Do you Tweet?
I do.
@SenSanders if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he’d use Boehner and Jeb as toothpicks.
— Martin Longman (@BooMan23) October 10, 2015
Sometimes, at least.
Follow if you want. Maybe I’ll follow you back.
Do you Tweet?
I do.
@SenSanders if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he’d use Boehner and Jeb as toothpicks.
— Martin Longman (@BooMan23) October 10, 2015
Sometimes, at least.
Follow if you want. Maybe I’ll follow you back.
I’m not sure I’d agree with Sander’s tweet. Roosevelt was actually pretty friendly towards trusts, as long as he felt they could be controlled by government regulation.
It was Wilson (and even Taft) who was more ardently a trustbuster. Wilson famously predicted regulatory capture:
“If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? Don’t you see that they must capture the government, in order not to be restrained too much by it? Must capture the government? They have already captured it. Are you going to invite those inside to stay? They don’t have to get there. They are there.”
Roosevelt punished predatory trusts, not all trusts.
For the first time I decided to try using Twitter. I did it because trying to see the comments on the debate on one website just wasn’t working. Adding the bloggers I enjoy the most on Twitter made the evening a lot more convenient and interesting.
Twitter is great to follow events in real-time. But honestly, I don’t see how anyone who spends hours every day following their Twitter feed could possibly have any real-life responsibilities or get anything done. With the constant stream of ever-changing information, it just becomes all-consuming of ones attention. I can only consume in small bits of time.
My attention span is too short as it is. I’m afraid if I got on Twitter I’d never get anything done.
Thanks for following me in return (I’m the guy who writes about pharma). I’m a longtime lurker, though I rarely make comments. But I do get a lot out of reading your work.
I dunno about Teddy, I wouldn’t want Boehner or Jeb anywhere near my mouth.
I’ll follow just so I can Favorite that toothpick tweet.
If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he’d be an aircraft carrier.
The Tea Party caucus toothpicks would metaphorically impale Teddy Roosevelt through his sinuses and bleed him to death. Post-Bush Republicans fight on a totally different battlefield than Progressive Republicans (or even Tea Party Republicans for that matter), not least because a freshman in certain districts can tell the party elders to suck on a dried cow patty and still keep their seat — as long as their rebellion was motivated by pandering to the base.
Frankly, I don’t think any historical Senate or House leader could’ve performed better than Boehner. Boehner’s biggest problem (aside from stuff like having no political carrots and being countermanded by conservative media) is that he has no leverage. Not that he lacks will.
Billmon:
I don’t tweet. I haven’t figured out how to answer my flip phone either.