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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (35971)	1/21/2005 1:12:34 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

So where were all the Democrats hiding in the hours leading up to the presidential inaugural? House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California told Inside the Beltway yesterday that no fewer than 160 Democrats crowded into her Georgetown home for a celebratory dinner on Wednesday night, toasting not only the new 109th Congress, but welcoming former Clinton aide and Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois as the new chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And at similar pre-inaugural venues throughout the city, Democrats (excluding Sen. Barbara Boxer of California) were partying right alongside the Republicans. Among those chatting with this column at Cafe Milano in Georgetown were Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who said he is "proud of our accomplishments" in 2004, despite his party's disappointing finishes in the White House, Senate and House races. Mr. McAuliffe was mum, meanwhile, on his personal favorite to succeed him in the DNC's top post — a seat former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has every intention of filling. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, another of the party's 2004 presidential candidates, said at the same gathering that he is "completely happy with my [postelection] role in the U.S. Senate and [looks] forward to helping set a course for this nation." "I've come to the realization that this is where I am supposed to be at this time," is how the senator phrased it. On Wednesday night, Vernon Jordan, close friend and adviser to Bill Clinton, who was called upon to help steer Mr. Clinton through the Monica Lewinsky affair, co-hosted a late-evening "supper" of crab cakes and asparagus at the new Mandarin hotel overlooking the Jefferson Memorial. He told us he's keeping more than busy as "a banker four days a week and a lawyer one day a week." Mr. Jordan holds a management position with Lazard Freres & Co., a prestigious New York investment banking firm, and during the Clinton years was a senior law partner with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld here in Washington.