The Asheville Citizen-Times is getting some national press today thanks to a single question they posed to NC-11 representative, Heath Shuler. The paper simply wanted to know if Rep. Shuler lived at C-Street (it is a common assumption that he stays there while in D.C.). The Shuler camp response: We're not going to get into private details.

I bet the offices of Sanford, Ensign and Pickering all thought the same thing initially.

Now, now now. I'm not saying Shuler is guilty of any misdeeds. But there is no sense in staying at C Street and allowing your constituents, not to mention the country at large, pinpoint your guilt by association. Why even continue your relationship with such a roundly disgraced and disgraceful operation? After all, the housing market is still in shamble. Can't you get a good deal on a 1 bedroom in Arlington, Heath?

Draft Coop posts the scoop from the N&O today with the announcement that BlueNC's least favorite son, Heath Shuler, will not be running against Burr in the 2010 Senate race. After all the work he had put in previously (Bill Clinton hosting a fundraiser on his behalf in Raleigh, announcing Barack Obama at the National Day of Prayer, etc.) it appeared that the conservative DINO from the mountains was trying to build a large, centerist(right) base for which to target Burr next year. However, it is all for naught.

In an intriguing development, NC 3 Representative Walter Jones (R) - coiner of the term "Freedom Fries" and ridiculer of everything French - is co-sponsoring John Conyer's bill that will call for the investigation of war crimes by our monstrously unpopular and distrusted ex-President (man, that was a lot of -s in that sentence - Sorry). Jones has been well known amongst Washingtonians as a vehement critic of W.'s Iraq policy, shrouds of secrecy and power grabs that forced Congress into back many controversial pieces of his delusional, rushed and unneccesary invasion of Iraq.

Granted, I do not spend an inordinate amount of time reading conservative blogs (though it is occassionally useful/fun to see what horrors they may be wailing against from time to time). Today, having just gotten back from Washington, I thought it would be interesting to see what some of the more, shall I say, confrontational blogs had to say regarding the Inauguration and Obama's first two days in office.