The Diddly Awards

News: Honoring the jaw-dropping achievements of the 108th Congress

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The Good Riddance Award for Ex-Congresspersons

••• Newt Gingrich accused the State Department of a "deliberate and systematic effort to undermine" President Bush and therefore being a "broken instrument of diplomacy."

••• John LeBoutillier has co-founded the "Counter Clinton Library," located in Little Rock near the official version, which the former congressman says is funded by the "Red Chinese" and should be called the Clinton "LIE-brary." LeBoutillier's CCL will feature 16 rooms, including the Travelgate Room and the Anti-Propaganda Pavilion. It will also showcase an Exit Room that will, relying on accusations of trashed offices and broken computers, "re-create parts of the White House exactly as the Clintons left them."

••• James Traficant, currently in prison for bribery and racketeering, announced his candidacy for president. Spokesman Marcus Belk explained, "The battle to free James Traficant and to evict the socialists and 'free traders' from theDemocratic Party is now under way. Someone buy the Washington establishment a bottle of Maalox."

and the winner is...

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