:" A courtroom drama based on transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals.
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