While his colleagues were held captive by Reid in a closed-door session of the Senate, Chambliss was walking carefree down the fairway of East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga., playing golf with Tiger Woods. A vision: the No. 2 golfer in the Senate and the No. 1 golfer in the world at the Southern Company Pro-Am.

Instead of being forced to talk about the uncomfortable issue of pre-Iraq war intelligence (or the lack thereof), Chambliss was “the envy of golfers everywhere,” as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution put it. At least until he stepped up to what the newspaper called the club’s “unenviable first tee.”

“That was one of the more intimidating shots I have ever had,” the paper quoted Chambliss saying. “Thank goodness it worked out.”

And thank goodness Chambliss, who sits on the Senate Select Intelligence and Armed Services committees, didn’t have to suffer through the Democrats’ tortuous questions about those elusive weapons of mass destruction and whether the Bush administration manipulated the truth and misled Congress into supporting the war.

Instead, Chambliss played a foursome with Woods, Tom Ryan, owner of the CVS pharmacy chain, and Gene Lee, president of RARE Hospitality International Inc., which owns the Longhorn and Capital Grille restaurant chains. (Chambliss is a regular at “the Grille,” located on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest.)

Golf Digest magazine ranked Chambliss the 33rd best golfer in Washington, D.C., and the second-best golfer in the Senate, behind Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.). The magazine ranked seven House Members ahead of the Senate duo, including Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind.), who is tied for the distinction of second-best golfer in town. Chambliss’ son, Bo Chambliss, a lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is ranked ahead of his dad, as the 13th best among D.C.’s top 200 golfers.

The Senator wasn’t too interested in talking to HOH about his dream golf day. But his spokeswoman, Annie Laurie Walters, offered that he “really enjoyed this unique opportunity. He even mentioned that he out-drove Tiger once during the game.”

Does that mean Tiger had to play the rest of that hole with his ... well, never mind.

Menendez and Quayle. For those who have been having a difficult time tracing campaign donations to Rep. Bob Menendez’s political action committee, that’s because the New Jersey Democrat (or, more like, his fundraisers) misspelled the word that means a thousand years.

What should actually be called the New Millennium PAC was mistakenly filed in Federal Election Commission records as the New Millenium PAC — with one “n” instead of two.

National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Jonathan Collegio was nice enough to point this out for us. He noted that for a man who may become the next Senator from New Jersey, if Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) wins the governor’s race today and appoints Menendez to the seat, he sure can’t spell worth a lick. But then again, Collegio said, maybe that’s a good sign, considering Menendez’s party affiliation and where he comes from.

“Considering the corruption among Democrats in New Jersey, being unable to spell might actually be viewed as a virtue not as a vice,” he said. Oh yeah? Well Menendez spokesman Matthew Miller, who spells his first name with two Ts, not one, told HOH, “I guess that’s what we get for hiring Dan Quayle to set up our PAC. We won’t make that mistake again.”

Coburn: Human Lie Detector. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wasn’t joking around when he told Tim Russert on “Meet The Press” Sunday that he, as a physician, can detect lies when listening to someone testify.

Russert’s seemingly zany question — “Do you believe as a physician you can tell whether a candidate for the Supreme Court is telling the truth?” — was, of course, born out of the now-Chief Justice John Roberts confirmation hearings. That’s when Coburn first revealed his powers of omniscience.

As he rushed to defend Roberts against a particularly tough line of questioning from Democrats, Coburn said that he, as a trained doctor, could tell that Roberts was telling the truth.

On Sunday, Russert asked, “And have you used those skills to make judgments like that?” Coburn replied, “Hmm-mm, I certainly have.” Russert: “Have you ever detected someone lying?” Coburn: "Uh-huh, lots of times.”

Asked what in the world Coburn was talking about, his spokesman, John Hart, could not reveal the details of Coburn’s superpowers or even which phone booth he uses to change into his cape.

But as Robin might say of Batman, Hart did caution, “Let this be a warning to all witnesses who come before his Federal Financial Management Subcommittee.”

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