C-Span (as Gingrich understood) changed the rules of the Congresssional game.  By circulating video snippets from CSPAN and elsewhere, progressive bloggers are changing the rules again.  Based on the viral spreading of clips like this one, I bet that soon members of Congress will start 'playing' to the Blogs, the way that Gingrich et al 'played' to the CSPAN cameras.

FYI, folks are welcome to comment on a new Blog based at Middlebury College: The Internet and Democracy

If Kerry can artfully make the same case on Friday then he will hoist W by his own "character" petard. Americans would rather have a President that follows their mood, tahn a lunatic that can't face reality.

It was red meat then. Now it's stale, almost carrion.

Wow. Get him and Jeff Seemann in the same room and you've got some angry young Democratic power.

RYAN:  I thank the gentlemen.  I rise in opposition of this bill.  But I would like to clarify something....we're not trying to scare kids.  This president's foreign policy is what's scaring the kids of this country.  And (inaudible) people have said today "why are people believing this, why are people believing this big Internet hoax?"  Well....

(break in video)

RYAN:  ....that told us Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.  Same people that told us Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.  Same people that told us we were gonna be able to use the oil for reconstruction money.  Same people that told us that we'd be greeted as liberators, not occupiers.  Same people, same president, that told us the Taliban is gone.  Same president that told us that Poland is our ally two days before they pull out.  Same president that tells us Iraq is going just great.  

Same president that tells us the economy is going just great.  Same people that told us the tax cut was gonna create millions of jobs.  Same people that told us that the Medicare program only costs $400 billion, when it really cost $540 billion.  

So please forgive us for not believing what you're saying.  Please forgive the students of this country for not believing what you're saying.  Not one thing, not one thing, about this war that has been told to the American people, or that has been told to these college students, has been true.  Not one thing.  Bremmer says we need more troops.  The Pentagon says we need more troops.  And this president can't get `em from the international community.  There's only one option left.  Let's be honest with the American people.  I yield back the (inaudible)

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Scott
Isebrand.com

Since Tim Ryan is so full of questions, why doesn't he answer the questions about his time at BBSU - instead of trying to seal his records!

Tim Ryan is a do-nothing opportunist with little or no experience pulling the wool over the Mahoning Valley voters !!

In regards to the comment where the person dimissed the 'draft' as a hoax, started by a Dem from NY.

One only needs to look at two things when contemplating the likelyhood of a draft:

1. Bush's attitude towards pre-emptive war.  If he is in for 4 more years, we will find ourselves in another war.

2. Logistics, there are hardly enough numbers in the military to sustain Iraq now, let alone another war.

This administration has no problem carrying out their agenda against all odds.  And one has a serious case of near-sightedness if they think they won't draft.