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Socialist villain Barack Obama has been endorsed by another group of Blame America First gay sellouts, those lazy clowns known as “America’s Firefighters.” The International Association of Fire Fighters is endorsing Obama at some fire in Las Vegas today, because the Democratic candidate thinks lazy firemen deserve “collective bargaining,” which sounds pretty communist, so that’s why John McCain is bravely against firefighters getting paid a decent wage. [CNN Political Ticker]

Wonkette has obtained this semi-exclusive footage of the mass chaos and simultaneous party atmosphere engendered by the fire this morning at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. If you squint closely, we think you can indeed see shadowy figures dancing around flaming bonfires of back-up tapes and shredded files, but decide for yourself.

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (the big grey building directly west of the White House) caught on fire this morning. The Washington Post reports that it apparently started on the 3rd floor.

UPDATE: WTOP is now reporting that the fire has been contained. About 1,700 people had to be evacuated, but Cheney (who was right next door at the time) didn’t even get a lungful. [Washington Post, WTOP]

During the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, FEMA found out the hard way that sometimes the press just isn’t feeling very charitable towards the incompetent agency. So when they had a press conference today, the Washington Post’s Al Kamen reveals, it’s way better to just make sure the reporters can’t get there, and then to assign various staffers with make-believe roles as pretend reporters. MORE »

California’s burning, and there are political points ripe for the plucking! Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, for instance, both agree it’s all the environazis’ fault, with Malkin taking the opportunity to throw a few Mexicans on the pyre while she’s at it. MORE »

Subject: FIRE FIRE FIRE
in rayburn or something????? anyway, get on it!

Aptly-named Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat from Queens, has been bitching and moaning about the Statue of Liberty for years now. The Statue was closed to visitors after 9/11, following fears that terrorists, monsters, intelligent apes representing the folly of man, aliens, supervillains, or rogue political cartoonists would target it for attacks. In 2004, the pedestal, housing the museum, was reopened. The crown, though, remains closed to this day.

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Beloved capitool bar Smith Point is on fire! DCFD is on the scene! Late Night Shots people are blaming, obviously, this website! Here are some comments: MORE »

Hooray, we now know what that “medical emergency” was at the Longworth, which followed the (unrelated) fire and evacuation. MORE »

From: US Capitol Police
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:37 PM
To: All House Staff
Subject: Evacuate the Longworth Building - Audible Fire Alarm
Importance: High

Fire alarms echoing throughout Longworth, members trampling staffers on their ways to the exits, and terrifying chaos marked the end of the 109th Congress, more or less just as we expected.

Full email after the jump.

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