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Republicans delete mistaken healthcare tweets
Confusion reigned on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the healthcare decision on Thursday morning, with CNN incorrectly reporting the individual mandate — the most controversial (and, for conservatives, hated) part of the bill — had been struck down.
Republicans including Reps. Virginia Foxx (N.C.), Dennis Ross (Fla.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), Randy Hultgren (Ill.), Aaron Schock (Ill.), Darrell Issa (Calif.) and Justin Amash (Mich.) jumping to celebrate the ruling as a win.
Most of those lawmakers then quickly deleted their mistaken tweets, but they have been saved by the Sunlight Foundation’s Politwoops, a tool that archives missing or edited tweets by individual legislators, President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Amash was one of the only legislators who did not delete his tweet.
Via Politwoops:
Republicans quickly rushed back to Twitter to pledge continued efforts to repeal the legislation and to turn the court's ruling that the individual mandate is a tax back on Obama.
#SCOTUS upholds #Obamacare because it is a #taxincrease. I thought @barackobama said it wasnt a #tax? #sayfie #tcot
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 28, 2012
To our Democratic colleagues, stand by your tax increase or stand with us to Repeal and Replace Obamacare.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) June 28, 2012
Just elect Romney. We need #FullRepeal
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) June 28, 2012
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