Four Rounds at the Four Seasons?

There’s no love lost between Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman.

The presumptive speaker of the House nurses a healthy grudge against her fellow California Democrat for what Pelosi perceives as Harman’s soft treatment of the Bush administration on security issues.

Oh, and Pelosi also is not so happy about the fact that Harman might very well have tried to get the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to persuade Pelosi to reappoint Harman as the House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat.

But, as things get tense between Pelosi and Harman over whether the speaker-to-be will appoint Harman to head that key committee, could they end up settling scores at ... the Four Seasons?

It turns out that both members are known to frequent the posh Georgetown luxury hotel. Pelosi likes to get her hair done at George’s Salon in the five-star property ($220 for a haircut, highlights and blow dry … not that we’re implying Pelosi is a closet gray or anything). And Harman frequents both George’s and the fitness center (one-time initiation fee of $6,000, monthly fee of $250 and a membership list capped at 250 people that has created a six- to eight-month waiting list).

Pelosi was just there last week in order to perfect her ’do in preparation for her victory lap on Tuesday. And, with Harman all but assured of getting denied her committee position of choice, she’ll be itching for a good, stress-reducing workout at the Four Seasons any day now.

So when they eventually pass each other in the hallway between the locker room and George’s, they both might need an extra yoga class to help chill out.

Do you wanna w(h)ine to Bush?

President Bush is loved by neither Californians (he failed to win the state in both 2000 and 2004) nor oenophiles (they seem awfully cozy with the French, and anyway, Bush is more of a beer guy — well, was more of a beer guy).

So we had to scratch our heads when we learned that a survey conducted by the California Wine Club resulted in President Bush being named the “favorite choice among wine lovers to have over for Thanksgiving dinner.” (Bush garnered 36 percent of the vote ... a level of approval that he’s grown used to recently, it seems).

Could California’s delicious cabernet sauvignon grapes be making the famously blue state start to turn — or, at least, drink — red? Even the California Wine Club itself had to wonder what was up with the results. “Does this suggest that President Bush’s approval rating is on the rise, or that Americans want him over for a true American-style roasting in Thanksgiving fashion? We’ll let the political pundits answer that question!”

Regardless, Bush can take pride in having beat out such notables as Oprah Winfrey, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Paris Hilton.

Those Bush critics who wonder why anyone would want to have the president over for dinner might take comfort in this small fact: The proprietors of the California Wine Club possess the last name “Boring.”

Bewitching time at National Press Club

Since the Republicans seem to be losing their vice-like grip on the evangelical vote, might they want to turn to some of that old-time religion?

You know, like, Wiccanism.

Well, they could have found the sort-of-like-witchcraft-but-not-entirely religion front and center Monday at the National Press Club, as Wiccan activists announced that they are filing suit in federal and District Court in Wisconsin against Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson in order to have their religious symbol — the pentacle — added to the list of religious symbols approved for military memorials, tombs and plaques. (Question: Couldn’t they save the legal fees and just issue some sort of spell instead?)

All kidding aside, Roberta Stewart, whose husband was killed in Afghanistan and was a practicing Wiccan, said that her requests for a Wiccan symbol on her husband’s tomb have been routinely ignored, despite the fact that, for more than the past nine years, six other religious groups have been approved for inclusion on government memorials.

Where’s the Cannon Building, anyway?

Grinning and refreshingly free of cynicism, next year’s House freshman class arrived on the Hill Monday. Soon, they were sporting green badges identifying them as incoming members (they don’t get their lapel pins just yet) and toting huge binders of orientation information.

Some were still answering questions about their recounts. “As a Red Sox fan, I know you’ve got to wait until the final out,” said Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat who looks to have unseated Rep. Rob Simmons.

The rest, comfortable in their victories, were left thinking about more mundane topics, such as where to live. Former Sheriff Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., said, “I’m going to have to think about that. I’ll have to find a place for a sleeping bag, I guess. I spotted a couple of the grates, but they were already occupied.”

Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., the only veteran of the current conflict in Iraq to be elected, had some help looking for a place. His wife, who also happens to be due to give birth to their first child on Thanksgiving, joined him for the short train trip from Philadelphia, and spent the day pounding the pavement and looking through the classifieds.

Nick Lampson, D-Texas, a former member, returns to Congress after winning Tom DeLay’s seat. He said when he was first elected in 1996, a controversy delayed the result and caused him to miss the orientation. So he decided to sit through this one, although he noted that “most of this stuff I learned by doing.”

Bush’s parents aren’t reading too much into midterm results

Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren spent Monday in Houston hanging out with George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. The former First Couple was there for the fifth annual Dallas Celebration of Reading, an event sponsored by The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Surprisingly, the current political woes of their son weren’t weighing heavily on their minds, said Van Susteren. In fact, they were in a downright jovial mood.

“They’re great company,” Van Susteren told Yeas & Nays. “They make you feel comfortable. They always make you feel wanted and you always have a good time.”

Van Susteren, however, felt a bit guilty about being in the company of a couple that “spends their extra time helping people. I spend my time watching movies. I’m a little bit ashamed.”

Andrew White contributed to this page