http://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccaberg/republican-congressman-ridicules-his-party-for-lame-hashtag
Rep. Justin Amash says Republican leadership are wrong to try to blame Obama for the sequester — especially with such a terrible Twitter hashtag. “I think it's kind of 2008.”
WASHINGTON — Rep. Justin Amash has a message for the masterminds of his leadership's recent fascination with the use of Twitter hashtags: forget the marketing games and get back to the substance.
"I occasionally use hashtags, but I think it's kind of 2008," said Republican Rep. Justin Amash, a conservative Republican who has become one of the party's more effective users of Twitter and social media. "It's just a marketing ploy a lot of times, and they hope it takes off," he added. "Some of them do take off, but I don't think it's that frequent that they do."
Within the past month, House Republican leaders have regularly unveiled new hashtags for each new messaging push: "#NoBudgetNoPay," "#RequireAPlan," and, most recently, "#Obamaquester" have all been broadcast by flacks on Twitter and affixed to lecterns at press conferences.
Amash says he's less bothered by the hashtags themselves than by the messages behind them — particularly "#Obamaquester," which aims to blame President Barack Obama for initially proposing the mandatory spending cuts known as the "sequester."with all the immediate planning to steal 2014 and 16 they still don't have confidence in themselves to win over the party of the people, planting these buzz words they think will put it in our minds to later trigger with what they perceive as another clever trigger, but that is now nullified we know what they are doing only works when you sneak it in under the radar.
they need to listen to Jindal and stop being the party of stupid, although that helps our effort it still has the potential to impact us unfavorably. stupid is when you do it to yourself too, not just what you do.
