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A couple weeks ago, House Member Eleanor Holmes Norton made a fundraising call to a lobbyist. The lobbyist wasn’t available, so Holmes Norton left a voicemail. (more)

1.) Democrats who hate Democrats and the Democrats who pretend to like them a lot – They may be a minority, but House Democrats who are running for re-election on what amounts to an anti-Pelosi platform are very, very real. TheDC’s Jonathan Strong counts Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright, who joked that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “might get sick and die”; Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Indiana Dem who took Pelosi over his knee on the carbon tax just one year after supporting a vague list of supposedly quick and painless environmental fixes; as well as Reps. McIntyre, Nye, Altmire, and Childers, each of whom voted a big fat “no” on a piece of legislation close to Madame Pelosi’s heart. Ironically, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has actually given money to some of these people! That’s ironic, right? Maybe Dems are thinking that even the thorniest DINO can be Bart Stupak’d into doing something heinously stupid, making them preferable to an equally ornery but uncontrollable Republican? Meh. Who cares? It’s not like 70 seats are at play! (more)

WASHINGTON — As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority. (more)

WASHINGTON — As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority. (more)

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will get a late fundraising burst for his independent Senate bid from Penthouse CEO Marc Bell, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. (more)

Two years after his coattails helped sweep two dozen Democrats into office, President Obama is proving more a boon to Republicans than to Democrats during the midterm elections. His poll numbers are so morose that Democrats are planning ways to avoid his shadow, while Republicans plot strategies aimed at tying Obama to every incumbent member of Congress they can. (more)

A conservative 527 organization with ties to Republicans Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie is calling on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to donate to charity the sum of all money ever received from Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel. (more)

Democrats added another 20 House seats to their list of targeted districts, officials confirmed Tuesday evening, raising the party’s commitment in television advertising for the final weeks of the campaign to more than $49 million. (more)

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has reserved airtime for the final two weeks before the election in key congressional districts across the country. (more)

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) predicted Sunday that Republicans will win just enough House seats come November to gain control of the House. (more)

Last week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on Meet the Press and said that there’s “no doubt” that Republicans might win enough House seats in November for a majority. If a fundraising email from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is any indication, though, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doesn’t exactly agree with Gibbs’ assessment. (more)

House Republicans attempted late Friday to defuse building tensions between different factions in the leadership that emerged over the last week as top lawmakers in the minority scrapped to gain inside position in anticipation of taking the majority from Democrats in the midterm elections four months from now. (more)

For months, the conventional wisdom has been that Democrats’ best hope of holding the House rests on two things: the long time they’ve had to prepare for a wave election, unlike in 1994, and the money advantage they’ve accumulated due to fumbling at the Republican National Committee and House Republican fundraising arm. (more)

Since announcing his divorce and getting caught up in an alleged “sex-crazed poodle” scandal, former Vice President Al Gore has largely stayed out of the spotlight. The Oscar winner recently, however, came out from hiding to send a fundraising e-mail for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). (more)

House Democratic leaders want a going-away present from the members who are leaving Congress next year — their committee dues. (more)

Lobbyists may be persona non grata on the campaign trail, but that hasn’t stopped the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from tapping K Street’s brain trust to try to retain the majority. (more)

National Democratic Party officials now say the special election to fill John Murtha’s seat in Pennysvania’s 12th Congressional district foretells election outcomes this fall. Whether true or not, it was also a sordid tale that reflects tactics that make obvious a fundamental contempt for the American public. (more)

While the revelation that Connecticut Attorney General and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Richard Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam continues to sink in, Republicans and Democrats across the board are lining up to wage a media battle over the story. The New York Times published a scathing article Monday night, which delved into Blumenthal’s past statements about serving overseas during the Vietnam War. Just a few hours later, GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s campaign bragged about feeding the information to the paper. (more)

The Center for Competitive Politics has made it no secret that we think a campaign finance bill written behind closed doors by the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the past chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee—and a President facing a re-election campaign in 2012—might not really be about good government, as they claim. (more)

Four congressmen have now moved a bill to repeal the North American Free Trade Act. Superficially, this means little, as passage of this bill is unlikely in the near future. But more fundamentally, it means a lot, because, unbeknownst to most Americans inside and outside the Washington Beltway, free trade is inexorably losing its base of support on Capitol Hill. (more)