FishbowlDC: “Goatee Gamble”: It’s Over “Ah the mystery.” … That was the response we got from NBC’s Chuck Todd on whether to goatee would stay or go after the Phillies won the National League Championship Series 10-4 against the Dodgers last night, and “Goatee Gamble” was officially over. We’ll likely …

FamousDC presents … our Democracy in action Tory Newmyer and Jackie Kucinich: Towns Walks on Thin Caucus Ice Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) is facing heat from up and down the Democratic ladder after locking Republicans out of his committee room this week in an ongoing spat …

Have you ever wondered what Washington, D.C. would look like in paper clips? Wonder no more.

This is what happens when you run out of pizza.  Your volunteers leave and nobody is left to hold your signs.  [sign wars] We love the flip flops.  Strong move. H/T – AC

Patrick McHenry may think he’s clever by playing Wii with Patrick Gavin , but Reps Kucinich and LaTourette just one-upped him. Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Steve LaTourette appeared on the "Jay Leno Show" last night in a D.L. Hughley segment about finding common ground. In order to move forward with …

We want to be them.  They look so happy. h/t Car Boy

It looks like Ludacris is hanging in DC this week. According to the release, he is pulling together a lunch time concert at some hip-hop spot named “The National Press Club” National Press Club: Ludacris to Appear at October 23 Luncheon

Look out Aaron Schock. [abs] “When I saw Paul Ryan — man, he’s gotten in great shape. He doesn’t have a six-pack; he’s got, like, a 12-pack,” Brady, a Texas Republican, says of his fellow GOP-er, who hails from Wisconsin. Something about grown men gawking at each other in the …

Uncanny. h/t Spaghetti

The only thing louder than Rep. Grayson — his wardrobe in today’s Science and Tech markup.

How to Spot [Werewolf] Play Hard [Work Hard] Targeting TMZ [Kurtz] Bases [covered] Mom [Is Away]

If you’re in politics and spent four, five or six years of your life graduating from college – you wasted your time. McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, his counterpart on the Obama campaign, are teaming up to develop a political communications center at the University of Delaware. …

Eamon Javers takes an interesting look at Matt Drudge’s obsession with the US Dollar. On Tuesday, Matt Drudge ran a headline about the weakening U.S. dollar on his website, Drudgereport.com. In and of itself, that would be unremarkable, except that it was the 18th time Drudge had posted a link …

Today’s Washington Post Style section has the last surviving son of former Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke discussing the loss of the Redskins to Dan Snyder. Mike Wise gets John Kent Cooke to open up about Dan Snyder: “I sure as hell don’t like the way he gutted the organization …

So, the HOPE poster guy admitted he used an AP image to create his little masterpiece, which means the AP will likely get a nice little paycheck from him sometime soon. And we guess that means they can use that money to fund critical interviews like this one they did …