LOL...people who know me KNOW I would do the same thing if it were a Democrat 
knucklehead...no it is a fair question..I was not being partisan...I was reporting...let me know 
which Democrats pull these stunts...James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clarkson, Gavin S" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:12 am
Subject: Re: Intelligence? Appropriateness?
To: [log in to unmask]

> In terms of assessing the partisanship of your post, would you have
> posted the same message with a prominent identification of his party
> affiliation if Congressman Hoekstra had been a Democrat?
> 
> For that matter, would the media have alerted you as gleefully to
> Hoekstra's arguably boneheaded use of Twitter if he were a Democrat?
> 
> (Not a nasty email, just a lament about the level of partisanship 
> in so
> many aspects of our national discourse.  Dubya utterly failed to 
> "changethe tone" in Washington, and I have little hope that Obama 
> will succeed
> in reducing partisan rancor either)  :(
> 
> -- Gavin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Highsmith
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Intelligence?
> 
> Colleagues, I thought this was a priceless example of why government
> does not always work well.
> 
> DOES THIS SOUND SENSIBLE???
> 
> The top Republican on the U.S. House INTELLIGENCE committee used his
> Twitter page to update the public on his precise whereabouts while
> traveling through Iraq and Afghanistan.
> 
> (Terrorists don't use the internet, do they?)
> 
> James Highsmith
> P.S.  Apologies to anyone who thinks this is not a proper subject for
> our list. Judgment call. 
> No nasty emails please. :-)
>