Q: How Much Do The Republicans Love Twitter?

11:43 pm EST February 6th, 2009 | Republicans | 6 Comments

A: So much so that Rep. Pete Hoekstra broke security protocol to Twitter what was supposed to be a secret trip to Iraq.

Sigh.

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6 Responses to “Q: How Much Do The Republicans Love Twitter?”

  1. Repack Rider says:
    February 7, 2009 at 12:08 am

    A Republican without a clue?

    Stop the presses.

  2. Enlightened Liberal says:
    February 7, 2009 at 9:20 am

    Hoekstra Statement on New York Times Mea Culpa

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    Washington, Oct 25, 2006 – U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after New York Times public editor Byron Calame declared his newspaper wrong for publishing a story on the illegally disclosed Terrorist Finance Tracking Program:

    Yep, just as I thought. IOKIYAR. Cue Republicans claiming false equivalencies in 3…2…1..

    http://hoekstra.house.gov/news/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=51935

    “The mea culpa of the New York Times public editor comes too late to stop the damage done to one of our nation’s leading tools to track, understand and prevent the money transfers that enable terrorist attacks. While the editor should be recognized for being the only one at the paper to recognize this was an irresponsible action, he should have been harsher on his fellow editors for ignoring pleadings of congressional leaders, the administration, including the Treasury Secretary, and the leaders of the 9/11 commission, which recommended America implement exactly this type of program, not to publish this story.

  3. jr says:
    February 7, 2009 at 11:56 am

    “I’m doing on twitter what you did on tv”-Pete to Geraldo

  4. limulus says:
    February 7, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Hmm… the CNet article doesn’t really explain how it’s a breach of security protocol, so I’m a bit skeptical.

    But the conservatives really have been embracing Twitter. Seems like they’re having more success there than any other Internet medium. I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less.

  5. Tyro says:
    February 7, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    I suppose they can rest easy in the knowledge that their thoughts can always be expressed in 140 characters or less.

    Ironically, conservatism is an ideology of extremes when it comes to the internet. Their online presence is either Instapundit (Indeed. Heh.) and Twitter or, on the other side of the verbosity spectrum, Steven Des Beste.

    I’ve found no use for Twitter beyond remote updates to my Facebook status. Something I don’t do more than a couple times a month, anyway.

  6. Johnny Pez says:
    February 8, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Do Republicans really believe they can save their party by Twittering “TAXES ARE TEH SUCK” to each other?