Senators flock to Twitter

There comes a time in everyone's life when they put something online that they will someday regret.

And we all know here in the 21st century, if it's online, it's forever.

Facebook still records what you updated your status to, on this day, two years ago. Regular college age students edit their tweets and updates regularly for parents, family and potential employers.

So answer how so many politicians, elected by the people to one of the most prestigious positions in America, the Senate, can justify how short hands and cruel under the belt attacks towards others, could be professional or appropriate?

Chuck Grassley, senator of Iowa, tweeted "Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us ‘time to deliver' on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND."

Obviously deciding that this was an inappropriate tweet, he edited the aforementioned statement to, "Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare' When you are a ‘hammer' u think evrything is NAIL I'm no NAIL."

Yes, Mr. Grassley surely has one of the best vernacular etiquettes in Iowa. How else could he attain one of the highest honors of our nation's history? 

Although the tweeting senator of Iowa sounded ridiculous and incomprehensible like an 11-year-old girl tweeting about her nagging mother, at least he has not behaved like a boy pushing down girls in the mud like Newt Gingrich. 

The speaker of the house called Sonia Sotomayor a racist through Twitter.  He has now joined ranks with conservatives such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, who called Sotomayor a "reverse racist." Clever. 

Sotomayor, currently selected by Obama to reside on the Supreme Court, is now facing a vote in the Senate to seal the deal and sit among the 8 other judges in the "highest court in the land."

It is unprofessional and embarrassing to see our representatives behave in such a manner and to see more childish and crude actions among the men and women occupying the capitol.

My hope is that soon we will see an increase in young voters, and those votes are not cast based on the inappropriate comments placed on social networking sites.

Sadly, there are those who think that this is the only way to reach our generation. That our minds revolve around tweeting and stumbleupon.com.

Legislature now affects our generation more than any other time.

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