Tweets on the Hill

 
When Whitehouse aides tweet - Chirping away the top secrests
The Representative Republic wll be more accurately constrained

Well, Callie did a great job – found this really interesting. We should leave it unedited but then will we "sink" when we realize how very stupid many of these electeds really are!

I think Obama did a great job of using these mediums during the election, but isn't this kind of like texting in class? Shouldn't they be paying attention? Here is a piece on the future of social networking: http://electronics.wesrch.com/paper_details/pdf/EL1GP9PXZSNXX/The_Future_of_Social_Networking

I agree with your point on Republicans trying to connect with younger voters through new technology.

Barring further "staffer" blunders like Barton's, it's also a way to generate rhetoric and permanent reference: "You'll see by my such-and-such date tweet I opposed the proposition banning Guitar Hero in public schools." Of course, that goes for both sides of the aisle.

The fourth estate would do well to tap into this, to generate objective, to-the-moment updates on proceedings for younger, tech-savvy readers who poo-poo print.

Well done, Callie.

@Franko – Don't think any White House people or other Dems for that matter have leaked state secrets, unlike Rep Hoekstra (http://tinyurl.com/dh8wlp) who tweeted that he was in Iraq touring, while it was supposed to be top secret.

I don't think we will benefit at all! What possible benefit can there be to seeing the human being in the raw, behind the habitual political camoflage?

/end sarcasm

Noam Chomsky - "Lippmann argued that "the public must be put in its place," so that the "responsible men" may rule without interference from "ignorant and meddlesome outsiders" whose "function" is to be only "interested spectators of action," periodically selecting members of the leadership class in elections, then returning to their private concerns."

For all the Tweetings and Tootings of change – what say do the public have ?

Noooo!!!! No to filters. Let their butts hang out in the wind along with the rest of us. Filters and controls will again cause censorship and that is not what we need when it comes to communicating with our elected leaders. It is always a good thing when one of them blunders and sends a text/twitter that shows them for the fools they are. Don't we have enough censorship already? And secrecy from our elected officials? Transparency is about openness and honesty and that is what we need when it comes to our senate and congress members. I would like an uncensored version of the activities that each and every one of their sessions in congress so we can be more informed as to which of them is working for us and which is working for the large corporations and for themselves. Let freedom ring on the twitters.

 
DENNIS - " I would like an uncensored version of the activities"

Porn has to be censored, cesured, kept from young eyes
Perhaps, keep a web logbook, a summary of daily meetings ?
No shame in relaxing, not shoveling taxpayer money to lobbyists.
And the Kiddie Porn, on your Lawmakers Hard Drive, NSA is shure to tabulate