Congress Votes For Rudeness With Their Thumbs
March 2, 2009 by Miki Saxon
I am revolted by the lack of respect shown by so many of our Congressional (so-called) leaders.
Warning: If you don’t like rants feel free to navigate to a different (brilliant) post on this blog, because what follows is definitely a rant—in spite of the lack of excessive profanity and personal attacks.
I prefer to read the full text reprints of items such as Obama’s State of the Union speech because of my hearing, so, thankfully, I didn’t witness the disgusting performance of our sworn ‘leaders’ who chose to text and tweet throughout Obama’s speech.
And my anger has nothing to do with Obama. I really don’t give a damn who holds that office, the office itself deserves respect, whether I voted for the holder or not (and I did). I would feel the same way if it had been Bush, Clinton or any of the other 40 warm bodies who have sat in the Oval Office.
What the hell is going on here and around the globe? The world has gone meme and it’s not just the kids.
Granted, I don’t tweet, but I’m sure there is actually useful information being passed around beyond ‘I’m going upstairs to the bathroom now’.
There doesn’t even seem to be responsibility for tweets—blame it on a staffer or pull everything.
Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s page read “Aggie basketball game is about to start on espn2 for those of you that aren’t going to bother watching pelosi smirk for the next hour,”…Minutes later, that message disappeared, replaced with the disclaimer: “Disregard that last tweet from a staffer.” That note was also deleted after several minutes.”
Silly me, I’m such an innocent I thought people actually did their own tweeting, instead of paying someone. (Note to self, talk to marketing guy about tweeting for me.)
We grouse about Gen Y being disrespectful and rude, unlike their elders. Well, it looks as if their elders are catching down.
Maybe I can hitch a ride to a galaxy far, far away.
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I am amazed not only by the rudeness, but the sheer stupidity of sending a Tweet that many can read from such a place. Did he not imagine that this would become a topic of public discussion?
Hi Jo, I only mentioned Barton by name, the link mentions many others, both Democrats and Republicans.
Does anyone think before they click anymore? A few more years and maybe I’ll get used to it.
I call the tweets “mind farts”….
Not a twitter fan, either.
Tools can be used, misused and abused. Twitter, after Facebook and Myspace, is a marketing tool so I would not be surprised if the twits came from badly paid intern (given I would be real impressed if most people in the congress know about this technology). Which leads to an interesting leadership question: what do the people you hire tell about your leadership style ?
As far as galaxies go, pick any that passes by. Chances are it will be far enough that you will never hear from us again ;)
Donna, Good term! Heh, do you think that all the farting twittering will bring down the price of gas?
Denis, Then be impressed because according to every report I found it was the actual Congressmen and Senators who were tweeting. I do like your term twits—good designation for people who twitter.
I’ll answer your question about a leader’s hiring Friday.