Who says we can’t all just get along? House Speaker John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden shared a nice moment moment while they waited on the President’s arrival last night, and because they didn’t know the mics were live, we are privy to their very real and pretty cute pre-show chatter. Apparently Boehner shot a pretty good round of golf during his vacation!

Today’s earthquake across the east coast left at least this half of the nation unsettled, and while the damage was minor, all eyes turned to the President for leadership on how to proceed. But the President was far from the White House today– in Martha’s Vineyard, taking it slow and playing golf while being regularly briefed on the situation. Granted, there was little to do in response to the earthquake, given the lack of physical destruction, but CNN’s footage of the President, clad in a polo shirt and preppy hat, chatting on his cell phone is the stuff RNC attack ad directors’ dreams.

Journalists, they’re just like us! Every dropped call and frustrating reception debacle we laypeople have experienced in our lives is greatly put into perspective by this news report on CNN today, where what initially seemed to be a delay and, later, possibly reception loss tore anchor and journalist apart for what seems on screen to be a few slight moments but probably felt like forever for anchor Joe Johns and adrift reporter Joe Carter.

Comedian Larry David appeared on Morning Joe to promote the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm debuting this Sunday, yet the conversation became awkward when David was a bit too blunt about who he would never play golf with: Republican Congressman Eric Cantor. Especially given the fact that Cantor appeared on Morning Joe in an earlier segment, Mika Brzezinski nervously laughed as some others around the table tried to lighten the mood with a bit of humor.

Donald Trump, the former frontrunner in the 2012 Republican race until The Apprentice seduced him away, is still happy to chat about politics and give his perspective, and still pushing most of the views that brought him to prominence early in the year. But tonight, while still going strong against President Obama’s foreign policy, Trump had praise for the way the President handled at least some of his business: by doing it on the golf course.

Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed the president for playing golf amid the crisis in Japan, but former vice president Dan Quayle laughed off that comment, saying “I’m glad he’s out playing golf…I think presidents deserve downtime.”

In an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network, Quayle spoke extensively on the Japan crisis and its impact on nuclear energy, and defended President Obama.

President Obama can’t catch a break on his holiday vacation. First the birth certificate controversy reignited, then his phone call regarding Michael Vick got plenty of people angry, and now just when he thinks he can enjoy a quiet and relaxing game of golf, he almost gets smacked by a golf ball.

If you were going to put money on someone taking a shot at defending BP CEO Tony Hayward, Ann Coulter would be a strong bet. Not that she thinks too highly of him at all, but at least his yachting excursion over the weekend was the first since the BP oil disaster began, unlike President Obama, she argues, who is on his seventh golf game since the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Last night Sean Hannity picked up on a growing narrative inside GOP circles – that President Obama‘s golf outings are a clear example of an aloof and disconnected president during a time of the BP oil disaster. But the following segment only demonstrates how railing on Obama with trite and predictable cliches about being “disconnected” is only a fruitless exercise in trying to score cheap political points.

It was a hole in one…twenty-one for Tiger Woods, according to the National Enquirer.

The newly-respectable news organization reports Woods admitted to 121 affairs during his marriage, but the one that sealed the divorce fate was when it got personal.

American hero Tiger Woods is back to doing the one thing no one can question his ability to do– playing golf at the 2010 Masters Tournament. So, of course, this is the one time he decides to publicly tell himself what the entire nation has been telling him for the past five months. Just to make it clear he is talking to himself, he goes out of his way to specify that he is, in fact, “Tiger Woods.”

The last public statement made by Tiger Woods was on December 2, but now it appears he’s about to reemerge publicly.

TMZ is reporting he will return to golf next month, while Charlie Gasparino, recently of Fox Business Network, reports he will first make a public apology, likely Friday.

President Obama’s penchant for golf has made headlines before (though for very different reasons) so I guess it was just a matter of time before it became suspect in light of how long Obama took to address the nation after the Christmas Day terror attack. Golf might just be this White House’s version of clearing brush.

This week, the New York Times Magazine was dedicated to their newly traditional Year In Ideas thinkpiece. It’s always a fantastic collection of new discoveries, shifts in ways of thinking, and products that we’re likely to hear more about in years to come. It tries, in many ways, to be predictive; to isolate still-germinating concepts [...]

Tiger Woods slept with a lot of women outside of his marriage — golf jokes, jungle cat puns and Ambien aside. But somehow new twists keep revealing themselves in this sexy saga, and voilà, the story has legs for days. But it’s these CGI Tiger Woods Machinima reenactments that are ruining journalism! At least according to the New York Times.

Behold this version of the Tiger Woods scandal — which looks to be in Chinese but may (according to our resident Internet expert) have come through Taiwan. The events, right down to the rumored face-scratching are being re-enacted using Machinima, which is the “use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation.” Basically, the news has been gamed.

Now that ‘President plays sexist golf’ meme has been so ably snatched up by the NYT, the WSJ is apparently attempting to turn President Obama’s fondness for golf into some sort of John Le Carre thriller.

Maureen Dowd is weighing in on President Obama’s habit of surrounding himself with men on the golf course (and elsewhere). And you know what, I suspect this may be one topic that Dowd, who has been circulating in powerful political spheres for much of her professional life, could actually shed some light on. And low and behold she does.

Meme alert! Barack Obama’s fondness for golf is not a secret. This past weekend, however, Obama’s favorite pastime got some extra, significantly placed, mentions. Get ready for the President’s golf game to take the cablers by storm. Let’s take a look at the signs.