On today’s PJTV bloggers roundtable, I appeared with the clean, articulate Stephen Green of VodkaPundit and the always delightful Jennifer Rubin of Pajamas Media and Commentary.

Topics, and quick thoughts on them, below.

(1) Barack Obama taps Rick Warren to give Invocation at his Inauguration — and the Homosexual Lobby is Furious: As I said with the Hillary nomination: Pass. The. Popcorn. This is just absolutely awesome theater, with Obama sticking his finger in the eye of the fringe left that worked so hard to get him elected at seemingly every opportunity.

The unintentional hilarity can be seen in every phase of this, as well, from the gay lobby’s refusal to notice the fact that Warren actually supports domestic partnerships, to the refusal to ditch the belief that Obama Rorschach really was what they so desperately wanted to believe it was, to the ironic ravings of groups People for the American Way who want Warren disinvited (”silenced”) because, “He has repeated the Religious Right’s big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors.”

I mean, seriously — this is some quality comedy we’re watching here.

(2) Obama Promises “Internet for Everyone!” as Part of Proposed Stimulus Package: Yet another big-dollar public works project from the not-yet-started Obama administration, which you the taxpayer must invest in whether you want to or not.

The problem — as cities have found across the U.S. — is that nobody wants enter into contracts with the government to provide Internet where it isn’t already, because it’s a money-losing proposition (which is why Internet isn’t there yet). Take muni wi-fi for example: several cities of all sizes around the country—including Scottsdale, AZ; Anaheim, CA; Chicago and Aurora, IL; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA—have seen their municipal wi-fi programs falter after running into various glitches, including ISP Earthlink’s decision to bail on all its municipal contracts after it realized how much money the proposition was causing it to lose (info via The Heartland Institute).

An “Internet czar” — or, at least, massive taxpayer-backed funding — will be necessary to artificially inflate the amount paid for this service in order to get any company to willingly provide the Internet service. Then again, Obama could just use the power of the government to force providers into money-losing propositions (as he has talked about doing with domestic oil companies). This, of course, would just cause fewer providers to be willing to operate here in the U.S., which is a “net” loss for everybody.

(3) The Death of Paul Weyrich: Paul Weyrich, first president of the Heritage Foundation, joins William F. Buckley in the pantheon of conservative greats who were lost this year. He and Buckley will both be missed, especially since there is no heir apparent to either’s position in the conservative movement.

The movement will still have to be mobilized, and its grassroots organized, but that leadership is now more likely to come, in my opinion, from within the New Media world than from the old intellectual one. In the meantime, though, the grassroots can’t simply wait around to be led — they have to act on their own to achieve the activist and electoral goals of the conservative movement.