Gotta love the low-level aides who stay off message. “You can get a low level staffer to say almost anything.”–Obama spokesguy Bill Burton on the one and only Bill Press’ Radio show this morning, reacting to Politico’s own Hill Dems are Miffed at Obamastory. (Of course within the story he …

Sunday’s Playbook: SPOTTED – Doug Heye, doing the Macarena on the Jumbotron at Nationals Park.

From today’s Playbook Mike Allen: Playbook yesterday sent our 100,000th e-mail since Politico launched 18 months ago. Which intern has to count those?

Several of our DC newspapers and reporters are firing out tweets (but they’re not all on the GraphicDesignr’s list): Washington Times Politico The Hill Washingtonian FishbowlDC NPR News Houston Chronicle’s Julie Mason CQ’s Eric Pfeiffer The Washington Post has 13 Twitter pages. Here are a few: The Fix The Sleuth …

Ken Vogel and Mike Allen: Prepping for Russert If it was “Meet the Press,” it was Saturday at the office.

We should have seen this one coming. Politico’s Ben Smith was coaching Hillary on how to exit the race with grace pretty early and now he’s given us another example of how much of  Team Obama supporter he is. Ben Smith: Obama Brings a Gun to a Knife Fight Obama …

On Monday morning, Capitol Hill resident Chris Frates got into his car only to discover he had been robbed – of gas. What makes this mildly entertaining, Frates is a reporter for the Politico. Patrick Gavin thinks it’s “further proof that normal, everyday people hate reporters.” We tend to agree. …

Pershing: NRCC to Reveal Embezzlement Details The National Republican Congressional Committee will reveal today the results of a pricey forensic audit of its books in the wake of a massive alleged embezzlement scheme by its former treasurer, Christopher Ward. Bresnahan: Ward may have taken as much as $725K from NRCC …

Well, not quite, but the story they did decide to write begs the question- have they run out of content to cover, or are we the only ones who don’t give a flying leap if a 100 year-old Senator is enamored with his blackberry? The Politico: “People who mull such …

JoMa asks: Does the left really want to go there? John Aravosis, who writes at Americablog, had this headline yesterday: “Why is McCain getting $58,000 a year in disability income?” … In his post, Aravosis wonders why the GOP nominee is receiving a military pension for the injuries he sustained …

Yesterday we posted here about Politico’s unhealthy obsession with the Drudge Empire. We speculated this: So why the love fest? Perhaps it has something to do with the regularly appearing Politico stories that hit the front page of Drudge only seconds after they’re filed. Well, well – less than 24 …

…Or so it may seem. The crack staff at Politico is at it again – kissing the ring of the online media giant, Matt Drudge. See the favor here. JoMa wets his lips: Drudge himself is reviled by many on the left, but his news instincts are undeniable-and he has …

Democratic staffers across the Hill are already salivating about the possibilities that might arise come November. [Bulletin board material for the GOP] Democratic Hill staffers have become transfixed by the next Election Day – which could bring a new administration and an untold number of new job openings – while …

In a move that’s being labeled as unprecedented, the Politico newspaper, run by Jim VandeHei, has handed over total control of their newspaper to the Democratic Party for an indefinite amount of time. Coverage on today’s front page: The GOP CRASH GOP Diagnosis: Dire Some say 70-vote deficit come November …

Republican nerds everywhere are wetting their pants over this.