Recent scene from Chris Matthews’ Hardball green room at 400 N. Capitol Street — where there are more big headed egos than there were jellybeans in the Reagan White House:

The TV is tuned to a CNN Wolf Blitzer Situation Room interview with Robert Draper, author of the new book Dead Certain, which is deeply critical of the Bush administration.

Mary Matalin, famed conservative squawker, shouts: “This guy!”……

To which Andy Card, former White House Chief of Staff, responds, “Oh, we were directed to cooperate with him.”

Matalin proceeds to roll her eyes and whispers under her breath, “Idiot.”

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“One of the folksy, ‘gosh durnit, that President sure is a funny feller’ anecdotes in Robert Draper’s new book about George W. Bush, Dead Certain, is that Dubya is a big fan of Austin Powers and in particular, the character of Dr. Evil, imitating him often along the corridors of the White House,” according to Crooks and Liars.

True fact: Sometimes the staff of Big Head DC dresses up like characters from The Facts of Life. Our editor always gets to be Blair, and it’s not fair.

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Karl Rove warned President George W. Bush as far back as 1999 that picking Dick Cheney as his vice president would result in problems, according to a new book by a top GQ national correspondent.

The Washington Post reports today on just some of the revelations within “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush,” in which journalist Robert Draper asserts that Bush was intent on picking Cheney as his running mate, despite strong warnings from Rove against it.

“Selecting Daddy’s top foreign-policy guru ran counter to message. It was worse than a safe pick — it was needy,” Draper quotes Rove as saying. Draper added that Bush “saw no harm in giving his VP unprecedented run of the place.”

Washington sources told blogger Wayne Madsen earlier this year about a strange recent rift between Bush and Cheney over U.S. Iran policy. Read more…

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