Donna Cuts Lose

The manager of Al Gore's 2000 losing presidential campaign, Donna Brazile, remains a loyal Democrat. But that didn't stop her from harpooning her party's presidential candidates at the Winter Gridiron Dinner at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia: "John Kerry really wanted to be here. Unfortunately, he fired his schedule ... both of his drivers quit ... and his wife thinks this place is a slum. She does, however, encourage you to enjoy the ketchup." Brazile added: "Howard Dean would like to be here but this is the night he attends anger-management class ... John Edwards wanted to be here, but the ambulance he was chasing took a wrong turn."