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POLITICO Twitter Directory
What’s more exciting than our high school prom? Making POLITICO’s Twitter Directory. We’re honored to have made the list. [PS: We peaked in high school]
US House of Representatives Leadership Doing the Electric Slide
It’s electric. h/t Ericka Andersen
Tweeting on the Clock
Does Tweeting count as lobbying? WaPo’s Cecilia Kang: Undercover persuasion by tech industry lobbyists Why pay for a golf trip, dinner or full-page ad when you can tweet for free?
Child Care or Redskins Tickets?
POLITICO’s Erika Lovley: Finding Hill day care not child’s play Congressional staffers compare getting child care on Capitol Hill to landing season tickets to the Redskins: nice idea, never going to happen. With two waiting lists a total of 345 families long, admission delays at both the Senate Employees Child …
Hyper Hill
Stressed and broke [DC] Life is hectic [take pics] Paper towels [Obama] PostSecret [Sunday]
Obama is On the Path to be a Huge Success
Halperin starts the drumbeat: [reviews Obama’s accomplishments] Barack Obama’s right-wing opponents have cast him as a socialist failure. His left-wing hecklers see him as an over-cautious hedger. But, critics notwithstanding, President Obama is on the path to be a huge success by the time of November’s midterm elections. h/t Nedeau
The Timing of Political Points
Our time line got several thousand extra views last week – with a few new readers visiting FamousDC from NYC. We believe you should always keep a good thing going. We’ll continue to update the time line as the story develops. Please let us know if you see anything interesting …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
What an exciting week! The SEC doubled down against Goldman, Patrick O’Connor welcomed Sam O’Connor to the world, Shira Toeplitz and Kim Hart are joining POLITICO, God’s quarterback is heading to Denver, Ali McSherry has visited 40+ restaurants this year, GOP.gov went platinum, Marco Rubio was endorsed by a broom, …
Congressional Baseball 2.0
The new Congressional Baseball Game website is live h/t – RST RELATED: Congressional Baseball Game Changer
The Timing of Political Points
Friday, April 23 It has been exactly one week since the SEC filed charges against Goldman Sachs. And now this is what we’re talking about: WaPo’s Ed O’Keefe: SEC porn investigation nets dozens Dallas Lawrence peaks behind the curtain Forbes: Obama Fights Goldman With Social Media For a peak behind …
Famously Quoteworthy: Steny Hoyer Unplugged
According to Paul Bedard, Charlie Cook recently eluded that the Democrats could suffer a 30-40 seat lost in November, stating, “it could be worse if the current anti-incumbent and anti-Democrat trend continues. Republicans need to pick up 41 seats to take back the majority.” [Washington Whispers] Asked about it yesterday, …