Suddenly, conservatives are responding to my old “Can we Impeach?” emails.

The Derek Trucks Band – Joyful Noise.

What’s on your mind tonight?

At the Illinois home state ball.

There’s a bar band playing ‘You sexy thing’ and the tortellini is cold. If glamour is coming to DC it’s not here yet.

Rumor has it there were three people not welcome at the swearing in today: Rod Blagojevich, outgoing PR Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, who was indicted on corruption charges, and John Edwards.

Rahm Emanuel, a/k/a “Gloaty McGloatgloat”.

At the Illinois home state ball.

Michelle looked gorgeous dancing in her white ball gown. Barack kept stepping on her train. Must’ve been taking dancing lessons from my date.

Rush wants more American companies to go out of business, more American workers to lose their jobs, more American troops to die, maybe even more 9/11s and Katrinas, just so Republicans can win the next election and perpetuate the cycle of fail. Now that’s what I call patriotism.

As outside observers enter Gaza, we’re learning more about what has happened during the Israeli attack. What they are seeing is devastating – and is leading to accusations of Israeli war crimes. AFP reports that “300 human rights groups” are “planning to submit a 37 page dossier” to the International Criminal Court on Wednesday.

Howard Dean has time to get his picture taken for the front page of FDL. Me, I’ve got a bit of time to bitch about how Rahm treated Dean.

So, I don’t even know how to write about this without it sounding like bitter grousing, and frankly, I’m a little embarrassed to have to report that after five hours of standing in the bitter cold, getting pushed and shoved to the point where you start to feel for your safety, and being herded to and fro, the most I can report about the inauguration is that the 21-gun salute is really loud.

So loud, in fact, you can feel it outside the security perimeter.

The inauguration of the 44th president of the United States