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Is anyone up for a weekend review with your morning coffee? … Biden is planning to be a good cop … WaPo was in the tank for Obama … Freshmen House Members have cash too … Stay classy New Jersey … Jimmie Johnson can’t be stopped … Redskins signed DeAngelo …

We should note, while the editors of FDC aren’t necessarily wordsmiths, several of our loyal readers are. This is a comment that was posted a few days ago and we thought it deserved a little front page action. We hope you enjoy PhoenixSunsPhan’s post from election night: Famous DC gurus …

Forced to cut words. This doesn’t happen often, but Boehner’s entire quote Thursday was almost shorter than the release’s title. TITLE: Boehner Statement on President-Elect Obama’s Selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff … QUOTE: “This is an ironic choice for a President-elect who has promised …

We’ve received a few emails this morning asking about the post-election journo shuffle that’s going to take place in the coming weeks – and while we were ready to roll it out today, we’re still waiting to hear back from a few important sources [translation: we’re lazy] and have decided …

Our friends Jackie and Dunlap, who recently stopped by FamousDC for an interview, decided to pick up and move North following an Obama victory. Fed up over Obama’s victory, the desperate Jackie and Dunlap head to the Great White North. There’s only one person persuasive enough to lure them back …

RNC Break Make Out Sessions This email rolled into the FDC inbox late last night. Despite a rather somber mood on election night, not all was drab over at the RNC. At around 8:45, two (assumed) hill-staffers were caught making out in a car parked in Cannon’s lot 1 (parked …

Gary Trudeau was so outraged that McCain had lobbyists advising him that he decided to run a cartoon per day naming each of the now famous K-streeters. Now, while his cartoon was happy to nail the GOPers, he’s not doing the same for Obama. Where are the Doonesbury cartoons now? …

Extreme Mortman points out something we had to see to believe about Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour.

Election Day is finally here. For some folks in DC, it comes after months of hard work on the campaign trail. For others, it’s just another day. But whether you’re a government employee, campaign junkie, Hill staffer or journalist – starting tomorrow morning, the times, they are a changin.’ And …

“Obama wins the popular vote and electoral vote, either by large or small margins.” Is this the equivalent to calling both heads and tails when you flip a coin?  Or does Marc believe that there truly is no such thing as the “middle of the road?” Either way, nice work, …

We’ve heard the stats and we all know what was on the line at FedEx field last night. The Skins didn’t deliver for McCain.

You’d have to live in a locked basement to not have noticed the obnoxious amount of political piggybacking the past few months.  SNL is making a living out of it, and so is J. Crew.  So perhaps it’s not so strange that Ralph Lauren is also looking to leverage the …

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FamousDC’s Nominee for President, Mike Allen, received a glowing write-up in Newsweek. Can we count this a the first official endorsement of the FamousDC Media Ticket? It’s 5 a.m. and Mike Allen has already been awake for nearly two hours. The baby-faced, 44-year-old reporter for Politico, the Beltway-obsessed Web site, …

Lots of FamousDC readers are making calls and knocking on doors on the campaign trail, but we still have an update to go with your morning coffee. The Barack Obama special provided inspiration, but everyone wasn’t convinced.  Oh, and Philly is still being obnoxio. Enjoy the coffee.