Senate Republicans have hired blogger Jon Henke for the position of "new-media director." Mr. Henke says he believes he is the first congressional employee hired specifically to deal with the blogosphere.

"It's either neat, or it's scary," Mr. Henke told Robert Stacy McCain of The Washington Times yesterday.

Mr. Henke, a Midlothian, Va., resident who blogs at www.qando.net, made headlines in August when he was hired to run the blog operation for Sen. George Allen's re-election campaign, after left-leaning bloggers helped publicize the Virginia Republican's "macaca" remark about a volunteer for his Democratic rival, James H. Webb Jr.

Working in the office of incoming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, Mr. Henke's new job "will be to monitor the blogosphere to find out what's going on, ... to correct anything that's incorrect that gets out there, and to make sure that the Republican message is represented," Mr. Henke tells The Times. "Sort of like the press secretary to the blogosphere, for lack of a better term."

Senate Republicans have hired blogger Jon Henke to be their "new media director." Apparently, his job will be to "monitor the blogosphere to find out what's going on. . .to correct anything that's incorrect. . .and to make sure that the Republican message is represented." Last fall, Henke ran blog operations for Sen. George Allen's campaign.

Henke is no friend of Power Line, but we hope he does a good job for the Senate Republicans.

SCOTT adds: I dealt with Jon in his position with the Allen campaign. I thought he did a good job under unexpectedly difficult circumstances for Senator Allen and expect that he'll do a good job in his new position.

PAUL adds: Naturally, his attacks on Webb sat better with me than his attacks on Power Line.