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NJI Media, FamousDC’s digital and creative partner, was cited by the Wall Street Journal for its thoughtful inside jokes on Speaker Ryan’s official website last week: Are you running for president? It’s a question House Speaker Paul Ryan got quite a bit in media interviews this year, always with the same answer: No. …

No one in Washington D.C. agrees on everything, except perhaps this: that here is a decent, honest man who did his best in service of our nation. Godspeed, John Boehner. Thank you for your committed service to our country, Speaker Boehner.

By popular demand, we partnered up with our friends over at Photox again for a little fun with some of our favorite politicos.

The pride of Andover, NJ and Perona Farms gets his birthday photo taken by Speaker Boehner. Happy birthday Bryant Avondoglio. Photo by Heather Reed

His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington and Catholic University of America President John Garvey look on as Speaker Boehner shows them a weather map on his iPhone. May 14, 2011. Photo credit: Office of the Speaker, photo by @bryanta

House Republican Leaders hosted a jobs forum today in which participants were able to engage in the discussion across multiple digital platforms including a Twitter wall and streaming video on www.MajorityLeader.gov and Speaker Boehner’s Facebook page. Note: Rep. McCarthy looks ripped.

With the new Congress boasting 71 female members, it was only a matter of time.  [powder room] House Speaker-to-be John Boehner is planning to install the first-ever women’s restroom next to the floor of the House of Representatives. Previous to this, the closest restroom for the ladies has been at …

BlainR Enjoy it while it lasts … RT @marcadelman: Photo from the best view in Washington. Speaker Pelosi’s balcony! http://yfrog.com/jwxntfj

Newt Gingrich: Capitol Hill staffers ‘have never had a real job’ “Of course it’s the nature of the modern Congress, which hires lots of nice young staffers who have never had a real job, who spent their entire life being arrogant to visitors from back home, who end up thinking …

Tuesday is the new Thursday. What have we learned in the past 24 hours? Congress is really, really good at pointing fingers; not so good at passing bailouts … Time to start exploring new retirement options … Skins “jumped off” against the Cowboys … Things you don’t want on your …

House Minority Leader Boehner: Minority Leader John Boehner nearly choked up as he begged his Republican colleagues to vote “in the best interest of their country” for the bailout bill. … Admitting that the outcome is in “serious doubt,” an impassioned Boehner implored his colleagues to cast aside politics — and …

OK, so August is still here. If we aren’t on a CODEL, leading energy revolutions on the House floor, or back tracking on drilling proposals, what should we do with all of our free time? We’ve decided to take this moment to investigate where DC get its daily conventional wisdom. …

OK, so we need someone to ask Speaker Pelosi a question about global warming, and then we need Pelosi to check her blackberry, and then we need to have Al Gore’s voice come over the loud speaker, and then we need Gore to walk on stage and make a surprise …

The new Party of Pork – according to the San Francisco Chronicle “This time, the Democrats are on the wrong side of an issue they once so passionately championed.”