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Trading horses
Hillary is watching them drop like flies – her supporters that is. In the latest blow to her campaign, Rep. John Lewis (GA) has decided that he would cast his superdelegate vote to Barack. “In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit,” said Mr. …
Beer Me
The folks at the National Beer Wholesalers Association [NBWA] have come up with a clever website [with the world’s longest URL] that asks, “which of the presidential candidates would you rather have a beer with?” From the site: “Drinking a beer with someone means more than just quenching thirst. It means spending …
Famous Five [worst headlines]
Welcome to the latest feature of FamousDC called the Famous 5. Every week we’ll highlight 5 of the strangest, funniest, dumbest, coolest or most shocking things we’ve read that week. As always, if you have suggestions, don’t be shy – email us at tips AT famousdc DOT COM 5 worst …
Your Congress at Work
Akers: Meltdown on House Floor Disrupts Lantos Memorial Service Steroids in Baseball – CHECK NFL Spygate – CHECK Pelosi’s Daughter’s Wedding – CHECK Political Gotcha – CHECK Terrorist Surveillance (FISA) – nah
HYPER HILL [you email ’em, we link ’em]
‘Hot or Not’ sold for $40 million [really?] Full coverage of opening night of DC prom season [punch bowl] NY’s “Naked Cowboy” sues M&Ms maker for $6 million [sue me] Land above famed Hollywood sign up for sale [golden palace] Politico reporter needs to wash his mouth out with soap …
Romney to endorse McCain
The timing is suspect – especially given the fact that McCain has this all but locked up. Is Romney itching for a VP nod? Announcement at 4pm EST.
I heart everything about you … politically
John Hawkins of Right Wing News knows how to get into the “political” spirit of Valentine’s Day. [v-cards]
Just asking…
Which Politico Reporter is crashing local fund raisers? A Politico reporter briefly – he was quickly escorted out – stopped by Granger’s event, held in a basement room at Bobby Van’s restaurant, where defense and energy industry lobbyists were chatting and nibbling on light fare. [red-handed]
Pelosi chooses chicken dance over national security
Why is Speaker Nancy Pelosi so willing to gamble with American lives? And why is she set to let FISA expire? Is it because she’s off to her daughter’s wedding this weekend and would rather not deal with the severity of the issue at hand? h/t Amanda Carpenter – who …
Tofu Tales: Nancy gets meatballed
The below email came from a FamousDC reader. [so spread the word] In its most personal form, Speaker Pelosi’s greening-the-Capitol initiative gave her gang of greenie-weenies a license to steamroller our comfortable old lunch-o-ramas and bring in fresh paint, fresh chefs, fresh prices. Now we get grass-fed beef, free-range eggs, and …
“Blame it on the rain”
Stop the presses – Clinton camp claims she would’ve won had it not rained yesterday. With that said, enjoy this video:
Former Clinton staffer now backs Obama
More proof that the Clinton campaign is playing musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic. An aide to Barack Obama says the man who led former President Clinton’s 1992 bid plans to endorse the Illinois senator. Obama’s campaign plans a 1 p.m. conference call Wednesday to announce the endorsement …
Clinton, Obama get waxed
The strange creative minds at Madame Tussauds in DC are at it again – wasting perfectly good wax. Rober Basler, who blogs about it at Reuters, is spot on in his assessment of the weirdness: “The supposed charms of wax museums are totally lost on me. I don’t get the point. And …
UPDATE: Rocket ride on Capitol Hill
Cy Young award-winning pitcher Roger Clemens and his former friend are set to testify on Capitol Hill today, as Congress’ investigation into the use of steroids in Major League Baseball continues. Clemens was named as a steroids user in the Mitchell Report, the document stemming from the investigation led by …