We knew that Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tex.) was moving to the right, so I guess it's no surprise that he's a fan of the "tea party" movement. His latest tweet:
Ft Worth TEA party is crazy good...huge crowd fillng up LaGrave Field....patriots everywhere!!!
I know what you're thinking--maybe that's not ACTUALLY the governor. It's probably some overenthused staff member going overboard, right?
Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa.) office pushed back hard against primary opponent Pat Toomey's announcement today, accusing Toomey of having "cannibalized" the Republican Party.
Specter said Toomey, in his work as chairman of the conservative Club for Growth, was the Democrats' "Most Valuable Player," copping a sports analogy, for having contributed to the defeat of centrist Republicans in Congress.
The link follows through to a page on Specter's Facebook profile, in which Toomey is blasted for contributing to the defeats of Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.), Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.), Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho), and Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.).
The tweet represents a consistently aggressive but particularly harsh line of attack from Specter, who has sought to get out in front of the sure to be hotly-contested primary battle.
Taking a page from his primary campaign opponent, Sen. Arlen Specter (R), former Club for Growth Chairman Pat Toomey joined Twitter on Wednesday after launching his campaign.
Toomey established his feed this morning, after formally announcing his long-expected challenge to Specter.
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields is no fan of Twitter, he let C-SPAN viewers know Wednesday morning.
Shields said on Washington Journal:
I'm not Twittering, you know?. It sounds a little bit like a nervous condition. But, the ones I've seen are have been so self-indulgent and so narcissistic, Steve, that it just kind of -- here I am, I'm walking now, I just had a bite of my pizza, I'm walking into makeup.
They don't seem particularly reflective, insightful, or thoughtful. Rather than just sort of -- I know you'd be interested in my minor movements.
I find that rather offputting to tell you the truth.
Shields, like many journalists of an earlier generation
There's some debate Wednesday about whether or not conservatives' so-called "Tea Parties" are a dominant meme or not on Twitter.
Daily Kos's "DemFromCT" posted the following word cloud today, showing the "teaparty" tag as a relatively small element in a Twitter word cloud, far behind "rainy," "nyc," "dominos," and "sexting."
The cloud led the site's eponymous leader, Markos Moulitsas, to tweet:
And while the universe of Tweets may be somewhat nebulous and difficult to characterize, the political tweets which this blog follows have had a lot to say about today's Tea Parties.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) took the unusual step of calling out a single one of her followers on Twitter, who apparently started following her today.
I'm honored that Joe Rospars is following.Thank you for providing the conduit for 13 million strong. Our country is better for your effort.
Rospars served as New Media Director for President Obama's campaign this past fall, and is a founding partner of Blue State Digital.
(For the uninitiated: Some Twitter users have begun referring to their followers and friends as "tweeps," a hybridization of the word "Twitter" and "peeps," a slang term for friends.)
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has apparently taken the initiative to umpire the stimulus bill, which was promised by the Obama administration to be "timely, targeted, and temporary."
It seems as though Issa is calling the Obama administration "out," and links through to a release from the minority on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Issa leads.
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