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Everyone's Horny!

Just as "chad" became the catch phrase of WH '00, will "horny" one day be the word summarizing the midterms of '06? According to our Lexis transcripts search, this week marked Larry King's first use of the word when he quoted Mark Foley's now infamous IM, "Do I make you a little horny?" And VA SEN Dem Jim Webb is still getting grilled about his suggetion that the Naval Academy was a "horny woman's dream." Just yesterday he responded to Wolf Blitzer's questioning by noting: "Yeah, I mean -- okay, you know, you've said that twice."