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 …

A few of our favorites are below. Note: Not quite sure about that first one.  [David, this isn’t an email to your frat brothers]

Politico’s Arena recently asked its contributors for book recommendations.  Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Pelosi, answered the question, but did she really leave her own mother’s book off of her best read list? … the best political book I read this year was John Grisham’s The Appeal .. Is that …

With Brokaw flailing at MTP, does George smell blood in the water? Whatever provoked it, the former Clinton staffer drilled Speaker Pelosi for 8 minutes on energy policy today on “This Week.”