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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...
...blogs also prefer their guests to engage in conversations. So when Pelosi posted on Daily Kos and then didn?t respond to any of the hundreds of comments users made in response - instead returning to her day job of leading the 201 Democrats in House - one Daily Kos user accused her of "hit and run diaries," while another griped: "Daily Kos is not your personal press release piggybank." The next day, she returned to the blog to try to explain herself. "I don?t have the kind of schedule that allows me to respond to every comment," Pelosi wrote...
...Several of the potential presidential contenders have already hired staffers to help them connect with the online world. Warner now spends one hour each week with his blog advisor, a prominent liberal blogger named Jerome Armstrong. After Pelosi was bashed for not sticking around to answer questions on Daily Kos, Warner?s team helped him avoid making the same mistake: after Warner posted on Daily Kos and left for a trip to Iowa, one of his online staffers, Nate Wilcox, stayed around to respond to questions. (Some people still wanted to hear more from the candidate himself. "The comments were...
...Democrats insist that Mollohan's fall does not neutralize their corruption attacks against the GOP. ?That?s wishful thinking on their part,? says Brendan Daly, the spokesman for House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. Counterattacking, Pelosi has criticized a watered-down lobbying reform bill House Republicans introduced this week that only temporarily bans private funding of House member travel and allows private interest groups to pay for meals and flights on corporate jets. She's also linking two hot-button issues to corruption: gas prices and prescription drugs. ?People know that Republicans are in charge in Washington and the culture...
...opportunity to make the point that they don?t tolerate corruption. During the House banking scandal in 1994, Newt Gingrich went after Republican check kiters aggressively in an attempt to regain credibility. This time around, the Democrats have chosen to defend Mollohan, rather than hang him out to dry. Pelosi says she has the "highest regard" for Mollohan. And even though party leaders had to push him out quietly behind the scenes, they're supporting the charade that he stepped down...