This has to be the lamest attempt at piggy-backing someone else’s good fortunes. From Politco.com: “Hopefully, this doesn’t become a trend: Democratic challenger Dennis Shulman, inspired by the New York Giants’ huge, stunning, miraculous win over the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl, invoked the Giants’ upset image Monday …

Now that the football season is officially over [minus one completely overrated Pro-Bowl game], it’s time to turn our attention back to baseball, and more importantly the Nats, and their new stadium opening in 55 days.

Hillary steps in it again -breaks her campaign promise to bring 200,000 new jobs to upstate NY. Sen. Clinton: “Well, I might have been a little exuberant, but I thought we could do it.” (Jerry Zremski, “It’s The Economy, Clinton Says,” The Buffalo [NY] News, 2/4/08)

Does Martin have a man-crush on McCain? [not live from a Taco Bell]

MoveOn tells Hillary to move over – taps Barack.

Senator asks why NFL destroyed tapes

Didn’t know he could blow. From the WaPost: Marion Barry, trying out his lounge act at the 21st Amendment Bar & Grill. The D.C. Council member made a surprise appearance Wednesday night at the bar in the Capitol Hill Holiday Inn as a small crowd listened to the jazz stylings …

Pearson: Hastert knocks McCain as ‘allied with Democrats’ Asked if he considered McCain a conservative, Hastert said, “In my opinion, he is not.”

The new Party of Pork – according to the San Francisco Chronicle “This time, the Democrats are on the wrong side of an issue they once so passionately championed.”

Tapscott on Washington’s Most Out of Reach Bureaucrat [horses?] Wouldn’t you hate to hear about this on your company site? [Yahoo!] Did you delete your MySpace account yesterday? [nobody listened] Extreme Mortman asks the tough questions [CSPAN facelift] The Show Me Carrier [all in a name] Grim makes fun of …

Drum roll, please… None other than Presidential hopeful, Barack Obama… Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal‘s 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the …

They’re hard at work per usual. UPDATE: Patrick O’Connor sheds more light

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bush’s former brain, Karl Rove, states some new rules of presidential campaigns, including: “The 21st century’s opening decade is seeing the rise of the communications director and press spokesman as the more important figures on a campaign staff.” How quickly will press flacks forward …

$89K of your tax dollars to help Dan Beard sleep better [carbon offsets murky] E&C letter