Since learning that Rep. Katherine Harris drinks Starbucks lattes, we've put the word out to our network of Washington informants: if you see anyone important ordering coffee, we want to know.

The Muckphone rang a little after nine this morning: Recently deposed CIA chief Porter Goss was just in a Starbucks on Capitol Hill, a reliable tipster told me. I saw him order a grande latte.

Fascinating. The former GOP House intelligence committee chairman, hand-picked by Bush to bring the CIA to heel, sips Starbucks?

Interesting trivia, to be sure. But with two prominent GOP partisans quaffing Starbucks brew -- and big ones, at that -- let me put this question out there: isn't it about time to put to rest this canard that only liberals sip lattes?