Then he would fall down on the floor again like a ball of dirt and start rubbing the side of his head with his back foot as if he had no idea he had been doing any more than any frog might do.
VOA: special.2009.08.29
Last fall, he shut down an attempt by fellow Republicans to de-fund his state's infamous "bridge to nowhere"--a proposed piece of pork that would connect two barely populated towns--by threatening to resign.
When that frustration hit a boiling point last fall, he stopped down and thought through exactly what it would look like if a blogging platform looked and felt the way that he wanted to write, the way he wanted to create.