

Praising Washingtonienne for her candor and honesty ("You go, girl!"), Wonkette identified her as Jessica Cutler, a 26-year-old mail sorter for Senator Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, who promptly fired her from her $25,000-a-year job. Washingtonienne listed her partners by their initials and occupations, from the married "Chief of Staff at one of the gov agencies, appointed by Bush" to her current boyfriend, a fellow Senate staff member. In the blog, Washingtonienne, a Capitol Hill employee, used a Senate computer to post intimate details about her experience sleeping with six different men, some of whom were paying for her favors. In May, Ana Marie Cox, the Internet gossip whose Web log, Wonkette, focuses on Washington, published a link to another blogger who called herself the Washingtonienne. One of the first sex scandals of the blogosphere ended, of course, in a book deal.
