Drive the morning Drive the afternoon Drive the after-party Politico sent Kiki Ryan on location to Las Vegas night club Pure. Not a bad gig.

With a crowded waiting room, the doctor has finally emerged. After four relatively low-profile years pushing the official party line as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Dean is once again the tribune of frustrated liberals. And after he called out President Barack Obama and his congressional allies over their …

FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein:  Sullivan Takes Swipe at Politico’s Allen

Politico: Handling problems the Obama way

Eamon Javers: Top 10 Tweets of 2009

Did you sneak out any press releases on Christmas? [debt limit ] Did you make the fantasy football playoffs & barely lose in the semi-finals because of a kicker? [damn it Longwell ] Did you survive the DC blizzard? [thunder snow ] Did you tear up during the presentation? [Heisman …

Watch as members of Congress rate their job performance.

This was recently posted on a GWU job listserv. We’re trying to figure out which media-savvy sports superstar is looking for a clipping service. Job: Media Monitoring Specialist … A high profile communications specialist is seeking a reliable, self-starter to work from home in a part time media monitoring position …

Members of Congress would love this kind of media attention. Politico’s Daniel Libit: D.C.’s independent copy-editor The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University has become the Washington press corps’ independent fact checker, copy editor and link distributor extraordinaire. His e-mails almost always lead off with a soupçon of praise, such …

WaPo’s DeNeen L. Brown: Single-minded success Helena Andrews is 29, single, living in D.C., and might be the star of a black "Sex and the City" — stylish, beautiful and a writer desperately in search of love in the city. … Andrews’s life appears charmed: The film rights for her …

Apparently the White House is sick of picking on Fox News: The following is an excerpt from a joke e-mail that is circulating among White House staffers. It’s a response, of sorts, to the analytical essay that POLITICO editor-in-chief John Harris wrote about the "seven stories that Barack Obama doesn’t …

Amie Parnes: State Dinner: Ari Emanuel To Attend

Virginia Campaign Crush on Craigslist I know you are way busy turning VA red – and that makes you even hotter by the way – but if you manage to get a few free minutes at like 2 am once the campaign work is done, I will totally come by …

POLITICO: Job Change Update Republican press secretary Pepper Pennington is moving on from the very funny Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to the now very-well-known Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). If anyone can handle Wilson, it’s Pennington, who learned from the master: longtime boss and former Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.).

Glenn Thrush: Alan Grayson: Unavoidable for comment Upon reading a Grayson press release that says he will not be available for comment until Monday, Thrush replies: No Grayson until Monday? Shut down the servers.