Blogging and John G. Roberts
From the day that Sandra Day O'Connor announced that she was stepping down as a Supreme Court Justice to take care of her ailing husband, the blogging world went berserk. Liberal bloggers wrote blog after blog concerning the grave importance of who Bush would nominate and the likelihood that President Bush would appoint a conservative judge to replace O'Connor's swing vote.
The frenzy of blogging did not stop and only heated up when President Bush announced on Tuesday night that John G. Edwards was his nominee for the Supreme Court position. According to an article in today's Washington Post, fifty of the top liberal bloggers joined together with Senator Ted Kennedy in a forty-five minute conference call organized by BlogPAC, to create a plan of attack in anticipation of President Bush's nomination. After the conference call, BlogPAC put calls into Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's office, Sen. Russell Feingold's office and liberal organizations such as MoveOn, Alliance for Justice, NARAL and People for the American Way.
According to the Washington Post, this conference call which brought together Congressional representatives, liberal organizations and bloggers, was an indication of the importance that blogging plays in today's political world. The article points out that this is the first nomination of the twenty-first century and liberals will use technology extensively to get their views concerning the nomination across. Senator Kennedy involved himself with the bloggers because he recognizes their potential to "convey the impact that this decision will have on hundreds of millions of Americans, whose last line of defense for their freedoms and liberties is the Supreme Court," according to the article.
These blogs have the potential to reach a huge audience, and by combining forces, they hope that the message from liberal bases will be as strong as possible concerning the Edwards nomination. Obviously each blog will write their own individual messages to their respective readers, but the goal as a whole will be the same and a central message will connect these blogs and organizations to each other, inspiring their readers to take the course of action they suggest.
I think this is an interesting idea, and may be used in the future with stronger results, but for now I truly think Bush's nomination of Edwards does not leave a lot of wiggle room for liberals to work around. He looks great on paper and while these blogs have compiled opposition research on him, I am not so sure that there is enough fire around Edwards for the blogs to be as effective as they hope.
All in all I think the use of synchronized blogging is a good idea in theory and I think that it is advantageous for the Congressional representatives and liberal groups to join forces with the blogs. I bet we will be seeing a lot more of this in the future from both Democrats and Republicans.
The frenzy of blogging did not stop and only heated up when President Bush announced on Tuesday night that John G. Edwards was his nominee for the Supreme Court position. According to an article in today's Washington Post, fifty of the top liberal bloggers joined together with Senator Ted Kennedy in a forty-five minute conference call organized by BlogPAC, to create a plan of attack in anticipation of President Bush's nomination. After the conference call, BlogPAC put calls into Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's office, Sen. Russell Feingold's office and liberal organizations such as MoveOn, Alliance for Justice, NARAL and People for the American Way.
According to the Washington Post, this conference call which brought together Congressional representatives, liberal organizations and bloggers, was an indication of the importance that blogging plays in today's political world. The article points out that this is the first nomination of the twenty-first century and liberals will use technology extensively to get their views concerning the nomination across. Senator Kennedy involved himself with the bloggers because he recognizes their potential to "convey the impact that this decision will have on hundreds of millions of Americans, whose last line of defense for their freedoms and liberties is the Supreme Court," according to the article.
These blogs have the potential to reach a huge audience, and by combining forces, they hope that the message from liberal bases will be as strong as possible concerning the Edwards nomination. Obviously each blog will write their own individual messages to their respective readers, but the goal as a whole will be the same and a central message will connect these blogs and organizations to each other, inspiring their readers to take the course of action they suggest.
I think this is an interesting idea, and may be used in the future with stronger results, but for now I truly think Bush's nomination of Edwards does not leave a lot of wiggle room for liberals to work around. He looks great on paper and while these blogs have compiled opposition research on him, I am not so sure that there is enough fire around Edwards for the blogs to be as effective as they hope.
All in all I think the use of synchronized blogging is a good idea in theory and I think that it is advantageous for the Congressional representatives and liberal groups to join forces with the blogs. I bet we will be seeing a lot more of this in the future from both Democrats and Republicans.
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