Ars Technica: New political taunt: We have more Facebook friends than you In a sign of just how mainstream social networking has become, Republicans have now taken to bragging that they “out-tweet” the Democrats—and have more Facebook friends, too. Yesterday, Congressional Republicans launched America Speaking Out, a new website that …

Aaron Blake Tweets: DSCC tweets and posts Biden’s Blumenthal comments. Whoops http://2.ly/bmya UPDATE: The link is dead (Contentless Rant), but we got a screen grab.

This is what happens when you tune out the news for three consecutive days: South Carolina, apparently sick and tired of Arizona hogging all the negative attention, is embarrassing itself before the nation once again. Republican state Rep. Nikki Haley is running for governor. So, naturally, a former Mark Sanford …

We hope you had a good weekend and didn’t drunk dial David Axelrod.

DCist: Overheard in DC Congressional humor Outside the House side of the Capitol building: Men in suits are walking past the man who dresses like Jesus who is outside the Capitol a lot. Man in a suit: “For what purpose does the gentleman from Nazareth rise? … The gentleman from …

Albritton scooped up DCist’s Sommer Mathis for TBD.com, House floor speeches can be boring, Clinton Portis has a stripper pole in his basement, @BlairDC gave us her favorite top 5 rooftop bars, bring it Mayweather, so what’s the deal?, Chris Frates finally took a vacation, public service for Congressional press …

We’re not sure how this would play in Arizona.

This is pretty funny.

We know you press secretaries out there have a lot to deal with. Angry reporters. Policy staffers who think they’re communicators. Aggressive colleagues. Passive aggressive committee staffers. Tickle fights. It’s a rough life. And if you stick around long enough, chances are your boss will be caught in a sex …

We’re all for keeping it real, but this is just f*cking depressing. Al, it was a commencement address, not a funeral.  We can only imagine how many students are now heavily medicated after listening to you ramble on and on about the world coming to an end.

We’re talking soccer this time.

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Fox News’ Chad Pergram: Read the Fine Print So with the COMPETES Act in the till, the GOP again hatched an artful motion to recommit. This MTR would require the government to can all employees disciplined for using government computers to view pornography. FOX obtained an internal GOP memo that …