Can You Hear Me Now?

• By Emily Heil and Anna Palmer
• Roll Call Staff
• Dec. 4, 2007, Midnight

Rep. Tom Tancredo wasn’t turning a deaf ear to his GOP presidential campaign adviser Bay Buchanan when he was spotted by an HOH tipster Saturday night, wearing what appeared to be headphones — he actually was trying to hear her better. The Colorado Republican, who was dining with Buchanan on Saturday night in the corner booth at Ted’s Montana Grill in Crystal City, Va., looked like he might have been trying to listen to a football game or, perhaps was engrossed in a book on tape, instead of listening to his dining companion.