Tuesday, April 20 Things are heating up. Daily Finance: Goldman Sachs Earnings Double to $3.5 Billion as Firm Faces SEC Suit Embattled Goldman Sachs (GS) said Tuesday that thanks to its trading and investing prowess, its first-quarter profit doubled to $3.5 billion, easily beating analysts’ expectations. Matt Drudge is still …

We can’t get enough of this story so we are going to post an update each morning of the latest developments. We will continue to update the full time line. Monday, April 19 Don’t call it a comeback. Politico: Spitzer: Goldman suit no coincidence “This was not a coincidence,” asserted …

Wow, things really escalated quickly. Friday, April 16 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors. [kick off] POLITICO’s Marty Kady questions the timing of the SEC’s charges [Twitter] Convenient timing: Huge SEC charges against Goldman land week before …

Tea Party organizers were hoping to flood the halls of congress today. Tea Partiers planned to “flood the halls of Congress” to protest health care legislation, a plan that prompted Democratic leaders to instruct their members to respond with politeness and Twinkies.  [300 strong] Unfortunately the flood was more like …

Reid Wilson: Host on DNC conference call is named Trinity. She’ll fall in love with Brad “Neo” Woodhouse by the end of the call.

Pour a little of this in your Cocoa Puffs. Wall Street Journal: When Speechwriters Kiss and Tell When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer—wait for it!—disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former …

In years past there has been a lot of debate about the Democrat domination online – and whether or not Republicans would be able to catch up. Now that Obama is in the White House and Republicans find it much easier to convince 85 year-old women to Twitter, is it …

Spend a few minutes with your morning coffee and check out Todd S. Purdum’s take on the Palin campaign. Vanity Fair: It Came From Wasilla Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her …

As part of C-SPAN’s "Students & Leaders" program showing next week, C-SPAN recently taped RNC chairman Michael Steele talking to students at Woodson Senior High School in DC. During Mr. Steele’s presentation, he tells Woodson students how we got kicked out of Johns Hopkins. He tells the students: "I partied …

Can someone please explain to us why DNC Chairman Kaine announced the start up of 37-member commission to study the party’s primary and caucus calender? [go back to bed] First of all, does it really take 37 people to study a calendar?  Do they not have interns?  And secondly, why …

Last week we posted about the DNC’s latest user generated contest.  Their hope was to get folks to send in their favorite Rush Limbaugh slogan.  The winning slogan will appear on a billboard in Limbaugh’s hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida.  [riveting ] The top 5 slogans likely submitted by …

Yesterday, the DCCC came out swinging with their "Republican Apology Machine" , but now the Democrat National Committee wants a whack at Mr. Rush. The DNC is hosting an online contest to see who can come up with the most creative Rush Limbaugh slogan. We’ll go through all of the …

This may make coffee come out of your nose.

Look, altitude does crazy things to your tolerance. [boozy] DENVER — The New York state Democratic party devoted a page in its information packet to three separate warnings to its delegation about how hard booze hits the system in mile-high Denver. … On a page titled “high-altitude tips” in a …

Welcome to what we hope will be a string of FDC tips coming straight out of the DNC in Denver.  We’ve already had a few loyal readers [who are on the ground] send us tips and tidbits, which is awesome – so if you have any tips, send them our …