Fire your flack; hire a blogger [Extreme new media] Responses to Real CL Ads [On the Ball] “Bitter” hits the campaign trail [JoMa] Romney’s Top Ten Why He Dropped Out [Ambinder] If you feeling like a pimp [Brush your shoulders off]

UPDATE: Stuff Hill People Like highlight Big Byrd as #13 The Hill newspaper got it wrong today when they reported on Senator Byrd telling his critics to “shut up.” What the editors at one of Capitol Hill’s leading newspapers failed to realize was – the story wasn’t about Byrd telling …

According to folks who have emailed us this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney stole the show last night at the Washington Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner.   Comedy Central’s Mo Rocca apparently bombed. Link: sevenload.com

The political wing of the Democrat House of Reps (DCCC) is accusing the Republican part of cheating – while at the same time, Republican flacks are accusing the Democrats of being delusional. CNN’s Deirdre Walsh has round one: The DCCC, which works to elect House Democrats, filed a complaint with …

Every Calvin and Hobbes Ever [for FDC fans in AZ] How Blue Is Your Collar? [Paul Waldman] Reuters Gives 600+ Words to Nats’ 23 y.o. CF [Lastings Milledge] Pope Traffic Update [Metro Madness!]

It’s only fitting that native Tennessee Congress[wo]man Marsha Blackburn struggles with her name- much the same as David Allan Coe. ‘In any other office, it wouldn’t sound as strange: ‘OK, let me grab the congressman. Hold on.’ But in this office it does, seeing as how the congressman is Marsha …

Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Clever) and Jerry Costello (D-Wordsmith) held a news conference Tuesday to announce that someone on their staff had successfully managed to create yet another legislative acronym. The latest congressional acronym … HANG UP,  Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace, which would ban cell phone use on airplanes. Both …

Fox Anchor Son Asked McCain “hitting the sauce question” [Grella’d] Do we need another reason to hate Philly? [Flyers win 6-3] NBA MVP Race compared to The Wire [The Connect–Steve Nash] Harry Reid on Clinton vs. Obama [He’s Bitter]

Gilbert Arenas heads back to his blog to congratulate his team, Final Boss, on a Halo 3 tournament win before talking trash to Lebron and the Cavs. Now that we’re playing those guys again, I think everybody is going to have their eyes on it. Especially since the media is …

On the same day “Stuff Hill People Like” released their latest post [Hill People like loving/hating tourists], ASM notes that it’s apparently not just low-level  staffers that hate tourists- even the highest levels of power have recently also showed their disdain. Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) yesterday on the Senate Floor:  “Mr. President, …

Breaking: Moments ago Sue Myrick went WWE on her colleagues and honored Nature Boy Ric Flair on the House Floor, WOOOOO! That’s how you win over your constituency…

It appears that Barack Obama is not only bitter, but perhaps entirely too sober – at least according to his latest remarks in reference to Hillary’s weekend of shot taking and beer drinking. “Around election time, the candidates can’t do enough. They’ll promise you anything, give you a long list …

How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight? [24] The Moral Life of Cubicles [Office Space] Enough with “Elitism” [Ambinder] Pershing’s Player of the Week: Robert Byrd [Old School]

Either Old Man McCain was napping or he didn’t feel his meeting with five powerful members of the House of Reps was important enough to attend yesterday. On Monday afternoon, McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin was scheduled to meet with Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), John Campbell (R-Calif.), Kevin …

Way to play Earth Day! The Roots, Gov’t Mule, Toots & the Maytals, Thievery Corporation, Warren Haynes and Umphrey’s McGee are all performing at noon this Sunday for FREE between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. Yes, college kids, someone talked the Feds into letting Gov’t Mule and Thievery Corporation …