Recap of the 1st Annual TPM Duke Awards.

Josh Marshall will announce the winners in each catagory of the Duke Awards today. Here is a recap:

We'll be giving away awards in six categories:

Best Testimonial Trainwreck

John Tanner for his unfortunate performance in front of the House Judiciary Committee

Sara Taylor for her muddled, bumbling, and oh-so-evasive testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

Kyle Sampson for his own sorry showing in the Senate during the DOJ politicization hearings

Lurita Doan for her unprecedentedly incoherent testimony to Rep. Henry Waxman and his House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Alberto Gonzales for his spectacular series of self-contradictions in regard to the NSA warrentless wiretapping program

Outstanding Achievement in Improbable Forgetfulness

Alberto Gonzales for spouting more I-don't-recalls than we care to count

Sara Taylor for forgetting what she had for breakfast last week

Bradley Schlozman for generalized phony forgetfulness

Lurita Doan also for generalized phony forgetfulness

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) for not recalling what he did that fateful day in the Minneapolis airport

Outstanding Achievement in Corruption-based Chutzpah

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) for his phony resignation and brazenly inventive interpretation of the American legal code

Scott Bloch for commissioning private company Geeks on Call to purge his government-issued laptop of possibly incriminating documents

Rudy Giuliani for his astoundingly audacious use of public dollars in the now infamous Shag Fund scandal

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) for her undisclosed purchase of some prime real estate at half the market price from friend and campaign contributor Bob Penney

Ginger Cruz for her generally outlandish behavior, including but not limited to making "inappropriate sexual remarks" and threatening employees with supernatural retribution

Best Scandal -- Local Venue

Vincent J. Fumo for his impressive 139 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice in addition to the bamboozling of two state-funded charities for the purpose of personal purchases

Michael Carona for using his position as Sheriff of Orange County to enrich himself, his wife, and his mistress

Rachel Paulose for her bigoted and hostile management style following the publicly funded coronation extravaganza that she held for herself

Richard Roberts for his use of funds from Oral Roberts University, over which he presides, to support his own lavish spending habits as well as the campaign of a local official for the Tulsa mayoral office

State Rep. Bob Allen (R-Merrit Island) for soliciting sex from and undercover officer, then attributing his decision to a fear of black men in public places

Best Scandal -- Sex and Generalized Carnality

Glenn Murphy for sexually assaulting an unconscious man at a Young Republicans get-together

State Rep. Richard Curtis (R-Vancouver) for soliciting a gay prostitute and then starting an argument over the fee

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) for generalized whore-mongering in multiple jurisdictions

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) for poorly executed bathroom sex

State Rep. Bob Allen (R-Merrit Island) also for poorly executed bathroom sex

Best Scandal -- General Interest

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) for multiple counts of backroom wheeling and dealing for personal gain

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) for using the US Treasury to pay off a campaign contributor

Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) for poorly executed bathroom sex followed, of course, by some ballsy legal acrobatics

Alberto Gonzales for the politicization of the DOJ, boldfaced lying, and refusal to resign

President George W. Bush for the general politicization of the US government