Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), mustering the great oratorical history of the U.S. Senate in his response to Obama’s call on Congress to enact health care legislation:

“Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us ‘time to deliver’ on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND.”

He then followed:

“Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare’ When you are a ‘hammer’ u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL.”

Grassley’s address was delivered on Twitter, the 21st century parchment and pen. While Grassley’s words may not match the Declaration of Independence, I think they rank right up there with the most famous Senate quotes, such as army attorney Joseph Welch’s challenge of Sen. McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Or, as Welch said   later in  his Twitter posting: “Dude, WTF?”

Can we create a new Congress whose sole responsibility would be to pass laws affecting the current Congress? Like “No Tweeting while angry\drunk” or, better yet, “No using any Internet phone at any point ever.”

Barring that, let me provide some advice for politicians using Twitter.

1. You don’t have to misspell words. It makes you look how we secretly suspect you are. Knowing our nation’s leaders  know how to use a phone is comforting enough.

2. Ditto for writing words in all caps. It comes off as yelling, and sometimes the big letters make your words get stuck in the Internet tubes.

3. If you tweet during the President’s State of the Union address, you  are no longer allowed to complain about the declining attention spans of our nation’s youths.