Politico’s Mike Allen was spotted with C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman — and Mike didn’t have his trusty blackberry in hand. FamousDC was able to secure the only known photograph of The Playbook sans blackberry taken since January 23, 2007. When asked about the beltway brain trust meeting, both parties provided the …

The Energy and Commerce Committee has been a barrel of laughs this week. We thought Chairman Waxman’s sly move of sending all the Republicans cucumber sandwiches would take the cake, but boy were we wrong! Earlier today, in the never-ending mark-up, Congressman Joe Barton asked the Democrats’ speed reader to …

Apparently shaking hands and kissing babies is so 2008. Now it’s about making sure your blackberry has enough battery power left so you can live-tweet your local political meeting. The latest virtual tutorial comes from Saul Anuzis via his twitter feed: Showing RNC members how easy it is to post. …

Goodbye [Circle Boutique ] Road Closures [Memorial Day ] Buddha’s Wii Whiskers [Frank ]

As part of C-SPAN’s "Students & Leaders" program showing next week, C-SPAN recently taped RNC chairman Michael Steele talking to students at Woodson Senior High School in DC. During Mr. Steele’s presentation, he tells Woodson students how we got kicked out of Johns Hopkins. He tells the students: "I partied …

A few months ago [pre swine flu] we wrote about an epidemic sweeping the nation.  When we first alerted FDC fans about how we felt about the state of Facebook abuse, it was our hope that the problem would get better.  It hasn’t. Not only are the abuses getting worse, …

Have you ever read a press release and thought, “was this actually approved by someone whose academic career went beyond elementary school?” What about releases that went above and beyond the call of duty and actually grabbed your attention? In the spirit of drawing well-deserved attention to press secretaries everywhere, …

@brooksbayne : just drop the gitmo detainees on I-65 south of nashville about 30 miles and tell us what time #tcot

Uniform [Capitol Hill Style ] Priority Seating [Metro ] Bike Rack [Dupont ]

We’re pretty used to hearing about the ridiculous antics coming out of Capitol Hill, but this is a little much.  [hooked on phonics] Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have taken a novel step to head off Republican efforts to slow action this week on a sweeping climate …

**The below rant was submitted by a Capitol Hill Support staffer. Capitol Hill Staffers, We understand that you are more important than everyone else, your family included, but your lack of respect for Capitol Hill support staff is growing old. While it’s true that a comfy desk chair is key …

Michael Vick was released from prison early this morning.  [woof]

If you’re like us and have been on the edge of your seat for six months in anticipation of the FEC ruling on the RNC Palin clothes purchases, wait no longer. [drum roll please] The Federal Election Commission has cleared the Republican National Committee’s purchase of $150,000 in clothes for …

While Democrats and Republicans continue to knock heads over Cap and Trade legislation, it seems the only progress they’ve made today came a few minutes ago when they decided to break for dinner. According to a tipster, Democrats, who control the purse strings, informed Republican members and staff that they …

We’re happy to hear that Kevin Spacey’s career is doing so well. From Anne Schroeder Mullins:  [get your popcorn] More casting decisions have been made in what will be D.C.’s finest movie about the latest scandal, otherwise known as the Jack Abramoff story. Kevin Spacey was chosen to play Abramoff, and now …