Tweets of the week

Peter B Murphy, District 9 Chattanooga City Councilmember

@PeterBMurphy

The election commission just ruled that I lost an election by 1/2 of a vote. Who says your vote doesn't count?

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Peter B Murphy, District 9 Chattanooga City Councilmember

@PeterBMurphy

Unless of course you wrote in, but failed to write a name in as part of your protest vote. Then they don't count you.

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Jim DeMint, former U.S. senator and president-elect of the Heritage Foundation

@JimDeMint

The only budgets we've seen from this President have been budgets that nearly double our debt over the next 10 years.

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Republican press office for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee

@BudgetGOP

For the uninitiated, a mark-up is the process for writing a budget, which will be the Senate's first in four years.

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Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee

@Reince

$16.7 trillion = "not a debt crisis" to Obama? Truly laughable.

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Charlie Daniels, musician and member of the Grand Ole Opry

@CharlieDaniels

Even if George W. Bush messed up things as bad as Obama supporters say he did, shouldn't Obama be making some headway by now?