Here’s the best photo of the cherry blossoms that you’ll see today, POLITICO’s Brooks Boliek is the “Tech Cowboy,” what a difference a week makes, C-SPAN’s Jeremy Art celebrated a birthday, as did Geoff Embler & Nick Schaper, welcome Mark Elliott to US Chamber of Commerce, Flash Mob for Equal …

The RNC is losing two very talented aides in the next few days. Chief of staff Mike Leavitt and communications director Doug Heye –leaving after the RNC after this week’s Winter Meeting. A new chairman will be picked Friday. They don’t expect Steele to win reelection – and wouldn’t stay …

RIP Richard Holbrooke, Dear God we hate airline bag fees, change your password, congrats to the David All Group on their new office digs, Nelson Lewis is balling out of control, Congressman Conyers inspired gifts are all the rage, Jaguar set me up, Guam still hasn’t tipped over, of course …

SJL watches C-SPAN, more than $27,000 worth of concert tickets to the Fillmore were stolen, write it in, there are folks straight killing it, Artur Davis is taking on the establishment, Famously Facebooked made a return, the aliens are here, spelling is hard, Governor Barbour made the DC rounds, tell …

NPR gave Juan Williams the power to make it rain, the first rule of Fight Club: don’t prank Mike Allen, Shane Harris can’t quit cybersecurity, BREAKING NEWS, blogging observations, Harry Reid doesn’t look intimidated, Mike Allen & friends raised funds for the Cornerstone School, the paranoid self-loathing GOP lobbyist is …

Arianna Huffington loves Christine DeLargy’s jewelry, Clinton Portis wanted to be a wrestler as a kid, DC experienced a Rainpcalypse, Tara Palmeri is the boss, Emily Heil celebrated her birthday, Ryan Grim is that guy, Executive Branch spelling is hard, Huffington Post vs. POLITICO, Gilbert Arenas stopped shaving, Supreme Court …

Doug Heye: “I’m known as the Johnny Drama of Capitol Hill.” Adrian Grenier: “Oh, I’m so sorry.”

Doug Heye got a Drudge bomb and a new gig, Jon Stewart is more powerful than most politicians, a demon sheep stole the news week, speaking of Newsweek, Jim Treacher was struck by a black SUV, NBC continues to leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, Ed Chen saved the …

This morning: FamousDC: Doug Heye Gets Drudge Bomb This afternoon: Reid Wilson: RNC Fills Communications Director Gap

President Obama hit the reset button, Doug Heye is huge in Germany, Tommy McFly spent some time with Senator Joe Jonas, “Simply not true,” Kitchen 2404 celebrated one year,  Matt got a new gig in Texas, hackers hit the Capitol, Jim Treacher blogged like a MF’r, steel cage match of …

Chris Frates and the cool kids read Jezebel, Randy Barrett doesn’t like the DC who’s-who blather, Daniel de Vise is unimpressed by lawmakers’ Tweets, Christina Bellantoni left the Washington Times to join Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo, Texas Republic celebrated winning the House Softball league,  thankfully Christopher Columbus did not share the same drive …

Adam Arguelles Lisa Byrne Shonali Burke Christie Findlay Sophie Gilbert Megan Grant Amanda Henneberg Doug Heye Billy House Lauren Pulte

Glenn Thrush read his negative comments and responded, Ali McSherry didn’t like Blue Ridge Restaurant, Chuck Clapton made it into the Famous six moderates NY Times health care photo, Chris Jackson headed back to Georgia, Megan McArdle burned up 1,583 words to explain why she’s opposed to national health care, …

Lindsey Mask celebrated a birthday, early polls show that "JoMa" is preferred over "JMart" by 84% of NoVa cougars, Christina Bellantoni won the Swizzle challenge with her "Bill and Ted" knowledge, DeaconDoesDC did Boston, Michael Turk invented the new phrase: "Tweckle" (to heckle via Twitter), Turk then took another #TRB  …

Nora McAlvanah waited until the last minute to hang at H&R Block with her taxes in hand, Doug Heye turned 27, Elliot asked all of DC to "Rock the ‘Hawk" for the Caps, still lots of out of office replies on the hill [recess], $20 says Karl Rove didn’t say …