For several hours on Wednesday, the re-election campaign web site of D.C. Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss, paulstrauss.org, displayed the message, pictured at right, that it had been “taken down due to a lack of payment.” We asked Strauss about it, and by the time he got back to us, the message had been removed. Several hours later, a new splash page, this time with the message “Site under construction,” appeared. Then late last night, the…

We’re heading over to a quickly thrown together luncheon hosted by the District’s shadow delegation (Shadow Sen. Michael Brown said it was coordinated over the course of four hours) that will apparently feature Hayden Panettiere of Heroes, some other yet unnamed actor who has appeared on The West Wing, and minor character actor David Keith, whose most recent major role was over 25 years ago, in An Officer and a Gentleman. Regularly readers will…