I am starting to get really annoyed about the way the Republicans are playing this Twittergate thing. The Democrats are not trying to keep those tech-savvy Republicans (which is actually just Culberson) from using internet tools for constituent communication. The problem is that you have a 230-year old institution with members that aren’t much younger than that.

Both Democrats and Republicans should be working together to update the Franking rules for Congress. Unfortunately, the Republicans have managed to create a dream world where they are the great advocates and defenders of internet technology and the Democrats are a Stalinist regime set to restrict freedom of speach. (Yes, a Republican actually used the term Stalinist in this debate). It is amusing to me that the party of Howard Dean and Barack Obama is the great enemy of the internet, which much be defended by a party whose Presidential nominee just learned what an internet was last week.

If the Republicans are such great defenders of the internet I am sure they will all be switching their positions to support net neutrality.

So here is the point: both parties need to work together to update these rules. Republicans are only making it harder by trying to make a rule change look like a victory against the anti-internet Democrats. If Republicans actually gave a damn they would have sought a bi-partisan solution to this instead of trying to score some gotcha political points that could only be believed in W’s Situation Room.