The frustrating 2008 Democratic primary season has been made even more insufferable by the Obama campaign staff’s refusal to talk smack about any of their coworkers. This leaves a bitter press corps with no fun tidbits to write about, which is why it’s still good that Hillary Clinton is in the race. Basically, Barack Obama is like the George Bush of 2000, commanding a team of eerily happy and loyal drones who will all become torture-loving yes-men once they seize the reins of power. The secrets to Barack’s success, after the jump. MORE »

Jesus! This is possibly the most deadly situation we’ve ever seen. What did this poor staffer do to Conrad?

Another absolutely terrifying photo of the former senator from Montana’s War On Christmas Rampage through Washington, after the jump.

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A brief primer for those of you kind enough to email us tips. We love and desperately need you, so don’t take this the wrong way, but… the Maryland Senate race is boring. Comparatively, we mean. Ok. A Ben Cardin (Cardin’s… not the black guy, right?) had a staffer who wrote an anonymous blog that said questionable things about Oreo cookies, black people, and grope-y old Jews. And, you know, congrats to Wizbang, you cracked this one wide open (though we’re pretty sure we got the same email you guys did on September 14), you deserve all the credit… MORE »

Oh, those crazy, crazy Oklahoma City nights. MORE »

During the Rayburn craziness, we highlighted the blog of staffers and interns to Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA). They liveblogged last Friday’s insanity, from the belly of the beast. MORE »

Since its launch, a number of you have written us about the blog being written by staffers of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA). Now is a good time for us to mention it: they’re liveblogging from inside the bullet-ridden precincts of Falluja Compton Rayburn. Good stuff! MORE »

From Al Kamen’s column in this morning’s Post: MORE »

Forgive us for being slow, but we don’t understand why CNN is giving so much play to the story of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) forcing his staffers to perform personal errands during normal working hours. MORE »

Yesterday we asked you for guesses about a blind item: a tempermental member of Congress who goes through staffers like the rest of us go through paper towels. According to our source, this representative — who has been in office just three years — “has had 4 press secretaries (2 were fired), two COS, three LDs, and more leg staff come and go than I have ever heard of. Some get fired… and some just leave.”

This item was a popular one, and many of you submitted guesses. It sounds like every Member is a difficult boss who is churning through staff. Maybe it would have been easier to ask you which Member is not hemorrhaging personnel.

We’ve reprinted your guesses after the jump. And we will also tell you that one of your guesses — or, to be more accurate, at least one of your guesses — is a Member who fits the bill.

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Tomorrow we’ll report back on the blind item we gave you earlier today, about a temperamental legislator who drives staffers insane. For now, we’ll tell you that it’s not Senator Ada L. Smith. MORE »

We spend a fair amount of time guessing at the blind items of others (e.g., the identity of the cokehead daughter of a prominent politician). Now we’ll offer up a blind item of our own, courtesy of a helpful tipster: MORE »