Each day, Ashley Estill surfs your sites for the most popular stories of the day. Here are the top headlines for February 9, 2010:

Washington Post: White House mocks Sarah Palin from podium

Washington Times: Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash

Washington Examiner: White House: People who criticize us are helping al Qaeda

USA Today: Eye-opener: Swimsuits, Brees - and more Manning

CQ Politics: DSCC Blasts Lobbyists But Wants Their Cash

The Hill: Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm Emanuel on healthcare

Politico: No high hopes for health care summit

ABC News: Robert Gibbs Mocks Sarah Palin from White House Podium...When Imitation Isn't Flattery

CBS News: Toyota Prius Recall Extended Worldwide

Fox News: Tourists Stuck in Elevator Sparks Shutdown of World's Tallest Tower

MSNBC News: China report finds extensive water pollution

CNN: Cool Betty White is red-hot

Wall Street Journal: Cheney's Revenge

NPR: Lil Wayne's Jail Time: All Part Of The Plan

Roll Call: Murtha's Death Stuns Democratic Ranks

National Journal: U.S. Disaster Response From Katrina To Haiti

Bloomberg News: European Officials Consider Greek Bailout on Budget

Gallup.Com: Gallup Economic Weekly: No Super Bowl Boost

Talking Points Memo: Democrats: We're Excited To Debate GOP Shadow Budget...Why Aren't Republicans?

Politics Daily: Transcript of News Conference by President Obama

Reuters: China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.

The New Republic: Something Much Darker

HuffPost reporting that FNC Contributor Angela McGlowan is planning a run for Congress.

If elected McGlowan would become the third African American Republican to be elected to the House in the past 75 years. She hinted her run for a Mississippi seat at the Tea Party Convention. She plans to announce soon.

Read the story here.

While many scribes are already back on the beat, we decided to check in TWT's White House correspondent Joseph Curl, mainly because he lives waaaaay out by Warrenton, Va. He told us a tale that could elicit sympathy if it wasn't just a tad funny.

In short, Curl's been shoveling for days.
But let's hear it in his own words:

"I've been shoveling for three days now. We got 27 inches of snow, which means it take three scoops just to clear a 3-foot by 3-foot patch of driveway. The driveway's 400-feet long. That's 1,200 feet of shoveling, times eight feet wide (someone out there, figure out the volume of THAT!). It's all pointless, though. At the end of the driveway begins a quarter-mile gravel road out to what my dad would call 'the hard road.'

"On Day 2, a plow couldn't even make it onto the gravel road because the VDOT rig had left a five-foot wall of snow at the main road. On Monday, we dug a hole in the wall. My house is at the end of a quarter-mile gravel road. Our plow guy got stuck, so I've been digging him out over and over. This is now my full-time job (went to sleep around 9 to rest up for a full day of shoveling). New plan: front-loader coming in.

"By 2 p.m. Tuesday, I'd made it to the end of the driveway, and some neighbors got the guy with the front-loader to scoop a path down the gravel road. Freedom!"

Or, not.

"Right now, at 4 p.m., the first flakes of what is expected to be 10-20 inches of snow are just beginning to fall. I might be dug out by the spring. Really not looking forward to more shoveling. Whole body aches. Who needs weight rooms and treadmills? I'm sure I've lost five pounds just shoveling. But then again, I may drop dead at any moment."

(FishbowlDC wishes Curl a safe, upcoming, alleged snowstorm.)

"Young & the Guest List," Washington Life's annual roundup of roughly 200 (more this year) of the metro area's top innovators under the age of 40 just hit newsstands. This year's list includes 152 men, 112 women, 2 diplomats 35 CEOs and 44 folks from the White House and Cap Hill. WL tells us that there were 78 new editions this year and a quick read proves that DC media types were well-represented.

Just a few of the media types to make the cut include CNN's Jessica Yellin, WaPo's Dan Zak, ABC7's Kris Van Cleave, Cynee Simpson and Scott Thuman, C-SPAN's Greta Brawner, Fox News' Bret Baier and wife Amy, AP's Desmond Butler, MTP's Betsy Fischer Roll Call's Jackie Kucinich, ABC's Emily Lenzner, NBC's Luke Russert, Daily Caller's Becca Glover, Ross Douthat, UrbanDaddy's Jeff Dufour and wifey, Jayne Sandman Dufour. Representing White House media types are Dep. Comm Director Jen Psaki, Comm Director Dan Pfeiffer and Dir. of New Media Macon Phillips.

In addition, three generations of FishbowlDC appear on this year's list - Washingtonian's Garrett Graff, Politico's Patrick Gavin and me, Matt Dornic.

For the full list, pick up a copy at Whole Foods, newsstands and book stores around the city. For more on the YGL, check out Washington Life's website here and a behind-the-scenes video from the YGL fashion shoot below.

WL Fashion TV: Behind the Scenes at The Young & The Guest List Fashion Shoot from Washington Life Magazine on Vimeo.

Esquire's Mark Warren interviews The Weekly Stanard's/Daily Caller's Matt Labash in a must-read interview as it nastily rips apart everyone from author Labash to his boss, Bill Kristol to Politico, which Warren says brings on his narcolepsy. ("ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZ", he writes.)

Labash's Fly Fishing with Darth Vader was released today.

A sampling:

Warren: Does Kristol realize you work for him? And what are you doing in Washington? Every writer there except you sucks hard.

ML: First off, I don't know which of your pets Bill Kristol ran over, but if you like me, you like Kristol, because he's one of the few editors in America who'd let me do what I do. That said, no, Kristol actually has no idea I work for him. I introduced myself once around '95, but I don't think he caught the name. I just kept showing up to editorial meetings, so he started calling me "David Brooks." I played through, and have kept doing so. Which is odd, as now he tells me that he loves my column in the New York Times. I don't know what he's going to do when they hide my/Brooks's column behind the pay wall. It's not fair to him. It's not fair to anyone.

Read more here.

This postponed line is getting repetitive, but we've got another one.

NBC's Chuck Todd tweets:
"Now NBC's DC buro's chili cookoff has been postponed. I hate you snow monster, where's Jacob to save us from snow!"

Every year NBC's Washington bureau has a chili cookoff.

A source thought "Jacob" might be from the Bible. Lo and behold, Jacob is from ABC's "Lost".

If ever there was a song that could be used to torture terrorists (or just your colleagues) it's this one. Play it, say, 15 times straight and an underwear bomber would be singing like a canary. "Play By The Rules" is by John Chaffee, (aka "Uncle Sam").

The song is described as "infectious country-bluegrass" with "flare to spare." Additionally, the Cleveland based singer-songwriter's "biting, socially conscious song is quickly becoming the anthem of American frustration."

The anthem of America, it's not. An infection? Maybe.

Months after its initial release, Chaffee's video has (somehow) earned a spot on Fox's Live Webcast "The Strategy Room."

Watch the video here.

Major Garrett taking a pic of POTUS. Twitpic by Savannah Guthrie from @savannahguthrie

President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room this afternoon. When he entered, he joked with NBC's Chuck Todd that "McConnell and Reid are making snow angels on the South Lawn."

The prez took questions for the first time since July. In another surprise move, POTUS offered first dibs to Fox News' Major Garrett, followed by a question from ABC's Jake Tapper.

Sources expect President Obama to appear in the White House briefing room in the next few minutes (around 1.30 pm).

If the prez takes questions, this will be his first "press conference" in months.

Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) daughters, Ayla and Arianna have been invited to the prom of a White House Correspondents' Dinner. Invited by: CBS

(Political spawn can be confusing. Ayla's the one who performed on "American Idol." She's on the left.)

The White House Correspondents' Dinner isn't until May. But who wants to wait until the last minute to ask your date to the prom?

We're hearing that newly elected Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has accepted an invitation from ABC, not to mention that others have tried to woo him. Maybe he'll show up to the ball in the famous pickup truck. Of course, here's hoping he makes it up to those daughters he jokingly embarrassed during his acceptance speech and brings them along for the ride.

> Update: A source tells us that Senator and Mrs. Brown were invited by ABC News' Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper and his wife Jennifer, and they accepted.

We're certain Jen Bendery will not miss her White House pool duty, as happened by mistake last week when her publication (NOT HER) went all Seasonique on Bloomberg's Ed Chen by forgetting to show for Pool duty. Chen then went a little emotionally postal on Roll Call.

Last week Bendery said the White House post was just in the "interim". Today Editor Charlie Mitchell made it official and sent an announcement to staff today giving Bendery the title.

All the best to Bendery in her new position.
Please note: It was not Bendery's fault that Pool duty was missed. Keith Koffler was supposed to be on the schedule, but has since left the publication.

See Mitchell's internal memo after the jump...

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