TEA PARTY CAUCUS forms in Congress (third item). “So far, the Tea Party Caucus has these 28 Republican members from the House: Trent Franks of Arizona; Gary G. Miller of California; Doug Lamborn of Colorado; Gus Bilirakis and Cliff Stearns of Florida; Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey and Tom Price of Georgia; Dan Burton and Mr. Pence of Indiana; Steve King of Iowa; Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt of Kansas; John Fleming of Louisiana; Roscoe G. Bartlett of Maryland; Peter Hoekstra of Michigan; Ms. Bachmann of Minnesota; Todd Akin of Missouri; Walter B. Jones of North Carolina; Joe Wilson of South Carolina; Joe L. Barton, John Carter, Michael C. Burgess, John Culberson, Louie Gohmert, Pete Sessions and Lamar Smith of Texas; and Cynthia M. Lummis of Wyoming.”

My congressman, Frank Wolf, isn’t a member yet. He’d better be – soon.

LIBERAL JOURNALISTS suggest government shut down Fox News. The rationale for this censorship was that America was teetering on the brink of a fascist uprising (seriously) and the government needed to use extraordinary measures.

In the summer of 2009, agitated citizens from across the country flocked to town hall meetings to berate lawmakers who had declared support for President Obama’s health care bill. For most people, the protests seemed like an exercise in participatory democracy, rowdy as some of them became.

On Journolist, the question was whether the protestors were garden-variety fascists or actual Nazis.

The Daily Caller post is here.

DUDE IN 17-VEHICLE MOTORCADE tells federal workers to drive less.

To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit): “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people telling me it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.”

EVEN KARZAI IS DISSING OBAMA: "‘I remain determined that our Afghan national security forces will be responsible for all military and law enforcement operations throughout our country by 2014’ — more than three years after President Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown, [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai said.”

CAP AND TRADE is finally dead! About time.