H/T – Weekly Standard

Marc Ambinder: Rumors of Rahm’s Departure Beware the soothsayers who know the exact day and hour when the trumpets shall sound and Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, will announce his resignation. This also gives us an opportunity to link back to this FamousDC classic post: Inside the …

Meet Rick Klein. He Tweets from the hospital room when his child is born and covers politics and hosts Top Line for ABC News. In addition to that, Mr. Klein was recently promoted to Senior Washington News Editor for ABC “World News.” Rick was kind enough to spend a few …

Chris Paulitz continues his quest and gets support from Late Night Shots … Chris Paulitz today releases my more serious “Top 5 Famous DC Who The Hell Writes that Stuff Guesses”: 1. Longworth Cafeteria’s “Little” Doris 2. Jimmy the Elevator Guy 3. Officer Garland “Jaywalking” Thompson 4. Sam the Taylor …

Ron Artest and the Lakers are World Champions, Dale Peterson is the new Sarah Palin, the East Coast-West Coast rapper wars in the 90s have finally trickled down into the 2010 AL AG Commish race,  Media > Congress, out of work Louis Vuittons protested, USA SOCCER WAS ROBBED, top DC …

He’s got a good point … Thaddeus McCotter U.S. Soccer team got robbed out of winning goal by the referee! “Open hand diplomacy” clearly not working in World Cup. 

It was a humid Wednesday evening in Glover Park as Members of Congress battled the press corps in an ultimate, winner-take-all, softball showdown. The House Leadership, led by Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer and Minority Whip Cantor, joined Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to root for the Congressional team. John King, …

We bet a little yelling yesterday led to this nugget in Playbook today. CORRECTION: We ran an item yesterday about convos between the White House and the Senate about July’s schedule. The item was poorly worded, and was interpreted as suggesting the administration had given the Senate a deadline or …

Could this be the greatest reception in the history of Congress?

Yawn: Meet the “Real Housewives of DC.” “Real”, as in real boring… WaPo’s Reliable Source has the latest (photos) We’ve got a modeling agency owner, a socialite mom, an expat, a real estate agent and, well, Michaele Salahi. We’ve written about them only a kajillion times over the past year as …

Veteran Hill flak Chris “Curious George” Paulitz is on a mission: to find out who the crazy kids behind FamousDC are (h/t Man in the Yellow Hat). He launched his campaign today via Facebook, with some really interesting guesses. First, Chris, we’re flattered you care enough to know more about …

Chris Cooley is getting ready for the season by eating everything in his cabinet. Deadspin’s Barry Petchesky shows us the yummy goodness. Meanwhile, it has been two years and Tanner Cooley still hasn’t answered his Famous 5 questions.

We’re all lucky enough to live in Washington, D.C. – the place people from all over the world call their “home away from home.” This international DC community was on display this weekend in Dupont Circle as thousands gathered to watch the World Cup games. FamousDC’s sports correspondent Mark emailed …

Dear Friends, Last week FamousDC became famous. Like Drudge famous. Like now Nancy O’Dell is following us on Twitter famous. Like maybe if we weren’t anonymous, we would make one of those fancy Capitol File lists famous. As our readers know, this change in status came about after we posted …

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