What's the big deal about Democrats winning the House in November? Well, for one thing:
Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, one of the most dogged critics of the Administration, would be in line to chair the House Government Reform Committee and could write witness lists instead of open letters to the West Wing.
Wahahahaha.
Via John Aravosis, a provocative article on Congress and blogging. I tend to think there's limited potential in the current crop of congresspeoples for getting them to ever blog for real (like writing or at least being intimately involved in writing their own posts). But when we start electing new folks in who "grew up" blogging, and who understand and value the blogosphere in their bones, it's going to seriously change the shape of things.
(For what it's worth, here's one current member I'd love to see blogging.)
Wouldn't you just know it. Now, only the fact that I just moved out of DC -- and that I still lack the necessary athletic ability -- stands between me and international soccer glory. You see, the members of the self-selected DC Olympic Curling Team have launched an effort, complete with spiffy website, to convince the International Olympic Committee to allow DC to enter its own teams into competition. (via Chris Mooney)
