Kevin Anderson of
The Guardian credits bloggers with keeping the story of the Downing Street Memo alive.
With the release of the second memo, blogs can take some credit in raising the profile of the story in the US media.
Dailykos even gets a mention...
The memo even has its own website: Downingstreetmemo.com.
The site was created on 13 May by bloggers from DailyKos.com who were concerned that the memo was not being covered by the US media.
The article quotes a Professor Michael Cornfield, with no mention of his institution, who has 'studied the emerging impact of blogs on politics in the US.'
It's unclear what the bloggers want, he said, but some are calling for a congressional investigation.
"That would make it a formal institutionalised story and a large daily embarrassment for both administrations," he added.
I don't find us all that unclear about what we want and I think to say that 'some' of us are calling for an investigation is a little mild. What else would we want? Wait a minute! Do we have some choices here? I'd start screaming for Bush's immediate exile if I thought that were an option. Yes, he should be tried, but if he would agree to take his entire chain gang to the ranch and clear brush forever, and we could put a big invisible fence around the place, I'd agree to that. We'll drop in food every now and then, and maybe a new dvd once a month if there are no signs of further plans for world domination.
The good Professor's conclusions?
A handful of bloggers and consumer advocate Ralph Nader have called for impeachment proceedings. At this point, that is unlikely, Professor Cornfield said.
What is more likely is that Republicans will lose control of the daily agenda in Washington and lose their aura of political invulnerability, he added.
I've gotta say, I'm loving having some degree of influence on our party's leaders. Does anyone get the impression that the right-wing listens to its constituents? Oh, sorry, that's right. That line of communication only goes one way.
