Are you serious, Chuck? Earlier this week we posed this question:  Will Charlie Crist Pick His Poker Buddy? The post was more of a joke than anything else.  We even suggested other front runners included: His favorite cashier at Piggly Wiggly Mickey Mouse The next person that walks into his …

A former? GOP candidate in Idaho recently joked about hunting him some Obama. After an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags" during a discussion on wolves, Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We’d buy some of those." Rammell, a veterinarian and former elk rancher from Idaho Falls, said his …

Republicanville is a new social network for, you guessed it … [Republicans] Republicanville is otherwise known as: Match.com for people who have ever purchased Sarah Palin gear. A chat forum for everything Vineyard Vines. Where good ideas are retweeted, and then never heard from again. Where the average attention span …

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before … On Thursday, Cindy Sheehan and a band of anti-war protesters turned up outside the media center used by journalists covering [insert sitting president] vacation on the well-heeled [insert location]. … "The reason I am here is because … even though the …

Here’s a clip from Big Think of Ted Kennedy describing his first trip to DC in 1949 when he was 15 years old. His tour guide was his older brother, John, then 30, who was serving his first day as an elected congressman, and who gave Ted some advice that …

Is today a new day for wired communications? First, the Kennedy family set up a Twitter feed to update all news related to Senator Kennedy’s funeral. Forget press releases (that was SO 2008), it’s Twitter time.  [press releases sent out to pasture] Secondly, reporters are now taking to Twitter feeds …

POLITICO: Rush Limbaugh responds to Jay-Z What next? FamousDC imagines … Congressional Rap Battles: Rappers vs. Legislators Lil Wayne vs.  Nancy Pelosi … Ludacris vs. Eric Cantor … Nas vs. John Murtha … Snoop Dogg and Dennis Kucinich vs. Patrick McHenry Actually, if anyone decides to organize a Congressional Rap …

On a conf. call today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said "both" that he doesn’t "think it’s going to be possible" to reach an agreement on health care, and that "yes, I do believe it’s possible." [yes, no, maybe so] h/t Last Call

Don’t worry Capitol Hill staffers, you’re not the only ones looking for something to do right now. An unusual sign of protest has sprung up in Lubbock County, but you’ll have to take to the sky to see it. Once a year, Sam Bates plows over the weeds in a …

Love us some Jay-Z … This ain’t black vs. white, my n—a, we off that. Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back. Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls. It’s 2010, not 1864. We come so far…How’s that for a mix? Got a black president, got green presidents. Read …

Ever wondered … How to Be Awesome … How to Kick Ass (fave) We don’t know what is happening here either:

Here’s the latest project from the Famous Shana Glickfield : … … … … … … … … … … … Do technology and Capitol Hill really mix?  We hope so!  Hill staffers, Gov 2.0 experts, advocacy leaders, social media entrepreneurs, and citizens will be gathering to talk about how …

Thanks to National Journal’s Under the Influence , we now know the Twitterview didn’t die John McCain and George Stephanopoulos Sara Jerome: What EPolitics Founder Learned From Obama When Epolitics.com founder Colin Delany describes himself, he sounds more like a surgeon than a blogger, devoted to "dissecting the craft of …

If Hurricane Bill hits land in the US, we’re pretty certain Bush should be blamed.  After all, he’s only been out of office for less than a year and hurricanes, from what we can tell, were definitely around during his eight year run.  [creative name]