• “First woman to serve as speaker of the house: Nancy Pelosi, First Muslim elected to U.S. Congress: Keith Ellison, First democratic socialist elected to U.S. Congress: Bernie Sanders, First Jewish governor of New York: Eliot Spitzer, First African-American governor of Massachusetts: Deval Patrick, And, according to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, 67 openly gay candidates were elected to state and local offices.” [Worth Repeating]

• More pics CNN’s blogging party. [Latest Obsession]
• Re: Rumsfeld “Of course, knowing Bush, he’ll just unleash some other white-skinned, dread Morlock motherfucker from the Phantom Zone to join his Cabinet of Dr. Caliguri. Or–even worse–appoint Joe Lieberman.” [The DCeiver]
• Some people love Abbi Tatton more than others. [Circle V]
• Blind mice can see, but people in GA still don’t vote. [Articulatory Loop]

This is basically what hell looks like.

More pictures from last night’s weird-ass CNN BLOGSTRAVAGANZA, at the SITUATION BAR.

Fun Facts:
-John Aravosis hugs everyone. Like, hugs you, then introduces himself.
-John Amato was not willing to go the extra mile and try to pick up Mary Katherine Ham, as we suggested.
-Free booze is a blessing and a curse.
-Nick Gillespie totally went home with Ann Althouse.
-Despite the accent, Abbi Tatton is, in fact, from New Jersey.
-Most of these are lies.

More beautiful Liz Gorman pictures, below the fold.

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Abbi Tatton is, as of now, having her first drink of the night. It’s a vodka martini.

Larry King will be on CNN in minutes, which means the end of blog party coverage. Because Larry King doesn’t know what blogs are, and his guest, the reanimated corpse of Marlon Brando, will surely have a lot to say about the returns from Montana. So we’ll probably leave soon, but there are many more pictures. Here are some of them (as before, they are by acclaimed media celebrity Liz Gorman).

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CNN bets that you’ll pay them money to watch footage of a blogger blogging about blogging about being on CNN’s live internet video thingy.

We were interviewed by Jacki Schechner earlier on CNN Pipeline, the subscription-only streaming internet video service. We were on Pipeline because they do not trust us and were pretty sure we’d swear or make obscene gestures if they put us on real tv. Which is fair, because we are drunk.

Anyway, there are more Liz Gorman pictures of bloggers, after the jump.

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Nick Gillespie, right. The biggest biceps in blogging, next to K-Lo. [Photo: Liz Gorman] MORE »