blogger jeff jarvis stirs up a storm by hurling an obscenity. the reporter whose story prompted david wu to resign over a sex scandal. should he have relied on unnamed sources? i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> it would be comical if it weren't so serious. washingtonality its worst as all of us in the news business trying to keep up with a story that changes by the hour. the senate scheduled to vote today at 1:00 p.m. to avoid a crippling default. look at the rolling news coverage suggests one inescapable conclusion, we often aren't sure what's going on either the countdown continues, american anger and anxiety keep building as the politicians let another day go by without a deal on the flash debt. >> it is one week and counting to august 2nd, the day the president says the government will run out of money and, among other things, will have to stop sending out social security checks. >> we are not yet in the end game. we are still in the bluff stage of the negotiations. >> tonight, do you know who said this? >> get your ass in

. >>> a popular blogger got frustrated about congress failing to reach a budget deal and his foul mouthed rant has turned into a social media revolution. on saturday jeff jarvisome places i'm paraphrasing, hey washington, a holes it's our country, our economy, our money stop messing with it. he then suggested the chant blank you, washington. okay, put the f word in the place of blank. it's been tweeted and retweeted. reportedly at the rate of 20,000 tweets an hour. and thus a hash tag was born. "the washington post" editorial writer joins me. i'm being inundated with twitter response about the debt ceiling about how they can't get past the impasse. almost one out of three that pops up has that hash tag in there with the quote blank you, washington. >> right. the one thing about this which i find very surprising why is it that jeff jarvis is the one who's that spark that has ignited the tweets now sent around the world when just looking at my own, the people i follow and the people who follow the people i follow and the twitter feed that i see, you know, what he says seems to actually be a lot of what the conversation is. the level of anger and frustration at