Politico’s Ben Smith Pleads for More Sane Comments, Less Personal Attacks Anyway, for now, I’d just like to ask some commenters to treat this more like a conversation, less like the wall in a public bathroom.

How many headlines will read something like this the day after Hillary loses or drops out of the race for President? “The ‘fairytale’ is over for Clinton” Regardless of how many it is -remember, you saw it here first.

Famously recomended: Garrett Graff recently penned “The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House.”  This book is a must read that explores the political, economic and technological changes that Graff believes will make this years race for the White House a campaign of “new age.”  [click …

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]

The Politico thinks it’s put together a pretty comprehensive list of power-playing politicos, and while some of their choices are suspect, [see for yourself] the FamousDC editors do agree with some of the choices made.  Congressional Staffers Neil Bradley: POSITION: Policy director to House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) REASON …

Wilbon: We’re five days from the NBA All-Star Game and I’m not feeling the love. I’m not sensing that people, even real pro basketball fans, are dying to see it. Oh, they’re down for the All-Star Weekend parties, for hanging out in the French Quarter, for craziness up and down …

Obama “Swept Through The Chesapeake And Over The Potomac” .

Goodell to meet with Senator Specter over NFL spying .

Agent Zero Blogs On the Shaq Trade: “It makes sense to me because they never had a post play.” On the Gasol Trade: “The Lakers stole Pau Gasol. They hi-jacked him. That should be a crime. You don’t give away Pau Gasol for Kwame Brown and a rookie. I don’t …

Scott Van Pelt: Redskins Done F’d Up Now Money quote: The problem is Snyder thinks he knows football just because he collected football cards years ago and wore Redskins colors to school. [Pete Prisco] Michael Wilbon:  “That the search went from Gregg Williams to Fassel to Spagnuolo to Zorn and …

Greg Keeley Elected President of Senate Press Secretaries Association Keeley: “The Senate Press Secretaries Association is the only truly bipartisan organization of its type on the Hill, and that is pretty important. Fortunately, I was able to reach across the aisle, based on the wise words of the great Anchorman …

Rogers and O’Connor: Boehner and Pelosi’s First date

BlackBerry service out in N. America Disruption affecting all wireless carriers /Dang it! No Playbook on the Metro!?

Redskins’ Taylor honored, remembered at game Cooley and teammates Chris Samuels and Ethan Albright each wore Taylor’s No. 21 yesterday at the request of Taylor’s family.  Cooley caught three passes for 41 yards and a touchdown. 

“If John McCain locks up the Republican nomination and has any hope of becoming the next Republican president, he might want consider spending his leftover campaign cash to micro-target that last remaining fringe group that could help him get to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. – Republicans.” -Jim Mills (The Hill, February …