Biden enters post-Weiner-era Twittersphere

As Silicon Alley Insider reported today, Vice President Joe Biden officially opened a Twitter account this weekend. This is Joe “big f*#king deal” Biden, of course, so it could either be one of the best political Twitter feeds of all time or one of the most heavily edited, most-often ghostwritten Twitter feeds of all time. Judging by its 23 hours of life, it’s the latter, unfortunately! @VP has tweeted once. He has 11,700 followers but he follows no one.

ABC’s Karl on Weiner’s phony outrage

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl did a sit-down interview with embattled New York Congressman Anthony Weiner days ago, back when Weiner was still determinedly following the exact wrong script on how to weather a political scandal, lying up and down about how photos of his crotch ended up on the internet, denying the undeniable and preening with faux outrage at Karl and other members of the press for asking questions. Karl, though, has more than a barrel of ink at his disposal to set the record straight. Yesterday he sent out an email blast to reporters around the country that included video excerpts and a transcript from the interview. “At the time, it seemed that the most remarkable part was when he told me he could not say for sure whether or not it was him in that infamous underwear photograph,” Karl writes.

Study: Obama’s ‘death panels’ would have prolonged life

End of life palliative care doesn’t kill grandma it extends her life, according to a groundbreaking study led by Dr Jennifer Temmel at Massachusetts General Hospital and published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Consultations with doctors…

Hasan tweets support for Ground Zero gay bar: ‘Rename Park Place Sean Hannity Aneurysm Ave’

Colorado conservative family scion Ali Hasan left for California this summer after he lost his GOP state assembly bid for state treasurer. Hasan is watching the sunset over the beach in Orange County and writing a screenplay but he is…

Schaffer jabs McInnis on Twitter, conjuring ghosts of 2008

One thing the whole Scott McInnis plagiarism scandal has dredged up is a bit of not-so-ancient history revealing internal cat fighting in the Colorado Republican Party right before they were swept aside in the 2008 election.

If you recall, that…

Proud serial apologizer Joe Barton repeats confused tendency on Twitter

After apologizing to BP for the $20 billion victims’ escrow fund, Rep. Joe Barton unapologized via a retraction. But now he’s unapologizing for that, sort of. David Weigel reports that the formerly penitent Texas Republican has

Tom Tancredo: Sarcastic twitter blogger

Former Colorado Congressman, anti-illegal alien firebrand, talk-radio host, Republican candidate thorn-in-side Tom Tancredo has taken his long mockery of newly non-mavericked Arizona Sen. John McCain onto the Twitter. It’s rich.

The Tancredo the Twitter knows

Twitter has opened whole new windows into the lives and personalities of our Colorado public citizens. State Sen. Greg Brophy, an avid and playful tweeter, loves his kids and his bikes. State Sen. Schultheis reads mostly wingnut websites,…

GOP Senate candidates Norton and Buck social-network for cash

It’s the last day of the fundraising quarter and Colorado candidates are looking to boost their totals in part by sending web surfers to their campaign websites. The race where the money counts most this quarter is probably the GOP…

Fake-Boehner tweets the apocalyptic dawn of Obamacare America

Congressional Republicans had a lousy night. Obamacare, the grand American socialist experiment, passed. In the months preceding the vote and on the floor of the House last night, GOP lawmakers ratcheted up the end-times rhetoric so high it became…