I have decided that the health care debate is important enough to start twittering. Game on.
As I continue to read Pelosi's Health Care Take-over bill, I continue to find amazing facts the Dems are trying to rush thru the process.
The congressman's announcement comes during a stretch during which Republican lawmakers are poring through the final House healthcare bill released by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week. Most days, severalGOPers select portions of the bill to which they object and post them to their Twitter pages.
Republican lawmakers also tweeted heavily yesterday when the Wall Street Journal published an editorial calling Pelosi's proposal the "worst bill ever."
Miller appears to have tweeted personally in the past. On Monday he called National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn's (Texas) support for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in New York's special election hypocritical because he backed the centrist Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in his Senate primary.
The lawmaker's first tweet, which also seems to be personal, came in mid-September. He said:
Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), who is running for Senate next year, took to Twitter on Election Day to give a plug for centrist GOPers he claims are needed to win back Congress.
The centrist Castle is running on a platform that many in the conservative base deem a bad match for a new Republican candidate. But Castle's agenda may play well in Delaware, which is a solid blue state.
Castle this morning retweeted a message from former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.), who now hosts his own program on MSNBC:
RT @joeNBC ... For the record, the GOP needs moderates in New England to win.
Internal divisions in the GOP between centrists and conservatives have become more evident in recent weeks due to the high-profile battle between Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava in New York's special election.
Hoffman ran to the right of the centrist Scozzafava, who eventually dropped out of the race because of poor polling and fundraising. Many national conservative leaders backed Hoffman in the race and scolded Scozzafava for some of her liberal positions.
Conservatives also have their eyes set on the GOP Senate primary between former Florida house Speaker Marco Rubio and Gov. Charlie Crist (Fla.) Conservatives favor Rubio over the centrist Crist, who they criticized for supporting the federal stimulus package.
Christie O'Donnell (R-Del.), who lost to now Vice President Joe Biden in 2008, said she would also run for the seat.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was hit by a Twitter virus on Monday that send affected users' Twitter followers harmful messages.
Giffords is the one of the only lawmakers to be subject to an attack. Rep. Mary Fallin (R-Okla.) was hit by the last round of attacks last month.
Mashable, a popular social media blog, is reporting that scammers today launched a phishing scam. Such a scam hacks users' accounts and sends out "direct messages" to followers containing links that, should a follower click them, would also hack their account. Similar attacks were sent out in different forms in September and October.
The head of Republican Senate campaign efforts said late Monday that
GOPers in New York's 23rd district "[paid] the price" for picking a
nominee in a hotly contested special election behind closed doors.
National
Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas)
criticized the process under which the local Republican Party chose
state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzaafava (R-N.Y.) as their nominee in a
contest to replace former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) McHugh previously
stepped down to become Army Secretary.
Cornyn echoed
comments made by Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman and other
national Republicans who also scolded Scozzafava for holding too many
liberal positions. Scozzafava dropped out of the race Saturday citing
weak polling and fundraising efforts.
The senator tweeted last night about the election tomorrow:
NY23 deny primary voters a choice, pay the price
The
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Cornyn's House
counterparts, and the Republican National Committee originally backed
Scozzafava, donating thousands of dollars to her campaign. The national
groups faced backlash from grassroots conservatives for their
endorsements.
Both groups now back Hoffman while Scozzafava has endorsed the Democratic candidate Bill Owens. The RNC today launched a radio ad in the upstate New York district supporting Hoffman.
NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh said on Monday that Cornyn's tweet was directed at the local party and not at the NRCC or RNC.
"They simply backed the nominee that was chosen by the leadership in the
state," he said. "[The tweet was] more targeted toward the closed door
system they had up there. It is a reminder that we need to have open
primaries."
Scozzafava was chosen by a panel of local Republican officials, not a primary voters.
Republican Governors Association chairman Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) made comments similar to Cornyn yesterday.
Fox will host its weekly NFL pregame show in Afghanistan next Sunday, three days before Veterans Day, the network announced yesterday.
Pentagon official Price Floyd also tweeted about the show on Monday:
FOX NFL Sunday Show will be in Afghanistan next week with the troops.
Hosts Curt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Strahan and Jay Glazer will appear from an undisclosed military location in the war-torn country.
"Our men and women in the military put themselves in harm's way to protect everything we hold dear, and none more so than those who are stationed in the Middle East," Fox Sports Chairman David Hill said in a statement. "Amidst the fun and football, it's our hope to showcase the dedication of these men and women who have to defend against a lot more than the wildcat."
The announcement might cheer up the Senate Armed Services Committee's ranking member John McCain (R-Ariz.) who today groused about his hometown Arizona Cardinal's loss to the Carolina Panthers yesterday:
Cardinals lose at home to the Panthers - big setback, but there is always next Sunday.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I) will personally use Twitter during Election Day in the city tomorrow, his campaign announced today.
Bloomberg has an active Twitter account that his staff operates to share campaig news, but Bloomberg has seldom used the site himself. The incumbent mayor tweeted himself in August, but has not tweeted much since after indicating he would do so.
ALERT: #NYC Mayor Bloomberg will personally tweet all day on Election Day! http://bit.ly/Np5Y8 Tweet Out The Vote 11/3! (Pls RT) #twitter
Bloomberg's tweeting is part of a larger initiative on behalf of the mayor to ramp up his campaign against Democratic opponent Bill Thompson. Bloomberg has invested much treasure in the race, he has spent a record $85 million of his own money in order to keep his office.
The tweeting, though, won't add to his already large campaign tab: Twitter users operate their accounts free of cost.
All tweets from Bloomberg himself will be signed "Mike" and the rest will be signed "staff."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is now endorsing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election.
After learning his initial pick, Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, had bowed out of the race this morning, Gingrich tweeted that he was now supporting Hoffman, who is virtually tied with Democratic candidate Bill Owens in preliminary polls:
Scozzafava dropping out leaves hoffman as only anti-tax anti-pelosi vote in ny 23 Every voter opposed to tax increases support doug hoffman
Gingrich took considerable heat from his party's top conservatives when he announced earlier this month that he was backing Scozzafava. However, the former speaker is hardly the only member of his party to reverse his endorsement after learning of today's news; a slew of other GOP members, as well as the Republican National Committee (NRC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee, have also signaled they now support Hoffman's bid.
Voters and reporters alike have long pressed lawmakers to commit to reading landmark legislation before they vote on it, and this year's healthcare debate is no different.
But for Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), the issue is not whether he's going to read it -- it's how.
Carrying home the 1,990 page Pelosi health care bill. I hope US Air won't count it as a 3rd carry on! Lots of reading ahead of me.
Inglis is probably (hopefully) being facetious, considering digital copies of the bill can be found nearly everywhere on the Internet.
But just in case, we consulted US Air's Web site to find out its current luggage rules and rates. The verdict: Inglis is allowed one bag and one personal item, and he would likely have to check the healthcare bill as luggage in order to bring it home this weekend. Worse yet, it'd cost him at least $15 to do it.
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