I guess I'm one of the few people who were there the first year as well as last year, and recall the last minute "fuck off" that we Little People received in Chicago from Her Nibs. Hint: She didn't show. Blah, Blah, order and security and Seriousness blah, but if this is true, I'm even more glad I saved the money for the garden instead of the trip to Austin:

Gina Cooper opened the event by letting us know that any organized disruption would result in the protesters' being escorted out and badges taken. As for the questioning of Speaker Pelosi, she said that impeachment and FISA questions were consolidated into 2 summary questions. Congressman Lloyd Doggett just introduced Speaker Pelosi. She got a standing O.

I guess condemning MoveOne and passing FISA along only sweetened such fruits as taking impeachment "off the table" and failing to find a way to stop war funding bills, despite the ability to do so when it suits her on other issues. Whatever.

"Thank you Sir, may I have another!" The motto of the "progressive" blogospherical leadership. Here is what I read today, instead of self-congratulatory gossip and back-slapping filling my inbox from attendees. But I suppose that middle picture isn't Good Form, and Nanci shouldn't be troubled with such. I will laugh long and loud and with irony-driven bitterness when Rahm replaces her in the Speaker's job. And he will.

... Well, make up your own vivid simile. Check the commentary on this Netroots panel, whose ostensible subject matter was:

In this blogosphere-focused panel, moderator Chris Bowers will pose two questions—one about the Obama/Clinton conflict in the blogosphere community and the second looking at how blogs compare with other forms of social media.