Can’t complain, all’s good! You still want that cold spell? I’ve got some over here. I’m got the chills for sure and I even have white stuff on the ground.
You can have mine anytime! I will have it delivered without cost to you. I’m not a fan of snow, especially when it chooses to lie in the driveway. Take it with my blessing.
You have to come and get it. Reach out. Make an effort. You are not going to sit there and be a victim like the 47%, are you? I’ll give you a helping hand by loaning you one of my winter coats.
But you don’t understand, I’m entitled to sit back and get free stuff without any work or effort on my part. I don’t have to take personal responsibility, because of the culture of dependency we live in.
Sorry Loves, your entitlement doesn’t stretch this far north much as I lurve you! You are welcome to all the snow I have, in fact you can depend on my eagerness to share, but you’ll literally have to pull up your boots (forget the straps if that’s too much effort for ya) and come and get it.
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THANK YOUs, Ms Chips! This silver is gold for MEEEE. Look at all those happy faces surrounding the Presidential Happy Face! No offense meant here, PFWI, but I sure am glad I got the silver prize this time ‘cos the gold prize doesn’t cut it.
Love that pic of POTUS with all the blonde fair skinned kids from that socialist state of Minnesota. And the state with the highest voter turnout of all 50 states (75%).
….and which crushed Mitt Romney and which now has a majority Dem senate, house and the governorship. And also defeated an amendment to suppress voting rights and defeated an amendment to the constitution which would have banned same sex marriage. You mean that Minnesota?
This pic. should be shared with all those media people who keep peddling untruths that President Obama is not a people person. Surely, the kid in the picture seem to be enjoying being with their President and the President seems ecstatic to be with them.
Go to the lSt 10 posts on the right hand side, or hit Chipsticks in the top title bar and get into the archives, lots of fast ways to poke around, or if someone (slow) is commenting on an earlier thread, you can always get back there fast… Either way, a bit of scrolling is in order. I have to say goodnight, but I do sometime feel sad that the GOP is represented by elephants. I love elephants so much, and am so sad they are endangered, I feel sad when I see them all beat up having been used to rep the filthy mofos we know as the GOP. does that make sense to anyone? Goodnight, sweet dreams TOD! {{{{Chipsticks}}}}
Now Amk, /swallowing, taking a deep breath and trying to straighten shoulder/ I can’t have you calling the mayoress names (so often)! /gulp/ It’s just not right! /gulp/ Yo-o-u-u-u h-h-have t-t-to sp-sp-sp-eak to her with -res-res- -respect. Her n-n-a-a-me is Ms-s- Chips or Mayoress Chipssssss. /great rush of breath ,the bullying prevention training manual says bystanders have a role to play in diffusing this kind of behaviour…the trainer would be proud of me for speaking out. I’ll share this with her next session/
I lost my previous answer to this! Grrr – WordPress is overfed with gobbled up answers!!! I’m not even going to try to recapture it; I’ll accept that you are warmed by grumpy charm. So Amk is one of those as-is purchases.
It’s called the End key. Automatically takes you to the bottom of the page where the link is. I use it all the time to see if there’s a new post up after refreshing.
Oh, you mean f1 f2, etc. I meant Fn. Some laptops that don’t have full keyboards require that you use the Fn button to make a key work for more than one function. Like a numberpad that is also on the letters. But if you’re using a full keyboard, it should work without having to do that. My End key won’t work if I haven’t clicked on the page I want to navigate.
On #lastword, @KrystalBall1 says Carney’s comments underscore how strong of a hand the president has right now on the fiscal curb.— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) November 27, 2012
And, I listened to every word Plouffe spoke during the interview on 14 Nov 2012 and discerned nothing but an awareness of how strong the President’s position now is …
Can’t wait for the budget negotiations to truly begin. Gonna get some chips, chocolate, etc. and munch away in fun. We either deal with it or we go off the cliff or off the curb or off the slope. Either way, Pres. Obama has the upper hand.
A word of caution- the Republycabs are trying to stall the negotiations until after Maech 2013. To which, that is when the Republhcabs have the leverage, Government out of money and debt Celing needs to be raised.
Notice how the Republicans want to desperately extend the Bush tax cuts, to give themselves more time? In retrospect, now you know why.
Rest assured, if I know this, so does the President…
Steve was wondering, in a blog post earlier today, how motivating ‘marginal tax increases’ would be to the exceptional OFA team that Jim Messina has assembled and is clearly preparing to mobilize for legislative and other battles.
I think it was not at all an accident that President Obama began framing the larger issue in terms of ‘fairness’ – a new American economic patriotism, as it were. We are all in it together. We need to advance by providing opportunity to anyone who’s willing to work for it.
So …
Dear @SteveBenen What will be intensely motivating is PBO's focus on 'a new economic patriotism.' Hope @Messina2012 leverages it, maximally— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 27, 2012
Am outlining content of “Progressive Inclusiveness” and this underlying ethos of a patriotism based on economic fairness that the President has articulated will be studied closely.
I have a dumb question – When President Bush was president – did people keep taking objections to his legislation to the supreme court? Business owners and the religious mob keep attacking health care with a vengeance – the former I understand, they don’t want to give 1 cent of their money to anyone other than themselves – the latter – don’t want people to have health care??? Somewhere along the line they lost what Christianity is all about.
The only legislation the media really went tough on Bush was the Privatization of SS. However, they were all about the tax cuts. Gee, I wonder why?
Tax cuts is not being challenged, because no left wing think tank can find a lawful challenge, under the Constitution.
A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That’s not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That’s it.”
The lights went out here last week as far as the eye could see, and it was like the scene from Revolution when all the lights go out. It freaked me out!
I have a question: The deficit has been going down for the past couple of years. Doesn’t that extend the life of the debt ceiling until after March? I’ve never really understood how that whole thing works.
It’s not just UT. Quite a few of us are cautioning BWD against reacting from Ed Schultz’ doomsday memes about David Plouffe and PBO. Ed Schultz is back to his usual nonsense.. He selects part of Ploufe’s comments on Nov 14 and launches an emoprog attack. I would think by now we would know to grant this President a sliver of confidence in his intentions, abilities and strategies.
It’s not Schultz it’s what Plouffe said about Medicare and Medicaid being on the table. The reality is that Obama DOES want a Grand Bargain. And that’s what makes some Dems nervous or mad that he’s going to negotiate with the GOP. But we all know he didn’t work his ass off running around these crazy ass swing states for the past year doing 3-4 rallies a day saying the same thing over and over and over to settle for a few slices of pie with whipped cream. He wants the whole pie and in his view that’s solving these issues not just for the short term but the long term. The long term means a Grand Bargain. So if people want him to just do layups on the backs of the GOP it ain’t gonna happen. He’s gonna play ball with them and win and win big. And even winning BIG I guarantee you that the same people will be saying he caved.
Also relevant is that he is not doing this for his legacy but specifically FOR the disenfranchised. I mean he started out as a community organizer and that’s where his heart still is. For god’s sake, he gave up $$$$$ and power for years to help poor people. Somehow they think he’s going to screw them over now?? Secondly, he’s doing it so that the Dems are seen as bipartisan so that we can win in 2014. He’s not selfish when he could be. Damn community organizer still IS a community organizer; somehow they think he’s just a politician.
Love bwd to death and I owe her for introducing me to Obama on the internet but don’t know why she doesn’t trust him every step of the way. We have zero reason not to trust him.
The only thing I hoped he would do was end the Afghanistan war more quickly and hoped and hoped that once bin Laden was swimming with the fishes that he would announce that. I think it’s rather interesting that the MSM hasn’t been hounding him on that. Actually rather sad that Benghazi is more important to them then all the thousands of soldiers deaths in another country. But I digress…
Excellent commentary ForUS50. I do believe that Plouffe’s words were taken out of context by MSNBC. I also think that PBO is ending the war responsibly – as he promised, and to me that’s better than some arbitrary quick timeline. The MSM is ALWAYS on the GOP’s side where war is concerned and Romney campaigned on prolonging the war, so the MSM can’t hypocritically hound PBO on his current timeline.
So this is interesting you guys. Lots of people all over are volunteering this weekend in that organization called “the action” (OFA and others joining together to promote Obama’s legislative stuff) doing things like calling their senators or standing out side their offices or having rallies etc. To remind them about ending the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent. Anyways they got a blog where people from all over are sharing what they are doing or what they’ve done. Here’s one the actions!
The priest drives the green within 5 yards of the hole.
Jesus slices the ball and it goes into the water hazard. He quickly runs across the water and hits his second onto the green 2 inches from the hole.
The old man tees off with a short worm burner that trickles into the hazard. Soon after a fish eats the ball and swims across the pond with it in its mouth. Just then an eagle swoops down and snatches the fish with the golf ball and flies off. The eagle loses its grip and drops the fish on the green. The fish then spits out the ball and it rolls into the hole for a hole in one.
Jesus turns to the old man and replies, “Play fair dad!”
Pres Obama's fault. RT “@AP: Cyber Monday is expected to be the biggest online shopping day in history: apne.ws/111RiRf – VW”— (@LiberalPhenom) November 27, 2012
Hey squarepeg, I’m not fighting with BWD on twitter. I don’t have the time nor the appetite for that kind of crap. You should look at the backstory/back-tweets first. BWD was freaking out about the video which Bob posted upthread and saying David Plouffe had basically played his hand and given in to the GOP regarding the fiscal cliff. Ed Schultz played a non-contextual clip of the discussion Plouffe had with Schmidt about the fiscal cliff and began freaking out saying Pres. Obama was giving up, that he was throwing progressives under the bus, that he was abandoning progressives who got him a second term, that he was going to mercilessly cut Medicare and Medicaid, that he was going to cave to the GOP like he did before. Yadi yada yah. BWD agrees with him and I disagree with BWD. I’m not for freaking out especially when no real deal/negotiations have occurred regarding the fiscal cliff. BWD thinks Pres. Obama’s first term has been dictated by the GOP and if we don’t kill them now, they’ll do the same thing again. I disagree and I pointed out that one just has to look at Pres. Obama’s legislative accomplishments in the first term to know that he came out the winner and the GOP came out losers. One only has to look at 2010 to see how Pres. Obama successfully manipulated the GOP. One can also look at 2011 to see how Boehner didn’t get all he wanted in the debt ceiling negotiations. Instead, Pres. Obama got another round of stimulus and Boehner and congress voted on sequestration cuts so everyone has skin in the game.
My premise is that we should stop listening to talking heads on cable TV who don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes and then freakout just because they tell us to. Have we learned nothing from 2010 and the destruction they caused; particularly, Ed Schultz?
utaustinliberal – I’m just assuming you’re young (and that doesn’t matter, but for the context of this reply), but I must say you have proven time and again to be wise beyond your years. Thank you for your measured (yet always passionate) support for President Obama from this great grandmother in the Midwest. Well done.
Ditto from me – I saw the freakout on my Twitter feed and just dumped them all. I don’t have time for that crap again. PBO knows what he is doing – does he have to keep proving himself every time there is a difficult time in our country? No, no and no again. He’s got this covered. utaustinliberal – I like your style.
Thanks UT – I’m so sick of the freakout. Will we never learn? And this is how the President’s upper hand gets eroded, because the people who are the loudest shriekers end up influencing public opinion and the majority that are behind the President get confused or demoralized. The President was only re-elected two weeks ago, right? And they are still counting the votes. And some have already started wringing their hands… It’s exhausting.
Like I said after that first debate: STOP ALLOWING THEM (cableheads™) TO SET THE NARRATIVE. People: You have two brain cells. Rub them the fuck together already.
I started listening to Ed Schultz last night, then I said oh no here he go again. I told myself I am not going to go down that road again. Listen up, I voted for President Obama because I trust him to do the right thing for his people. I will not get into any of Ed or any other liberal progressive B.S.
For anyone who cares, turn off .@edshow; it'll just give you agita with no benefit of gaining actual knowledge. Some people don't learn.— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) November 27, 2012
Great video but lol Steve Schmidt at 1:19:00. His kid tells him Pres. Obama won his school's election unanimously. youtu.be/BV9BkdfZiPY— ForUS50 (@FORUS50) November 27, 2012
Great video but lol Steve Schmidt at 1:19:00. His kid tells him Pres. Obama won his school's election unanimously. youtu.be/BV9BkdfZiPY— ForUS50 (@FORUS50) November 27, 2012
I LOL’d at that part when C-SPAN first aired the discussion. Then he told his kid, “you can be a Democrat, you just don’t have to eat like one.” Hahaha.
For any of you whom have not viewed Seal Team Six or/and Zero Dark Thirty you should if only to realize the singular thematic focus – for real – on a particular female Intel Professional. Not PBO, but HER. I assure you that is not an accident or a coincidence or some ‘Hollywood conspiracy.’
It is exceptionally poignant and could not be more relevant in the era of ‘forced, legitimate, whatever … rape’ and the incessant #WarOnWomen by white, male, repugnant, chickenhawk, dastardly, impotent, ….. males.
Thus my humble, truly, acknowledgement of that woman (and another likely woman who had the courage to video record #BainMitt’s Boca Raton #47Percent massive insult to Americans, our fellow citizens of Hispanic heritage, and Chinese female slaves) …
Announcing a personal ZERO TOLERANCE for anyone who disparages, undermines, or otherwise distracts from the exceptional mission our President Obama has championed and now has an historical, by all parameters, mandate to accomplish.
Two choices: You’re either on the steam roller of Progress & Economic Patriotism for All …
GOP/Fox politicized the deaths of Americans in #Benghazi. Dems stood united with #GWB who cut brush instead of acting on OBL intel. @maddow— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) November 27, 2012
Obama to Pa. on Friday in first stop on fiscal cliff tour. He's going to a factory that makes Tinkertoy, K’NEX and Angry Bird Building Sets!— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) November 27, 2012
Obama to Discuss Fiscal Cliff in Montco on Friday
President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday
President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
Obama’s visit to a small business in Hatfield, Pa., that makes parts for a construction toy company will cap a week of public outreach as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a way to avoid tax increases and deep spending cuts scheduled to being taking effect Jan. 1.
At the White House, the president will meet with small business owners on Tuesday and middle-class Americans on Wednesday.
Now this is very smart, this is how he wins this negotiation and is what the Republicans fear most. You will now hear calls from several Republycans attempting to diminish this sort of outreach. Trying to keep the President in the bubble in DC, where all the freaking Lobbyists are. He is to smart for that.
Thanks for the link!
My $ 0.02. PBO can invite groups of local tv news crews from red states and blue states every week and have a 30-minute interviews on this so called fiscal cliff and how the repubs are wrecking havoc… yet again. I bet all those local teevee anchors would run heels over head to do such interviews and would relay it promptly to its local audiences just for the ratings.
I call it take your case directly to the people bypassing the corrupt beltway media and the corporate msm.
Cyber Monday sales were up 20 percent this year from 2011, with retailers saying online sales brought in a record $1.5 billion, according to Internet analytical firm comScore. Cyber Monday, the busiest Web shopping day of the year, began early this year, with Walmart beginning its online deals on Saturday. Early-bird shoppers certainly wanted to get the worm: Thanksgiving shopping increased 32 percent this year, and on Black Friday, the holiest shopping day of the year, e-commerce shopping topped $1 billion for the first time ever, up about 26 percent.
The Mexican President wants to focus on easing the drug war with Mexico, because of the legalizing of Pot in different states.
That’s just what we need, more Stoners???
Yikes!
The current war on drugs does not appear to prevent people from getting high but is destroying lives for minor drug violations. Prohibition did not prevent people from getting drunk thus it was repealed.
But but but ask me what Americans number one goal was in Afghanistan?
Drug war! Yes, we almost totally stopped the Taliban from using the Poppy to fund terrorism.
So, it is possible. It’s just that it is a major source of money for some in America, so the game continues.
I am not clear what that has to do with the Mexican drug war. If you believe people should be jailed for minor drug violations so be it, but some believe it is a worthy discussion.
Hey Dudette, are you still recovering from Thanksgiving? I don’t remember seeing you for a couple of days now. If you are in the Recharging Centre, please take in some new energy for me too, save me having to check in. See you soon!
Some info on 2nd term transition from Laura Rozen.
In the certain to go camp:
Assistant Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell is leaving, official told the Back Channel, to chair the board of the Center for New American Security (CNAS), the think tank he co-founded with Michele Flournoy, and do Asia consulting. (His spouse Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, may leave the administration too, an official said. White House chief of staff Jack Lew is expected to succeed Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary.)
NSC Middle East senior advisor Steve Simon is due to leave shortly to become head of a think tank, officials told the Back Channel.
AfPak envoy Marc Grossman will leave, officials said. It is unclear who will succeed him.
In the likely to move camp:
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns may be nominated to succeed Rice as US ambassador to the UN, officials said.
Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides is being mulled for a White House job, possibly White House chief of staff, which can put his knowledge of budgets to work, as well as his relationship with Congress and Wall Street.
NSC economics senior advisor Michael Froman is likely to move, possibly to become US Trade Rep.
Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman is also likely to move, possibly for a White House/NSC job, or US Trade Rep.
Vice President Biden’s national security advisor Antony Blinken is likely to get a promotion, perhaps to deputy secretary of state.
In the may stay in place:
White House WMD czar Gary Samore—playing a key role on Iran—may stay on for now. While State Department arms control envoy Robert Einhorn is likely to leave, for a chair he has waiting for him at a Washington think tank, officials said.
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon may stay in place in that role, for now.
Sources thought that Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy would be top contenders to succeed Leon Panetta as Defense Secretary when he decides to leave, which is not expected to be immediately.
Gotta love Warren Buffett. He was on the Today Show this morning and Lauer was whining about how Wall Street and hedge fund guys don’t want to invest in the economy and create more jobs due to uncertainty. Lauer neglected to mention that the Wall Street guys he was talking about were republicans who had financially backed Romney in the 2012 election so of course they’re going to be all doom and gloom. Buffett pointed out to him that over the Thanksgiving weekend we’ve seen consumers come out in force, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday were huge successes for retailers, and in addition to that, the housing market is rebounding.
Buffett also pointed out to him that people are investing in the American economy and used himself as an example. He told Lauer that he invested more in 2012 than he did in 2011 and 2011 was already a barn burner of a year for the investments Berkshire Hathaway (his company) made. Lauer then began whining about how the GOP says raising taxes will destroy the American economy and Buffett said it wouldn’t. Lauer wouldn’t give it a rest and kept whining “but the right says….” and Buffett pretty much told him it will not harm the economy. No wealthy person will stop investing if their taxes are raised. That wealthy people like himself have benefitted so much from this country and especially since the economy began recovering from the recession and it’s time they do their part. He was very firm in that regard. It was quite fun to watch him silence Lauer’s nonsense.
I liked when Buffett said to Lauer that if he called him one night and said he had a sure winner stock for him, that Lauer wouldn’t say, “But—–the taxes….”, he would ask, “What’s the name of the stock?”
Lauer also did not mention many hedge funds are now trading in and out of the markets in microseconds and making no long term economic based investments.
The former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has announced her return to politics, telling supporters she is forming a new party to run in January parliamentary elections on a platform promising an aggressive push for peace with the Palestinians.
Livni, who served as Israel’s foreign minister and chief peace negotiator from 2006 to 2009, bitterly attacked the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as she announced the formation of her new party, called the Movement.
“I came to fight for peace … and I won’t allow anyone to turn peace into a bad word,” she said.
I wish cooler heads would prevail, because if they did Tzipi Livni is the logical choice. If she’s running for Prime Minister, it’s going to be a tough battle to defeat Netanyahu since he’s ginning up fear of a nuclear bomb from Iran and fear of Palestinians so that he can win.
That’s great news. She is a clean & non-corrupt politician, the exact opposite of nut n yahoo. Hopefully, the israelis are as smart as they claim to be.
DURABLE GOODS ORDERS BEAT EXPECTATION, NO DECLINE (Analysts expected a 0.7% decline) read.bi/114yXD8— Business Insider (@businessinsider) November 27, 2012
Also, the President is going to do the very best he can with a spoiled rotten Congress, some Democrats included.
He is not going to get everything we want, despite his mandate.
I say, let’s give him some room to negotiate, and not be drummed up by the Ideological Left wing media.
That is all!
Thought this was an interesting post-game analysis by Axe. Some interesting tidbits. like when he came back to the WH to help with Obama’s humorous speech at WHCD, suggested a joke that Tim Pawlenty’s middle name is Bin Laden —-which I thought was funny—-Barack Hussein—get it? ——but Obama gave an excuse not to use it—-said that subject was stale—-little did Axe know that Obama had given the go ahead to the bin Laden raid that day.
I’m sick of lying Republicans, worthless Economists and the Tea Party pawns. But to me, none of them are as egregious as the Democrats and Independents who initially supported President Obama and have now joined the chorus of those who constantly criticize and declare their disappointment.
On any given day, one can read an assortment of critiques of President Obama about everything from Afghanistan to Zawahiri. The Internet is overrun with Monday morning Presidents. I for one have had enough. I’d almost reached the point where I dreaded reading the so-called news accounts, which have little to do with actual events, but are more often than not opinions parading as facts. And the comments, forget about it…I just don’t have time for the crazy.
Then I found this site called the Obama diary. What a treat! It’s a wonderfully uplifting experience! The writings, the comments, the passion, wit and wisdom are all Pro-Obama. Thank you Geezus! I don’t know why I was deprived of such wonder, then again, I’m always a day late and a dollar short. Don’t get me wrong, there are many excellent sites, but more often than not, they carry a variety of themes; that includes my own. But the Obama diary is pure positive Obama goodness.
I’m addicted; so hooked, I can’t go a few hours without visiting. It is my mood-altering drug: that boost I get in the morning not unlike the jolt I get from my first cup of coffee. I won’t be posting during the Convention, but I wanted to share this with you. So when the Obama bashing gets to be too much, I suggest you visit too.
the Obama diary will keep you Fired Up and Ready to Go!
Yup! I posted it here awhile back…I just like to see others sing Chips praises:) AND I want her to wake up with a new thread before I have to get ready for work!! Time’s a wastin’!! Tick.Tick.Tick.
Coyotes visit Wrigley Field—-disappointed there was no game
They’re all over the place in Illinois now—–often spot one strolling thru my back yard—–looks somewhat like a scraggly German Shepherd—–and we often hear them howling at the moon with their friends and family at night—–or whatever it is coyotes do at midnight.
Ct. daughter says they have bears strolling everywhere around her area now—–in her office parking lot and can’t use a fave rec. area currently because a mom and 2 babes have set up housekeeping there.
Wild coyotes pay visit to Chicago's Wrigley Field. "The scary thing is that they didn't seem afraid," says witness nbcnews.to/TqI1AD— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 27, 2012
Boehner claims he has “leverage” because of debt ceiling: John Boehner recently said Obamacare must be part of the debt talks. Now Politico reports on a remarkable exchange between Obama and Boehner, in which the Speaker told Obama that the coming debt ceiling fight constitutes “my leverage.” Boehner responded to Obama’s demand that he agree to raise it by saying: “There is a price for everything.”
Of course, in this case, the thing that has a “price” includes averting something that would be dangerous for the whole country — default. This is the clearest sign yet that we’re headed for another debt ceiling showdown, and you can bet that this time, Congressional Democrats will insist that no concessions be made to House Republicans.
Gloves on and ready to go
Proud!!
This about sums up the last 4 years.
Oh, I just love that cartoon, Chips. Thanks, darlin’!
It’s a keeper J!
Did you open the door for me, Ms Chips?
Talk about good timing? I’m ready.
Y’all are tied.
Good Evening, LisaLoves. How goes life in your corner of the world?
Good, how ’bout you?
Can’t complain, all’s good!
You still want that cold spell? I’ve got some over here. I’m got the chills for sure and I even have white stuff on the ground.
Snow!!!!!!! I lurve snow!!!!
You can have mine anytime! I will have it delivered without cost to you. I’m not a fan of snow, especially when it chooses to lie in the driveway. Take it with my blessing.
Can you express ship it to Florida? The heat’s killing me.
You have to come and get it. Reach out. Make an effort. You are not going to sit there and be a victim like the 47%, are you? I’ll give you a helping hand by loaning you one of my winter coats.
But you don’t understand, I’m entitled to sit back and get free stuff without any work or effort on my part. I don’t have to take personal responsibility, because of the culture of dependency we live in.
Sorry Loves, your entitlement doesn’t stretch this far north much as I lurve you! You are welcome to all the snow I have, in fact you can depend on my eagerness to share, but you’ll literally have to pull up your boots (forget the straps if that’s too much effort for ya) and come and get it.
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Happy Tuesday Morning, LisaLoves!
Ready!!
Ooooooooh, silver for you VC
THANK YOUs, Ms Chips!
This silver is gold for MEEEE. Look at all those happy faces surrounding the Presidential Happy Face! No offense meant here, PFWI, but I sure am glad I got the silver prize this time ‘cos the gold prize doesn’t cut it.
Love that pic of POTUS with all the blonde fair skinned kids from that socialist state of Minnesota. And the state with the highest voter turnout of all 50 states (75%).
….and which crushed Mitt Romney and which now has a majority Dem senate, house and the governorship. And also defeated an amendment to suppress voting rights and defeated an amendment to the constitution which would have banned same sex marriage. You mean that Minnesota?
Yes THAT Minnesota!!!
And visually, look at all this blue in the HOUSE. http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/house
Pretty isn’t it? All that blue… I’ve thought about leaving here because of the weather but the truth is, it really is a great place to live.
Did I hear someone say….. Minnesota? Nice huh? I’m so proud of my state! yay!
I love this picture!!! And the next one where he asks them to help him get up. The kids are so excited. Thanks Chips.
Love it too Marilyn, it’s a gem!!
This pic. should be shared with all those media people who keep peddling untruths that President Obama is not a people person. Surely, the kid in the picture seem to be enjoying being with their President and the President seems ecstatic to be with them.
LOL.
Heh blog tyrant. How about putting the links to previous/next threads on the top too?
Like I’d know how to do that
Learn, you lazy bum.
Harsh. Call me dumb – no, be nice, don’t – but where do you want the links exactly?
Right at the top. First Line. Previous thread/ Next thread
Second line – The present thread
Sheesh, you are SO lazy – can’t you just scroll down, turtle head?
But it takes tooooo long. (insert whine face)
Lazybones/smh
I am born with them.
(Me too)
Go to the lSt 10 posts on the right hand side, or hit Chipsticks in the top title bar and get into the archives, lots of fast ways to poke around, or if someone (slow) is commenting on an earlier thread, you can always get back there fast… Either way, a bit of scrolling is in order. I have to say goodnight, but I do sometime feel sad that the GOP is represented by elephants. I love elephants so much, and am so sad they are endangered, I feel sad when I see them all beat up having been used to rep the filthy mofos we know as the GOP. does that make sense to anyone? Goodnight, sweet dreams TOD! {{{{Chipsticks}}}}
What! You are checking out early, Pamela? Sweet dreams! I’m following very shortly as my eyes are shutting down on me.
Now Amk, /swallowing, taking a deep breath and trying to straighten shoulder/ I can’t have you calling the mayoress names (so often)! /gulp/ It’s just not right! /gulp/ Yo-o-u-u-u h-h-have t-t-to sp-sp-sp-eak to her with -res-res- -respect. Her n-n-a-a-me is Ms-s- Chips or Mayoress Chipssssss. /great rush of breath ,the bullying prevention training manual says bystanders have a role to play in diffusing this kind of behaviour…the trainer would be proud of me for speaking out. I’ll share this with her next session/
term(s) of endearment.
Crikey VC, if he started being that sweet to me I’d assume his account had been hacked
No, no, his grumpiness is charming, we’ll leave him as he is 
I’d assume his account had been hacked
lmao.
I lost my previous answer to this! Grrr – WordPress is overfed with gobbled up answers!!! I’m not even going to try to recapture it; I’ll accept that you are warmed by grumpy charm.
So Amk is one of those as-is purchases. 
Amk = an as is purchase.
Howling!!!
Yep, you said it. It does remind me of the ‘you break it, you’ve bought it’ sign seen in some stores that carry fragile goods.
I am a precious antique… Yes, pun was intended.
It’s called wysiwyg. Google it.
It’s called the End key. Automatically takes you to the bottom of the page where the link is. I use it all the time to see if there’s a new post up after refreshing.
Goodness – I never knew that! Thanks for the tip. Now I don’t have to scroll up and down manually! Yay…
Okay, Tien, why didn’t my ‘end’ key work when I tried it just now?
Was your cursor on this page? Do you need to use the function key to make it work (laptop?).
Yes. Which function key – 1, 2, 3???
Eeeek? I didn’t know there was more than one. Experiment maybe? I’ve only ever seen an Fn button. Help!
Thanks. Will experiment tomorrow. Am literally falling asleep because I woke up too early this morning
Oh, you mean f1 f2, etc. I meant Fn. Some laptops that don’t have full keyboards require that you use the Fn button to make a key work for more than one function. Like a numberpad that is also on the letters. But if you’re using a full keyboard, it should work without having to do that. My End key won’t work if I haven’t clicked on the page I want to navigate.
I toldja it’s soooo hard.
Heh ‘blog tyrant’
I’m stuck in moderation 
Oh no you’re not – found ya and freed ya!!!!
Thanks friend!!
I think you’ll love the graphic in this tweet!
Man, I get all emotional when I see those lines. THAT is patriotism. I hope they do win PERSON OF THE YEAR.
Love the cartoon, Chips!!!
Had just posted a bit more on the reality of the situation at the bottom of the other thread …
Sweet of her to respond
And, I listened to every word Plouffe spoke during the interview on 14 Nov 2012 and discerned nothing but an awareness of how strong the President’s position now is …
#TrustBarack – He’s Earned It
That was an excellent discussion. I watched it twice. I love David Plouffe.
And he is definitely Pro Obama. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and not get all hissy fitty like Ed Schultz.
THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
#TrustBarack – He’s Earned It
I don’t have time right now to watch this…is there a transcript? Or can someone suggest a time code for where the best bit is?
It’s all really good but if you want to hear what Steve Schmidt says about Norquist it starts at 1:09.
THANK YOU
Can’t wait for the budget negotiations to truly begin. Gonna get some chips, chocolate, etc. and munch away in fun. We either deal with it or we go off the cliff or off the curb or off the slope. Either way, Pres. Obama has the upper hand.
Yup. He has all the aces.
And, you know how thoroughly he is enjoying every minute of it – all well earned, for sure!
A word of caution- the Republycabs are trying to stall the negotiations until after Maech 2013. To which, that is when the Republhcabs have the leverage, Government out of money and debt Celing needs to be raised.
Notice how the Republicans want to desperately extend the Bush tax cuts, to give themselves more time? In retrospect, now you know why.
Rest assured, if I know this, so does the President…
My biggest concern at this point is more the PL media than the GOP in congress.
I don’t need a ‘word of caution’ and neither does the President. Got it?
Rest assured, if I know this, so does the President
**********************
THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Steve was wondering, in a blog post earlier today, how motivating ‘marginal tax increases’ would be to the exceptional OFA team that Jim Messina has assembled and is clearly preparing to mobilize for legislative and other battles.
I think it was not at all an accident that President Obama began framing the larger issue in terms of ‘fairness’ – a new American economic patriotism, as it were. We are all in it together. We need to advance by providing opportunity to anyone who’s willing to work for it.
So …
Am outlining content of “Progressive Inclusiveness” and this underlying ethos of a patriotism based on economic fairness that the President has articulated will be studied closely.
#FORWARD
I have a dumb question – When President Bush was president – did people keep taking objections to his legislation to the supreme court? Business owners and the religious mob keep attacking health care with a vengeance – the former I understand, they don’t want to give 1 cent of their money to anyone other than themselves – the latter – don’t want people to have health care??? Somewhere along the line they lost what Christianity is all about.
The only legislation the media really went tough on Bush was the Privatization of SS. However, they were all about the tax cuts. Gee, I wonder why?
Tax cuts is not being challenged, because no left wing think tank can find a lawful challenge, under the Constitution.
Thanks Jovie – I find it really hard to believe that 4 years later the GOP & Co are still fighting against the President
A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That’s not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That’s it.”
After God had created Adam he noticed that he looked very lonely. He decided to help.
He said “Adam, I’ve decided to make you a woman. She’ll love you, cook for you, be sweet to you, and understand you.”
Adam said “Great! How much will she cost me?”
The answer came back, “An arm and a leg.”
“Well,” said Adam “what can I get for a rib?”
You deserve Rooney’s squirrel for that
We men are just stupid bargainers, aren’t we ?
Well………
Goodness – I just finished putting away the boxing gloves. I’ll pull them out again and start lacing up.
I’m in your corner Theo!!!
Just hold down his legs – he tends to kick and trash about during the beatings. If only he would lie still!
What? It just shows how stupid we men are.
He wiggles quite a bit
Well, that tv show Revolution will be back in March. Now, I can finally turn my lights back on!
. 
The lights went out here last week as far as the eye could see, and it was like the scene from Revolution when all the lights go out. It freaked me out!
That would freak me out too, send us all back to the Mideval era.
I have a question: The deficit has been going down for the past couple of years. Doesn’t that extend the life of the debt ceiling until after March? I’ve never really understood how that whole thing works.
BWD and UT are fighting on twitter. What’s going on?
At least they are not fighting with me!
…or me! lol
LOL!!
Every cloud….
It’s killing me Squarepeg, hate it.
Glad I didn’t see it.
It’s not just UT. Quite a few of us are cautioning BWD against reacting from Ed Schultz’ doomsday memes about David Plouffe and PBO. Ed Schultz is back to his usual nonsense.. He selects part of Ploufe’s comments on Nov 14 and launches an emoprog attack. I would think by now we would know to grant this President a sliver of confidence in his intentions, abilities and strategies.
Thank you hopefruit for residing in reality land.
bwd freakouts – UE rate, SSM, first debate. And every case, she was proven wrong.
And now over emoprogs like blowhard schulz ? sheesh.
It’s not Schultz it’s what Plouffe said about Medicare and Medicaid being on the table. The reality is that Obama DOES want a Grand Bargain. And that’s what makes some Dems nervous or mad that he’s going to negotiate with the GOP. But we all know he didn’t work his ass off running around these crazy ass swing states for the past year doing 3-4 rallies a day saying the same thing over and over and over to settle for a few slices of pie with whipped cream. He wants the whole pie and in his view that’s solving these issues not just for the short term but the long term. The long term means a Grand Bargain. So if people want him to just do layups on the backs of the GOP it ain’t gonna happen. He’s gonna play ball with them and win and win big. And even winning BIG I guarantee you that the same people will be saying he caved.
Also relevant is that he is not doing this for his legacy but specifically FOR the disenfranchised. I mean he started out as a community organizer and that’s where his heart still is. For god’s sake, he gave up $$$$$ and power for years to help poor people. Somehow they think he’s going to screw them over now?? Secondly, he’s doing it so that the Dems are seen as bipartisan so that we can win in 2014. He’s not selfish when he could be. Damn community organizer still IS a community organizer; somehow they think he’s just a politician.
Love bwd to death and I owe her for introducing me to Obama on the internet but don’t know why she doesn’t trust him every step of the way. We have zero reason not to trust him.
The only thing I hoped he would do was end the Afghanistan war more quickly and hoped and hoped that once bin Laden was swimming with the fishes that he would announce that. I think it’s rather interesting that the MSM hasn’t been hounding him on that. Actually rather sad that Benghazi is more important to them then all the thousands of soldiers deaths in another country. But I digress…
Excellent commentary ForUS50. I do believe that Plouffe’s words were taken out of context by MSNBC. I also think that PBO is ending the war responsibly – as he promised, and to me that’s better than some arbitrary quick timeline. The MSM is ALWAYS on the GOP’s side where war is concerned and Romney campaigned on prolonging the war, so the MSM can’t hypocritically hound PBO on his current timeline.
hold it has this person been in our room?
LOL.
So this is interesting you guys. Lots of people all over are volunteering this weekend in that organization called “the action” (OFA and others joining together to promote Obama’s legislative stuff) doing things like calling their senators or standing out side their offices or having rallies etc. To remind them about ending the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent. Anyways they got a blog where people from all over are sharing what they are doing or what they’ve done. Here’s one the actions!
I love hearing this!
Why did god create man?
Because a dog can’t mow the lawn and take out the garbage.
hmmmm my husband does both those things very well!
gotta go to bed! /ducks runs
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
A priest, Jesus, and an old man tee off.
The priest drives the green within 5 yards of the hole.
Jesus slices the ball and it goes into the water hazard. He quickly runs across the water and hits his second onto the green 2 inches from the hole.
The old man tees off with a short worm burner that trickles into the hazard. Soon after a fish eats the ball and swims across the pond with it in its mouth. Just then an eagle swoops down and snatches the fish with the golf ball and flies off. The eagle loses its grip and drops the fish on the green. The fish then spits out the ball and it rolls into the hole for a hole in one.
Jesus turns to the old man and replies, “Play fair dad!”
Gunnite folks.
I like this one!
So it most likely won’t say at this fun number but for a moment…
Hey squarepeg, I’m not fighting with BWD on twitter. I don’t have the time nor the appetite for that kind of crap. You should look at the backstory/back-tweets first. BWD was freaking out about the video which Bob posted upthread and saying David Plouffe had basically played his hand and given in to the GOP regarding the fiscal cliff. Ed Schultz played a non-contextual clip of the discussion Plouffe had with Schmidt about the fiscal cliff and began freaking out saying Pres. Obama was giving up, that he was throwing progressives under the bus, that he was abandoning progressives who got him a second term, that he was going to mercilessly cut Medicare and Medicaid, that he was going to cave to the GOP like he did before. Yadi yada yah. BWD agrees with him and I disagree with BWD. I’m not for freaking out especially when no real deal/negotiations have occurred regarding the fiscal cliff. BWD thinks Pres. Obama’s first term has been dictated by the GOP and if we don’t kill them now, they’ll do the same thing again. I disagree and I pointed out that one just has to look at Pres. Obama’s legislative accomplishments in the first term to know that he came out the winner and the GOP came out losers. One only has to look at 2010 to see how Pres. Obama successfully manipulated the GOP. One can also look at 2011 to see how Boehner didn’t get all he wanted in the debt ceiling negotiations. Instead, Pres. Obama got another round of stimulus and Boehner and congress voted on sequestration cuts so everyone has skin in the game.
My premise is that we should stop listening to talking heads on cable TV who don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes and then freakout just because they tell us to. Have we learned nothing from 2010 and the destruction they caused; particularly, Ed Schultz?
Did she see the smartypants article? That pretty much destroyed the whole “Obama caved” thing.
Or this…. http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2012/11/how-obama-killed-norquist-pledge.html It’s more detailed than just the Norquist pledge.
utaustinliberal – I’m just assuming you’re young (and that doesn’t matter, but for the context of this reply), but I must say you have proven time and again to be wise beyond your years. Thank you for your measured (yet always passionate) support for President Obama from this great grandmother in the Midwest. Well done.
Aww….thanks Jackie.
pssst…..don’t tell anyone but I’m not even 25 or 24 or 23…or…..I am in college though.
I’ll keep your “secret” !
Ditto from me – I saw the freakout on my Twitter feed and just dumped them all. I don’t have time for that crap again. PBO knows what he is doing – does he have to keep proving himself every time there is a difficult time in our country? No, no and no again. He’s got this covered. utaustinliberal – I like your style.
No, no and no again. X2.
I am with ya. Turn off the fucking pundtwit idjits.
Thanks UT – I’m so sick of the freakout. Will we never learn? And this is how the President’s upper hand gets eroded, because the people who are the loudest shriekers end up influencing public opinion and the majority that are behind the President get confused or demoralized. The President was only re-elected two weeks ago, right? And they are still counting the votes. And some have already started wringing their hands… It’s exhausting.
Absolutely spot on…
I totally agree UT!!!
Like I said after that first debate: STOP ALLOWING THEM (cableheads™) TO SET THE NARRATIVE. People: You have two brain cells. Rub them the fuck together already.
I started listening to Ed Schultz last night, then I said oh no here he go again. I told myself I am not going to go down that road again. Listen up, I voted for President Obama because I trust him to do the right thing for his people. I will not get into any of Ed or any other liberal progressive B.S.
Now when I say progressive B.S. I mean once people like Ed hears something they go all crazy talking about the President is ready to cave.
Oh ok I get it now, thanks for the clarification.
Smirk, laugh out loud, roll on floor, enjoy to her core. Yep, that would be my response. I’m now considering embroidering on a pillow:
47.47
(the other guy)
There is a certain je ne sais quoi about it.
Oui.
RT’ed.
The PL is like the RW: it doesn’t realize that its time has come and gone, and its no longer relevant.
Indeed. *CLICK!*
I LOL’d at that part when C-SPAN first aired the discussion. Then he told his kid, “you can be a Democrat, you just don’t have to eat like one.” Hahaha.
that was hilarious. I sometimes wonder how he can be so reasonable and be a part of such a mean, ugly party.
Just to cheer everyone up and send them to bed with sweet dreams…
Oh My…Hmmm….I can tell that maryl1 is in a “naughty mat” state of mind, and so am I!
Yes indeed, naughty mat needed over here.
Yum.
For any of you whom have not viewed Seal Team Six or/and Zero Dark Thirty you should if only to realize the singular thematic focus – for real – on a particular female Intel Professional. Not PBO, but HER. I assure you that is not an accident or a coincidence or some ‘Hollywood conspiracy.’
It is exceptionally poignant and could not be more relevant in the era of ‘forced, legitimate, whatever … rape’ and the incessant #WarOnWomen by white, male, repugnant, chickenhawk, dastardly, impotent, ….. males.
Thus my humble, truly, acknowledgement of that woman (and another likely woman who had the courage to video record #BainMitt’s Boca Raton #47Percent massive insult to Americans, our fellow citizens of Hispanic heritage, and Chinese female slaves) …
Yes. I intend to gloat until the END OF TIME.
27 November 2012
Announcing a personal ZERO TOLERANCE for anyone who disparages, undermines, or otherwise distracts from the exceptional mission our President Obama has championed and now has an historical, by all parameters, mandate to accomplish.
Two choices: You’re either on the steam roller of Progress & Economic Patriotism for All …
… or YOU ARE EMBEDDED in the PAVEMENT.
i like the way you put that, bob. clear and resolute!
and now, good night chips and tods~
Agreed, Bob. Zero Tolerance. We don’t have ~lots~ of time~. but we do have FOUR YEARS. Forward.
Thank you Bob…
Time for a bit of rest ….
One last missive …
Obama to Discuss Fiscal Cliff in Montco on Friday
President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday
President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning $250,000 or less.
Obama’s visit to a small business in Hatfield, Pa., that makes parts for a construction toy company will cap a week of public outreach as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a way to avoid tax increases and deep spending cuts scheduled to being taking effect Jan. 1.
At the White House, the president will meet with small business owners on Tuesday and middle-class Americans on Wednesday.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Obama-to-Appear-in-Montco-to-Discuss-Fiscal-Cliff-180971181.html
Now this is very smart, this is how he wins this negotiation and is what the Republicans fear most. You will now hear calls from several Republycans attempting to diminish this sort of outreach. Trying to keep the President in the bubble in DC, where all the freaking Lobbyists are. He is to smart for that.
Thanks for the link!
My $ 0.02. PBO can invite groups of local tv news crews from red states and blue states every week and have a 30-minute interviews on this so called fiscal cliff and how the repubs are wrecking havoc… yet again. I bet all those local teevee anchors would run heels over head to do such interviews and would relay it promptly to its local audiences just for the ratings.
I call it take your case directly to the people bypassing the corrupt beltway media and the corporate msm.
Morning everyone:) I found this interesting…and now we know what Axe plans to do for the next part of his life’s journey…good for him!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/27/david-axelrod-surprised-by-romney-campaign-s-missed-opportunities.html
Cyber Monday sales were up 20 percent this year from 2011, with retailers saying online sales brought in a record $1.5 billion, according to Internet analytical firm comScore. Cyber Monday, the busiest Web shopping day of the year, began early this year, with Walmart beginning its online deals on Saturday. Early-bird shoppers certainly wanted to get the worm: Thanksgiving shopping increased 32 percent this year, and on Black Friday, the holiest shopping day of the year, e-commerce shopping topped $1 billion for the first time ever, up about 26 percent.
Obama’s fault.
The Mexican President wants to focus on easing the drug war with Mexico, because of the legalizing of Pot in different states.
That’s just what we need, more Stoners???
Yikes!
The current war on drugs does not seem to be working. Maybe a new approach would be worth considering.
Goal? So we can all get high?
The current war on drugs does not appear to prevent people from getting high but is destroying lives for minor drug violations. Prohibition did not prevent people from getting drunk thus it was repealed.
But but but ask me what Americans number one goal was in Afghanistan?
Drug war! Yes, we almost totally stopped the Taliban from using the Poppy to fund terrorism.
So, it is possible. It’s just that it is a major source of money for some in America, so the game continues.
I am not clear what that has to do with the Mexican drug war. If you believe people should be jailed for minor drug violations so be it, but some believe it is a worthy discussion.
Why use drugs to begin with?
Good read from Bob Cesca….where have I heard this before????
http://thedailybanter.com/2012/11/msnbc-and-the-well-known-liberal-media-bias/
Hey Dudette, are you still recovering from Thanksgiving? I don’t remember seeing you for a couple of days now. If you are in the Recharging Centre, please take in some new energy for me too, save me having to check in. See you soon!
Good morning, Chips and TODville.
Some info on 2nd term transition from Laura Rozen.
In the certain to go camp:
Assistant Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell is leaving, official told the Back Channel, to chair the board of the Center for New American Security (CNAS), the think tank he co-founded with Michele Flournoy, and do Asia consulting. (His spouse Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs, may leave the administration too, an official said. White House chief of staff Jack Lew is expected to succeed Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary.)
NSC Middle East senior advisor Steve Simon is due to leave shortly to become head of a think tank, officials told the Back Channel.
AfPak envoy Marc Grossman will leave, officials said. It is unclear who will succeed him.
In the likely to move camp:
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns may be nominated to succeed Rice as US ambassador to the UN, officials said.
Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides is being mulled for a White House job, possibly White House chief of staff, which can put his knowledge of budgets to work, as well as his relationship with Congress and Wall Street.
NSC economics senior advisor Michael Froman is likely to move, possibly to become US Trade Rep.
Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman is also likely to move, possibly for a White House/NSC job, or US Trade Rep.
Vice President Biden’s national security advisor Antony Blinken is likely to get a promotion, perhaps to deputy secretary of state.
In the may stay in place:
White House WMD czar Gary Samore—playing a key role on Iran—may stay on for now. While State Department arms control envoy Robert Einhorn is likely to leave, for a chair he has waiting for him at a Washington think tank, officials said.
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon may stay in place in that role, for now.
Sources thought that Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy would be top contenders to succeed Leon Panetta as Defense Secretary when he decides to leave, which is not expected to be immediately.
Morning, Meta.
I guess many of these guys/gals NEED a change, if only as a way to recharge their batteries. Their jobs have to be stressful, I would say.
Good morning, vc!
I hope Michele Flournoy gets the Defense Secretary job…
She’ll be spectacular in that role – whip smart, calm, mature, loyal, honest…
Gotta love Warren Buffett. He was on the Today Show this morning and Lauer was whining about how Wall Street and hedge fund guys don’t want to invest in the economy and create more jobs due to uncertainty. Lauer neglected to mention that the Wall Street guys he was talking about were republicans who had financially backed Romney in the 2012 election so of course they’re going to be all doom and gloom. Buffett pointed out to him that over the Thanksgiving weekend we’ve seen consumers come out in force, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday were huge successes for retailers, and in addition to that, the housing market is rebounding.
Buffett also pointed out to him that people are investing in the American economy and used himself as an example. He told Lauer that he invested more in 2012 than he did in 2011 and 2011 was already a barn burner of a year for the investments Berkshire Hathaway (his company) made. Lauer then began whining about how the GOP says raising taxes will destroy the American economy and Buffett said it wouldn’t. Lauer wouldn’t give it a rest and kept whining “but the right says….” and Buffett pretty much told him it will not harm the economy. No wealthy person will stop investing if their taxes are raised. That wealthy people like himself have benefitted so much from this country and especially since the economy began recovering from the recession and it’s time they do their part. He was very firm in that regard. It was quite fun to watch him silence Lauer’s nonsense.
Good recap. Warren has a great attitude.
I liked when Buffett said to Lauer that if he called him one night and said he had a sure winner stock for him, that Lauer wouldn’t say, “But—–the taxes….”, he would ask, “What’s the name of the stock?”
Lauer also did not mention many hedge funds are now trading in and out of the markets in microseconds and making no long term economic based investments.
Does she have a hope? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/27/tzipi-livni-return-israeli-politics
The former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has announced her return to politics, telling supporters she is forming a new party to run in January parliamentary elections on a platform promising an aggressive push for peace with the Palestinians.
Livni, who served as Israel’s foreign minister and chief peace negotiator from 2006 to 2009, bitterly attacked the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as she announced the formation of her new party, called the Movement.
“I came to fight for peace … and I won’t allow anyone to turn peace into a bad word,” she said.
I wish cooler heads would prevail, because if they did Tzipi Livni is the logical choice. If she’s running for Prime Minister, it’s going to be a tough battle to defeat Netanyahu since he’s ginning up fear of a nuclear bomb from Iran and fear of Palestinians so that he can win.
These were my thoughts, too. Wonder if the Israelis are tired enough of the war and the bluster to change?
That’s great news. She is a clean & non-corrupt politician, the exact opposite of nut n yahoo. Hopefully, the israelis are as smart as they claim to be.
I wish smart and good Israelis prevail and elect Tzipi…
Netanyahu is not just bad for Israel long and short term, he is bad for the world…
Good morning TOD. So is the House working today? I wish I only worked 109 days a year.
And made $ 174,000 for doing nothing. Plus perks and bennies….
SQUEEE!!!!!
That means inventories are being restocked, people are spending. Fiscal cliff be damned.
This is good. Hope is alive!
Also, the President is going to do the very best he can with a spoiled rotten Congress, some Democrats included.
He is not going to get everything we want, despite his mandate.
I say, let’s give him some room to negotiate, and not be drummed up by the Ideological Left wing media.
That is all!
An A+ for that comment, jovie.
And the left wing media includes krugman, who tells us all
What we want to hear! Some not based in reality.
Anyways…
Thought this was an interesting post-game analysis by Axe. Some interesting tidbits. like when he came back to the WH to help with Obama’s humorous speech at WHCD, suggested a joke that Tim Pawlenty’s middle name is Bin Laden —-which I thought was funny—-Barack Hussein—get it?
——but Obama gave an excuse not to use it—-said that subject was stale—-little did Axe know that Obama had given the go ahead to the bin Laden raid that day.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/27/david-axelrod-surprised-by-romney-campaign-s-missed-opportunities.html
Just to recap and pander to our blog goddess….
http://www.thepragmaticpundit.com/2012/09/how-to-stay-fired-up-and-ready-to-go.html
I’m sick of lying Republicans, worthless Economists and the Tea Party pawns. But to me, none of them are as egregious as the Democrats and Independents who initially supported President Obama and have now joined the chorus of those who constantly criticize and declare their disappointment.
On any given day, one can read an assortment of critiques of President Obama about everything from Afghanistan to Zawahiri. The Internet is overrun with Monday morning Presidents. I for one have had enough. I’d almost reached the point where I dreaded reading the so-called news accounts, which have little to do with actual events, but are more often than not opinions parading as facts. And the comments, forget about it…I just don’t have time for the crazy.
Then I found this site called the Obama diary. What a treat! It’s a wonderfully uplifting experience! The writings, the comments, the passion, wit and wisdom are all Pro-Obama. Thank you Geezus! I don’t know why I was deprived of such wonder, then again, I’m always a day late and a dollar short. Don’t get me wrong, there are many excellent sites, but more often than not, they carry a variety of themes; that includes my own. But the Obama diary is pure positive Obama goodness.
I’m addicted; so hooked, I can’t go a few hours without visiting. It is my mood-altering drug: that boost I get in the morning not unlike the jolt I get from my first cup of coffee. I won’t be posting during the Convention, but I wanted to share this with you. So when the Obama bashing gets to be too much, I suggest you visit too.
the Obama diary will keep you Fired Up and Ready to Go!
Thank you, Pragmatic Pundit
Glad you’re here!
I remember this, Df, a definite ‘oldie but goodie’. I hope he still drops in and still feels the same way about us.
Yup! I posted it here awhile back…I just like to see others sing Chips praises:) AND I want her to wake up with a new thread before I have to get ready for work!! Time’s a wastin’!! Tick.Tick.Tick.
Thanks, vc!!
Been here since 5am……with my foot in the door…..scouring the intertubes……I need my Rise and Shine!
Well, that’s very, very, very, very lovely! Thank you Pragmatic Pundit – and DesertFlower! (Cheeks sizzling).
Coyotes visit Wrigley Field—-disappointed there was no game
They’re all over the place in Illinois now—–often spot one strolling thru my back yard—–looks somewhat like a scraggly German Shepherd—–and we often hear them howling at the moon with their friends and family at night—–or whatever it is coyotes do at midnight.
Ct. daughter says they have bears strolling everywhere around her area now—–in her office parking lot and can’t use a fave rec. area currently because a mom and 2 babes have set up housekeeping there.
The smell of human food is too tempting for the wildlife.
Some wisdom from Roger Simon——and the idiocy of Repub voter suppression efforts
What an ass. But we knew that.
Boehner claims he has “leverage” because of debt ceiling: John Boehner recently said Obamacare must be part of the debt talks. Now Politico reports on a remarkable exchange between Obama and Boehner, in which the Speaker told Obama that the coming debt ceiling fight constitutes “my leverage.” Boehner responded to Obama’s demand that he agree to raise it by saying: “There is a price for everything.”
Of course, in this case, the thing that has a “price” includes averting something that would be dangerous for the whole country — default. This is the clearest sign yet that we’re headed for another debt ceiling showdown, and you can bet that this time, Congressional Democrats will insist that no concessions be made to House Republicans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line
Moooooooorning everyone!!!!!
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/11/27/rise-and-shine-358/