Actual sum­mary of a news story at CNN.

New York (CNN­Money) – When it comes to bud­get­ing for the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, things are about to get strange.

Start­ing Fri­day, fed­eral agen­cies will be forced to make cuts to their pro­grams with­out know­ing what their actual bud­gets for this year will be. Why? Because Con­gress never passed a bud­get, just a stop­gap fund­ing mea­sure that expires soon.

No bud­get?  Gee, who hasn’t done that for nearly four years and counting…?

It’s $14 Mil­lion in the red.

It owes $4.2 mil­lion to vendors…that needs to be paid back now!

And it is try­ing to make 48 seats com­pet­i­tive in a cycle in which his­tory says they are about to take it on the chin due to the “Six-Year Itch” of politics.

It is the Demo­c­ra­tic Con­gres­sional Cam­paign Com­mit­tee, and its de facto leader Nancy Pelosi spent part of the week at the White House not talk­ing about the fis­cal cliff, but beg­ging for money from the President’s campaign.

White House offi­cials declined to com­ment on the Pelosi-Obama meet­ing or whether the pres­i­dent plans to help out House Democ­rats with their debt.

Both Pelosi and Sen­ate Major­ity Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sought mil­lions of dol­lars from the Obama cam­paign early in 2012, as the cam­paign sea­son was heat­ing up, POLITICO reported on March 5.

But Obama and his top cam­paign advis­ers, fear­ing a tidal wave of GOP super PAC spend­ing — cor­rectly, as it turned out — refused to pro­vide any finan­cial help to the DSCC or the Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­to­r­ial Cam­paign Committee.

Now, with Pelosi stay­ing on for another two years and Obama safely reelected, the Cal­i­for­nia Demo­c­rat wants the president’s help in get­ting the Demo­c­ra­tic Con­gres­sional Cam­paign Com­mit­tee back in the black.

Accord­ing to its lat­est dis­clo­sure report, the DCCC owed $10 mil­lion on a loan from Bank of Amer­ica. The DCCC also owes another $4.2 mil­lion to its ven­dors. The com­mit­tee has $2.5 mil­lion in cash on hand as of Nov. 26.

Obama for Amer­ica has debt of $7.2 mil­lion and still has $5.4 mil­lion in cash.

The bulk of the entire Demo­c­ra­tic cam­paign oper­a­tion is nearly broke after this past elec­tion.  The DNC is said to be $20 mil­lion in the red and I believe only the DSCC (The Sen­ate cam­paign arm) has any real money in the bank.  In order to fill it — and fill it quickly before the bill col­lec­tors call and the next cycle starts in earnest — they are going to need help from Obama.

Given his past coop­er­a­tion (or lack thereof) when it comes to help­ing out the DCCC / DNC / DSCC, many are won­der­ing will Obama deliver and help fund raise.

All indi­ca­tions are that “The List,” the much-talked about donor and vol­un­teer file kept by the Obama Cam­paign will stay in-house and go nowhere near state par­ties, the DNC and other com­mit­tees.  Instead, it will be used to have Obama sup­port­ers go after Con­gres­sional Repub­li­cans for not giv­ing the Pres­i­dent what he wants in leg­isla­tive fights.

If that’s so, then the Dems have one self­ish party leader and a lot red ink to swim through.

Glad to see that attempt to get into lead­er­ship I’ve men­tioned to folks off-line is already underway.

Any­one want to give me over / under odds that Pocan is run­ning or a chief fund raiser at the DCCC in six years time?

Six lawmakers-elect filed paper­work to estab­lish their own lead­er­ship polit­i­cal action com­mit­tees in Sep­tem­ber, accord­ing to Fed­eral Elec­tion Com­mis­sion records.

Reps.-elect Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), Roger Williams (R-Texas), Ann Wag­ner (R-Mo.), Ron DeSan­tis (R-Fla.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) all estab­lished lead­er­ship PACs — a fundrais­ing vehi­cle that mem­bers use to sup­port can­di­dates and col­leagues — before Nov. 1.

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Pocan, who will fill Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-Wis.) vacant House seat, became the first candidate-turned-member to spon­sor a lead­er­ship PAC. He said he was sur­prised the name “Blue Major­ity” had not been taken and decided to make it his own.

The lead­er­ship PAC gained offi­cial sta­tus on Sept. 21, more than six weeks before the elec­tion. DeSan­tis, Wag­ner, Kilmer, Salmon and Williams fol­lowed suit in October.

Pocan said he was focused on help­ing peo­ple and mak­ing the steps nec­es­sary to regain a Demo­c­ra­tic House major­ity, “even before day one.”

And he has a run­ning head start: New cam­paign finance reports released Thurs­day revealed that Blue Major­ity PAC raised more than $33,000 since its inception.

(Can’t wait for the angry blog post by Mike McCabe on this news…)

At the Wash­ing­ton Post’s “The Fix” blog, Aaron Blake writes that Demo­c­ra­tic odds of tak­ing the major­ity are quite long for 2014.  Sim­ply put, they have his­tory work­ing against them as “The Six-Year Itch” is expected to be in full effect.  His­tory shows that the party of a pres­i­dent in the mid-terms of his sec­ond term often takes it on the chin.

Already on Blake’s first “line” of the 10 House seats most likely to flip in 2014, seven of them are cur­rently held by Democrats.

But Pocan’s PAC isn’t about 2014.  It’s about the years beyond.

Mem­bers form lead­er­ship PACs to fill the cof­fers of other can­di­dates.  Those who make said dona­tions then expect to get some­thing in return from the rep­re­sen­ta­tive (newly-elected or return­ing) in the next ses­sion of Con­gress.  With his abil­ity to fund raise and his assured secu­rity by rep­re­sent­ing an ultramarine-level “blue” seat in Madi­son, Pocan isn’t try­ing to pro­tect him­self, he’s set to cre­ate quite the lit­tle favor fac­tory for himself.

Not bad work if you can get it.

This comes from Legis­Storm, a web­site run by a non-partisan out­fit of the same name which tracks Con­gres­sional staffers, their salaries, and appar­ently now, their per­sonal blogs.

This, is what they found on the per­sonal web­site of a soon-to-be ex-staffer of retir­ing Cong. Jesse Jack­son, Jr. (D-IL).  (Best of luck job hunt­ing after this gets out.)

Con­gres­sional staff are sup­posed to work behind the scenes and leave all the head­lines for their boss. How­ever, as LegiS­torm closed the book on the tur­bu­lent tenure of departed Rep. Jesse Jack­son Jr. (D-Ill.), two of his less dis­creet staff caught our eye.

Jef­fery Mingo, an aide in the con­gres­sional district’s Home­wood, Ill. office since 2000 (and even after Jack­son left), describes him­self as an “eth­nic stud­ies scholar” and stu­dent of such sub­jects as gay stud­ies and crit­i­cal race the­ory on his Amazon.com pro­file. Mingo’s pro­file inter­spersed reviews of mul­ti­ple porno­graphic titles with children’s toys and cartoons. Here are Mingo’s words on “Black Tranny Whack­ers 06″ from Nov. 17:

“I want to see men get busy with tran­nies. I want to see men be pas­sive with tran­nies. For those who like inter­ra­cial action, a white typ­i­cal male-black tranny combo would really show how oppo­sites can attract. How­ever, this is just black tran­nies mas­ter­ing their domains. Black tran­nies need love too!…this monkey-spanking stuff is just too bor­ing and unin­ter­est­ing to be both­ered with. Yuck! And Yawn!”

His review appeared one day after a much more glow­ing review of a DVD of “The Smurfs”. Mingo did not have much bet­ter things to say about “Frat Boys on the Loose 08″ on Oct. 18, in part because the movie fea­tured “Ken doll types” and “I like men who are fat or have chest hair.”

How­ever, his Hal­loween review of “Forced Bi Cuck­olds 05″ was more favor­able: “Here, all the men either give or receive male plea­sure. … You don’t have to be a both-ways man to enjoy this novel and excit­ing new genre. I highly rec­om­mend it.”

Mingo declined com­ment on his reviews. Within a few hours, the ones fea­tur­ing pornog­ra­phy were taken down.

A reviewer of gay porno and gay sex toys, just what Amer­ica wants up on the Hill!

Well, they’re right about it being accord­ing to their religion…no his­tory con­firms that any eco­nomic gods will be appeased since any­one with a brain could have seen that by the end of 1992 the econ­omy was hum­ming along ready to burst.

But then, the media had a Demo­c­rat to help make Pres­i­dent didn’t they?

Yeah, this will go down in his­tory in future cam­paigns and pub­lic rela­tions classes as what not to do.

Obama Deputy Cam­paign Man­ager Stephanie Cut­ter in melt­down over the attack on the Amer­i­can Con­sulate in Beng­hazi, Libya.

First of all, good to see that it wasn’t hard to get 3,000 peo­ple on a col­lege cam­pus.  You start to won­der if my alma mater is inca­pable of pulling it off, then you remem­ber it’s a col­lege cam­pus and you move on.

So of course, Vice Pres­i­dent Biden was in Eau Claire today, and accord­ing to the WisPolitics.com report, nat­u­rally made some gaffes.

Here’s where they were:

Biden was pre­ceded by Sen. Kath­leen Vine­out, D-Alma, and 7th CD can­di­date Pat Kre­it­low. Biden told those in atten­dance to vote for Kre­it­low, though he mis­pro­nounced his name.

My guess is it was “Kreet-Low?”  Yeah, I know those Ger­man names are so tough, aren’t they?  Espe­cially for the crowd in the East Coast…I should know.

Way to be prepped there Mr. Vice President.

Sec­ondly, the cam­pus of UW-Eau Claire and the over­whelm­ing major­ity of Eau Claire County are in the 3rd Con­gres­sional Dis­trict, not the 7th where Kre­it­low is run­ning.  Has been like that for decades.

Hardly any­one in the gym­na­sium today will end up being eli­gi­ble to vote for Kreitlow.

From a Boston Globe story on the “hedg­ing bets” meme now in the media.

(Funny, I don’t recall this going on in 2000 or 2008 when it was Joe Lieber­mann and Joe Biden doing the same thing.  Won­der why?)

“I feel he should be back in the dis­trict to debate me,” [Rob] Zer­ban, a Demo­c­rat, said between sips of beer at an Irish pub in Madi­son, after a day so long that he apol­o­gized at the interview’s con­clu­sion for not being more ener­getic. “I mean, if he’s going to be run­ning for both offices, then he cer­tainly has a duty and oblig­a­tion to the peo­ple of the First Con­gres­sional Dis­trict to ful­fill the oblig­a­tions of this race as well — and I think that’s debat­ing me.”

When did Madi­son become part of the 1st Con­gres­sional Dis­trict of Wis­con­sin?  He couldn’t find a bar around Janesville?  Racine?  Kenosha? Hell, Elkhorn?

Maybe he was in Madi­son because that’s one of the only parts of the state where he’s get­ting money from.  Oh…if only I had the time to tear apart this guy’s finance reports to find out not only what per­cent­age is com­ing from WI, but what per­cent­age is com­ing from the 1st CD.

I believe it was in 2004, maybe 2006.  Hon­estly, I’d have to double-check my archives from the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the blog. (The pre-DC ver­sion of the site exists as a series of Word doc­u­ments I have on an exter­nal hard drive.)

But this whole thing sounds famil­iar.  Think the guy was vot­ing in both Illi­nois and Wis­con­sin.  Grand fun at the time.

A Mary­land Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date quit her con­gres­sional race Mon­day after her own party told state offi­cials that she had com­mit­ted fraud by vot­ing in both Mary­land and Florida in recent elections.

Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner run­ning against fresh­man Rep. Andy Har­ris ® in the East­ern Shore-based 1st Con­gres­sional Dis­trict, released a state­ment say­ing that “with great regret, and much sor­row” she was resign­ing from the contest.

“Per­sonal issues have made this the hard­est deci­sion that I have had to make,” Rosen said

Rosen’s announce­ment came the same day the state Demo­c­ra­tic party released a let­ter to state Attor­ney Gen­eral Dou­glas Gansler and state pros­e­cu­tors report­ing the alle­ga­tions against Rosen.

“The Mary­land Demo­c­ra­tic Party has dis­cov­ered that Ms. Rosen has been reg­is­tered to vote in both Florida and Mary­land since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 gen­eral elec­tion both in Florida and Mary­land; and that she voted in the pres­i­den­tial pref­er­ence pri­maries held in both Florida and Mary­land in 2008,” wrote Yvette Lewis, the state party chair. “This infor­ma­tion is based on an exam­i­na­tion of the voter files from both states. We believe that this is a clear vio­la­tion of Mary­land law and urge the appro­pri­ate office to con­duct a full investigation.”

A senior Mary­land Demo­c­rat said the party had been tipped off this week­end by some­one within the party about Rosen’s poten­tial issue. After check­ing the alle­ga­tion, the party con­tacted Rosen on Mon­day morn­ing and urged her to quit.

Local Demo­c­ra­tic com­mit­tees in the 1st dis­trict will now meet and vote on a new can­di­date to replace Rosen on the bal­lot. The new name must be sub­mit­ted to the state by Sept. 27.

Oh the joys of run­ning “Sno-Birds” as can­di­dates.  Heard the Dems would have had sim­i­lar issues with Nancy Nus­baum if she won the recall against Robert Cowles last year — since she was in the midst of buy­ing a sec­ond home in Florida at the start of the recall.

Or, at least that’s what the story was…