Full speech soon
** Text of speech here **
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praises President Obama’s Kansas speech, dubbing it the “Obama doctrine”:
“This President may have just coined an economic version of an Obama Doctrine. It is a vision for keeping the American dream alive for the middle class that directly rebuts the failed theory of trickle-down economics.”
President Obama greets people in the audience after speaking at Osawatomie High School, Kansas
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President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius arrive at Kansas City International Airport
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President Obama climbs onto the stage prior to speaking about the economy at Osawatomie High School
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President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, visits We B Smokin’ Bar-B-Que with on the outskirts of Osawatomie
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President Obama boards Air Force One at Kansas City International Airport en route to Washington
White House.gov
AFSCME Endorses Obama Again
Barack Obama has the endorsement of the AFSCME labor union for a second term, a union source tells TPM. The endorsement was expected, but signals that Obama will again be able to rely on the massive fundraising and GOTV prowess of organized labor.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/2462
This is great. Wouldn’t it be awesome if all the unions came out early and endorsed him? The NEA already has.
SEIU, too
Love and support the unions!
I am so glad to hear this about the unions. It totally makes sense, but it is still reassuring.
Strong endorsement; you can read more on their website.
http://www.afscme.org/blog/afscme-endorses-president-obamas-reelection
Whohooo!
I just saw Messina tweet about this. Tweeted him back telling thanks for all they do and to give @BarackObama a big thanks, that we’ve got his back.
Hey Chips. I miss ya’ll a bunch. On my lunch break and so I am going to play here for a bit. Won’t be able to hear PBO speech coz break will be over, but I’ll be looking forward to catching up tonight.
That’s nothin’. Romney got Dan Quayl’s
Smartypants!!
Brawawaa..and all of them have the Quack moderating their next debate except Paul and Huntsman because “the voters have very important decisions to make.” lolololol.
Video of the President’s speech:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Presiden-Obama-Discusses-Economy-in-Kansas/10737426036/
#REJECTtheSAMERS
#YesWeCanDOMoreTogether
Yahooo! Watching the talk, I was shocked as to how many people were engaged. I am kansas girl and I know the politics of the state.
I wonder if a lot of people came from other cities-K.C. and Lawrence?
Hi Dorothy. That’s the same feeling I had and many of them came Saturday night and waited in the cold before the tickets were handed out on Sunday at noon. They seemed very intune with what he was saying and yet when you look at the pictures they seem rather sober.
Now I know why he was off schedule flying back to the airport. Kathleen wanted him to taste some real Kansas B-Ba-que to possibly take back to AF1 to eat on the trip back. I sat looking out my windows for them to come back over the house and went outside in the cold. Finally, they flew over 20 minutes late. This time there were four helicopters. I loved seeing them even if it wasn’t in person.
Chipsticks you are en fuego today!
It’s all that coffee UT!!
always is
muy fuego , ut!
ya killing me Lisa
You mean mucho caliente?
The speech will also be live on YouTube:
Reposted from last thread.
Hello from KC.
It is really noisy around here. First I heard what sounded like several huge planes fly in towards MCI very loud but I had my times mixed up with the EST while I was expecting CST so I missed it but it was right on time.. There have been no sounds of planes today till this one. I just ran out and watched three helicopters not to far above me fly over. Funny though, one was white and very odd shaped with two regulary military type flying on each side. They were flying southwest and Osawatamie is southeast. Maybe they are going to follow I-435 to I 35. We have snow but just a slight dusting. It is very cold though. To quote Neil Diamond, “What a Beautiful Noise.” I’m going out again so signing off for now..
When the President left Peoria Airport here in Illinois, my 10-year-old grandson and I “shared a moment” outside, looking up, so we could spot Air Force One. He really enjoyed that. We have no idea if the lone plane we saw actually was AF1, but we decided we’d say it was!
:LOL: :LOL:
Opps try again
I get really excited whenever the President comes to Los Angeles, because I can see the airplanes taking off and landing from my balcony (I live in the Marina not too far from the airport). I usually find a reason to work from home on those days so I can watch out for AF1 and Marine One. It’s exciting every time!
President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius step off Air force One at Kansas City International Airport
I see Carney on Marine One just rephrased msnbc’s question, “make or break moment for President Obama”, and called today “a make or break moment for the middle class.
SO love that man. He’s perfect for the job.
Just thinking about how PBO has inspired so many of us to follow his administration and to feel included in his presidency. We are calling our Congressmen, signing petitions, emailing, writing letters, contacting the media and convincing others to support him. He has invoked a sense of purpose and committment in all of us to be there for all of our Country. So many of us are first timers in our level of political involvement. Why? Because he has touched something in us that no one else has been able to stir. He is special and makes me feel special to be supporting him.
Excellent!
Excellent reframing!!
Dumb question, PBO is giving a speech in a small town in Kansas, this is “make or break” what???
Perfect, Jay! He’s quicker than any of the jackals.
Prescisely, dotster! I hate it when the corporatemedia says it’s all about PObama. It’s our People and our Country that it’s ABOUT. And, the President knows this.
Shallow thought, please forgive me … man, he is fine!
On a more serious note, I am looking forward to today’s speech.
The kid is just beautiful both inside and outside. He is a marvel.
Love him.
Yeah, the kid is. Makes me all verklempt how so.
Oh, CTGirl, he is a fine man-both inside and outside. BTW, is that a new scarf he’s wearing? He usually has on a burgundy-colored one when he wears his overcoat. One day last week someone here on TOD commented on the Christmas tree lighting thread that the burgundy scarf was getting old and dated and maybe Michelle or the girls should get him a new one. I guess he or FLOTUS must have been reading Chipsticks’ blog.
I just turned to CNN live stream and Ray LaHood is testifying and he is great.
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1
He’s really been loyal to PBO. Glad to have him on our team.
Yes he has, love him.
Chip,
I think you should put Ax’s interview from last next with Morgan. It will show everyone why President Obama is headed for a 2nd term regardless of the opponent, whether it’s the seriel flip-flopper or the seriel gridlocker who is the Republican nominee. I adore Ax and he is intelligent, faithful, loyal, smart and handsome, too especially when he smiles.
An amusing tidbit while we wait—-Palin found guilty of ethics act violations and must return $386,000 in contributions.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/news/40013/palin-guilty-of-major-ethics-act-violation-must-return-386-000-in-contributions
Is it me..?
It says ” nearly a year after she quit “….I though she quit in 2009.
It’s about time her actions caught up with her. Hope this is the tip of a very big iceberg for her.
I so agree, Jackie.
palin will have some whiny poor little me victimhood lie about it and the used teabaggers will soak it up.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/06/chris-matthews-republican-brother-arrested-for-perjury/
OT. Chris Mathews Republican Brother arrested for perjury in PA. It’s Obama’s fault.
Wow…….
I hope Tweety is feeling tingles in both legs over this
Hahahahahaha. Karma’s a biiiiiiiiiiiiitch.
lol..!! chris matthews always says “politics is fun” when it’s at the expense of others…I’m tryin to decide if I shouild tweet @hardball and @hardball_chris to see if he’s having fun yet
LMAOF that was so right on.
Well, well, well. I could care less about what James Matthews does or whether he’s guilty or not, but this could be the start of the teardown of what is certainly - on the part of Chris Matthews - that degree of arrogance and entitlement that may be running rampant in the entire damn family!
The Matthews family mortgage biz——-interesting.
“brother of liberal MSNBC host of Chris Matthews” — what a crock!
The should have said liberal bi-polar Matthews.
Or tea party bi-polar Matthews.
Remember right after his son got married …the father of the new daughter in law was arrested for dealing reefer. 8.1 million worth.
Folks, with all due respect… Culpability by association is not fair. We shouldn’t go there.
And, yes, he is liberal so get off that dime. Maybe not as liberal as we would all like him to be. And not cool beating him up for his knuckle-head bro.
…And, yes, he is liberal so get off that dime…
…???
Hahahahaha. Love your response Chi.
Local coverage: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20111206_DA_to_announce_charges_in_probe_of_Montco_commissioners.html?cmpid=125219969
Related story — trouble in MontCo GOP: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20111206_Montco_GOP_dissidents_want_party_chairman_ousted.html
“Matthews lied with such ease and frequency…”, must run in the family. HA (as Tweety says all too often)!
So sweet!! I wonder if tweety will spend time talking about his brother on his show?Tweety is a
phony ass.
Wow! What a family resemblance!
Great to see Kathleen. She was early to endorse him and was Governor for two terms in this red state. Glad the President has on his coat, it’s 28 degrees at MCI.
Yes, I love Kathleen - and her wonderful support of the President. He has an amazing team.
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but the President has issued a very important Presidential Memorandum: “International Initiatives to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/presidential-memorandum-international-initiatives-advance-human-rights-l
Palin got grift-slapped! What took so long?
this is fantastic.I have to pass that to my gay and lesbian friends so that they can pass this along
Yes, it’s monumental.
Oops upside da head!
Good morning/afternoon TOD! Just sitting down with my first cup of coffee, and I’m trying to play catch up. Chips, like the Marine Corps, you do more before 10:00 am than our congresscritters do all year! thank you. Now off for some speed reading before our President speaks.
BTW, Chips is there a tutorial on how to download the videos? I’d love to put some on my laptop to share with my senior citizens.
And the Navy!
Hope you are feeling good today, Alycee!
Thanks JO’B; I woke up this morning so all is well! Each day I see what body parts are working and go with it.
Chips,
I think you might want to put Ax’s interview with Morgan up. It’s shows why President Obama is headed for a 2nd term with the wind at his back, whether his opponent is the serial flip-flopped or the serial grid locker. I adore Ax he makes the choice plain and clear. He is so intelligent, faithful, loyal, smart and handsome, especially when he smiles.
Hi Lorraine, I haven’t seen it yet, will look for it later. Thank you!
Okay. You are welcome, love.
. He was wonderful.
I concur with Lorraine’s assertions Chips. Axelrod was bloody brilliant last night on Piers Morgan.
CNN was playing portions of Axe’s interview with Piers this morning where he was talking about Newt. The campaign is nw talking about Newt as well as Romney.
I tried to watch last night…but Piers makes me sick to my stomach.
I can only watch him once in awhile. He creeps me out with his unhealthy obsession of President Obama.
My “fave”, Andrea Mitchell, who is in Israel for a new msnbc station there, just said that President Obama will need more than a big stick. Always looking for the slam. Now she’s saying that Obama “is at least CONSIDERING visiting Israel early next year, he has not been here since his election”—-which I think is at the root of all Mitchell’s animosity toward Obama.
she should move there and bring Lieberman with her and stay THERE.Morning Dot.Cold as hell in the city today huh?
On behalf of the good citizens of CT, I would help him pack!
I would not miss her if she stayed there…and take her husband too.
THIS
Is she jewish and who is her husband?
Alan Greenspan.
Collins, McCaskill Push Millionaire Surtax That Exempts ‘Small Business’
December 6, 2011, 10:27 AM
Two senators, one Dem one Republican, are trying to break the GOP objection to raising taxes on millionaires to fund job creation measures. If they’re successful, it will become the key to passing President Obama’s payroll tax cut proposal, and driving a wedge between powerful anti-tax activists and the Republican party. But if Republicans object it will expose the hollow nature of their overwhelming opposition to taxing the affluent. When Republicans object to small tax increases on millionaires they claim Democrats are proposing to raise taxes on “small businesses” or “job creators.”
To strip Republicans of this objection, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) are proposing to exempt these entities from the millionaire’s surtax, and put the remaining revenue to paying for President Obama’s payroll tax holiday.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/collins-mccaskill-push-millionaire-surtax-that-exempts-business.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
h/t Brian Beutler
Live inside the school
http://livewire.kmbc.com/Event/President_Obama_Visits_Kansas
Priceless! One egotistical blowhard reading another egotistical blowhard his rights about (gasp) “telling the truth”-something neither one of them is familiar with. How ironic is that?!!
h/t Thomas Lane
one of the best things Trump has ever done.
They are all so petty, small and silly…
Serves Chuck Todd right - they’ve all taken President Obama’s dignity, grace, decency for granted for far too long…
There will be serious wailing and gnashing of teeth after President Obama leaves office…
These silly, childish exchanges and free for alls will become the norm with wannabes like the perennially ridiculous and awkward phony Jon Huntsman periodically throwing in borrowed and recycled lines like ‘bimbo eruption’ and ‘not kissing any part of the anatomy’ for good measure…
I watched it and they deserve each other, but Trump called Chackie dishonest. both of the are full
of shit and are disgasting liers.
Donald Trump is lucky Chuck Todd doesn’t have a mouth like Barney Frank. What an ass.
SLAM BAMMMMMMMM! “You need to be STRAIGHT and TELL THE TRUTH, Chuck”!
Live stream up and running here. People are cute, waving in their friends, excited:
http://www.kctv5.com/category/215375/kctv5-livestream-mva2
Carry on!
Eric Boehlert: ‘Fox News Primary’ is ‘Slowly Destroying the Republican Party’
December 05, 2025 07:15 PM
Media Matters Eric Boehlert joined the Ed Schultz show to discuss the strategy by the GOP presidential candidates to continually run to Fox News and then demonize the rest of the media and how that’s working out for them. As Boehlert noted, it may work to win some of the early primary states, but they’re not going to have a lot more trouble continuing it in the general election.
~snip~
Cain’s spectacular fall mirrors recent GOP implosions, like the ones suffered by Donald Trump and Rick Perry, both of whom were heralded by Fox News as can’t-miss stars for 2012. Not to mention Fox News’ other disappointments; the possible candidates who the channel relentlessly hyped and pleaded with to run (Chris Christie, Sarah Palin), only to have them beg off, leaving Ailes’ crew crest-fallen.
The futile search for the Fox News Candidate of 2012 continues.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/eric-boehlert-fox-news-primary-slowly-dest
h/t Heather
That was a good read, creolechild..thank you. The comment under there was pretty low information himself. When he said “it looked liked the best choice was gop lite 1978 style. lol.
So You Want to Buy an Election?
If you have a ton of cash and a political agenda, it’s easier than ever to make powerful friends and influence people. Here’s a handy how-to guide to the complex, cash-drenched world of federal campaign finance.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/campaign-finance-flow-chart
h/t Tim Murphy
This kid looks bored lol.
How nice is this… the whole crowd joined in singing the National Anthem.. very touching, imo.
wow you could hear a pin drop in the auditorium.. waiting with baited breath there for our President.
SH!T Just Got Real
New Gallup national survey finds Peach Stater holding sizable lead over Bay Stater among Republican leaning voters.
Gingrich 37
Romney 22
Paul 8
Perry 7
Bachmann 6
Santorum 3
Huntsman 1
Can we take a moment to marvel about Jon Huntsman, the candidate from Morning Joe. I mean Santorum is beating him….
good I hope Gingrich wins the nomination.. I think he personifies all things republican perfectly. They couldn’t choose a better rep to put all their greed, hate & narrow vision on display for all Americans to view.
I think that would be the very best Christmas gift EVER - even if it’s a few months late.
yup, newt is the perfect symbol of rethugs, both in political and personal lives.
This kid is doing an excellent job with the National Anthem.
His Mom was in the line yesterday….
Michigan’s Radical Assault on Public Education
Mon Dec. 5, 2011 3:00 AM PST
The list of initiatives reads like a grand plan to dismantle public education as we know it: Slash education spending. Outsource public teachers. Curb collective-bargaining rights. Kneecap teachers’ unions. Open the floodgates to charter and “cyber” schools. Welcome to education reform in the state of Michigan, where a Republican-dominated Legislature and a GOP governor are pushing one of the broadest anti-union, pro-privatization agendas in the country.
Although some of Michigan’s legislative attempts to overhaul public education have met resistance, state lawmakers have made an unprecedented push toward for-profit schools, dubious online curricula, and budget cuts and anti-union measures that would make the public teaching profession ever more insecure.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/michigan-privatize-public-education
h/t Andy Kroll
I think they have a Republican running the sound.
A Republican or a moron…but I repeat myself.
teehee….I laughed out loud….
LOL.. yep meta.
I’m always nervous before his speeches. Always. I feel like his mom. How lame.
I totally feel you…I’m hoping no teabaggers or firebaggers start anything.
So do I. I going be a wreck during the debates.
You think you’re lame. I plan to watch the speech online to avoid the commentary, but since I’d rather see him on a larger screen, I also have the teevee on - with the sound muted.
I remember how nervous I was for the debates in 2008 both Primary and General. Even when BO improved as a debater you would never know how the format of the debate would go to ruin the showing such as the ABC Debate that aired all of the drummed up scandals for Obama and cut to commercials so he could not get the last word in. I worry about Gingrich being the GOP winner as he is so forceful sounding correct as he is such a practiced liar. I would hope his extreme ethics problems would stop any thoughts of electing him to the presidency. I also worry about Romney tricking people into supporting him as if he is a gret businessman. I am an old-fashion worrywart. It does me good to hear others on here have similar feelings.
So right. It’s just like when my son used to play classical guitar at recitals. I was always ten times more nervous than he was. I’m always biting my fingernails when PBO is ready to speak, even though he always does beautifully.
No worries mom. He knocked it outta the park.
Randi Rhodes played the speech throughout her show today. She was really impressed and totally giving praises
My mother responds the same way, blackwaterdog. She also does not like anyone to imply the slightest criticism about President Obama. Then she really goes off.
ok - so is it me? or are they completely technically fucked there?
They have no PERSON who can introduce the FRAKKIN POTUS?????
no intro.. just POTUS coming to the rescue
I liked that. He had to ask someone to hold his cape, I think I saw.
lol
yep I saw it too~
Bank of China will be part owner of Saab
December 4, 2025 17:24
After its own country declined to save it, Saab looked elsewhere and agreed today that it will give the Bank of China part ownership of its car company, according to Reuters. Last month, it appeared that Chinese investors Pang Da Automobile Trade Co. and Youngman would step in and rescue Saab. However, the Bank of China would now replace Pang Da and together with Youngman, the two organizations would own under half of the company.
The bank is ranked as China’s fourth-largest bank by market value. The move would help the struggling car company, which has not released a new car in months due to unpaid salaries and bills, according to Reuters. Furthermore, this agreement could help Saab salvage its relationship with General Motors.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/111204/bank-china-will-be-part-owner-saab
h/t Lynne La
State of Tex —- state of Kansas.
He did that during the 08′ campaign; all that traveling gets to you sometimes LOL
I like how he just recovered like that. I couldn’t see Romney doing that and Gingrich would justify it by saying it used to be Texas territory.
And, in the old days of last month, Cain would have said Blame Yourself for his mistake!
100 bucks Fox News leads with that
He is getting love! Sweet!
WE HAVE TO RECLAIM OUR AMERICAN VALUES.
Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 12/1-4. Registered voters. MoE ±3.1% (11/10-13 results):
Q: If the candidates for President next year were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Newt Gingrich, who would you vote for?
Barack Obama: 50 (49)
Newt Gingrich: 42 (43)
Undecided: 8 (8)
This news has largely gone unnoticed… Thank you, President Obama!~
Amid cuts, US military withdraws from Europe: US pullouts from Iraq and Afghanistan mask a larger drawdown in Europe.
September 4, 2025 08:34
The winding down of these wars — Iraq by Christmas, Afghanistan tentatively by the end of 2013 — will end a traumatic period that saw American military forces do many of the things policymakers had foresworn after Vietnam. Yet for all the focus on those drawdowns, the larger strategic change underway is taking place in Europe, where American troops have been stationed in large numbers since World War II.
With little fanfare outside a muted flag folding ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany, the final American division in Europe — the U.S. 1st Armored Division, which fought its way from North Africa to the Italian Alps during the war — packed up and left for its base at Fort Bliss, Texas, in May.
Still based in Europe at the moment are four Army “Brigade Combat Teams,” three in Germany and a fourth in Vicenza, Italy. The lighter, more deployable BCTs emerged from a major reform of the army’s force structure in the past decade and number about 3,500-strong, compared to the 10,000-12,000 soldier divisions they replaced. One of those four — likely one of the Germany-based BCTs, will be withdrawn in 2012.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/110826/cuts-us-military-withdraws-europe-base-army
h/t Michael Moran
Trickle down—it doesn’t work. It has NEVER worked.
POTUS speaking repub terminology for all to hear.. “it doesn’t work”. Damn right.
And It’s WRONG!
Wow, he’s taking it to the Republican Party big time. This is just fantastic. No taxes and no regulations just won’t work. We tried that already during the Bush administration.
Obama being magnificent. Watch this moment!
INEQUALITY DISTORTS OUR DEMOCRACY. BECAUSE OUR DEMOCRACY GETS SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
December 06, 2025 1:30 PM
GOP kills qualified judicial nominee with filibuster
By Steve Benen
This is simply an outrageous abuse that further undermines the integrity of the Senate.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday filibustered the nomination of Caitlin Halligan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, blocking a nominee tapped last year by President Obama to serve on one of the country’s most powerful courts.
Tuesday’s final roll call vote on cutting off debate was 54 to 45.. One Republican — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) — joined all 53 members of the Democratic caucus in voting to move ahead with Halligan’s nomination, leaving the former New York state solicitor general six votes short of the 60 votes necessary for ending debate.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/gop_kills_qualified_judicial_n033935.php
Is it a tamper tantrum because they’re losing the debate on taxes ??
This afternoon, at least 99 different groups of Americans outraged at income inequality and the lack of jobs are at the U.S. capitol, demanding that Members of Congress support jobs legislation. The action, called “Take Back The Capitol” is one of the few times that Members of Congress will be directly confronted by unemployed people.
About half an hour ago, a group of demonstrators entered Rep. Joe Walsh’s (R-IL) office. These protesters asked to meet with the congressman. The Chief of Staff, Justin Roth, said that Walsh was busy and could only meet with them later but offered to meet with the protesters himself. “I think we’ll stay,” said one protester. Roth shrugged and the protesters sat down and decided to occupy the office until Walsh arrives. Watch it:
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A staffer asked the protesters if they’d like to watch some news rather than the House floor on the television in the office. The protesters said they would, and it was quickly decided by consensus that the television channel would be changed to Fox News.
http://thinkprogress.org/
They still need work. FOX news? Although truthfully the way the other networks have been acting what’s the difference?
Better than 50% chance of making it into the middle class in 1980 — then came Reagan!
Yes, they are selling out our democracy to the highest bidder and folks should open their eyes and see what is going on and who is really for the middle class and the poor!
It makes me tear up every time the President uses the word “heartbreaking,” relating to issues that affect children, because I know he means it and - through him - we can feel it, too.
I agree! He is authenic and that is something they cannot take away from him.
He mentioned child labor laws and I thought of the “wonderful” Newt and his proposition to “allow” children to clean toilets.
I’m just crying away. Amazing, amazing, amazing——The Truth!!!!!!! being laid out there —-bare—-for all to see.
December 06, 2025 12:30 PM
Department of pots and kettles
By Steve Benen
There’s nothing quite like watching the most shameless political flip-flopper of his generation spend five minutes condemning someone else of being a flip-flopper.
If you haven’t seen this clip of Mitt Romney in 2004, it’s just stunning. (via Jamil Smith)
At the time, Republicans were so heavily invested in attacking John Kerry as a flip-flopper, it was the only thing GOP officials and surrogates were prepared to talk about. In this case, Romney was speaking to Republican convention delegates in September 2004, and he blasted his home state’s senator on the topic du jour.
“In politics it’s pretty much standard operating procedure that when you’re running for office you look at your opponent’s record, you find someplace where he or she has changed position, and you say they’re a flip flopper, and that’s a pretty standard thing. But in this case, this guy really is! This guy is different than you have experienced before. […]
“I’ve tried to think why it is that he has changed so often — why he finds it so difficult to come down on one side of an issue, instead sort of floats between both issues, both sides of things…. For those who don’t understand how he can be so vacillating, it stems from that fact that he is very conflicted, that he is drawn in two different directions — very powerfully. If he’s with an audience, he wants to identify with and satisfy that audience, and will say what he thinks they want to hear. And if that audience, for instance, is on one side of an issue he’ll follow that, on another, he’ll follow another.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/department_of_pots_and_kettles033933.php
I heard on the radio that is the stragedty of the GOP is to stop attacking the president personally (questioning his citizenship) but to call him a “flip flopper”. It’s like what kids do on the school yard just repeat whatever the other guy calls you…they have no clue.
LOL! Try again, Newt. It’s going to take more than that to intimidate Nancy Pelosi!~
Surprise: Gingrich ethics files are public info
Tuesday, December 6, 2025
A trove of documents detailing the shady dealings of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) are actually public domain, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday night after Gingrich threatened to have her brought up on charges if she disclosed information related to his House ethics violation in the 1990s.
~snip~
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/06/surprise-gingrich-ethics-files-are-public-info/
h/t Stephen C. Webster
First of all, Newt, you are NO LONGER in Congress, so you can’t have ethics charges brought up on anybody. GET LOST, BIG FELLA.
On Fox, Trump Says Rove, Krauthammer, And Will Are All “Hacks” Who “Don’t Speak For Anybody”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112060006
oh boy…this is going to get nasty.
Trump Tells Hannity: Karl Rove Is “A Lightweight” And “So Full Of Crap”
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112060014
teehee
This will be a clown show, I will bring the popcorn.
Sweet Baby Jesus
Colorado: Newt 37, Mitt 18, Bachmann 9, Paul 6, Perry/Santorum 4, Huntsman 3
North Carolina: Newt 51, Mitt 14, Bachmann 8, Paul 7, Perry 4, Santorum 3, Huntsman 1
We have our Hamshers and Greenwalds. They have Trump.
Voting machine design blamed for New York’s 60,000 lost ballots
Tuesday, December 6, 2025
It wasn’t voter fraud that caused 60,000 ballots to be tossed from the 2010 election in New York – it was poorly designed voting machines. According to a study from the New York University’s Brennan School for Justice, the new optical voting system confused voters so much that they ended up casting their votes for two candidates, or “overvoting.”
For the first time, there were tens of thousands of people who lost their votes on the new system,” he said. “And we have to make adjustment to make sure we don’t see a repeat of this.” The New York State Board of Elections plans to provide voters with a better warning of overvoting ahead of the 2012 elections, although it’s not clear whether those new guidelines will be in time.
~snip~
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/06/voting-machine-design-blamed-for-new-yorks-60000-lost-ballots/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
h/t Andrew Jones
wow wow wow
I was so proud of my President today. America you need to wake up and realize we already have the right man in the Oval office right now. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
The irony is New York state fought the hardest and held out the longest against switching from the old lever machines because they knew the old machines worked. Voting is one area where new technology took us backward, rather than forward.
So I’m unfollowing any knuckleheaded ows folks on twitter who are tweeting nonsense that POTUS now “gets ows” . I call bs. All anyone need do is read his books, look at his employment history, his voting history and his life history- to know exactly what he gets. I just had words with a #ows who seems to think POTUS now “hearing” ows. Hogwash.
PBO started talking about the AJA in August. HE went around the country calling out the GOP and forcing the conversation to be changed from deficits to JOBS. Accusations of him starting a class warfare started flying. On Sept 17, well three weeks after HE had started his “populist campaign”, OWS started. They can say what they want, but the dates tell the REAL story. If anything, it was HIM who encouraged and inspired the OWS movement.
Right on!!!
Someone should go after Alex Wagner, who I read over at POU that she blocked them, and said PBO got his swagger back thanks to OWS !!
Trump vs Romney
National Review attacks Gingrich for agreeing to attend the upcoming Trump-moderated debate:
Sure, we see the angle: Gingrich excels in debates and he knows it, and in light of his threat to Romney in Iowa, his participation all but dares the yet-uncommitted Mitt to irk the pro-Trump rump of GOP voters by refusing. As a serious contender running a campaign with maximal pride in its own seriousness, Gingrich lowers himself by association with this consummately unserious man. Romney should refuse to follow suit.
Weigel has more on Trump’s motivations. Patrick Caldwell wonders if Trump will revive birtherism:
It’s a terrifyingly plausible scenario that Trump will use his perch later this month to quiz each of the candidates on Obama’s birth certificate; hopefully they won’t take the bait and will rebut Trump’s crazy ramblings, but since the majority have visited Trump Tower, they may kowtow with the hopes of securing the reality TV star’s endorsement.
And wouldn’t that accurately reflect the reality of the GOP these past two years? It’s a talk radio show pretending to be interested in governing.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/12/could-trump-help-sink-romney.html
GOP Strategists: Lay Off Obama, People Feel Sorry For Him
With election season upon us, Republican strategists are urging party surrogates not to attack President Obama personally. Although that approach may be tempting given his low approval ratings they warn it could backfire because voters “feel sorry for him.”
On a conference call Tuesday run by Nicholas Thompson, Vice President of Tarrance Group — which Yahoo News “accessed via a clerical error” — Thompson warned that though Obama’s overall approval is low, his personal approval ratings are quite high. Voters “don’t think he’s an evil man who’s out to change the United States,” explained Thompson, and Republicans should “exercise some caution” when going after him personally.
Obama’s job approval rating has been in the low 40s recently, but it’s true that voters like him personally. According to CNN, in November voters’ personal approval of the president was nearly 70%.
Former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleisher, also on the call, directed Republicans to attack Obama on flip-flopping — the issue Democrats are currently using to attack Mitt Romney. Rather than play defense, Fleisher suggested turning the attacks around: “When it comes to flip flopping, Barack Obama is the king of flip flopping.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/gop-strategists-lay-off-obama-people-feel-sorry-for-him.php?ref=skyboxes
eff them
x2
I wonder how much Fleisher gets paid for this little gem of stupidity. This is the political equivalent of the playground retort. “You’re stupid” . “Hunh hunh, YOU’RE stupid.” And it will be just as effective.
anything more than a nickel is too much
Ari Fleisher claiming Saddam Hussein attacked this country
Typical rovian rethug tactic.Project your own worst trait/history on to your opponent. Not gonna work this time ari, you punk.
Bullshyte ari, you braindead dick.
Bunch of pricks. I tell you, if I saw a rethug on fire, I’d tell them they’d better make the best use of my spit…..make it last!
Its too late, people are already aware of the disrespect shown to PBO and downright buffonary on the part of supposedly professional people on display worldwide . Once PBO leaves office in 2017, I want to see how the next POTUS will be received worldwide, especially a REPUB. It won’t be shoes thrown. Yeah you can say I’m p’o.
Robert Reich Exposes The GOP’s Dirty Little Payroll Tax Cut Secret
December 5, 2025
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was on Countdown discussing the dirty little secret behind the GOP’s tax cut hypocrisy. If taxes are lowered for the rich, everyone else must pay more. Reich said, “I think the most important point is that the president is pointing out very very clearly for the entire country to understand the two pieces of hypocrisy here. Number one that the Republicans don’t want to raise taxes on the rich, but that may require and mean that taxes are going to be raised on almost everybody else, but number two that suddenly they are sort of born again oh, you’ve got to pay for tax cuts. Tax cuts don’t pay for themselves when for years they have been saying that tax cuts pay for themselves, and they can’t have it both ways.”
The former Labor Secretary talked about what will happen if the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance are not extended, “Eighty percent of Americans pay more in payroll taxes than they do in income taxes, so this is a big deal, and a thousand dollars on average per family or worker for that matter is a big deal for most families. The second is the extended unemployment benefits and given how many people are actually still unemployed in this economy, that’s important. It’s puts money in their pockets. They can turn around and buy things, and that creates jobs or at least keeps people in jobs. If the Republicans have their way and neither of these things is extended, neither the payroll tax nor the extended unemployment benefits then it will be a tremendous fiscal drag on the economy.”
~snip~
http://www.politicususa.com/en/robert-reich-payroll-tax
h/t Jason Easley
Love how Reich cites what the President is saying and doing as the back story, but the headline says Reich himself has “exposed” the secret.
Dear Mr. President, Please temporarily “suspend” part of the Constitution, send the other two branches of government home, and then kindly speak directly to each adult in this country - preferably in their living spaces - about what it is to be an American and how we need to come together, from this point on. Thank you. From, An Admirer
Mr. President, On a side note, could you be any more good looking? And could your voice be any more soothing and inspirational? Sorry - had to mention it.
lol. seriously -
jacqueline I hear you loud and clear!! I just LOVE, LOVE this amazing man! Sexy, inspirational, soothing, intelligent strong, compassionate… I could go on all night extolling his virtues but would probably bore you all senseless. As I keep on saying we are blessed to have him as POTUS.
4 More Years for 44!!!!
Love to see Pete Souza at the President’s back taking the photos Chips will (hopefully) bring to us later! It’s like we’re there, too - ha ha ha!
The Truth About Pundit Crap: Could Jon Meacham Be the Most Insufferable Human in Washington?
I have long proposed that every single major elite political pundit be frog-marched away from the buffet tables inside the Beltway and deep into the Blue Ridge Mountains, there to be confined to a re-education facility where they will clear trails, and reclaim swampland, and repair dams, and make life lovely for the furry little woodland creatures until every damn one of these hacks has learned not to look at the incredible universe of grifters and charlatans that is our current political elite and in them see the giants of the past. Comes now Parson Meacham, and I suspect he’s going to be working out in the woods until the squirrels up and bury him some winter.
We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. The problem with such narratives is that they are in fact ahistorical. Franklin Roosevelt was hated by a large number of Americans in real time; some people actually celebrated when word came of his death in April 1945. From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We’ll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises (both good and bad) and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. (Remember President Palin?)
Yes, if you are unusually dim, or unusually badly read, or four years old, you may well re-imagine things this way. If you are not, you will recall that, not all that long ago, the Washington political class, with Newt Gingrich proudly (if ironically) in the lead, was in hot pursuit of a president’s penis. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who was alive then, and did not as a result drink himself into alcoholic dementia, still recalls that presidents can be both greatly liked and greatly disliked. The same, it should be noted, can be said for the music of ABBA and the taste of beets. So what? And if Meacham can find a single person not confined to a secure facility who thought it “absolutely certain” that Sarah Palin would be president, even for one day, I’ll let him off his work detail reclaiming the swamp for Christmas. President Palin remains as “unimaginable” a concept as is thoracic surgeon Charles Manson, M.D.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jon-meacham-on-newt-and-fdr-6610880#ixzz1fmobD6PU
This is so true-every president who tried to do something significant that change the course of history was hated for it, as far back as the founding fathers. Weird as it may seem, I actually remember being a toddler when FDR died and walking in our small town in New York with my father and hearing people in shops say how glad they were that the president was dead. I know I felt scared by it, which it why it sticks in my mind. Yet when they show historical photos of that era, all you see are the rows of people crying along his funeral route.
Chips, you had me with picture #1, picture #3 is just cruel!
What a speech, now time for the lies.
Gloria bother said then why did the president bailout wall street and the Tepublicans were opposed to it.
Lies. They are desperate. It will all come out during the debates.
Lol!
What a speech. They are stumbling all over themselves! Lol!
RandiRhodes is starting her show off talking about PBO’s speech.
I’m listening too cos. She just said the speech was stunning. Glad to hear she is going to play the entire speech for her audience in two segments. I am looking forward to hearing it again. I am just blown away by his brilliance.
I don’t know how President Obama can keep topping himself with these speeches, but he’s done it again. That speech was truly historic. I think Michael Steele must know it too because I have never seen him so angry and interrupting and in a huff—-he knows too how big this was. This speech was the resonating message for the campaign, and I can’t help but think that most voters will be with him, with how our country is defined, that we have an obligation to each other. “Everyone will benefit in a country where everyone has a fair chance, who has a stake in each other’s success.
I know, the press is in full spin mode, CNN looks like they are going to cry. Lol!
We gotta give hits to this YouTube version snd send it to everyone.
This was just like his race speech!
I turned immediately Jovie. The first thing out of that woman’s mouth on CNN was, “did he make a gaffe when he mentioned Texas”? I could not turn the channel fast enough.
I think I’ll go tweet something about the fact that we are all Texas and we are all Kansas.
I think most sensible People will be with our beloved Prez, simply put, he’s fighting for the working class, telling It like It truly Is, reminding us that Teddy Roosevelt had to give the same speech, pretty much, and PBO Is saying what’s WRONG about the TEAPUBS Ideas, and lack of passing any constructive bills. Look Pbo Is the ONLY Politian that’s making sense, that’s willing to HELP the working class, He’s the only political figure, that’s sounding good, and looking good. He’s the ADULT, that Is surrounding by Children.
Great Speech as usual, President Obama, Great Speec, as usual
Bravo !! All so true, anyone who wants to deny this is a bold-faced liar.
dotster3, he is just so gifted and brilliant. The imcompetants cannot handle him. They don’t know his next move and when he does make a move it confounds. Of course now clowns are easy to confound.
Here’s a good article that was written by Winning Progressive.~
Progressivism Is About Saving Capitalism From Itself
December 3, 2025
It has often been said that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved capitalism from itself. What that means is that FDR took office at the lowest depths of the Great Depression, when it was clear that rampant uncontrolled capitalism had not only failed to benefit the more than one-third of Americans were ill-housed, ill-clothed, and ill-fed, but had also collapsed on itself due to the uncontrolled excesses that unregulated free markets had created. But rather than scrapping the system, FDR went about fixing it by establishing the regulations that capitalism needs to function effectively, the policies needed to give people confidence in the system, and the programs needed to ensure that a larger and larger proportion of Americans would benefit from the system. As a result, the free market system, combined with effective New Deal governance, led to a thriving economy and the largest and most secure middle class in history.
~snip~
The simple fact is that a thriving capitalist system can be maintained only with progressive policies that set the ground rules, invest in the public sphere, provide a safety net, and support the rights of workers to organize for their interests. We learned that lesson in the 1930s when such progressive New Deal policies saved capitalism from the Great Depression. Unfortunately we forgot that lesson over the past thirty years of conservative economic policy. Let’s hope we relearn the lesson again soon.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12/03/progressivism-is-about-saving-capitalism-from-itself/
h/t Addicting Info
Payroll Tax Cut Without Offsets Contemplated By White House, Congress And Norquist
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I am sooooooooooo sick of seeing Norquist name.
What a speech!! PBO has knocked it out of the park - again!!
The speech was a tour de force. Absolutely breathtaking in its wisdom and scope. I can’t believe how lucky I am to be seeing this amazing man as the leader of our country. He is just a remarkable human being.
Everytime I think his last speech was better than the previous ones; he tops himself all over again. My goodness. The speech was phenomenal and lo and behold sane folks in the media and on twitter are acknowledging as much. This speech was a defining moment in our nation’s history. It was a philosophical call that spoke of a make or break moment for the middleclass. This was bigger than a campaign speech. This was a landmark call to action. He called on us as a nation to dig down and realize that “on the whole we will rise to the top or fall to the bottom; together.”
Those morons in the GOP and the media are fooling themselves if they think 2012 will be a cake walk for the GOP. President Obama is a juggernaut that cannot be stopped.
Rhandi Rhodes called it stunning and I am in total agreement.
What you said ut… a juggernaut indeed x 1000.
Oh Wow! That speech was superb! Golden! Absolutely tempered just right! I am as proud as a mother hen. Grinning like a Cheshire cat!
So grateful the good Lord has allowed me to live to witness this child of His!
UNSURPRISINGLY, HUFFPUFF “NEWT SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT” DOESN”T HAVE ONE WORD ABOUT PBO’S SPEECH TODAY!
I do worship his brains and i feel very lucky to be living in this moment in HISTORY. I LOVE MY PRESIDENT.
You and me both Me4Obama! We are so blessed to be living to see this great man. I also LOVE your President!!
the bod isn’t bad either.
May God continue to Bless PBO and his entire Administration. I do believe his steps are ordered by the ASLMIGHTY
ASLMIGHTY = ALMIGHTY
from your heart to your lips to God’s ears and heart
Amen!!
Our local TV station KMBC showed the entire speech live with no interuptions and they are going to repeat it later. How cool is that? I teared up and kept praying him on. You could tell they were very knowledable by their initial response of chuckles when he talked about Congress. Great and sustained responses from the crowd. Now waiting for the helicopters to fly overhead.
So wonderful, Barb! Enjoy it.
The president’s speech was so good that FOX cut away. Isn’t that just unbelievable? They continue to hide the truth from their viewers, keeping them less informed than those who never watch/read the news. Trying to keep America dumb. Guess they didn’t like the direct attack on GOP philosophy. Obama shed some light on their favorite delusion—-saying that trickle down economics doesn’t work and that it has NEVER worked. Amen, Mr. President. A landmark speech.
And the place where this attack on their philosophy was perfect. Kansas is a state that is suffering dearly under insane GOP politics.
yes—-”What’s The Matter With Kansas?”—-still a good question.
I was reading Barron County (WI) News Shield newpapers from 1898 and 1899 yesterday. And there were ads with the heading, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” I wish I would have copied some. I will be going back so will have to do so. I was stunned!
Yet they continuously vote Repub???
Wedge issues!!! They love their guns, hate gays and luv Jesus.
So much of what you say is true, however, Eastern Kansas up to Lawrence, KU and Wichita are True Blue. It’s the wheat field farmlands inbetween that are so Ruby Red. In my lifetime we’ve had 3 Democratic Governors, Kathleen Sebelius elected twice after she served as the Insurance Commisioner. I always get a lift remembering when Fred Phelps picketed a Shawnee Mission School and the entire school came out carrying signs with hearts and singing “All You Need Is Love” being lead by their Senior Class President, an openly gay student along with teachers and parents.
The Republican Platform
Written by: Joe Markowitz
Saturday, December 3, 2025
So what are the real Republican priorities? Helping the wealthy keep more of their money, obviously. They cop to that. Shrinking social programs such as Medicare. The Ryan budget plan they all voted for does that. And perhaps, as about half the population now believes, trying to stall the economic recovery so they can benefit in the next election. So let’s have some honesty in next year’s election campaigns. Republicans might as well give up the pretense that they are most interested in cutting taxes, reducing the deficit and improving the economy. The public now understands that Republicans are in fact running on a platform of helping the rich get richer, cutting benefits for the poor and middle class, and refusing to cooperate in any way with the other party so that they can blame the Democrats for anything that goes wrong. Being forced to run on ideas like that, it’s no wonder the Republican presidential field is in disarray.
Read more: http://www.hopeandchange.net/#ixzz1fmyGpyEC
OMG, I am still teary eyed listening to that speech. What a President we have! He understands history and the future. I love this President! Press On!
Awesome speech!
The last couple of days I have seen an article, or two, about people finally realizing that President Obama did not forsake them but has had their backs all this time. Since I am amongst friends, I will admit that my reaction to these folks were not so positive, I rolled my eyes when I read that Spike Dolomite Ward, the woman with breast cancer, said:
“So this is my public apology. I’m sorry I didn’t do enough of my own research to find out what promises the president has made good on. I’m sorry I didn’t realize that he really has stood up for me and my family, and for so many others like us. I’m getting a new bumper sticker to cover the one that says “Got nope.” It will say “ObamaCares.”
I am so sick of folks being lazy … it is in our best interest to be informed. We are reaping the ignorance of the 2010 debacle that gifted us with this do-nothing Congress and Governors who are succeeding in destroying their states and folks are still fine with sitting in the dark? I am sorry but I get ticked off when I see our president pour his heart out and try to appeal to our better nature and yes, common sense, and still they sit in the dark.
Today, once again, he gave us a clear picture of where we are and where we need to be. Let’s see if folks are going to listen and learn or just continue to sit in the dark.
Ok, Rant over!
couldn’t agree more CT- after 3 years of his Presidency.. and 5-6 years of his speeches & his votes in Congress.. this ignorance by folks is a chosen ignorance, which is fine as long as they keep it to themselves.. but when they get online and tweet/blog that this “Obama is New” is hogwash and old and very very tiresome.
What they need to do is say: I have been wrong… it isn’t POTUS who has been lacking, it is ME who has been lacking.
Who are we here- on this site? Women, men, young, elderly, middle aged… professionals & laborers, students, disabled, employed, unemployed, under-employed.. politically savvy & polical novices.. Asian, Caucasian, AA, Black, Hispanic, Latino, NA.. American, Canadian, French, British, Irish, Australians… Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents.. we represent this country & this planet.. and WE manage to stay informed, knowledgeable and aware and HONEST. The only thing stopping others in this country/world is themselves- by choice.
I absolutely agree with you. There is a large segment of the populations that is WILLFULLY ignorant. They don’t know and they don’t want to know. It could be conscious or subconscious. Either way, for a lot of people “ignorance truly is bliss”.
Yep.. but then they complain and attack… like the guy at my VA a couple of months ago who kept talking crap while POTUS was giving a speech on tv, calling President Obama “a waste of electricity”. He finally shutup.. and I think for some people it was the first time they’d heard the President”s actual words instead of the made up goop by the media.
Yes they are willfully ignorant but in part that is because they rely on the media to inform them both the progressive media and the traditional media and they simply don’t do their job. As great of a masterpiece that this speech was it will only be seen by most in 30 second sound bites. I really wish this had been a prime time speech. AMERICA needed to hear his message but sadly far too many won’t.
Donna, Rhandi Rhodes is playing the entire speech, and a lot of folks listen to her including truck drivers and people who woud not be able to see this gem of a speech on tv. Thanks Rhandi.
I agree Donna, the media is an absolute failure to all of us in this country… and yet when I knocked on doors back in 2008- even here in small town redstate ND- folks knew they couldn’t trust the media- they said so often to me.. and yet they also would repeat the gunk they’d heard on teevee.. such as all the Rev Wright made up nonsense.. etc. Thus even though we know our media lies, spins and misrepresents-we (the people) give them credence. I don’t know the answers. I just feel the excuses for not knowing who & what this President is about- are long past believable or justifiable.
An example: Zerlina Maxwell- who from what I gather on Twitter, seemingly intelligent & thoughtful young woman, law student I believe and writer for either the Grio or the Root (could be wrong on this).. today after POTUS’s speech tweeted something to the effect: I like this NEW President Obama. I stopped following her immediately. I’d already argued this line of bs with another ‘follower’.. am tired of this silliness. These are not stupid people, these are supposedly aware folk.. choosing to play word games and using President Obama to further their own agenda. I’m tired of folks using this man as their stepping stone to notoriety.
Amen sherijr, amen. I essentially said the same thing in a later comment….people that complain about PBO need to look in the mirror. They are either ingnorant, willfully ignorant or just refuse to be a clear eyed/minded observer of this President. The problem is not the President, it is within themselves.
Bravo sherijr! A really spot-on comment!
Aww thank you Nathkatun7- nice to see you
I cannot stand Dylan RATigan. click…off !
me thinks you also mean eff off as far as Rat is concerned
What is that on top of his head ? Yesterday is was all crooked and weird. I think he borrowed it from Rand Paul.
I only got to see the first 15 minutes or so of the speech before I had to go to a meeting. What I heard was fantastic and I can’t wait the hear the rest.
Also, just saw this on twitter:
Before leaving Osawatomie, Pres Obama is making a stop at BBQ joint: “We B Smokin.”
I bet there will be great PHOTOS!!
To which Gloria borger will say, the President stopped along the way for a smokeout with the locals.
Or something like that.
Reading slowly down the thread because I was at work during the actual speech, I decided to give my eyes a break by looking at the blog stats. 6 002 438 hits!!! When did we actually hit the six million mark?? CONGRATULATIONS!
Chips, if I stay home so that I’m always up to date on info, will you take care of me? Every time I have to work all day, I miss participating live in something momentous! Sigh! My only consolation is that you always have the info here later. !Muchas, muchas gracias!
drove to Osawatomie today for a glimpse of the motorcade…wish I could have seen the President. very exciting visit for Kansans, this one admires the President very much! four more years for #44
Awesome! Did you take pictures?
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood confronted congressional Republicans for their objections to President Obama’s high-speed rail initiatives Tuesday, telling them they should get on board with the president’s rail push because their criticisms have been misguided.
“We are right at the point where we were when they started the interstate system,” an animated LaHood told lawmakers, drawing a parallel to the development of the federal highway system. “We are not going to be dissuaded by critics.”
Obama’s rail initiative has become a lightning rod for conservatives who think it is a waste of money to invest in high-speed train projects across the car-crazy U.S., particularly when the nation is focused on reducing its deficit. Tuesday, LaHood won few converts.
http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/railroads/197509-lahood-clashes-with-gop-over-rail-criticism
Hi Chips,
I posted earlier…..Is it pending? I thought that I signed in. I was so excited before the speeech……And still am. What another great speech! As the haters continue to hate……we will continue to love and pray for this brave, courageous, humble soul.
I can see you Lds
I Love our President. His speech today was pitch perfect. I do not want to listen to any naysayers……their opinions do not matter, and if they have a problem with his speech they need to look in the mirror….because they are truly the ones with the problem.
Hope everyone is doing well…..I have been out touch due reoccurring computer issues (hopefully now all resolved), Christmas projects and busy work with respect to my Mother’s estate and medical assistance/insurance paperwork. I’ve been keeping up with the site since Sunday, just keeping my lips zipped least I get long winded and distracted from my to do list.
I have to give a shout out to yardarm….you sir are very distinguished looking, very handsome, and who would ever suspect so irreverant. Miss running my mouth…but I love reading everyones comments, insights, the aggregated news stories, and especially delight in the zany sense of humor so often on display here. I love my fellow TOD’ers.
Love you back, Sue!
good to see you Sue.Love ya too Sue
So nice to hear from you Sue, I’m glad things are going well with you- take care
Why thank you Ma’am. Is that u in the avatar? Hubba, hubba! i will, however, take a slight issue with the irreverant part. At my age it’s called wisdom and truth.
Watching a replay of Martin Bashir. So funny - he had on former Rep. Alan Grayson, who mentioned the R answer to health care is “to do a lot of praying.” Martin responded (this is way paraphrased on my part), “I don’t think we can assume all Republicans are religious. In fact, I’m quite convinced that many are atheists.” That got quite a chuckle out of Grayson.
That is funny on more than one level. I’m convinced they worship the demon money god who preaches “Liars are thought of highly by our deity”.
The GOP tax cut proposal( try to follow this)
They said have an opt in/out from people who want to delay their SS benefits for one month.
In other words, every year, it’s up to you if you want a 2% less to be taken out of FICA, and in return your eligibility age gets pushed back 1 month.
Have they been smokin?
Smoking their dirty socks and the fumes when to their withered brain cells.
Why do they have to make everything so flipping complicated?
I just have to comment on that last photo, I love snowmen and seeing a snowman in a photo with the President who I love, is perfect for the holidays!!!
Hello Fred,
All is well today? It is cloudy, cold and a little rain here in NYC. The speech made me feel sunny. I shared in the previous post my experience of seeing the President in person, live and shaking his hand. I know for myself that he is a special person, a gift from God. I felt so many feelings that night. It is hard to explain. I was angry at the people who are constantly fighting against him and lying just because they hate him. I know now that it is mostly based on jealousy. I was proud and felt grateful to be alive to witness someone who cares and is courageous and brave enough to speak the truth. I know that we must not stop praying for him.
That was strong in my spirit……even if I can’t donate every time that I wish, I can pray. He works so hard. His face was stern, focused and determined. At one point, I wished that he was home with his family. I was nervous for him when he came to greet us and shake hands. Even though, I could hardly wait! I heard myself saying that . heard myself saying, or someone who sounded like me, Bless you, Mr. President. I will continue to pray for you. In my mind, he answered but I just saw lips moving. Probably mine…….trying not to say something that would cause the SS pull me over the partition. (lol)…… It was a privilege. I am grateful.
good to read you Lds.I love everything you wrote down because I feel the same way about today’s speech and him in general.Unfortunately I haven’t had the honor of meeting potus but that would be a blessing.Everything is well Lds;thanks for asking.Hope you are doing good today
Here’s a brief little article on Grandma Ruth, the 102 yr old in Osawatomie we heard about yesterday:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/oldest-woman-in-osawatomie-obama-visit-fulfilled-dream/
Thanks for this Meta. I am adding this to my scrapbook.
COS, you will give the President’s Library a run for their money.
Can’t help myself Meta. I love this stuff.
Cool!!
Thanks for this bit of info, Meta. Knowing that the President consistently shows touching respect to the elderly, I was wondering why I hadn’t seen or heard any mention of her today.
President Obama gave a terrific speech. He is a great President. Obama 2012!!
Yes it was, and yes he is!
I love the vid clip…
Hell, I love all things PBHO!
YES.WE.CAN…DO.(Much)More, Together!
YES.WE.CAN, Again…Obama/Biden 2012!
PRESS ON!
We had our Kansas City, Missouri Headquaters opening last night. It was a blast! More than 300 attended the opening. A number of people from Kansas came to celebrate and support the reelection of our President. 2 Senators attended and a young man came in looking jjust like a young Obama! Everyone notices and wanted to talk to him. He was dressed very much like our President. Turns out he was just a local supporter who was very supportive of our President. We also had a lot of people sign up to do phone banking, data entry and canvassing. We were all fired up and readdy to go!
Great job Frenchie08. Boots on the ground is what will get us a victory next year. Thanks for all you do!
FOUND this at Balloon Juice comparing Leroy and Willard:
21.Jewish Steel - December 6, 2025 | 2:56 pm · Link
My psychologizing take on the two front-runners. I think that Newt will consolidate his hold on the base because he is the aspirational version of the Republican base. He is what the old white men I know want to be; they have money and they are comfortable but they wield no power in this world. They are powerless to stop the tide of brown people/sexting teens/mooslims that they see as an existential threat. Newt, for them, stands athwart this deluge and says, with authority, “STOP!” That’s exactly what they want to hear and he’s the unprepossessing troll they want to hear it from. He resembles the man they see in the mirror.
Romney, by contrast, is their more successful competitor from across town, or the next big town over. A soi disant Republican but, so the reasoning goes, corrupted by his undeserved wealth. Educated back east (Stanford and BYU in addition to faih Hahvahd), travels to Europe (speaks French? French? You gotta be shittin’ me!)And with Romney it is more than whispered that he as some sympathy with the ideals of a welfare state. He has an actual record to prove it. Too handsome as well. That is why he repulses the base.
I want it to be Gingrich so bad, these are the tales I tell myself.
Wooot
Mitt turned down Trump.
Interesting. I assume it will be cancelled or a new moderator found, but does Newt win or lose as being the only major candidate who agreed to do it? What took Mitt so long? Waited for polling on the issue?
Maybe Newt and Trump can just sit there and discuss divorce lawyers.
She scores
Maybe give Cain some advice on marriage.
Or affairs
He’ll flip.
Other than the fellow womanizer, newt, is anyone else is a yes at this point ?
Santorum.
Good, let newt stew in that ‘crowd’. Would only bring his nos. down.
Not that I have heard….
Alright, I shall try to futz with inserting images again.
Sighs. I know I’m doing it correctly, or at least I think I am. One of these days I’ll be able to embed an image. At any rate, here’s the link: http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2015437ee4a49970c-550wi
Huntsman Bows To Right Wing, Reverses Position On Climate Science
http://thinkprogress.org/
Oh, that’ll raise him 0.25% in the polls.
The President Outlines His Second Term Agenda
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Posted on 12/06/2025 at 4:07 pm by Bob Cesca
From Kansas, the president made yet another case for liberal economic policy and liberal government, while revealing the theme of his re-election campaign and the agenda of his second term. It was yet another speech in which he attempted to bury Reaganomics:
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This speech outlined the theme of his second term. Economic fairness/equality and rebuilding the middle class American dream.
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This is what we’ll be voting for next year.
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http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/12/the-president-outlines-his-second-term-agenda.html
*tears out what’s left of my hair*
See? I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing wrong.
LL, you left click on time, the right click on “copy shortcut”
Right now I’ll be happy to figure out how to embed an image.
LL, left click on the time stamp in the lower left corner of the tweet; you’ll get a grey menu of choices — right click on “copy shortcut;” then paste the “shortcut” into your reply. The tweet should show up like above. Go ahead, try it with the one above, Chips won’t mind the double post — this one is damned funny!
thanks so much for the tip! I was wondering how you guys did it.
Greg Sargents reaction to “the speech”.
{Snip}
Political scientists will tell you that individual speeches don’t matter; and that grand themes are very unlikely to supplant the direct experience of the economy as a motivator of voters. But we’ll be hearing these themes countless times between now and election day. And anyone who had hoped that Obama and Dems would make an unapologetically populist and moral case against inequality and economic injustice central to Campaign 2012 should be pretty pleased with what they heard today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/obama-unleashes-sharp-attack-on-inequality-and-campaign-2012-begins/2011/12/06/gIQAS1EJaO_blog.html?tid=sm_btn_twitter
Fantastic speech…..I’m catching up at the moment….I just finished watching the video and read the other threads…..Chips I don’t know what I would do without you.
One thing I have to do though in the future….never ever watch Hardball again……..I rarely do, he is on my boycott list but I was so excited about the speech that I wanted to see if they would talk about it.
First….the breaking news was Romney turning down Trump….
For the speech,
He had on Ron Reagan and he was an ***….typical annoying emoprog………freaking idiot…..made me mad….
Ron Reagan: “Obama’s rhetoric is fine, but what does he want to actually … well … do?”
The rhetoric is fine and IDing the problem is fine, but he pushes it into the end-zone and settles for a field goal.”
Nothing is NEVER good enough for them, ever,…
Ok, this worked in my HTML editor. I’m preemptively shaking my fist at WordPress.
Ta-Nehesi Coates, or whatever her name is, was just as bad or worse. She wasn’t at all satisfied either. She was full of herself with criticism. Guess she could give a better speech, be a better president, pleasing one and all. I have NO IDEA what they’re talking about and what would ever please these people. Dead to me.
Ta-Nehesi Coates is a guy who is senior editor and writes for The Atlantic.
Ta Nahesi is a a mal, and he is the ‘go to’ for people like Andrew Sullivan and Rachel Maddow for intellectual black perspective!!
Sorry meant to say male, but yes he is a mal too!
And this is why our public is so ignorant and end up writing apology opinion pieces in major newspapers when they are smacked in the face with the true facts.
Nia Maliki Henderson.
I sent her an e-mail and told her to knock it off with the snark comments, they make her appear petty and unprofessional…
She did the same thing yesterday….Enough !
I clicked into hardball for a second to see if he would say anything positive about PBO’s historically defining moment speech and all I heard was negative BS after negative BS from him, Ron Reagan, and Nia Malika Henderson formerly of Politico and now at Washington Post. I clicked back to watching Jeopardy and enlightening my brain. There is a special place in hell reserved for the likes of Chris Matthews at the amount of pure and personal hate he spews against PBO, FL Michelle Obama, and the rest of the family. That’s why I don’t feel sorry for him at his brother being arrested for perjury. I say good on Karma. She’s a bitch but she strikes the right people.
SH!T Just got real part 4
Trump Responds After Romney Declines To Debate
Donald Trump, via a spokesman, released the following statement after Mitt Romney said he will not participate in the businessman’s debate later this month, via HuffPost’s Sam Stein:
“It would seem logical to me that if I was substantially behind in the polls, especially in Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida, I would be participating in the debate. But, I can also understand why Governor Romney decided not to do it.”
What an absolute clown show this whole Republican nomination process has turned into.
I guess I’ll just pick up a case of popcorn to pop while I watch them eat their own.
You and me both sister….I mean “If I was substantially behind in the polls”. This really is going to be a clusterf%$# of a debate.
He makes himself look worse and worse. Basically he’s letting everybody know who declines that they made the right decision.
Oh? He totally went berserk on the others who declined first. He’s down on his freakin’ knees to rombot. lol.
Not a lover or even a remote liker of Halperin but saw these photo on his feed. Caption made me laugh after seeing the Obama coming to Kansas video this morning.
Ralliers Wait for Romney’s Arrival http://thepage.time.com/2011/11/20/romney-rallies-in-new-hampshire/nashua3/ via @TIMEPolitics… Seriously? check Obama in Kansas for a real crowd
OMG it actually says, “Crowd gathers before a Mitt Romney rally in Nashua”
I thought maybe their was mor to the picture because it said enlarge photo.
I laughed so hard until I’m crying.
Too funny/pathetic. Thanks for sharing Donna!
oh sorry, i should have said thanks for sharing almablanca!
lol hilarious………..I love it….what a difference!!!
Only in Mark Halperin’s GOP Shilling world is three people referred to as “Crowd gathering to hear Romney speak.”
I know. Right? Wait until our Chips sees this.
Looking through the pics/captions I felt like Halperin was trying to do a Chipsticks/Obama Diary style of coverage of Romney, but it fell completely flat. The pics are awful! what was with including the pic of the dogs and the dino stuffed animal? So many of the pics are so close up that you can’t even see the whole scene. I couldn’t help think that that was done on purpose because it was obvious that try as he might Romney can’t draw crowds or enthusiasm like PBO. I hated looking through the pics actually because I kept thinking it’d look like Halperin was getting clicks/visits/fans.
You should see hackperin’s caption for photo no. 10… You should, seriously.
To call that crowd “bustling” is to stretch the English language.
lolol my favorite caption was number 9 - “Romney makes his way through the crowd.”
That was just sad. Did you see the picture with “paging Fire Marshall?” I can’t decide if they are serious or they are taking pot shots. Discounting the media was there even a 100 people in that crowd?
Wait until later and we will hear stories about him paying folks to attend his rallies. And, he looked so stiff in those photos. I cannot understand what people find interesting about Mittens. Seriously.
OMG….
Unveils newest surrogate at Nashua City Hall Sun.; blasts Bam for doing nothing to help Super Committee
” blasts “Bam” ?
What the ? Halperin is such a punk….but I always chuckle because I think about his father who is a serious Liberal that works for George Soros ” Open Society Institute”
“What the ? Halperin is such a punk….but I always chuckle because I think about his father who is a serious Liberal that works for George Soros ” Open Society Institute””
maybe that’s the problem — he has “daddy” issues! LOL
I hate when people refer to PBO as “Bam.”
That was funny…
‘Crowd’ gathers…
3 people now equals a crowd for Halperin…
But a 40,000 strong showing for President Obama is meh for Halperin…
Their ODS has only served to turn members of the American ‘media’ into laughing stocks…
When we even indulge them now, we only listen or read them simply for comic relief…
Halperin calls the president “Bam?” Short for Bambi, I suppose, and not that far from “dick,” the Dick! He and his older brother Tapper and younger brother Ed Henry give me hugely violent feelings! Sorry for my attitude……. grrrrrrrr!
In Halperin’s picture there, he looks like a Scott Walker wannabe….. Ye gads! One is enough!
Adorable Video of the Prez today “Are my ribs ready yet”
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390795n&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromTheRoadCBSNews+%28From+The+Road%3A+CBSNews.com%29
Love it! However, I must stop clicking/reading sidebar stories. went from the thrill of seeing our wonderful PBO, to reading this “Jesus, keep me near the Cross” story —
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57337766/mom-denied-food-stamps-shoots-kids-kills-self/?tag=pop;stories
and those bastards in the GnOP want to deny poor, low, and middle income folks any help.
Yeah…..I saw that. So terribly sad.
I don’t believe that Alex Wagner had the gall to say that PO should be thankful that OWS changed to conversations back to jobs and income inequality.
Bullshit in the highest order. I was disappointed that Rev Al let her get away with that crap unchallenged. I will NEVER watch her show. EVER.
And the Reverend let her get away with that shite ?
yes he did amk. I could tell he just didn’t feel like going at her and let it slide but criipes, he needs to shut that crap down when anybody make those false statements.
A bit disappointed. Letting lies go unchallenged is how the america arrived at this place.
She mumbled it at the end of the segment and Rev Al was talking over her so he could move on to another segment so I don’t think he heard her.
she didn’t mumble it UT she has said it repeatedly on different shows and she was clear when she said it today.
I think Rev Al genuinely likes her and didn’t want to call her out and let it go. He was being nice, but a lie is a lie and he should shut it down.
Please tweet Rev Al and let him know he’s got to stand firm against the lies. He has “friends” I wouldn’t be caught dead with, for reasons we don’t know. I don’t agree with all of his associations as they are not in our interests for re-electing PBO. I know I’d best get with it and start tweeting…..just haven’t taken the time. Otherwise I’d be all over everybody discounting all the BS, thus using up all of my precious time.
The bigger question ought be why we have complete idiotic airhead non entities like Alex Wagner, Nia Malika Henderson, Ron Reagan analyzing a brilliant, evolved President’s speech…
These people shouldn’t even be substitute presenters on gossip/entertainment shows, little less offering commentary or masquerading as political analysts in the brilliant age of Obama…
I so agree with you on this!
Just like folks at Kos claim every thing they agree with as “we made him do it”, OWS seems to be doing the same thing.
PBO’s actions and what he has accomplished has been in the interest of these folks all along. They have not been listening; to busy criticizing.
Kos and OWS are one in the same…Markos just hasn’t changed the name on the website yet!
Alex also made an untrue reference about social security as related to the payroll tax, which is a lie. Why did she watch the speech on mute? If she watched it on mute how could she comment on the speech?
so she can lie with impunity.
I thought that was a really weird comment too. These are our political pundits? Watching on mute?????
I was disappointed as well that Rev Al let her get away with it………it’s a lie.
They’re saying that on Twitter. I push back everything someone tweets it. If you have read the President’s books he’s said the same thing during his adult life. This speech was CLASSIC President Obama.
Obviously they have some kind of amnesia, willful or otherwise. President Obama started this with his speech in which he eviscerated the Paul Ryan Plan and then moved flawlessly and consequentially to the American Jobs Act. Most of the points made today were made then if in broader terms.
If there was no obvious goal (getting PBO re-elected with proper majorities) despair would abound.
I have come to the conclusion that today’s journalists do not read books for background info. They seem to just go with rumors and inuendo as well as the latest talking points.
Not only do they not read books, they don’t do any research at all IMO! They just parrot other people’s (GOP) questions looking for info that will fuel conflict. Their questions ask for information that is readily evident if one would but look and listen. What do you think those ‘Does the President plan to yada yada yada’ questions mean?
I don’t like Miss Alex Wagner. I have not watched her show.
That OWS shifted the convervation to jobs is more arguable, especially given that President Obama did pivot to jobs in early September and has sustained his jobs push ever since.
But on the topic of income inequality, there isn’t any doubt that OWS deserves credit for it becoming such a central topic in our political debate today. All you need to do is do a Google search. From September 15 to September 30, the term “income inequality” got about 953,000 hits. But from October 1 to October 15, when OWS really got big, the hits for the term “income inequality” suddenly jumped tenfold, garnering 9 million hits. That was no coincidence. The reason was the arrival of OWS and its “99% versus the 1%” framing.
And that isn’t a bad thing either. Obama supporters have been clamoring for the left to organize and rally public opinion in order to push things to the left instead of bitching at President Obama to do everything for them. The argument was that for President Obama to move left, he needed the political winds to be going that way as well. Well OWS appears to be doing that now, and not surprisingly President Obama, being the canny politician that he is, is moving that way as well. Frankly my quibble with OWS and the left is that they didn’t do something along these lines back in 2009 and 2010 when it might’ve offset the Tea Partiers or produced a better political environment for passing more progressive legislation, and perhaps forestalled a Republican takeover of the House. We definitely wouldn’t have been consumed these past few years with deficit and debt talk if there was an OWS around. But better late than never.
California and Nevada Attorney Generals Announce Joint Investigation into Foreclosure Fraud
December 6, 2011, 2:39 pm
Attorney Generals Kamala D. Harris of California and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada announced a joint investigation into foreclosure fraud on Tuesday. Though necessary nation-wide, the action is particularly salient geographically, as California and Nevada are the two states hit hardest by the housing crisis. In 2010, Nevada had the country’s highest foreclosure rate at 9.4%, while California, with the second highest rate, had the largest number of total foreclosures: 569,000 filings.
~snip~
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/744185/california_and_nevada_attorney_generals_announce_joint_investigation_into_foreclosure_fraud/#paragraph2
h/t Kristen Gwynne
Good story on the speech by CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57337752-503544/obama-this-is-a-make-or-break-moment-for-middle-class/?tag=stack
there is a poll, we need more yes votes.
The poll is ridiculously worded. I mean if I say “no” it’s because of Republican obstruction not any condemnation in my faith in the President.
How surprising……..geezzzzz,.
log cabin repubs are pushing back.
log cabin repubs = oxymoron
I do not understand how someone can be homosexual and Republican at the same time. Seriously, WTF???
Video from We Be Smokinhttp://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf
Yikes—-never mind. I failed with my vid transfer. Don’t know who those 2 gals are.
LMAO
lol so true,…
Do NOT make a librarian do a spit take while at the reference desk! It will result in the fine fairy putting late fees on your library card.
hey, LL — I don’t know my my left from my right — sorry! Corrected instructions for embedding a tweet:
LL, RIGHT click on the time stamp in the lower left corner of the tweet; you’ll get a grey menu of choices — LEFT click on “copy shortcut;” then paste the “shortcut” into your reply. The tweet should show up like above.
Oops, forgot to log in. Thanks, Alycee, I’ll try it next time I see an interesting tweet. Now, if Ms. Chips can help me figure out why I can’t embed images, I’ll be golden..
I am just trying what Alycee suggested.
Ha, it worked!
ok, let’s see
Huzzah!
Hillary Clinton to UN: “Gay Rights Are Human Rights, And Human Rights Are Gay Rights,” LGBT Rights Will Guide Foreign Policy
By: Igor Volsky and Zack Ford
Recognizing that America’s own record on LGBT equality is “far from perfect,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on nations around the world to recognize that “gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights,” during a speech in Geneva, Switzerland this afternoon. Clinton’s address builds on a memorandum President Obama issued earlier today directing all agencies to “promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.”
Clinton also announced that the administration is launching a $3 million global equality fund to support the work of civil society organizations working on these issues around the world. The fund will help human rights groups “record facts so they can target their advocacy, learn how to use the law as a tool, manage their budgets, train their staffs and forge partnerships with women’s organizations and other Human Rights groups,” Clinton said.
~snip~
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/744182/hillary_clinton_to_un%3A_%22gay_rights_are_human_rights%2C_and_human_rights_are_gay_rights%2C%22_lgbt_rights_will_guide_foreign_policy/#paragraph2
h/t Thinkprogress
A coal company is to pay $210m (£135m) in damages for one of the worst US mining tragedies in decades, which killed 29 men in April last year.
The mine’s new owner will compensate victims’ families, pay fines and upgrade safety features.
It is the biggest settlement ever reached in a US mine disaster.
Officials say the accident at the Upper Big Branch pit in West Virginia was caused by methane gas, coal dust and faulty machinery.
A federal investigation into the incident has found that the mine violated 369 safety regulations, 12 of which contributed to the blast.
Under the deal announced on Tuesday, Alpha Natural Resources - which acquired the mine’s owner, Massey Energy, this year - will pay the fine.
Other lawsuits filed by employees and relatives of the victims are still pending.
The agreement includes $128m in safety upgrades, research and training, and $35m in fines for federal mine-safety violations.
It also allocates $46.5m for the victims’ relatives - or about $1.5m per family
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-us-canada-16059159
At Romney ‘Grassroots’ Event: Valet Parking | As GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney tries to shed his image of being “Mr. 1 percent,” this likely won’t help.
At a campaign stop at a luxury hotel in Arizona today billed as an “event with grassroots supporters,” there is “only” valet parking, according to Arizona Democratic Party official Andy Barr,
go Dems hit his arse hard;all day;every day in ALL 50 States
Surprise! Blue states are healthier than red states.
Posted on by GottaLaff
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 12:21 pm
H/t @cpeterka for spotting this piece over at ::shudder:: Fox:
UnitedHealth Group has released their 2011 annual state-by-state health rankings. Wondering where your state ranked? [...] Vermont is the nation’s healthiest state, according to the report, followed by fellow Northeastern states New Hampshire and Connecticut in the second and third spots respectively. Rounding out the top 5 healthiest states were Hawaii and Massachusetts. On the other end of the spectrum was Mississippi as the least healthiest, followed by Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Alabama.
Quel surprise. If you recall, Vermont passed single payer health care reform, and the world didn’t end. Here’s the list:
~snip~
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/12/06/surprise-blue-states-are-healthier-than-red-states/
Hi guys!
Video of President Obama stopping for some Kansas BBQ at “We Be Smokin’” BBQ in Paola, Kan.
Read more: http://livewire.kmbc.com/Event/President_Obama_Visits_Kansas#ixzz1fnqIxi66
The comment from Congressman Yoder is pathetic. It is like they all read from the same script
Good evening TOD. Is it just me or were they kinda nice to PBO on the nightly news. I don’t watch it anymore and was just skimming the channels but I know Brian Williams talked about a do nothing Congress and their Christmas tree lights going out and what little I heard about PBO’s speech they did not seem to be slabbering and with hate speech.
darn it I missed it for once they aren’t nasty with Potus
Give them time. They will once they can gather their talking points.
Absolutely…
They are temporarily pulling back their attacks because they overplayed and it has backfired…
According to them, people now feel ‘sorry’ for President Obama because of the non-stop attacks and it’s working for him and not against like they’d hoped for…
They can’t have that and so they are trying to ‘remedy’ things…
I think what we have to remember is that most people aren’t news junkies like we are. The cable nets aim for a very small segment of news junkies, and tailor their programming to what they think that audience is. The traditional networks, on the other hand, aim to satisfy as broad an audience as they can. (Notice that there’s no nightly news show on Fox stations.) They might be a bit slipshod at times, but in terms of fairness the traditional nightly news programs are far ahead than the cable nets. And their audience dwarfs that of CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
Another house burns to the ground in Obion County TN because the owner failed to pay the $75.00 fire fee.
OBION COUNTY, Tenn. — A local family watches their home burn to the ground and just a few feet behind them, firefighters watch, too.
The last time this happened, the city of South Fulton, Tennessee, received a lot of heat nationwide for this policy. That was more than a year ago but nothing has changed.
The mayor said it comes down to simple business. If they don’t collect fire fees, the fire department can’t survive and if they make exceptions to the rule, no one will ever pay the fee.
Besides that, he likes the “pay for spray” policy and said it’s fair.
Read more at: http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Home-burns-while-firefighters-watch-again-135069773.html
SMH…
So this is the man that thinks he can run a country? Yea. Right.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-fighting-massive-debt-racked-up-in-campaigns-extravagant-early-days/2011/12/01/gIQAtokzZO_story.html?hpid=z2
PBO’s speech will be aired on C-Span 1 tv again at 8:30 est. tonight.
I might listen to it again tonight on C-Span 1. It will be worth it.
6,000,247
Correction:) 6,000.737!!!! SHUT THE FRONT DOOR, CHIPS! Oh, Heavenly Prag Goddess, we will treat you like the Queen you are! (I really forgot what you loved us to say if we needed some special request
You kick ass! That’s all I have to say about that…love you bunches!
Desertflower, all you have to say is “I, Desertflower, will visit the blog every day until the President is re-elected - and for four years after that.” That’ll do beautifully!!!!
That’s easy:) Congrats, Chips…what a monumental tribute to all that you do, everyday, for all of us.Many thanks. Love you.
Sorry for butting in, me too, me too. I visit every day, I’m hooked.
Smoothscotch, you are not alone at being hooked to TOD! I visit here two or three times a day. Congrats to Chipsticks for creating this wonderful site. I mainly come here to learn. But I also come here to laugh. I just love the wit and humor from Chipsticks, and from a great many of the people who post comments here.
We can all say that, oh radiant Chips!
I’m in too.
Congratulations, girlfriend! You so totally deserve every single click.
Ah ha! SO you guys did acknowledge the six million ‘occasion’!
I should have known there was no way such an event would pass the village by unnoticed! Congrats to one and ALL, including those who like to stay in the background!
Almost didn’t know what the number was for….had a lightbulb moment! Thanks for the reminder
Pretty awesome, huh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-luck-holds-with-gop-contenders/2011/12/05/gIQALx6qXO_story.html?hpid=z3
Two of the great American auto companies have survived their close call with going belly-up and now are making money. Along with the financial system, they were saved by government programs that Republicans characterize as pretty close to neo-Stalinist. Call them what you may, they worked. Jobs were saved. You got a problem with that?
The war in Iraq, George W. Bush’s own stimulus program, is coming to an end, and the war in Afghanistan is winding down. Osama bin Laden is totally dead, his ranks vastly reduced by drones. And while the Middle East policy has been something of a mess, even the Israelis have come around on Obama: A majority now have a favorable view of him. Mazel tov!
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Hey, LL…those douchebags,,,they came from Tiffany’s doncha know! Goldplated. Platinum fortified to insure no leaks! Diamond crusted nozzle! I need to stop….
I don’t want to think about anything for which either of them would have to use a nozzle. Ewwwwww *shudder*
I know, right?! Yuk.
I think more like the bag you hang under a horses tail that’s pulling a tourist carriage thru Central Park.
Great article by Deaniac at The Peoples View. He asks the question will the Professional Left apologize to President Obama?
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/12/how-professional-left-undermines.html
hell naw!
Thank you for that…..it is a great read.
They only dig in when he proves them wrong again and again…
Can’t admit to being short-sighted, shallow, uninformed, hysterical, reactive knee jerks…
They can’t stand being wrong - it not only further frays their already tattered credibility but turns their hustle for power, influence, money and hero-status on its head…
Can’t have that…
I wanted to share some comments I read from the article about the breast cancer patient who apologized to the POTUS. Thank you, GottaLaff, Lominska, ProChoiceGrandma, and Maggy!~
~snip~
“In this case, she credits President Obama with being a lifesaver. But you know what? Being informed is also a lifesaver. By the way, anti-choicers, this is a much more accurate definition of “Pro-Life”.”
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/12/06/breast-cancer-patient-i-want-to-apologize-to-president-obama/#disqus_thread
Lominska
I have heart disease and have been unable to get health insurance at ANY PRICE for 10 long years. I qualified for the PCIP program however and my premiums are equivalent to what I was paying 10 years ago before I was dropped by my insurance company after I had stents put in, and my deductible and co-pay are less. I now have my own health advisor who is essentially a health coach.
I had given up, I knew my next episode would either kill me or impoverish me… great choices. Whenever I get into a discussion with right -wing morons who want to repeal “Obamacare” I tell them my story. Mostly they STFU and turn and walk away.
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ProChoiceGrandma
Lominska, you should write a letter to the editor and send to several papers - spread the word!
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maggy
Please help us educate folks. Its not just RW ers who are confused by the propaganda, as this story points out.
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maggy
THIS is why some of us get very angry when so-called left leaning pundits or bloggers get shit wrong and bash Obama with distortions! It is hurtful to all of us. EVeryone: check your facts first. Primary sources. Someone going after a huge corporate interest like the health care industry, or Wall Street is going to be lied about. Count on it.
Today the country saw why we voted this man in the White House. They saw why there isn’t anyone on the GOP side who is in his in his league. We saw why Christie and so many others refuse to run. It was a GREAT speech.
Pretty scathing….from George Will…..http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romney-and-gingrich-from-bad-to-worse/2011/12/02/gIQArsM3LO_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
President Obama stops to order some BBQ:
http://www.kmbc.com/news/29936776/detail.html#ixzz1fnYwB348
http://www.alternet.org/story/153322/13_reasons_why_newt_gingrich_won%27t_win_the_nomination/
There is no other choice for 2012, the only choice, the right choice is Barack Obama. Obama/Biden 2012