Congrats to Erin on her new gig with Real Clear Politics. Her first story showed up today. Real Clear Politics: Portman Fine-Tunes Message in Key Senate Race

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Marc Ambinder: After November, I’ll be joining National Journal as White House correspondent. A little less blogging, a lot more reporting. Very excited.

Have the Rex Ryan pep talks on Hard Knocks fired up the Politico folks? Playbook put on its big boy pants and spent the weekend jacking people up. On Sunday Playbook ran an advertisement (with no sponsor attribution to parent company Albritton) to pop Comcast and NBC: ** ADVERTISEMENT: A …

We report. You decide. We thought about not posting this awful graph, but then figured it would make good afternoon conversation Andrew Sullivan: Support For Marriage Equality Accelerating?

Rep. Charlie Rangel [D-Taxes] was just on the House floor speaking under a point of personal privilege.  [Note: That’s fancy talk for “say whatever the f*ck you want to.”] Apparently Chuck went at it for several minutes, all the while stating his innocence. If I can’t get my dignity back …

Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will reconvene because of one single tweet. This 140 character message, not only ruined thousands of August vacations, but will cost staffers and members thousands of dollars when it’s all said and done. With the help from FamousDC, the fine folks at JESS3 illustrated …

Monica took what might have been a pretty ridiculous assignment and turned it into something wonderful. She transformed a fringe Republican Gubernatorial candidacy into a 962-word think-piece on the intersection of politics, the Internet and Napoleon Dynamite. WaPo: Basil Marceaux lost his race, but on Web he won place in …

The Hill’s Alexander Bolton:McConnell scolds Franken for making faces from dais during his speech Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) scolded Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on the Senate floor Thursday for allegedly mocking him while he delivered a solemn speech on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

POLITICO’s Gloria Park: Next D.C. Career: Blogger Relations Michelle Malkin, a conservative blogger and author, credited staff at The Heritage Foundation, minority staff at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and House Homeland Security Committee and staff in the offices of Rep. John Boehner and Sen. …

Mr. Rick Klein of ABC News is known to be quite the collector. Now he has a FamousDC mug to add to his impressive baseball card collection. C-SPAN, Page Six JESS3, and now ABC News Where will the next FamousDC mug show up? PREVIOUS: Extreme Famous Morning Coffee PREVIOUS: Page …

Just as the Founding Fathers imagined … Speaker Pelosi just reconvened the U.S. House of Representatives via a Tweet. Speaker Pelosi: I will be calling the House back into session early next week to save teachers’ jobs and help seniors & children Blackberry updates are ruining August vacations at beaches …

This final film of this year’s Screen on the Green season, Bonnie and Clyde, ended in a bloody hail of bullets that forever snuffed out the hopes and aspirations of a young couple finding happiness the only way they could during an economically depressed time. Throughout the evening it was …

C-SPAN, Page Six and now JESS3. Leslie Bradshaw: Talking big things with THE @FamousDC. Look for @JESS3 partnership awesomeness soon. #fdc http://twitpic.com/2begp9 Where will the next FamousDC mug show up? PREVIOUS: Extreme Famous Morning Coffee PREVIOUS: Page Six Famous Morning Coffee

It isn’t like anyone was surprised when Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston decided to call it dunzo. Fortunately for Levi, his attorney Rex Butler has already figured out how this relationship is going to turn out…just fine. Johnston’s lawyer told us he doubts the couple is truly broken up for …