The House Republicans continued their self-proclaimed revolution today. (If you haven't heard about it yet, check out posts here and here.) They say they're going to be at it all week--all month even. Nothing more "real world" than that.

House members today continue to give speeches as bloggers and Twitter-ers cover the events at a frenetic pace. The hub of the activity is DontGo.us, a handy way of compiling the tweets of everyone paying attention to the event. Since the revoluton isn't being televised, the internet is the only way the word is getting out.

But the most important part of this story is that the revolution would not be possible without the hundreds of people across the country pushing it forward. The mainstream media really isn't pushing it. Politicians have limited ways of pushing it since they're cut off from video, audio, and photos on the House floor. So it's the people typing away on their computers or furiously checking their Crackberries/PDAs that are making this happen.

We need to keep it going.

Follow the Twitter feeds. Call Nancy Pelosi (202-225-0100) and ask for a vote on energy legislation. But more than that, tell your friends and family what is happening in Washington DC.

Just because the revolution isn't being televised doesn't mean it won't be heard.

This morning the House of Representatives adjourned until September 8. In doing so, it adjourned before it considered any energy legislation to support offshore drilling and drilling in ANWR so that we could pay less at the pump.

The House Republicans were/are angry. Really angry. Because they think (rightfully, I believe) that most Americans support offshore drilling and want Congress to, y'know, just consider it. Maybe. Because that might be in their job description or something.

Instead, the Democrats in Congress successfully blocked attempts to consider energy legislation and bounced from the House ASAP. I like to think of it as cops busting a house party (parents and future employers: I only know about such things from movies). Except now the American people are the cops, the Republicans are the kids looking innocent in the front yard, and the Democrats are sprinting through the woods.

But thanks to the internet, Republicans are fighting back. Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) has been on Twitter, a micro-blogging site, since this morning. What he's reporting now (and it is reporting!) is that although the Democrats turned off the lights and left the building, the Republicans are still inside demanding a vote on energy.

It probably won't work but I love the spirit and I love the idea: "when they turn off the mike, we can still communicate." Who says the internet isn't the future of politics?