The Blowjob Era has returned! Today, in response to the Obama campaign’s demand that the Clintons release their tax returns NOW, communications director Howard Wolfson called it a “Ken Starr” tactic. Ken Starr was a famous investigator douchebag from the 1990s, when Obama was on crack and Hillary was fixing Northern Ireland and children’s sicknesses, you see. MORE »

Last week, Clinton senior adviser Harold Ickes ripped chief strategist Mark “Bowser” Penn’s stranglehold over the campaign. By most professional standards, it was very inappropriate. But now the bile and sludge that composes 95% of Penn’s body is boiling to the surface in response. He says he wasn’t in charge of everything, not at all! He was just some outside dude who’d phone in witty maxims and inspirational haiku when Clinton asked. MORE »

In yet another sign of media bias against Hillary Clinton, The Media is refusing to take the blame for calling Barack Obama a slick-talking handsome word stealing wizard just a few days ago. After all, wasn’t it the media that held a conference call with itself and showed itself some YouTubes of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick saying one thing Thomas Jefferson said and then Handsome Barry saying the same thing Jefferson said? And wasn’t it the media that started hollering about how “When an author plagiarizes from another author there is damage done to two different parties. One is to the person he plagiarized from. The other is to the reader”? No? Blast these Internets! That was all Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s communications director. But of course the media was the one foolish enough to go off and repeat everything some dumb communications director said. MORE »

Hillary, it seems, is the most broke human on the planet, according to campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson:

“Late last month Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million.The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton’s commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation. We have had one of our best fundraising efforts ever on the web stoday and our Super Tuesday victories will only help in bringing more support for her candidacy.”

Hillary, Hillary. Didn’t your parents ever tell you? You have to marry UP to go places in this world. [Ben Smith]

So the Bill Clinton “race card and overt co-presidency” angle somehow backfired in South Carolina. Whatever. The Clintons like to put it all on the line — the candidacy, remaining shreds of dignity, legacies, any supporters anywhere. This week, internet people have been debating the appropriateness of Hillary Clinton’s overt pandering to Florida — a state, like Michigan, stripped of its delegates for the illegal terrorist decision to move its primary earlier — where she’s expected to beat Barack F. Kennedy. MORE »

Reliable Source: Michael Jackson still skulking around DC… Charges dropped in Georgetown brick fight… Howard Wolfson bought a house here, finally. [WP]

• Reliable Source: First daughter Jenna Bush is popular with her students… Dick Cheney dodges questions about his daughter Mary Cheney’s new book. [WP]

• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Anderson Cooper faces the challenges of his increased fame. [NYDN]
• Rush & Molloy: Rev. Al Sharpton is upset at Hillary, because Clintonistas Howard Wolfson and Gigi Georges are working against his favored congressional candidates. [NYDN]
• Page Six: Bill Clinton is worried that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might run for president as a third-party candidate, spending $300 million of his own money, and siphoning votes away from Hillary. [NYP]

• Page Six: “Judy Miller does not have speaking engagements booked through 2007. She has few, if any, on the calendar at this point,” says Times flack. . . Howard Wolfson to teach the “Art of Managing the Political Process” at the New School. . . Jim McGreevey busy dating. [NYP, NYP, NYP]
• Inside the Beltway: Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman introduce Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act. [WT]