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.

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 …

Dan Aykroyd is a great actor, but he’s no John Boehner – unless he drops a few and gets a tan.

This blog entry is not meant to be funny or off-colored.  Our only intention was to report the facts.  [Although if it makes you laugh, you’re not alone.  We tested it on a class full of 4th grade boys, and they all found humor in it.] Politico is reporting that …

It’s not everyday you get to go to the White House and enjoy some free refreshments, so when that chance rolls around, you better darn sure take advantage of it. Check out Leader Boehner. He got the diet coke, tea and coffee.  Aggressive.

Ben Pershing started a new feature where he talks to the top communications staffers for the Rs and Ds in the House and Senate. Which staffer will first take this opportunity to go Back to the Future? It looks like House Minority Leader Boehner’s spokesman Michael Steel is up to …

John Bresnahan: GOP Leaders Warn of Election Disaster Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money. … The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying …

If there was a “Profile in Courage Award,” Lauren W. Whittington of Roll Call would have walked away with it today.  This morning, Roll Call featured a story on Rep. Eric Cantor, and in writing it, Lauren perhaps reached a journalistic milestone when she used the most ever background quotes …

Need a bumper sicker to go next to this one on your minivan?  Well, you might just be in luck. “On FreedomProject.org is a petition calling on House Democrats to reveal their ‘commonsense plan’ for lowering gas prices. By raising taxes and creating new red tape, the Majority has shown it …

Does the ‘Motion to Recommit’ keep you on the edge of your seat and your eyes glued to C-SPAN?  Do you even know what a Motion to Recommit [or MTR as the policy wonks call it] is? If you don’t, trust me, you’re not alone … if you do, well, there’s …

OK Go lead singer, Damian Kulash Jr., on the op-ed pages of the NY Times discussing net neutrality….only weeks after testifying before House Judiciary Committee GREAT LINE: “I’m flattered, of course, but it makes you wonder if Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner sit around arguing who was listening to Vampire Weekend first.” …

Rep. John Boehner has to wear shades. [find out why]

Patrick O’Connor: Influential GOP lobbyist joins Altria Bruce Gates, an influential Republican lobbyist with close ties to House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), is leaving Washington Council Ernst & Young, the firm he helped found in 1996, to work in the Washington office of the newly reconstituted Altria, according …

FishbowlDC’s Quote of the Day Has John Boehner Giving Fashion Advice to Patrick O’Connor

The Democrats have decided the only way to do business these days, is if they do it secretly – and that means holding important FISA sessions behind “closed doors.” “They believe that the more members know about it, the less likely they will be to support Bush’s wish to make …