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May

This and That

Categories: All Photos, All Videos, Articles and Michelle Obama
Tags: austin, Barack, Benghazi, death, florida, joyner, Michelle, Obama, penalty, photos, President, rick, Scott, texas, tom

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Yet Another Benghazi Nothingburger Today bit.ly/13AzkH8

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 8, 2013

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ThinkProgress: The “whistleblowers” at today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on what really happened in Benghazi, Libya last September were supposed to break the dam that would lead to President Obama’s eventual downfall, in the eyes of conservatives. Instead, these witness actually served to debunk several theories that the right-wing has pushed on Benghazi, leaving the hearing a fizzle for the GOP…..

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Today’s Benghazi hearing totally uncovered the heretofore unknown fact that Republicans watch a lot of Fox News.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 8, 2013

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The #Benghazi hashtag now resembles the sad march of guys leaving a bar at closing time, realizing that they aren’t getting laid : ( #p2

— Cheerio Politico (@LawSexAndMagic) May 8, 2013

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Photo by Pete Souza

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If you are Dem and gonna run away from Pres O when campaigning, expect me to run away from you when election day comes.

— Michael Hargrove (@MichaelHargrov1) May 9, 2013

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Charles Pierce: There has been quite a bit of hemming and hawing about the death penalty recently. Six states in six years — Maryland most recently, thanks to Esquire’s favorite BFF, Martin O’Malley — have abolished it. Ah, but that’s not to reckon with the great state of Florida, which this week will decide to grease the wheels of state-sanctioned killing, thanks to Governor Rick Scott, who really doesn’t have fk-all to lose at this point.

Governor Bat Boy is poised to sign the Timely Justice Act — Somebody grab Orwell before he throws himself off a cloud — which will restrict the right of Death Row inmates to appeal their sentences. The bill was passed through the legislature with the usual cool reason that we’ve come to expect from Republican state legislatures since the voters of the several states decided to make monkeyhouses out of them in 2010…..

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— Patrick Rodenbush (@PNRod) May 8, 2013

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First lady Michelle Obama speaks about the nation’s libraries and museums before handing out the 2013 National Medals for Museum and Library Service to recipients in the East Room of the White House, May 8

Text of the First Lady’s remarks here

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A short-ish This and That, more in the morning.

Mar

This and That

By Chipsticks 220 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: action, Barack, for, history, Michelle, month, Obama, ofa, organizing, perez, photos, President, tom, video, women's

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet guests following the Women’s History Month reception in the East Room of the White House, March 18 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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OFA

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The full speech:

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Feb

First Lady Michelle Obama on The Tom Joyner Morning Show

By Chipsticks 309 Comments

Categories: All Videos and Michelle Obama
Tags: 2013, audio, february, First, joyner, Lady, Michelle, morning, Obama, Show, the, tom, video

Back in a while with an update or two

Jan

Rise and Shine

By Chipsticks 186 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Articles
Tags: Barack, chuck, Clinton, combat, control, gun, hagel, harkin, Hillary, husted, interview, jon, new, Obama, President, republic, todd, tom, toon, women

Interview with the President at New Republic

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Sunday: The President has no public events scheduled. (7.0 ET: The President and Hillary Clinton’s 60 Minutes interview)

Monday: The President will welcome the NBA Champions Miami Heat to the White House to honor the team and their 2012 victory

Tuesday: The President will travel to Las Vegas where he will deliver remarks. He will return to Washington, DC in the evening

Wednesday and Thursday: The President will attend meetings at the White House

Friday: The President will award 12 eminent researchers the National Medal of Science and eleven extraordinary inventors the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at the White House, the highest honors bestowed by the United States Government upon scientists, engineers, and inventors

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‏@JonHusted – Read the ChirpStory

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NYT: A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee to be secretary of defense, saying he would make the United States “a weaker country.”

Another freshly minted and anonymously backed organization, Use Your Mandate, which presents itself as a liberal gay rights group but purchases its television time through a prominent Republican firm, is attacking Mr. Hagel as “anti-Gay,” “anti-woman” and “anti-Israel” in ads and mailers…..

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AP: Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as “Ban Assault Weapons Now,” joined a rally for gun control on Saturday, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

Leading the crowd were marchers with “We Are Sandy Hook” signs, paying tribute to victims of the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials marched alongside them. The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue.

Participants held signs reading “Gun Control Now,” “Stop NRA” and “What Would Jesus Pack?” among other messages. Other signs were simple and white, with the names of victims of gun violence.

About 100 residents from Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six teachers, traveled to Washington together….

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March 22, 2010 – Photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama’s statement on Sen. Tom Harkin’s announcement that he would not seek re-election:

“By the time Senator Harkin finishes his fifth term, he will have represented the people of Iowa in the United States Congress for an incredible 40 years. He has served in the U.S. Senate longer than any Democrat in Iowa’s history. During his tenure, he has fought passionately to improve quality of life for Americans with disabilities and their families, to reform our education system and ensure that every American has access to affordable health care. Senator Harkin will be missed, and Michelle and I join Iowans in thanking him for his long-standing service and wish him and his wife, Ruth, all the best in the future.”

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Moooooooorning!

Dec

This and That – and a Heads Up

By Chipsticks 244 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Articles
Tags: Barack, business, dick, interview, joyner, morris, nations, Obama, obamacare, President, roundtable, tom, toons, tribal, Twitter

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Coverage of the closing session has started at White House live, so just in case PBO starts early …..

White House live * CBS * CNN

Updated with video – see above!

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LA Times

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President Obama speaks at the Business Roundtable while Boeing Chief Executive Officer James McNerney listens, December 5

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More later.

Dec

Rise and Shine

By Chipsticks 86 Comments

Categories: All Photos, All Videos and Articles
Tags: Barack, Disabilities, election, Elizabeth, front, interview, joyner, Lawrence, my2k, o'donnell, Obama, pages, poll, President, republicans, snow, tom, Twitter, un, video, vote, warren

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President Obama’s interview with Tom Joyner here

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Links for the Business Rountable

White House Live (audio only) * CBS * CNN

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Greg Sargent: Why GOP will buckle on tax rates for rich: Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times has a very good overview of the situation: Republicans know that going over the cliff won’t be that damaging in the short term; they know Obama is prepared to go over it without a deal to raise tax rates on the rich; and they know they’ll have to yield sooner or later. It’s good to see more news outlets getting it right on the basic dynamic here.

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Paul Krugman: From Politico:

Dick Armey left the deep-pocketed tea party group he helped build over a clash with a top lieutenant …. [he] received an $8 million buyout….

Remember, the tea party is a grass-roots movement, a spontaneous uprising of ordinary Americans against the snooty, coffee-drinking elite.

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ThinkProgress: …. Sen-elect Elizabeth Warren, a dogged consumer advocate whose critique of Wall Street excess was a centerpiece of her campaign, will join the Senate Banking Committee. Wall Street spent boatloads of money to prevent Warren’s election, but now she will have oversight of the rules and regulations under which banks operate….

…. Several Senate candidates supported by Wall Street wound up losing. As a member of the Banking Committee, Warren will have the opportunity to stand against both the watering down of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and new misguided efforts to reduce limits on Wall Street.

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Liberal Librarian (The People’s View): …. it’s also part and parcel of the modern Republican Party: its narrow-mindedness; it’s utter lack of regard for anyone not of its circle — and often not even them; its disbelief in any kind of common humanity which binds together the world’s peoples. A convention which has been US domestic law for 22 years becomes suspect when it returns from the foreign recesses of the UN. A health care law which incorporated many once-mainstream Republican ideas becomes the greatest tyranny ever faced by the nation when translated into action by a foreign usurper.

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TPM

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And that’s just a taste of the international reaction to the Snow poll.

Yes, Snow won – in an avalanche.

But because it’s playing havoc with some people’s browsers – just like last year – there’ll only be the occasional sprinkle. “So what was the flippin’ point in having a snow poll,” I hear you ask. Eh, good question.