SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing

Tweeting it out most of the day. Ill try to throw up anything of interest but for right now you can find me here.

Buncha Dumbasses

On the heels of the Democrats in Tennessee pulling off a coup in the State Assembly, we now here this story of a similar coup attempt by the GOP in Virgina. Unfortunately though the Republicans in the Virginia Senate decided to follow the Peter Hoekstra rules to twittering and the end result was an EPIC FAIL!

Apparently Senator Ralph Northam had agreed with Minority Leader Tommy Norment to vote to give Republicans power sharing in the Virginia Senate today.

Before it was announced on the floor and finalized, RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick tweeted about it.

Can you guess what happened next?

The Democrats found out, shut down the session and pulled Northam behind closed doors and gave him the business until he saw the error of his ways. And all because Frederick felt the need to use his crackberry prematurely (I bet his wife hates that). Do these fools think when they send a message on twitter that nobody else can see it? Straight comedy. I really hope the GOP keeps going with their online "rebirth". Its going to make smashing them to bits just that much easier.

(h/t emptywheel)

Intelligence Fail

I would imagine that this story about Congressman Hoekstra twittering to his followers where he and the rest of a Congressional delegation to Iraq are in clear violation of an embargo on that information in the interests of security and keeping the delegation safe will have the RedStaters and the Freepers all in a lather today. Of course that is until they figure out that Hoekstra is a wingnut Republican. IOKAYAR rules and all that. But I will bet you anything that Joe The Plumber is somewhere PISSED right now.

Of course it turns out that this is not his first offense.