Webb on a roll

If you need more proof that Virginia’s junior Senator is a rock star by Washington, DC standards, here you go. On Monday he’ll be on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central and he’ll be a guest on Charlie Rose’s show on PBS.

Webb, who has only been in office for 18 months, is one of the highest profile Democrats in Washington, behind probably Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Obama and Clinton, and maybe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (and that could be a stretch). He frequently crops up on cable news, the evening news, in newspaper editorials, and even on less newsworthy shows like The Tonight Show, David Letterman, and the Colbert Report.

Even if you don’t agree with Webb on the issues (and I know from the e-mail I receive that a fair number of Virginians don’t), you can’t argue that he has been one of the highest-profile junior senators in modern history. If the Democrats need an authority to speak on foreign affairs, Iraq, the military, or national security, Jim Webb is their guy.