Capitals vs. Flyers [TONIGHT!] You’ve got to win one before you can win two, and you’ve got to win two before you can win three. With no room for error, the Washington Capitals forged a 3-2 Game 5 victory on Saturday, sending the series back to Philadelphia for Monday’s Game …

Rove Developing Outside Groups To Help GOP In Fall [Way to Win] Bitter Blogger Still an Obama Supporter [Big Head DC] The Story Behind the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand [fishbowlDC] Halperin: From the ‘gang of 500’ to ‘the six-way threat’ [Calderone]

While Obama campaign staffers work tirelessly to prove that John McCain will be no better than the current President- their boss accidently slipped and admitted this: “You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain,” Obama said during an event in Pennsylvania, as quoted …

The Politico recently featured a story about two political wonks that got hitched, and then opened a restaurant – one that has become increasingly popular. Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross are one-half politicos and one-half new restaurant owners. The newlyweds opened Cork, a wine bar on 14th Street, and they …

Hardly in my opinion, but our friends at RedState aren’t quite convinced it was an “itch.”

GWB to Pope: “Awesome speech.”  Really?  [h/t HotAir]

Kudos Mr. Spicer – you get the “shameless self-promotion” award of the week. [h/t Bedard]

Does the ‘Motion to Recommit’ keep you on the edge of your seat and your eyes glued to C-SPAN?  Do you even know what a Motion to Recommit [or MTR as the policy wonks call it] is? If you don’t, trust me, you’re not alone … if you do, well, there’s …

Fire your flack; hire a blogger [Extreme new media] Responses to Real CL Ads [On the Ball] “Bitter” hits the campaign trail [JoMa] Romney’s Top Ten Why He Dropped Out [Ambinder] If you feeling like a pimp [Brush your shoulders off]

UPDATE: Stuff Hill People Like highlight Big Byrd as #13 The Hill newspaper got it wrong today when they reported on Senator Byrd telling his critics to “shut up.” What the editors at one of Capitol Hill’s leading newspapers failed to realize was – the story wasn’t about Byrd telling …

According to folks who have emailed us this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney stole the show last night at the Washington Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner.   Comedy Central’s Mo Rocca apparently bombed. Link: sevenload.com

Every Calvin and Hobbes Ever [for FDC fans in AZ] How Blue Is Your Collar? [Paul Waldman] Reuters Gives 600+ Words to Nats’ 23 y.o. CF [Lastings Milledge] Pope Traffic Update [Metro Madness!]

It’s only fitting that native Tennessee Congress[wo]man Marsha Blackburn struggles with her name- much the same as David Allan Coe. ‘In any other office, it wouldn’t sound as strange: ‘OK, let me grab the congressman. Hold on.’ But in this office it does, seeing as how the congressman is Marsha …

Breaking: Moments ago Sue Myrick went WWE on her colleagues and honored Nature Boy Ric Flair on the House Floor, WOOOOO! That’s how you win over your constituency…

It appears that Barack Obama is not only bitter, but perhaps entirely too sober – at least according to his latest remarks in reference to Hillary’s weekend of shot taking and beer drinking. “Around election time, the candidates can’t do enough. They’ll promise you anything, give you a long list …