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When I heard on the radio that Pelosi had been elected Minority Leader, I had to wonder if the Democrats really have lost thier collective minds. They want to keep the woman who engineered thier defeat as thier leader?

I think loosing your mind is what makes you a Democrat.

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I feel slightly filthy admitting it but I’m on both Facebook and Twitter. FB is the only way I can find out what my great-nephews and nieces are up to. And Twitter is fun when you’re bombed out of your mind.

Not only do I resist Facebook/Twitter, I have them blocked. (Assigned IP address 127.0.0.1, which is “does not exist”.) That’s because I’m using archaic hardware and software which chokes, gags, and freezes on the widgets which many sites invoke from them. National Review Online has several dozen Facebook refs on many pages – which don’t seem to do anything, I can read it fine without them.

I use FB and twitter just about every day, but use them differently. Most of my facebook “friends” are people I’ve actually met in meatspace. (Your Stoatliness excepted, among a few others.) And since I actually know these people, I can’t be as much of a partisan ass as I am on Twitter.

I just don’t understand how she is already elected Minority Leader.

I mean, I am certainly no expert on Parliamentary crapola and whatnot, but it would seem to me that the first thing you do is seat those who are actually participating in the upcoming Congress….(which happens sometime in January, I think)

That way you don’t have a bunch of people who aren’t even going to be in Congress next year impacting the ins and outs of next year’s power structure.

I have two FB accounts — one as sweasel, one as realname. I don’t really use the sweasel one much. And, like you Joe, my realname account I try to keep snark and politics free.

I only Twitter as sweasel, though.

I have an FB account under my real name – and aside from one of my favorite authors, the only friends on it are people I’ve actually been friends with iRL for years before FB was developed.

Living in Oz now, the majority of my FB contacts are my Untidied States friends, because it’s the only way to keep track of them. They tend to be rather poor at letters and e-mail contact, for the most part. :p

Yes, exactly, Frit. It’s great to be able to see what people are up to, including people who otherwise wouldn’t really be close enough friends to keep in touch.

I sometimes wish I hadn’t friended QUITE so many people from High School, though. I can barely remember who some of them are; why should I care what they had for breakfast?

steve: The way it works is that the Members-elect come to DC in late November for orientation — things like picking out office space, interviewing staff, looking for somewhere to live, etc. Part of that is organizational meetings for the next Congress. The people who aren’t going to be in the next Congress — the retired and defeated — don’t get to vote on the next Congress’ organizational matters.