President Obama and staff watch the U.S. soccer team vs Belgium in World Cup action in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, July 1 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Barack Obama speaks to the media during a meeting with his cabinet members in the Cabinet Room of the White House. From left are, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
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Attorney General Eric Holder
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
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With the Key Bridge, linking Washington and Northern Virginia in the background, President Barack Obama speaks about the economy and transportation, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington. The President said 700,000 jobs could be at risk next year if Congress doesn’t quickly agree on how to pay for highway and transit programs.
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"If this Congress does not act by the end of the summer, the Highway Trust Fund will run out. " —President Obama #RebuildAmerica
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"Middle-class families can’t wait for Congress to do these things, and I won’t." —Obama: wh.gov/year-of-action #RebuildAmerica
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"Typically what gets reported on is just the politics...people don’t care about that. People just want to see some results." —Obama
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Obama: "If the American people put pressure on this town to actually get something done…we can grow our economy." #OpportunityForAll
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Helloooooooooo Hope!
Helloooo Chips. I am just trying to get over my 3rd sports loss for the week… Serena, Nadal and now the USA Futbol :)
This is certainly a nice consolation prize.
Thank you Miss Chips for all you do. You are priceless.
Hope44 - how nice for you to be first today. NW - great post on important topics!
Thanks Judith. This is a rare thing for me to be first.
Congrats on 1st, HOPE!!
Excellent roundup NW!! Thank you
Thanks, Bob.
USMNT, vatos para todo el pais!
Hello, hello, hello!
Tim Howard is a god among mortals. So proud of this team! And of, course the other god among mortals, PBO!
Hey NerdyW, I’ve discovered something about you! ;) You take your soccer so seriously that you don’t TALK while serious games are going down! I don’t remember seeing/hearing you DURING any of the games when I’ve hung out in the village. I can imagine you shouting ‘Shut up’ when some ringside soccer newbie says the wrong thing during a game. :grin: Hope you enjoyed the game!
Hahahahahahahaha.
I did enjoy the game, VC.
;) ;)
Y’all! :)
:bear:
Great Round up of the President’s Day!
HOPE44 has a Au :star: >-I
Thanks Nena :)
I saw on the previous thread where the House of Rep. has 144 Republican votes for immigration reform. I’m telling y’all this whole “we will not take a vote on immigration reform from Boehner is a ruse”. They are counting on having a lock with the mid-terms (I pray we prove them wrong) so they are appeasing their right flank of the party by not voting on immigration before the 2014 election. Once the mid-term is over they are going to vote on either comprehensive IR or a piecemeal reform with the intent of winning back some of the Latino vote and our awful media will be all praising them to high heaven for moving on this reform. You just wait and see. They think we’re stupid.
I think #sosueme is gaining steam again
Yay!
#OWNthe114th
Yes WE MUST
You know what, Bob, I am not at all impressed with all those “144 Republicans in favor of immigration.” Nancy Pelosi offered them a chance to sign a discharge petition and bring the Bill up for a vote, but none of them stepped forward to sign that petition. These are grown men and women. They don’t have to be bound by the dictates of the tea baggers and the cowardly Republican leadership. They need to show some backbone and stand up for what is good for our country. I don’t know the rules of the House. But if it is possible for Nancy Pelosi to bring another discharge petition, given the fact the one before failed to get the majority, she should do so. That way she would force these 144 Republicans to go on the record to show that they genuinely support immigration reform.
Just in case you were not really sure what the SCOTUS decision was all about…read what a few of their friends had to say…
That’s one creepy photo ….
Wow!!!!!!!!!!
Great round-up of PBO’s day Nerdy. This man epitomizes Grace under pressure.
I just love our President and his incredible family.
Good to see TOD has remembered it roots - thought I had joined the World Sport Diary when I came in this morning (my world). It is seriously freezing - our coldest day to date this year - and I thought it must have frozen my brain. :)
Seems the GOP is staying with their losing option of being against whatever PBO is for - can’t see that being useful in November. The dems will have everything and more to win back the house.
Nerdy, thanks a trabillion for the wonderful round-up of the day, I missed half of what happened so this is the perfect way to catch up. Thank you Legend!!!
You’re welcome, Chips.
Beautiful tweet, Donna! You do such amazing work in supporting President Obama.
This is… odd. I just got followed by “Good Day LA”, the local Fox station’s morning show.
Okay, okay… I was trying to be cool, but you brought up yours…
Wait let me go make sure I havent’t scared him off yet… 😊
The :bear: is everywhere and working his hearts out. Fantastic Thread NW.
Always gotta some smart-ass killjoy out there 😏
“Had the U.S. shot with 30 secs left had gone in he’d be a God!”
:roll: It was (wrongly) ruled offside, so if it had gone in it wouldn’t have counted.
Arrgh!
Just want him to know, we know.
I <3 you Bob! You're awesome!
Feeling is entirely mutual, Dudette!!
Thank you Friend!
I am loving this new style President.
Yes we WILL :)
Okay. I have to let out this emergency squee, cuz I’m about to BURST!
I can’t hold it…
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 😍😍😍
Ladies! Hold on to something……
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Taye Diggs is following me on Twitter!!!!
OMG! Ahhhhhhh! Squeeeeeeeee!!!!
Just kill me now! I’m Done! 😝😎
Chips, I need a glass of water, some smelling salts. and a fainting couch STAT!
Darn, girl!
All I got today was American Bridge following me. Oooof.
Girl, I can’t even touch the kinda Twitter mojo you have. I’m chasing your shadow! 😋
lulzWOT?!!
Oh wow! I practically never look at how many followers I have. What the heck did I say to attract these people? Maybe I should say it again. 😎
:lol:
Congratuuuuuulations Dudette!!!!
Bless you My Queen! It’s been a helluva day! 😉
It certainly has Dudette!!
Wow, Dudette. A big glass of water is on the way. :) :)
Are you watching him in “Murder in the first”?
Ha! Well I guess I have to now! 😉
I wonder if he saw my tweet about him.
Thankyew COS!
Dudette - you rule!
Thanks! I’m feeling pretty special today, Judith! 👑
OMG.
Couldn’t think of a better person for this to happen to.
He must like your musical flair.
You go, girl.
Hi Arapaho! That’d be the only thing that could remotely be the reason. Fine by me. I’m all tingly just knowing I could DM him any second and he JUST MIGHT respond! 😍
To paraphrase Kenny Rogers, “You picked a fine time to leave me, Yardarm.”
Dudette is hogging the entire lot.
:lol:
So sorry, did I step on your shoe? I’m so busy gloatin’ and floatin’! I really MUST be more careful, dahling!
😎 😎😎
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-michelle-obama-school-counselors-20140701,784196,story
Nothing there. Page not found.
Here’s a working link Tnmtngirl:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-michelle-obama-school-counselors-20140701,0,784196.story
Text of the First Lady’s remarks here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/01/remarks-first-lady-american-school-counselor-association-annual-conferen
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-michelle-obama-school-counselors-20140701,0,784196.story Try this I found the article here.
Here you go Marilyn:
Thank you. Loved her speech. School counselors are so important.
Great to read how appreciative the audience was too Marilyn.
Co-sign! Good counselors make all the difference.
Well if you ever miss the satsfaction of blocking RW trolls, just tweet something by or about POTUS or FLOTUS and some nasty troll will come along any minute.
My Blocking finger’s been getting a good wotk out lately. I think it’s developing “muscle memory.”
Thank you guys, somewhere I made some mistake. Thanks again.
Dudette, t”F” the racists bastards. :)
That’s “F” the racists bastards.
Love Kamala Harris’ response to the Hobby Lobby ruling:
Why isn’t Kamala Harris mentioned as a possible presidential candidate? Is it far-fetched for her to go from where she is to that position? She strikes me as more ‘relaxed’ or ‘confident’ here than you-know-who. Inquiring mind wants to know.
I believe she’ll make a run someday. She and POTUS are very good friends. She was among the first to go to Iowa to help him. So she knows how to do it. She’s fabulous and I would love to see her jump in whenever she’s ready.
Well I hope her ‘someday’ isn’t too far away. I’m a bit tired of the old expected faces.
TOTALLY agree.
I love my Attorney General! By the way, I understand that the Supreme Court has clarified that the Hobby Lobby decisions applies to all forms of contraceptions.
LOLz
LOL!
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:D :D
Nice try. You almost got me! :D
ROTFL…:) :)
RWNJs are fixing for an ugly showdown at the border. I despise their special brand of hateful lunacy.
Unfortunately, Meta, you are so right.
The lead story on both @LATimes and the local CBS All-News radio affiliate @knx1070 is that mobs of RWNJ (aka “I’ve got mine, Jack”) forced a bus with 140 children from Central America to turn around in Murietta. The bus’ passengers were instead deboarded in San Ysidro, aka Tijuana North.
These people are stark raving lunatics and have no idea what they and their actions look like to the bus passengers (the future of this world, not them) and to anyone not living in the US.
I hope no one gets hurt. They seem to be itching for some kind of nasty confrontation.
Same here, m! Can’t stand ’em! Ugh!
Actual my heart is fill with proud. Of my USA soccer team.
Huge fire in Napa. Started out as about 20 acres a couple of hours ago and is now over 2500 acres and only 30% contained. California is sooooo dry.
Scary! I hope no one is hurt or worse.
Definitely very scary as we’re only probably just seeing the beginning of the fire season. There’s also been a lot of arson in the area.
Arson? Geez ya just can’t get away from crazy, destructive people.
I love my President!
Nerdy’s new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/01/a-tweet-or-two-59/