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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is one of the many Washington politicians trying to adapt to the world of blogs. Last month, she went on the liberal blog Daily Kos to tell readers about her resolution calling for congressional investigations into GOP lawmakers' connections with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The liberal blogs love politicians like Pelosi who are feisty and aggressive, so the visit to Daily Kos, which gets more than 500,000 visitors a day, seemed likely to win her new fans...
...Jack Kingston, a GOP congressman from Georgia who is one of only a few in his party who blogs regularly, works closely on his posts and his podcasts with blog-savvy press spokesman David All, 27. "My strong recommendation for anybody who is getting on the information highway is to to have a co-pilot who is 25 years old or younger," says Kingston...
...Other events on the political horizon may animate conservatives as well. There's an upcoming battle over the judicial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the White House Staff Secretary, to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the land. Kavanaugh, a 38-year-old GOP veteran who worked for Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr, faces a possible filibuster. And Washington State's Supreme Court may soon strike down the state's marriage statute as discriminatory - making it the second state, after Massachusetts, to legalize gay marriage. Since Washington has no marriage residency requirement, one conservative...
...been largely silent on encouraging conservation. They're not about to be the ones to remind Americans that Jimmy Carter was their man. The Democrats' most notable proposal so far: a suggested $500 rebate check to taxpayers, an idea they quietly dropped after seeing the failure of the smaller GOP proposal...
...Ultimately, of course, many Senators will judge the President's "listening" campaign on whether he heeds their advice. And on that score, it was a mixed bag. Snowe, in the meeting with top GOP senators, called for Bush to extend the May 15 deadline for when seniors can sign up for the prescription drug plan and offered several proposals to lower gas prices. But the Maine Senator and the President couldn't even agree on how many seniors have yet to sign up for the drug plan (Snowe said 8 to 10 million , while Bush said it was 6 million...