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...directing it only to key congressional races this year, is derided in Washington, but the bloggers clapped loudly when Dean spoke about it. Sessions on "War, Foreign Policy and Activism" and "Political Journalism: Problems and Solutions" were full of attendees, while more than half the chairs were empty as Tom Vilsack, the Iowa governor and potential 2008 candidate, spoke about education. Two of the leaders of the popular liberal site Mydd.com, Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller, announced they would start using Blogpac, one of the fundraising arms of the liberal blogs, to raise money to "defend the Netroots" by fighting...
...time Moulitsas makes his first official appearance, it?s after those cordial conferencees have been milling around at a buffet reception for an hour or so, drinking from the cash bar and getting glittery-eyed. The cartoonist Tom Tomorrow warms up the crowd, reading his cartoons aloud as they are projected on giant screens behind him. It doesn?t seem that vital to pay attention, but halfway through the act, a Yearly Kos volunteer stops by the conversational knot I?m in and shushes us. It?s the first sign of militancy and while they may not be reaching...
...Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation...
...House’s refusal to return its bells to the St. Danilov Monastery from which they came. The monks steal Adams House’s prized gong, initiating an apocalyptic conflict. The video also mocks Kirkland House’s alleged Francophile tendencies—its House master, Tom Conley, is also Harvard’s director of graduate studies in French. And Wilson pokes fun at Mather’s industrial architecture by portraying House residents as crazed Soviet soldiers. “Us Leverett House will just have to deal with breaking off from the rest...
...lobbyist, held the two least popular credentials imaginable in 2006 - won by a surprisingly comfortable four-point margin over Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member, his party was quick to exult. "National Democrats did not discover their shock wave in San Diego," National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Reynolds, who runs the House election effort for the GOP, said in a statement that landed in the e-mail boxes of political reporters shortly after dawn on Wednesday. "National Democrats must come to terms with the fact that momentum for the midterm elections will not materialize simply because they...