Fark brings up a good point: Only Florida could possibly elect a Republican governor, who is running as an Independent and might vote with Senate Democrats. [tan] An upcoming survey of the Florida Senate race by Public Policy Polling (D) finds that if Gov. Charlie Crist were to win — …

August is so close we can smell it. Happy Monday. Let’s rock this week.

Recess. It’s a busy time back in the district. But in THE District, it’s about as slow as Doris counting the pennies the latest tourist decided to use to pay for their buffalo wrap. Back home, the boss is kissing babies (and goodness knows who else) while office work productivity …

We hope you’re enjoying recess. Photo by: Christopher Gindlesperger, aka NotNotGindy

We hear Drew Curtis had the same idea … Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire: Alvin Greene’s Jobs Plan In an interview with The Guardian, South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene (D) discussed his “big idea” to create jobs in his state. Said Greene: “Another thing we can do for jobs …

Harry Reid’s chances of getting re-elected according to VP Biden: “Yes. I give him a 55 percent chance or better.” h/t Mike Allen’s Playbook

Hey, love turned 1, Anthony Weiner = ESPN, Senator Byrd left us, we want to hire this writer, we owe Drew Curtis lots of beer, TIME for lobbying, chipwiches, high volume of interns led to an increase  of check on check crimes in DC,  Andrew Breitbart is throwing money around, …

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Meet Rick Klein. He Tweets from the hospital room when his child is born and covers politics and hosts Top Line for ABC News. In addition to that, Mr. Klein was recently promoted to Senior Washington News Editor for ABC “World News.” Rick was kind enough to spend a few …

It was a humid Wednesday evening in Glover Park as Members of Congress battled the press corps in an ultimate, winner-take-all, softball showdown. The House Leadership, led by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Whip Cantor, joined Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to root for the Congressional team. John King, …

We bet a little yelling yesterday led to this nugget in Playbook today. CORRECTION: We ran an item yesterday about convos between the White House and the Senate about July’s schedule. The item was poorly worded, and was interpreted as suggesting the administration had given the Senate a deadline or …

Dear Friends, Last week FamousDC became famous. Like Drudge famous. Like now Nancy O’Dell is following us on Twitter famous. Like maybe if we weren’t anonymous, we would make one of those fancy Capitol File lists famous. As our readers know, this change in status came about after we posted …

We missed them because it was Stras–mas here in DC. Here’s a recap: Everyone who claimed to be a “political expert” said Blanche Lincoln would lose.  They were all wrong. [Bill Clinton still has it] We learned that Demon Sheep make great Senate campaign volunteers. [who knew?] Nikki Haley had …

Does the name Chuck Purgason ring a bell?  He’s a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri.  Matter of fact, we recently did a post about Chuck and how he looked strikingly similar to that of Lloyd from “Dumb and Dumber”. Well, we’re proud to announce that Chuck has …