HOH’s One-Minute Recess: Warren’s 2011 Top 5 Reads
Granted, I’m still the NKOTB here at CQ/Roll Call Gossip Central. But we’ve definitely had some fun this year in the HOH-verse, haven’t we?
Breaking news, meta navel-gazing, investigative reporting, fried-chicken flame wars. We’ve done it all.
On the off chance you were distracted by real news (whatever the hell that means), here are my top 5 favorite Heard on the Hill stories from the past year:
1) Pecangate: A lost weekend in Annapolis opened the door to a series of complaints about administrative misdeeds and professional missteps by Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) and his troubled staff.
2) Know Your Role: Bumping into fellow hacks at rallies/political events is nothing new. But my eagle-eyed (eared?) colleague, Neda Semnani, produced her own radio drama when she spotted NPR host Lisa Simeone stirring things up on behalf of one of the “occupy” factions.
3) Draw Your Own Conclusions: Animating the Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.)-Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) tiff from earlier this summer was sheer genius.
4) Man Up: Yes, we love the name Snuggles. Yes, we love that Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) begged reporters not to rat him out. And, yes, we loved Rachel Maddow’s brilliant repackaging of our story.
5) All Apologies: How prescient of Ms. Semnani to prepare this blanket mea culpa for all those overworked staffers who, hopefully, still managed to carve out a little family time after toiling away on the debt ceiling, continuing resolutions and, most recently, the payroll tax cut extension.
Good times!
Tune in tomorrow for another walk down memory lane from the other half of Team HOH.
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Heard on the Hill Headlines
By
Warren Rojas
| May 25, 2012
Pro-choice activists went on the offensive this week after one of their own got dressed down by a flight crew for donning what American Airlines personnel deemed to be an over-the-top T-shirt.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 25, 2012
John Scofield, the one-time mouthpiece for the Congressional committee tasked with burning through money, was back in the news this week. Only this time he let his cooking do all the talking.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 25, 2012
The house where the legendary 1972 porn “Deep Throat” was filmed is now on the market in Miami, Fla., the real estate blog Zwillow reports.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012
Rep. Sean Duffy is kicking it “old school” on Highway 53 on the way to Lake Superior.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012
First lady Michelle Obama has been calling on kids and parents to climb aboard the healthy-eating bandwagon for years now.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012
Chicago residents: The next time you receive a package, closely ogle the delivery guy. He might be your Congressman.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012
The U. S. Capitol Page Alumni Association starts rolling into town today for a reunion weekend jam-packed with educational activities and nostalgia-stoking get-togethers. Too bad most of Congress won’t be around to participate.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012
Democrats get ready! Local tea party folks plan to greet those attending the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., with some serious political verbiage — at least the ones arriving via the highway. “When the DNC arrives, we will have an impact,” Yadkin Valley Tea Party activist Mark Hager pledges.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 23, 2012
Last Thursday, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) stoked the birthers when he said President Barack Obama wasn’t American, at least not in his heart, and he’s been walking back, or sideways or forward, from the statement since.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 23, 2012
Unless the Library of Congress knows something we don’t, the hip-hop classic “Rapper’s Delight” was recorded by the Sugarhill Gang in 1979 and not by the late great Donna Summer in 1977.
