Most cats didn’t hear of Rep. Tom Reed until the Tickle Me Massa scandal (Google it), but a lot of us were fans of the former Corning Mayor well before that, so there is a great deal of pride to see him getting national attention. Granted the NY-29 might as well be part of Canada as far as us on The L.I. are concerned, but I’m still a fan. 
Just in the past few months, Speaker Boehner chose him to be one of the conferee’s of the payroll-tax bill (don’t get me started), and Politico named him runner-up of the Freshman classes “Most Likely to Succeed.”
As his sophomore year starts, Reed recently interviewed with National Journal to reflect back on his time so far in Washington…
I enjoy Joe Scarborough much more off of MSNBC. Granted I stopped watching after the network tried holding Sarah Palin as an accessory to murder in Arizona, but there was always a difference between the Joe on MSNBC Joe off. His radio show that was on WABC is actually what I tried to pattern my podcast “The Right Hook” after, and more often than not his Politico column’s have me nodding and saying “word, son!”
I like to look at how non-political entities use social media to see what tricks we can steal. Last night while I was watching former dark horse candidate Newt Gingrich on YouTube while waiting for his debate against Jon Huntsman to be embedded, it came to me that the GOP could really learn a lot from WWE superstar (and the L.I.’s own) Zack Ryder. No, seriously.
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