The social networking site Twitter is all of the rage in Washington (in a related shameless plug, you can now follow Politics (Un)Seriously on Twitter!). But it turns out DC politicos aren't the only ones who favor the rapid-fire communicator. Hitler was quite a fan, too. Although his generals quickly learned he wasn't a whole lot of fun to be around when the site crashed.

Yesterday we posted a scene from 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' where Gov. Hubert "Happy" Hopper gets pressured from his own children to pick an unknown boyscout leader as the replacement for a recently deceased U.S. Senator.

In light of recent news that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been arrested at his home in Chicago on federal corruption charges for trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's senate seat, we thought we'd go to the 'Mr Smith' well one more time.

In this scene, it's not the governor who is leading the corrupt backroom dealings, but rather political kingmaker James Taylor telling Gov. "Happy" how the senate appointment will shake down.

The governors of Illinois and New York have been getting a lot of attention lately amid rampant speculation about who they will choose to appoint to Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's respective senate seats.

In Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gov. Hubert "Happy" Hopper faced a similar dilemma when one of his state's senators unexpectedly died. "Happy" is being pressured by both political kingmaker James Taylor and the party elite to pick different men. But it turns out it's his own children who really lay it on thick.

We imagine a scene similar to the clip below playing out in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's and New York Gov. David Paterson's dining rooms.

Whatever his personal beliefs, the late comedian Bob Hope, who died in 1993, made jokes about everyone, from Democrats ("The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the presidency,") to Republicans ("Quayle thinks Roe vs. Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac,") to politicians in general, (It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.") But the punching bag in this short clip is the ...

Somehow, we thought this famous scene from the 1977 movie Network was just right for the mood of these current hard times. And we tried to imagine Wolf Blitzer, instead of the crazed anchor Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch), showing up late for CNN's "Situation Room," his trench coat dripping after walking the streets aimlessly in a downpour, and then haranguing the Best Political Team on television with Beale's call to action. (We couldn't).

You've heard of issues referred to as the "third rail of politics." Spencer Tracy, playing the Republican nominee for President, Grant Matthews, steps on about a dozen of them as he tells his would-be campaign manager, in the 1948 film State of the Union, a few things he's about to speak his mind about. Played by the dapper Adolphe Menjou, the campaign manager heads for the door and when Tracy asks where he's going, answers, "I'm going to get pie-eyed."

Thanks to Slate, we were reminded of what was probably the first movie to portray a black President - James Earl Jones as Douglass Dilman, president pro tempore of the Senate, who assumes the office in "The Man" after the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health.

Well, it's been another rotten, grim week on Wall Street, so we may as well close it out with the "Wall Street Rap" from the 1992 movie "Bob Roberts" in which Tim Robbins plays an ultraconservative folk singer who runs for the Senate as a would-be populist.

In honor of what appears to be a deal on the Wall Street bailout, we thought it only fitting to bring you a scene from "Wall Street," the movie, and the famous, "Greed is good," speech by Gordon Gecko.

OK, we found this clip because someone, by connecting it with Barack Obama on YouTube, was clearly trying to make an anti-Obama point. But this is one we've been waiting to lay our electronic hands on because it was years ahead of its time in showing how television was going to change presidential politics.

It's from Elia Kazan's 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd" starring a very different Andy Griffith than the one you remember from Mayberry. Griffith portrays a guitar-playing hobo named Lonesome Rhodes who lands in jail in Piggott, Arkansas where he is discovered by a local radio station and vaults from there to a country-boy national star. Then when he's hired to be the national spokesman pitching a dubious vitamin supplement called Vitajex, the owner of the company turns Lonesome's talents to coaching his choice for President, a starchy old Senator, on how to be a down-home kind of guy.

Definitely one of our favorite all-time scenes from a political movie, even beats Allen Garfield coaching Robert Redford in "The Candidate."

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