Wolf Blitzer‘s producer Jill Chappell might want to hire an agent pretty soon. First she handles a LIVE call from Ellen and now she’s hanging with Tate Donovan. Shenanigans: The Damages Edition CNN booker in D.C. Jill Chappell got to visit actor Tate Donovan on his TV set of “Damages” in New …

The McCain camp just launched a couple of YouTube videos about the media’s love obsession with Barack Obama. And they want you to vote. Do you love the idea?

From today’s Politico Playbook: With Senator Obama still in Iraq, his staff and press could be seen smoking flavored tobacco in hookahs in their Amman hotel bar, well past midnight local time. Puff, puff, pass…

Some St. Paul bars get OK to stay open late during RNC Convention The Legislature gave communities in the Twin Cities area the authority to allow bars to remain open until 4 a.m. during the convention.

The Evans-Novak Political Report is reporting that the McCain Veep pick will come this week: Sources close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip. The …

Ben Pershing: Top Hill Aides Talk about the Week Ahead Is the majority stifling the minority? That seems to be the theme of this week in both the House and Senate, where Republicans are agitating for a chance to get votes on their proposals to open up more domestic territory …

Keep the audio down if you’re in the office. We can’t believe the hosts never lose their cool. These are a little dated, but they never get old.

It works for James & Mary and Ken & Emily, but not for Obama and McCain staffers. Eavesdrop DC: Cats and Dogs Living Together 17th and Pennsylvania: Female DNC Worker: Hi, sir, do you have a minute for Barack Obama? Guy: No, I’m a McCain supporter. Female DNC Worker: Okay, …

OK, so we need someone to ask Speaker Pelosi a question about global warming, and then we need Pelosi to check her blackberry, and then we need to have Al Gore’s voice come over the loud speaker, and then we need Gore to walk on stage and make a surprise …

And ended up with a top of page Drudge Alert Politico: Pelosi calls for high-level meeting with Iraqis [Speaker Pelosi] “So with the prime minister saying it’s time for you to go,” she told the crowd, “I think it’s time for our country to sit down with the Iraqis and …

Does Presidential hopeful Bob Barr actually Twitter himself? In case this question has kept you up the past few nights –  the mystery is solved. The answer, yes.

The 307th annual Congressional Geriatric baseball game took place last night at Nats stadium.  And for what seems like the 25th year in a row, the Democrats lost. And how do we know they lost?  The House GOP covered the victory via Twitter and 10 exclamation points. From GOP Conference Twitterberry: …

At first we thought the screen-grab blunder pictured below was the fault of the DCCC web team, but instead, maybe it’s a genius act of subliminal messaging. There is no actual “quote” in the box because this poor child has gone deaf – and who’s to blame? … the Bush …

Last week we launched the FamousDC Media Ticket. Several of our favorite Web sites linked to it so we wanted to pay back the favor: FishbowlDC: Lord Save Us: Journos Running The White House?!? … The folks at FamousDC have proven smarter at this whole “start a new blog” thing …

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