We’ll deal with him [Mark Penn] later,” said Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones

We’re a little late to the dance here at FamousDC, but rather than post our crappy prom pictures from last week, we’ve decided to link to a few offered up by others. DC media prom party: [Fishbowl Pics] [Robert Bluey has a camera too] If you have any DC prom pictures you …

Elissa Silverman: K Street’s Second Shift INTRO: Money for access. Influence peddling. Gucci. It’s just another Monday on K Street. Even at 1 a.m. KICKER: He then heads home to Springfield. He has a busy day at the office tomorrow.

Pershing’s Player of the week: Mitch McConnell [always about the Senate]

From your parent’s basement to K St., according to the Wall Street Journal,  in “New-Media World,” everyone sounds like an inside beltway wonk [and everyone’s got a blog]. WSJ looks into the tip sheets and web sites that drive the politically plugged in chattering class – from Mark Halperin to JoMa to …

If your tux or dress is still at the cleaners, you best hustle to get it because the second prom event of the season is tonight.  [NPF dinner] No worries if you’re late – Tony Snow and his band don’t perform until the after party. Note: Watch which reporters and press …

Leave it up to the New York Post for such wildly entertaining news: “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pit-bull pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn has his Washington, DC, neighborhood in an uproar. He recently started multimillion-dollar renovations on his house on O Street in Georgetown, but didn’t alert anyone beforehand, said …

Vogel: Consultant Spending Saps Clinton Campaign Hillary Rodham Clinton started the year flush with cash, but by the beginning of this month, she’d blazed through most of it — spending $11 million on ads, $3.8 million on messaging guru Mark Penn and $1,300 at Dunkin’ Donuts, to name just a …

JoMa: The RNC hasn’t come out and gotten behind McCain yet….

Clinton draws boos after commenting on Obama’s alleged plagiarized speeches

Former Bush speech writer, William McGurn, authors a must read in today’s WSJ.  [Press Corps Quagmire] When a man hangs up his byline to write for a president, he gets more than a new job. He gets to see how the press and pundit corps look from the other side of …

Suite Talk Sartucci (Lott) to K&L Gates McClellan (WH) to APCO Schuyler to UST Public Affairs Stetson (Kerry) to Sheridan Group

Extreme Mortman: Waxing Poetic Yes, anti-trust is a Congressional matter.  But steroids?  Spygate?  Hardly.  You know that old warning about mixing church and state?  Congress should likewise stop mixing ESPN and C-SPAN.

Pershing names Congressman John Conyers “Capitol Briefing Player of the Week” House Democrats left town Thursday for the President’s Day recess having fired two controversial salvos at the Bush administration — approving contempt of Congress citations against White House officials while refusing to renew a terrorism surveillance law. House Judiciary …