Team Boehner just released a pretty clever new web ad. You can’t go wrong with animals in YouTube videos.  Just ask Nancy . Note: First office to use a monkey wins.

Here’s your mind-blowing fact of the day: However, Politico notes that "in the 14 years since that star-crossed class arrived in Washington espousing an agenda that placed family values at its core, no less than a dozen of its members have been caught up in affairs, sex scandals or in …

What a week. First we learned the ex-WaPo reporters, John Harris and Jim VandeHei, registered www.postpolitics.com and then sold it back to The Washington Post AFTER they started Politico. VF: Beltway Boys Harris and VandeHei had begun, early on, registering domain names, including postpolitics.com, which the Post, when it began …

Jonathan Favreau makes $172,000 a year.

Only in America: The Republican Leader of the US House golfs with Tiger Woods Jessica Simpson sings the National Anthem DC fans boo Tony Romo DC Sports Blog: Redskins, Tiger Woods and Jessica Simpson [Boehner, by the way, swings right-handed but putts left-handed, with his body facing the hole. It’s …

"I want Hilary Duff to play me. I think she’s really hot — hotter than me — but I’d still want her to play me" — Meghan McCain, imagining herself in movie form (New York Daily News) . h/t Wake Up Call

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The longest Senate campaign in history is finally over. [diapers] Democrat Al Franken, a satirist turned politician, was declared the winner of a Senate seat in Minnesota on Tuesday, clearing the way for President Barack Obama’s party to secure a critical 60-seat majority in the Senate.  [live from DC…] Asked …

$10 to the first Senator to ask Sotomayor about this at her confirmation hearing? New York Times: Sotomayor, a Trailblazer, and a Dreamer [but did she wear a bullet proof vest?] “At other times, it involved more derring-do: if the firm had a tip from the United States Customs Office …

Spend a few minutes with your morning coffee and check out Todd S. Purdum’s take on the Palin campaign. Vanity Fair: It Came From Wasilla Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her …

It’s this kind of thing that can help politicians lock up the youth vote: The invective that CQ reporter Richard Rubin overheard at 1st and C streets Southeast from Republican Rep. Lee Terry this morning is hardly the kind of language you’d expect to hear in Omaha on a Sunday …

YouTube: Submit Your Question for President Obama President Obama is taking your questions this Wednesday in a special online health care townhall event. With healthcare at the top of the President’s agenda, he is opening up the White House to questions via YouTube. Create a 20- or 30-second video question …

Study: DC folks read and eat well; have low level of emotional support. First Brain Health lndex Ranks America’s “Brain Smarts” Based on 21 Indicators: D.C. Ranks No. 1 Life’s DHA Index of Brain HealthSM Asks and Answers: Does Your State Have the Healthiest Brains? COLUMBIA, Md. – The first …

The Famous line of the week in a political story award goes to Jonathan Martin for this forbidden gem. JoMa: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair turns political The intra-party machinations highlight a part of the Sanford soap opera that goes past the governor’s lust for forbidden flesh.

Politico begs the question: Why so few women in infidelity club? When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair on Wednesday, he presented an all-too-familiar tableau: the pained expressions, contrite words and teary gaze of a male politician confessing sexual indiscretion. Coming close on the heels of …