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Cabinet, Congressional And Campaign Blogging

A handful of new blogs, the most noteworthy being the one written by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, are worth a shout out here.

Both Bluey Blog and Daily Kos mentioned Leavitt's blog yesterday, and there's an item in The Hill this morning, complete with the obligatory MSM poke at the "icky" blogosphere.

Last week while I was on vacation, Rob Bluey also called attention to a new congressional blog being written by freshman Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and his press office. Based on what I've seen so far, though, it's not worth reading.

Like most congressional blogs, it's being used as a forum to regurgitate columns, press releases and the like. Bluey held out hopes that Walberg might make his blog into something like The Gavel, the vibrant blog produced by the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. If that happens, Walberg's blog will be worthwhile but not until then.

On the campaign front, meanwhile, John Randall, the e-press secretary at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, pointed me to new blogs by the campaigns of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla.

There's also a new issue-oriented blog called Family Fragments. It is a production of the Lighted Candle Society, a nonprofit focused on sharing information about pornography and other issues that it deems a threat to society.

Posted by Danny | 11:03 AM

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