I was really proud to be a Republican today. The House Republicans stayed on the floor to protest the Democrats leaving Congress for a five-week vacation without considering energy legislation. Finally, Republicans acted like Republicans and stood up for a good cause. Quite literally.

I want to write up a longer post tomorrow when I've had time to figure out just why this struck such a chord with me and where I think the enthusiasm and energy should go in the future. So in the meantime, let me recommend the following.

• The brunt of the reporting was done via Twitter. Look at the Twitter-wide discussion and also the feeds from politicians in the middle of the fray (I mentioned them all here). For a little Friday humor, I'd recommend the Twitter feed from" Speaker Pelosi"--clever minds at work?
• The DAG team was up with video and audio clips since we all got involved--and made phone calls to Pelosi's office to ask for a vote on energy legislation. Check out David's call to Nancy Pelosi and my impromptu video discussion with Elizabeth, who has guest posted here. That video discussion also featured my pledge to donate to any candidate carried out by Capitol Hill police; unfortunately, no one was (that I know of now).
• Watch the evening news and see if the story finally hit the "mainstream media." What was an online frenzy all day has just started hitting radio and television in the past few hours. As I wrote in a post on TechRepublican: this revolution was not televised.
• And for the love of all that is good in the world, if you didn't get the reference in the title of this post, go watch the movie this weekend.