With friends like these … WaPo’s David S. Broder: The fable of Emanuel the Great RELATED: Inside the Mind and Inbox of Rahm Emanuel

Deadspin’s Barry Petchesky: Beat Writer Continues Nationals Coverage, Sans Newspaper Just because the Washington Times fired their entire sports section, Mark Zuckerman isn’t going to stop doing his job. For someone to cover the Nationals voluntarily, I’m not sure it’s going too far to call him a modern day Jesus.

h/t 1 -Ben Smith h/t 2 -Jim Geraghty h/t 3 – Rick Wilson

DCist’s W. Jacarl Melton: Jay-Z To Make Appearance at Chinatown AT&T Store For those of you who enjoy a good celebrity sighting outside of the ranking member of some Senate subcommittee, you might want to venture down to Chinatown this afternoon. We’re told Jay-Z will be stopping the flagship AT&T …

Downtown D.C. was chill and still on Sunday night, except at the Edelweiss Calcagno show at Hudson. The event — ably organized by Sandro and Tati — was a dizzying collection of leggy blondes from the former Eastern bloc and men in velvet blazers and pointy shoes who love to …

H/T – Mark Knoller and David All

Congrats to our friend Shannon on her new gig at House Financial Services. Mike Allen’s Playbook: EXCLUSIVE: The Herald Group’s Shannon Flaherty will soon be returning to the Hill to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications for the House Financial Services Committee (Republicans). Flaherty, who previously served as …

People: Bill Clinton Offered His Support to Tiger Woods Former President Bill Clinton offered his support to Tiger Woods in a phone call with the embattled golf star, a spokesman for the former president confirms. NY Post: App Covers Your Tiger Tail Want to cheat on your spouse, but not …

Did you have nightmares about gigantic inflatable Canadian Mounties and beavers taking over the world? [closing ceremonies] What a run for USA Hockey! Our boys played their hearts out to earn a silver medal and gained millions of new fans in the process [Canada wins] But keep your head up …

Jordan Culberson Rick Klein Elizabeth Lauten Chelsea Maughan Fred Miller Sean Miller Joy Elena Robertson Stuart Siciliano Emily Stewart Jim Treacher

Chris Frates = 1, Robert Gibbs = 0, the Blair House Project was seven and half hours of wonk Olympics, robot whale parks are coming, we’re on a horse, Chris Matthews managed to insult kidnap victims, Buster Brown and The Get down rocked Gin & Tonic, Box is back in …

A Girl Named Bong: Sarah Jessica Parker hangs at the White House h/t MK

Jonathan Allen: Lawmakers squirrel away cash RELATED: The Brett Favre of Political Reporting

Newt Gingrich: Capitol Hill staffers ‘have never had a real job’ “Of course it’s the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home, who end up thinking …

Michael Calderone: Breitbart battles liberal bloggers