[3] Bluey was born in upstate New York and graduated from Ithaca College with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Guests included Congressmen John Boehner,[6] Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan, Senators Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint and Jim Inhofe, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich,[7] talk-show host Herman Cain,[8] and reporter Robert Novak.

[6] Bluey was one of a handful of bloggers invited to attend the bill-signing ceremony of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

[9] He also co-authored the Sunlight Foundation’s Open House Project, which aimed to increase online transparency in Congress.

He took on the role of director of Heritage's Center for Media and Public Policy in 2010, where he led the think tank's investigative reporting team.