Love watching Politico go bananas! An assemblage of banal, trite, lazy DC hacks; a circle-jerk of the dumbest monkeys in the National Zoo, complete with old tire swingset Peter Principle playground that the dumbest of them instinctively know to stay with Politico rather than accept career advances elsewhere, because they don't have to work hard, or much at all.
Your description of folks in DC is much to kind. Folks here are far less competent than that.