Gibbs and Boehner: Twitter enemies

[one_voice]

The ongoing fight between the White House and House Minority Leader John Boehner has moved to Twitter.

The top Republican in the House and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs traded barbs on the mini-messaging system Sunday in the wake of a front-page New York Times story that painted Boehner as beholden to special interests and swayed by his large network of lobbyists

Early on Sunday afternoon, Gibbs, using his “PressSec” Twitter account, blasted to his 90,000-plus readers a link to a controversial New York Times story about Boehner’s ties to Washington lobbyists. Boehner’s staff circled the wagons on the story, sending an e-mail to reporters Sunday afternoon accusing the Gray Lady of a “hatchet job.”

Gibbs seemed to enjoy the piece.

“Headline says it all...A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists,” Gibbs tweeted, with a link to the front-page Times story. A subsequent link reminded Gibbs’s readers: “Don't forget this handy clip & save graphic of 'K Street Cabinet' (black & white photo doesn't do that tan justice!)”

Later tweets from Gibbs: “Story on Boehner covers some of his greatest hits — handing out checks from lobbyists on the House floor” — referring to a 1995 incident when the Ohio Republican doled out contributions on the House floor, an act later outlawed. Gibbs then disseminated Boehner’s quote about how passing out checks probably “doesn’t look good.”

But Boehner was not to be outdone. At around noon, the keeper of his Twitter account linked to a June 24 Times story about how members of the Obama administration were meeting with lobbyists at Caribou Coffee on Pennsylavania Avenue near the White House.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42032.html



. :crazy:

[Donnachaidh]

1. yup -- Boehner's twitter dude went OCD and kept twittering the same reply

Gibbs definitely drew blood on that one. :rofl:

[rucky]

2. Lobbyist bashing is bipartisanship I can believe in!

Let's keep talking about lobbyists.