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Just before Christmas, the pals had a Last Supper of steak and wine at the Caucus Room, a lobbyists' hangout just off Capitol Hill. "Half the people in this room will be unhappy in a year and a half," Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager, told them. But he said that what matters is how they conduct themselves and that they come back together to work for the nominee. An attendee says Madden told several of his elders who are going to work for McCain, "I may take a chunk out of you. But at least...
...Hill's surfeit of former cheerleaders, student body presidents and most popular classmates can give the place an eerie, permanent-postgrad feel - a kind of constantly renewed high school scene unfolding amid all the power and prestige of the Capitol. That's especially true on the first day of a new Congress, and today, amid the pomp and revelry of the Democratic takeover, a hundred minor dramas brought it all back...
...just so happens that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be launching her career as Democratic House leader the same week that the District hosted memorial service for Gerald Ford. That small twist of fate points up one of the capitol's cardinal rules: in Washington, you never run out of chances to make a first impression...
...Congressional Democrats who have spent 12 long years in the minority, New Year's Eve was merely a prelude to the real celebration that will take place this Thursday, when they will officially take over the reins of power on Capitol Hill. But the party would be wise not to party too hard. Its ambitious plans for changing how Washington operates face daunting obstacles - the biggest being the Iraq war - and it may not be long before it starts feeling the hangover...
...Still, Democratic and Republican lawmakers know each party pays a price in two years if legislative gridlock continues. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plan to begin the new session with a closed meeting of all Republicans and Democrats in the Capitol to discuss ways they can get along. "Both understand the need to change the way D.C. operates," says Manley...