Sen. Jim Inhofe (R) disagrees with his Oklahoma GOP colleague: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not a nice person.

Inhofe took exception to Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) defense of the speaker as a "nice lady," despite his disagreements with her. 

"There's nothing nice about Nancy," Inhofe said during an interview on KFAQ radio in Oklahoma this morning. "She disagrees with everything we believe."

Coburn had surprised some of his conservative constituents by sticking up for the speaker this week.

"She is nice – how many of you all have met her? She’s a nice person,” Coburn said. "Just because somebody disagrees with you don’t mean they’re not a good person."

Inhofe had a slightly different take.

"She is a powerful person," he said. "People wonder how she can keep getting reelected -- just go out to her district."

"Meet the Press" host David Gregory was the star of the show Thursday night at Nationals Stadium.

An ITK spy reported that the NBC Sunday anchor and his wife Beth Wilkinson were in the stands to watch the Nats beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-5.

When the roving eye of the jumbotron camera spotted Gregory in the crowd, it made a point of framing him in the camera's lens.

Later in the game, the couple (shown here at a 2007 White House State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth II) appeared again, smiling when theyrealized they were on camera.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Friday that he's writing a book, his first.

Inhofe, one of the most conservative members of the Senate, said he's working on a tome.

"I'm in the middle of writing a book right now," Inhofe said during an in-studio interview on KFAQ radio in Oklahoma this morning.

The senator has gained notoriety as one of the most open skeptics of climate change science in Congress, and revels in the labeling of his record as the most conservative in Congress. Inhofe did not say, though, what the book would be about.

"I've never done this, I'm almost finished," Inhofe noted.

A majority of Republicans find it offensive that Joe Biden used the "F" word during the healthcare signing ceremony, but independents and Democrats are largely shrugging it off, a new Fox News poll finds.

Fifty-seven percent of self-identified Republicans said it was offensive that Biden used foul language. Just 22% of Democrats and 36% of independents agree.

Among all respondents, 37% found it offensive and 57% said it was not offensive. 

Biden was caught on a hot mic telling President Obama that passing healthcare reform was a "big f----- deal."

A Democratic member of Congress next week is holding a hearing into baseball player's use of chewing tobacco.

Chewing tobacco has long been used by players both in the dugout and on the field, but there have been recent calls to tamp it down because of the health risks posed by the product, such as oral cancer. 

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), who helms the energy and commerce health subcommittee, said that the practice provides a poor example to young people who are baseball fans.

The congressman tweeted Thursday:

"Next Wed. I am holding a hearing in the health sub about @MLB players' use of chewing tobacco & its influence on the health of young people"

Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona famously said he would quit using chewing tobacco several seasons ago after his team was cited as one of the most pervasive users of the product. 

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on Fox's number one show, "American Idol" in a special charity performance set to air next week.

According to Fox News, the Obamas taped the segment on Wednesday afternoon (shown here), before the president departed for Prague to sign the START treaty.

The annual concert, titled "Idol Gives Back" is a two-hour episode that raises money for charities. To date, more than $140 million has been contributed by viewers for organizations worldwide. Fox recently announced that the recipients of this year's donations will be Children's Health Fund, Feeding America, Malaria No More, Save the Children's U.S. Programs and the United Nations Foundation.

Barbara Bush, the daughter of President George W. Bush, will be at the National Press Club on May 26 to talk about global health and her work on the Global Health Corps fellowship program.

Bush, who rarely does media appearances, is president of Global Health Corps, a New York-based non-profit that offers young professionals fellowships in global health care systems. She founded the project two years ago with her twin sister Jenna Bush Hager, who teaches elementary school in Baltimore, Md.

Modeled after Teach for America, the first fellows are now working at eight project sites in East Africa and three in the United States.

Bush, 28, lives in Greenwich Village, in New York City, and is not married.

Tickets for the event are likely to sell out, so call (202) 662-7501 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to reserve a spot. To submit a question for Barbara Busk, put BUSH in the subject line and email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   before 11 a.m. on the day of the event.

Donors should think twice before giving money to the Red Cross for earthquake relief in Haiti, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who traveled to Haiti with Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Kristin Gilibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) earlier this week, said the internationally renowned relief group was nowhere to be found in Haiti.

"We were actually pretty struck by the fact that we didn't see the Red Cross anywhere, at all," Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on Florida radio station WTFL.

The Florida congresswoman said that what she saw gave her pause in recommending the Red Cross as a venue for donations. "I wouldn't say that," she said when asked if the Red Cross was the best place for listeners to donate, adding later that she could not "unequivocally" recommend the relief group.

Millions of dollars have flowed into Haiti since a large earthquake devastated its capital, Port au Prince, in late January.

The Red Cross raised millions of dollars for Haitian earthquake relief via a text messaging donation campaign that was promoted by several members of Congress.

President Barack Obama established a fund in the wake of the disaster, headed by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, to ensure proper handling of donations to relief efforts.

Wasserman Schultz said that she and the lawmakers with whom she was traveling would look into the Red Cross's work there in the future.

"I'm not disparaging the Red Cross, but I personally and the senators I was traveling with want to inquire as to what the Red Cross is doing down there," she said.

White House reporter Michael Shear took this photo of the palace entrance where President Barack Obama's arrived in Prague Thursday to sign the new START treaty with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.