The DNC is good at a lot of things, softball is not one of them.  For a sixth consecutive year, the DNC lost to the RNC at the annual softball game.  The final score was something like 87 – 12. According to some attendees, the RNC also won the poster …

The RNC is losing two very talented aides in the next few days. Chief of staff Mike Leavitt and communications director Doug Heye –leaving after the RNC after this week’s Winter Meeting. A new chairman will be picked Friday. They don’t expect Steele to win reelection – and wouldn’t stay …

In what’s likely the best dolphin show since Ron Bonjean’s days on the mic at the Milwaukee Aquarium, a group of dolphins in Japan have choreographed and performed a true-to-life reenactment of Michael Steele’s Chairmanship of the RNC. Personages: Dolphin # 1 (AKA, the Jumper): Michael Steele Dolphin #2: Haley Barbour Dolphin #3: John Boehner Dolphin …

Dueling Web Videos DNC RNC h/t Mike Allen’s Playbook RELATED: Full time line

We don’t know what this means. “I work every day in this job, as I like to put it, to turn the elephant. Now, I don’t know if you ever had to turn an elephant, but the end you have to start with is not necessarily the best place to …

This can’t be real… The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute.” Audio of the call …

We’re not quite sure what to think of this, but we do wonder if it comes in polka dots? And please define “extended sizes.”

This would have made more sense last cycle: @PoliticsNation: Bizarre FEC find of the day: Someone at the RNC spent $15 at a pet store on 8th SE and listed the expense as “meals.” Um… It was however salmon flavored. That’s how Mike rolls. RELATED: Mo Money Mo Problems

Ballsy.  [GOP v-day cards]

This morning: FamousDC: Doug Heye Gets Drudge Bomb This afternoon: Reid Wilson: RNC Fills Communications Director Gap

Great question … KLSoltis: Just got email from RNC saying I can now buy Peppermint, the GOPs commemorative stuffed elephant. (My Q: Does it come with a policy agenda?) In case you were actually wondering, the policy agenda is extra. UPDATE: Buy your Peppermint doll here.

Then don’t read this. Jordan Fabian: Steele: White Republicans are scared of me

Pour a little of this in your Cocoa Puffs. Wall Street Journal: When Speechwriters Kiss and Tell When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer—wait for it!—disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former …

In years past there has been a lot of debate about the Democrat domination online – and whether or not Republicans would be able to catch up. Now that Obama is in the White House and Republicans find it much easier to convince 85 year-old women to Twitter, is it …