Yes indeed, the Twitter debate over NSA blanket surveillance has made it all the way to the House floor.
Today, Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert cited a tweet from the quotable Ace of Spades (approximately 3:40 mark):
Ace’s quote as read by Gohmert was a source of amusement for some twitter users of varying political stripes:
Even I can laugh at this-“@asmith83: OK, I laughed. RT @Mr_Berman: Rep. Louie Gohmert, just now: "We've all got an Obama phone now"”
— District 12 (@JoEllenZacks) June 6, 2013
Pretty good. RT @Mr_Berman: Rep. Louie Gohmert, just now: "We've all got an Obama phone now"
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) June 6, 2013
*reluctant slow clap* RT @Mr_Berman: Rep. Louie Gohmert, just now: "We've all got an Obama phone now"
— delrayser (@delrayser) June 6, 2013
okay, that's funny. RT @Mr_Berman: Rep. Louie Gohmert, just now: "We've all got an Obama phone now"
— George Zornick (@gzornick) June 6, 2013
Notice we said the comment was a source of amusement for “some,” not “all”:
another day, another deposit in the Right Wing Idiocy Bank RT @Mr_Berman Rep. Louie Gohmert, just now: "We've all got an Obama phone now"
— Neff ? in ? Texas (@nffcnnr) June 6, 2013
Update:
Ace reacts to the news on his blog:
I couldn’t have done it without you guys. Well, I probably could have. But I wouldn’t have wanted to.
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