Archive for July 26th, 2011

Rep. David Wu vs. The World: Taiwanese Animation Wins

Ah, Next Media Animation, thank you for brightening our lives with your utterly inappropriate and completely bizarre depictions of the news of the day. Tiger suits rule! As do floating hot dogs. Also note Wu’s epic birth, and his apparent ability to transform magically into a bear when menacing women.

Via Fishbowl DC. Fortunately, we won’t have Congressman Wu to kick around around any more, assuming he follows through on his word and resigns. Though I suspect that The Law may still have a little bit to ask him about.

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Response to Obama Budget Speech Overwhelms Congressional Websites

Last night’s dueling Obama/Boehner speeches settled at least one matter: when the President asks people to contact Congress, Congress can’t handle it:

Monday night and Tuesday morning checks of the websites of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., showed a “Server is too busy” response on an otherwise blank screen, as did the House Ways and Means Committee website on Tuesday morning. Boehner’s separate representative site was down on Monday night, also, though the district and House Majority Leader sites of Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., were working.

In his article, National Journal’s David Beard also reports that the Congressional phone system almost joined those websites and others in crashing, but that Twitter survived (thank god). So Congressmembers could use social media to send messages OUT to constituents, though I doubt they could listen to many of them in return (comments on Boehner’s Facebook post about his speech already number above 4000).

Website go boom? Hey kids, time to upgrade that infrastructure! Oh, wait — that would cost money.

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