By the way some describe it; Armageddon is synonymous with Laura Bush's remarks at The White House Correspondent's Association Annual Dinner and we're all on a swift boat to purgatory because the First Lady made a few off color jokes and the audience loved it. Count me in for both.

The short version goes like this: Laura Bush snatched the podium from G.W. in a well orchestrated maneuver and went on a joke fest expressed in terms more familiar to desperate housewives than a First Lady. She then invoked the names of Condi Rice and Karen Hughes and Lynn Cheney in a scandalous Chippendale scenario. "God forbid." Religious conservatives went ballistic.

"In an official statement, one 'pro-family' advocacy group warned that Mrs. Bush's jokes at the President's expense were in violation of the Biblical command that wives respect their husbands." The Swift Report. Huh? Make that a double.

So who are these people anyway? Oh, now I remember........ people like Jimmy Swaggert, the disgraced televangelist that got caught doing, well you know, $35 dollar hookers? Or perhaps the likes of Jim Bakker, another televangelist who funneled a nifty six figure hush fund to silence a tryst with a church secretary?

No damper on this party though. The WHCAD is truly one of Washington's most amusing events and in a political town, that's hard to come by. Missing from this year's guest list was the omnipresence of the "outsider' the "5 minutes of fame". In short, we could have used the Runaway Bride.

The before and after parties were the best part of the weekend starting with Hardball's Executive Producer Tammy Haddad's annual smooze fest and Cristina and John McLaughlin's elegant brunch at the Hay Adams. And for those of you who didn't get into the Bloomberg party, who cares? As Ann Klenk, also a producer on Hardball would say "They know where to find me."

Well, don't know who wrote the First Lady's speech, but he's probably checking out the classifieds.

Sightings: Goldie Hawn, Mary Tyler Moore, Queen Noor, and Richard Gere. Oh, and that's me in the pictcha with gossip guru Matt Drudge. Photo by Pat Ryan.

The sock it to you power couples were there to roast and toast the superrstars of The Washington Post, former executive editor Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn, author, commentator and doyenne of the Washington social scene. They were each honored with ANWC's Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Don't know if by her choice or theirs, but Helen was not at the A-List podium, definitely a mistake for this otherwise incestuous group. While there was much good natured bantering going on, it was mostly amongst themselves.

Kudos to Alexandra Stephanopoulos for putting the time and effort into a great video with George and Richard Cohen for tossing out the newsier gossip on Sally and Ben even if Mary Matalin retorted that he was there with his favorite date: himself.

If only the evening had included the audience it would have been a great night!

Photo by Neshan Naltchayan. Elsa Walsh, Sally Quinn and James Carville.

Well, gotta go now, the Swift boat is coming to get me. So, that's all folks.