This email is going around the Senate.  Staff assistants rejoice. The Senate voice mail system is not working because of all of the health care calls to the Senate right now. The calls are blowing the system out. Not much they can do about it – we’ll just have to …

If you’ve ever wanted to cruise with Rachel Maddow, here’s your chance: Air America wants to reward one lucky member of the progressive blogosphere with a free cruise through the Mexican Riviera from March 6 – 13, 2010 with Gov. Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow, Robert Kennedy Jr, Ron Reagan, and …

Oh boy… On the heels of that news, Public Policy Polling released this shocking nugget on its blog: "a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year.  [move on] A majority of Americans also blame ACORN for their bad mood …

Kansas businessman Tom Wiggans announced yesterday that he’s the Democrat running for Kansas governor. He then sent this email to supporters.  [notice the "paid for"]

We would have guessed New Jersey.

Finally, a Member of Congress introduces legislation that FDC can support.  [guaranteed not to be over 2,000 pages]

For those of you who think Facebook is as ridiculous as we do.  [birth control] Come on, LinkedIn. Don’t you guys have people?

If our dreams come true, this could be riveting.  [get your popcorn] The 2,074-page Senate health care bill would take 34 hours to read cover to cover — and that’s just what Sen. Tom Coburn wants done on the Senate floor. It’s a great day to be a Senate clerk. …

We don’t live in New Orleans, but if we did, we’d vote for James Perry just because he’s an Eagle Scout.

Facebook Status Abuse: Kip is sitting here, trying to think of an insightful or funny status message but not having any luck … so … this will have to do. Rule 1: If you have nothing to say, don’t waste everyone’s time by saying nothing. [contact-form 3 "Facebook Alerts"]

Nailed down or not, Congress will likely tax it.  What’s next, the Botox tax?  [oh, wait]

This kid can parallel park better than 99% of DC residents.

We bet he wants Twitter take-backs: [too soon?] On his Twitter page, Hunter, who assumed office earlier this year after being elected to the seat longtime held by his father, Rep. Duncan L. Hunter (R-Calif.), posted a link to an article promoting him as a potential 2012 vice presidential nominee …

Last night Vice President Biden appeared on the Daily Show to help clear up the Recovery.gov boondoggle.  On paper, the move was a brilliant idea.  Biden, who’s known more for his own gaffes than anything else, would feel right at home trying to clean up this hot mess. Only problem:  …

No, Obama won’t be reading Sarah Palin’s book any time soon. "I probably won’t, but I don’t get a chance to read things other than briefing books very often these days anyway," he said. Somebody has to ask. [Ed Henry]