A New Low: GOP Leaders Troll Obama’s Twitter Town Hall

By: Guest ContributorJul. 6th, 2011more from Guest Contributor

Apparently since this GOP isn’t interested in passing any legislation, they had plenty of time to troll Obama’s Twitter town hall on the economy and jobs.

Let’s check out what some of these Republicans has to say.

Here is Speaker John Boehner:

Here is House Budget architect Paul Ryan:

Over on the Senate side, Twitter lover Orrin Hatch sent his share of spam:

So did House Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy:

SC Gov. Nikki Haley joined in:

Sadly, Mitt Romney’s team displayed their irrelevance by RTing Haley:

Not to be outdone, Michele Bachmann also RTed Haley:

In only a matter of weeks this country is risking economic catastrophe if the debt ceiling is not raised. You would think that these members of Congress and their staffs would have more important things to do than trolling Obama’s Twitter Town Hall with their talking points. Is this really what taxpayers are paying them to sit around and do? If they want to have a serious discussion about the economy, the deficit, and the debt ceiling, why don’t they take the President up on his invitation to come to the White House and talk to him face to face?

If you look through the Twitter streams of the GOPers who are participating in this mass trolling, you will see lots of RTs of Heritage Foundation and Chamber of Commerce tweets. I guess the Koch Brothers don’t have an official Twitter account.

It is sad that anyone from Mitt Romney’s staff thought it was a great idea to jump into the #askobama thread. Here is a hint Team Mitt. You are supposed to be sending the impression that your guy is Obama’s equal and would be a superior president. Pandering to the few Republican South Carolina primary voters on Twitter just makes you look small time. What is even sadder is that the Bachmann camp felt the need to keep up with Romney and RTed it too. It made both of them look small time.

Republicans apparently don’t have the time to deal with the economy, jobs, the debt ceiling, or the deficit, but they have all day to hang around Twitter and troll. They think they are winning the message war, but the real message they are sending is that they don’t care about the American people or their problems.

The hastag that I would use to describe this whole display is #GOPfail.

Image: The White House

A New Low: GOP Leaders Troll Obama’s Twitter Town Hall was written by Guest Contributor for PoliticusUSA.

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22 Responses to A New Low: GOP Leaders Troll Obama’s Twitter Town Hall

Jim H

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Just when you think Republicans couldn’t get any more shallow, the drain a little more water out of the pool. Perhaps, Republicans #GOPfail should be reminded of their Pledge to America.
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- Ella1019
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
  
  Pledge to America … yes, the GOP loves this country so much they just want to @#$# it.
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John K

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:18 pm

I’m not sure how we have elected officials who don’t use the English language appropriately. As a professional troll, I’m wondering if the GOP is willing to give me an eighth of what the bush era tax cuts gave a single member of the wealthiest 1% of Americans got, in exchange for my services as a dedicated, literate, and intelligent asshole.
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- Sarah Jones
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
  
  NO, see, “intelligent” is not allowed. You are over-qualified.
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Boscoe

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:31 pm

LOL so *both* GOP frontrunners are so full of leadership and ideas that they simply retweeted?

My god, the irony is so think you can cut it with a spork.

Also, anyone else sense that most of those tweets were written by the same staffer? Anyone imagine Orrin Hatch typing “u”? …Or knowing what a hashtag is for?

But I actually love Paul Ryan throwing down the gauntlet for a “real debate”! That would be swell. I think some of the tweets do ask legit questions and I’d love to not only hear them answered, but thrown directly into the faces of Republicans to “debate” against.

Oh, I know the closest we’d get to “debate” would be torrents of Fox-style vaguely near-topic talkingpoints spewage and lots of interrupting, but that’s okay because it’ll just make ‘em look even more like the bumpersticker-huffing dickweeds they are.
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Reynardine

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

Well, and when the pool is empty as their damn heads, maybe they can dive headfirst into it… nah, they clearly did that a coupla decades ago.
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- Reynardine
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
  
  Supposed to have posted to Jim H.
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Reynardine

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 3:45 pm

I’m thinking about that supposed hack of the FoxPolitics twitter account, the hoax report that President Obama was assassinated at a Ross’s Restaurant in Iowa. Fox not only left the tweets up for hours, drawing far higher than normal traffic to the site, but this morning the Feds arrested some guy for calling and contacting various news outlets saying he was going to massacre the Feds and the First Family. Was he inspired by the hoax? Was that what the hoaxers were trying to inspire? Was that what Fox (assuming that’s a different party) was trying to inspire? And what are these politithugs trying to inspire?
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- Reynardine
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
  
  Meant to say: the President and the First Family.
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Leah Burton

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:08 pm

What is pathetic is that they don’t have enough imagination between ALL of them to even rephrase the debate. It is like the Tparty signs that all said the same thing as dictated by FreedomWorks…only the misspellings were authentic.

What really makes me queasy is not only are there enough low-information voters in America to get these asshats elected…they also think these guys are members of a conservative brain trust!

unbelievable…honestly…
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- Moongal6
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
  
  The biggest threat to our beloved country is the low information voter.
  No matter what your party affiliation.
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  - Cathy
    
    Jul. 6th, 2011 at 11:39 pm
    
    Exactly!
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    - Cathy
      
      Jul. 6th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
      
      Except the majority of low info voters, vote for the party (GOP) that causes the most damage!
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Sarah Jones

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:15 pm

The cowards can retweet talking points like a troll, but they can’t debate anything in real life.

I’m still wondering when ONE pundit or anchor will ask a Republican to explain the healthcare law without talking points, just to see if they have actually read it. Do they really think private insurance companies = govt takeover? Or should we ignore everything they say from now on, since they are too disingenuous to engage in real debate of IDEAS.

NOT BUMPER STICKERS.

They troll because they can’t afford for real debate to happen, even outside of their cult. The voters might get wise to them if they don’t cause chaos and distraction at every turn – just like any terrorist or abuser. Same tactics.
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- Shiva (Moderator)
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
  
  Every day I run into people that think the whitehouse has taken over healthcare and government healthcare is putting the private ones out of business. The stupidity is stupendous
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  - Sarah Jones
    
    Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
    
    The truth is that they have made themselves look ridiculous, even David Brooks is calling them out – and they have shamed the media and public into giving their ignorant opinions as much weight as reality, but that will only last for so long. The country is in real trouble….we need grown ups who read and can be honest about what things mean. THEN debate ideology. Right now, they aren’t debating ideology – they’re an Ayn Rand clownshow of Koch whore$ who should be sent home without health insurance. I’m tired of the lies. DId you see Santorum pull his magical numbers of stimulus job losses out on CNN? They told him he was full of it, but of course, he didn’t back down. Same school as Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin – The Big Government Teat Party of Lies. They want to regulate our private lives under the pretend guise of fiscal conservatism.
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  - majii
    
    Jul. 7th, 2011 at 12:03 am
    
    I feel you, Shiva. On Malia Litman’s blog the other day, I ran into a right-winger who still believes that death panels were in the ACA and had to be removed! There’s no way to make some of these people see that the Medicare advisory board that is a part of the ACA is NOT a death panel. Palin, Fox, rw blogs, and the GOP did a real good job on ph*cking these folks’ minds over. How a provision to provide end of life counseling to the elderly for free becomes a bad thing is unbelievable, too.
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- majii
  
  Jul. 6th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
  
  Think Progress has a post about Mitt Romney calling for an end to the Dodd/Frank Law, but when he was asked specifically what he didn’t like about the law, he began talking about the number of pages in the law, and ended by saying that because the law was “x” number of pages, he’d be sure to find something there he didn’t like. This is embarrassing. We have people saying things about legislation they haven’t read, and their followers believing and defending it! These are the same people who say they want an end to bailing out the banks which is something the Dodd/Frank legislation attempts to influence. No wonder our country is in the shape it’s in–the Republican Party has become a cult where group-speak/thought is the price of admission and the cost of maintaining one’s membership.
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Lucy The Wonder Dog

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 4:21 pm

What’s all this interest in South Carolina about? I thought Governor Pretty Face had cut funding for their Republican primary.

Is she positioning herself to be the next half-term governor to be nominated by GOP for vice president?

The GOP: fail parade.
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Shiva (Moderator)

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 6:33 pm

I follow Boehner on twitter and the man is an abject liar. He has no plan for jobs and lies about that constantly. Nikki Haley is in deep do do in her state, maybe she should tweet her pathetic little arse out of that first.

Anything they can do to get rid of any workers rights is all they are about.

Orrin hatch? A comedian
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YahooSerious

Jul. 6th, 2011 at 8:43 pm

I find it unbelievable that these foxsters still think that giving money to people who won’t spend it is going to fix the economy.
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TeaTards LIE

Jul. 16th, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Thank you for the informative article & your insightful commentary. It is a shame the GOP has chosen to behave like insane children.

The GOP ceased being a political party when the D’s were voted back in the last 2 years of Bush’s regime.

And once Obama took office they became a full on RACIST “PROTEST” MOVEMENT of cry-whining, sore-loser babies.

the GOP crashing President Obama’s Twitter Town Hall with “We the People” is in line w/their record obstruction.

They’re nothing more than misbehaved, tantrum-throwing kids!
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