WASHINGTON INSIGHT

SHORT TAKES: GOP filibusters have Senate Democrats pinning a new curse word on Republicans: gridlocker . Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) indignantly denied that he was one when Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.) suggested, in debate, that he certainly was. . . . A best-selling T-shirt shows Socks, the Clinton cat, sniffing a cherry blossom over the caption: “Socks Inhales.” . . . Slick Willie’s, a new proletarian eatery on Capitol Hill, features Razorback Meatloaf and The Big Willie, a hamburger. The President hasn’t been in but “waved at us from his car” on the way to an inaugural ball, a waitress said.