On This Day: A woman embraces President Barack Obama following the town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans, Oct. 15, 2009, in New Orleans, La (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Today
11:0 EDT: President Obama Delivers a Statement on Afghanistan
4:35 EDT: The President delivers remarks at a reception for the 25th Anniversary of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, East Room
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On This Day
President Obama applauds a student who had just sung a song to him at Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama has a discussion with students during a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Students gather to see President Obama during his visit to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Students hold out their hands to greet President Obama during his visit to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
President Obama holds House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s granddaughter, following the Democratic National Committee dinner at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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The First Lady casts her absentee ballot, October 15, 2025
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President Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, conducts a conference call with Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss the federal government shutdown and debt ceiling, in the Oval Office, Oct. 15, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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The President reaches out to feel the raindrops during a rainstorm, Oct. 15, 2014 (Photo by Pete Souza)
Two years ago, Gov. Chris Christie was talked about as a Republican presidential candidate who might be able to deliver blue New Jersey to the GOP in 2016.
Now, according to a poll released Thursday morning, Christie is far from the preferred 2016 candidate even among his home state Republicans, the majority of whom think he should drop out of the presidential race.
The Rutgers-Eagleton poll of 781 New Jersey voters found that 67 percent believe Christie should drop out of the race. That includes 54 percent of Republicans, 79 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents. Forty-one percent of New Jersey Republicans think Christie should keep running, as do 16 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independents.
I can’t wait to see this.
I went and checked on Amazon - you can rent it for $6.99.
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In Theaters as Well as on Amazon and iTunes TODAY: Nelson George’s Misty Copeland Doc - A Ballerina’s Tale’
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
October 14, 2025 at 7:38PM
Sundance Selects opens Nelson George’s documentary, “A Ballerina’s Tale” - a film about one of the most notable and trailblazing figures in the ballet world, Misty Copeland - today, October 14.
Directed and written by George, produced by Leslie Norville, and executive produced by Dorria L. Ball, Ingrid Graham and Copeland, the film provides a behind-the-curtain look at the daily life of Copeland, the first African American female soloist at New York’s American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in two decades. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT’s 75-year history.
sure, they can. talk about voter registration. voter participation. And, taking back the Congress. See. I just talked about it.
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Why the Democratic candidates can’t confront the real elephant in the room
By Paul Waldman October 14 at 12:30 PM
In last night’s Democratic debate, there was only one question, to Bernie Sanders, on what may be the most difficult challenge that will confront the next president if he or she is a Democrat: What are you going to do about Congress?
We’ll get to the answer Sanders gave in a moment, but first, some context. When Barack Obama was elected, congressional Republicans made what was in some ways a strategically shrewd decision, that they were going to oppose him on basically everything. Because he started with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, he had an extraordinary record of legislative achievement in his first two years, that opposition notwithstanding. But in 2010 Republicans won the House, and four years after that they took the Senate. For all intents and purposes, legislating was over.
In those two wave elections of 2010 and 2014, a generation of extremely conservative Republicans who viewed all compromise as betrayal were elected, moving the party to the right ideologically and making it far more obstructionist. Now let’s say a Democrat wins in 2016. What happens then?
If this is the case, then the Dems (and DWS for all KINDS of reasons!) should use this opportunity to school America on the specifics of what has been happening in America for the last 7 years because the behavior of the Republican candidates is the same behavior they have engaged in every single day of their holding office. Chaos rules the day and lies and obstruction. A singular focus on smokescreens and diversion while sowing seeds of hate and division. They have no need to intense policy discussions, they just want to blow the entire place up! Hell, they don’t even believe that GOOD GOVT is even possible, so why even try! They scream to every TV camera they can find about “makers” and “takers” and “Cut! Cut! Cut!” It’s so THEY can TAKE, TAKE,TAKE! They are the biggest takers of all, but the smokescreen they put up and the MSM they have in on their rigged game goes along with all of it….follow the $$$.
Yes, Americans need to be sat down, slapped across the face and made to take their medicine…so many live in a self made feedback loop bubble…time to pop that sucker and get real.
They want substance? Good! Give them substance and a big dose of reality about what’s really been going on in their name, on their dime, because Republicans are having a tantrum, a power struggle and a food fight all at the same time. America, they just aren’t into any of us, really. Those Republicans left the barn and joined the Big Tent Dems a long time ago….
This was in response to what you posted about American people wanting to see discussion on policy…and substance. This would be the PERFECT teaching moment!!
This is a good read. It reinforces my position that Bernie Sanders has no right to call anyone “naive”. If he think Americans are going to rise up in sufficient numbers to “force” red state GOP congresscritters to acquiesce, he’s living in a dream world.
Or he’s living in 1968. He’d better make sure he’s on the right meds.
That period began because every effing American was affected by the draft. EVERYONE. Also, we were better educated, already politically engaged because our parents gave a damn. It’s a different world, a different generation, and a MUCH more lethal GOP.
Couldn’t happen to a better Zombie Eyed, Granny Killer.
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Speaker or not, Paul Ryan’s career might never be the same
Meredith Shiner
Political correspondent
October 14, 2015
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan does not want to be speaker of the House, for reasons that are as numerous as they are well-documented. But as he considers whether to accede to the overwhelming calls of his colleagues to seek the post, his most significant consideration could be the unintended long-term political consequences of ignoring establishment Republicans’ entreaties at a time they believe they need him most.
The reasons not to reach for the speaker’s gavel are obvious: The job is arduous, thankless, and, at this juncture, practically impossible, with Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigning and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., dropping out of the race to succeed him. The hard-right faction of the party, a group of 40 to 50 members, will never believe any person connected to the GOP establishment — a category that includes Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee — will be conservative enough.
Ryan, who presumably wants to run for president someday, would almost certainly be hurting his chances, perhaps irreversibly, by becoming speaker at such a difficult time. On the personal front, he has said he doesn’t want a job that would require him to spend most of his time, including weekends, away from his young children.
But here’s the Catch-22 for the ambitious 45-year-old politician: If Ryan turns down the speakership because he has presidential ambitions, spurning his Republican allies at their most desperate time could potentially alienate him from them indefinitely. In other words, Ryan is at a crossroads, and both pathways seem to lead away from the White House. Take the gavel, compile a record as speaker that makes you unelectable as president. Or refuse the gavel and be caught in a no-man’s land where you’ve ceded much of your establishment clout and put yourself at odds with a wide range of colleagues who literally and very publicly begged you to run.
Tut, tut, tut. Sooooo hard to feel any level of compassion for these twisted, self-seeking whackoffs, who seem to have only their own best interests in heart and mind. Goes around, comes around, suck it up, bud. Don’t take he eff’ing ‘job’ of speaker - stay out there in your sad life of self-justification and ‘poor me’ mentality. No one will ever think of you again anyway. And those 40-50 extremists need to be put in their place and given no voice until they have earned the right to speak, for the Common Good, not merely for the non-realists who may have elected them, but for the millions upon millions they are meant to represent. Lawlessness taking a new form, on the inside of a governing body.
Thank you, m’dears, and all that from a brain still in the throes of coming into awake-ness. Maybe I should endeavor to stay in that place of twilight Open Mind!! No typos, even! :)<3 JF, when are you in Seattle, and will there be time for a cuppa?? ;)
FU Lyin’ Ryan! 👻 The angry Mom came out in me when he lied about his marathon time. Moms never forget. 🎃 😈 May you be haunted by your lies for eternity. . .
Bush’s $4.8 Million Ad Blitz In N.H. Has Had No Effect On His Polling.
… that in the weeks since the ad buy — which has pro-Bush ads taking up 60 percent of the political airspace in the state — the former governor’s average poll numbers have actually dipped down, from 9 percent to 8.7 percent.
Donors frustrated by the campaign’s current trajectory want to see positive movement as a result of Bush’s first month of TV ads; but they recognize that it may not play out that way, especially since many of the candidates polling ahead of him — Donald Trump, Ben Carson and fourth-place Carly Fiorina — aren’t advertising at all.
“In the past, advertising was a show of strength. Now, if you’re advertising it’s because you’re in a weak position,” said Elizabeth Wilner, senior vice president of Kantar Media Ad Intelligence overseeing its Campaign Media Analysis Group.
Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.
By
Seth Freed Wessler
On a spring morning a few years ago in St. Louis, Missouri, Etta Daniels, a spry 72-year-old with oval wire-frame glasses, was in the northeast corner of Greenwood Cemetery, where she often came on Saturdays, searching for gravestones “before they disappear.” She’d already spent more than a decade helping families locate and honor their loved ones buried in Greenwood. That day, she was joined by 69-year-old Barbara Harris, who is “not usually one to go to the woods.” Wearing gardening gloves and long sleeves to keep off the poison ivy and bugs, Harris was hoping that, with Daniels’s help, she could find her great-grandmother’s grave.
“We had to crawl over great big trees that had fallen,” Harris says of the trek through one of St. Louis’s oldest African-American cemeteries, founded less than a decade after the Civil War. “I wanted to find her grave again, but the stones are all covered and the paths, you can’t find them.”
In the thick forest that Greenwood has become, the once-grassy plot where Harris’s great-grandmother, Henrietta Flowers Ware, was buried in 1966 had disappeared. Back then, Greenwood’s 32 acres were well kept, the lawns mowed close by the cemetery’s owners and by the families and funeral homes that patronized it. But by the late 1980s, Harris found whole sections uncut, the ravines piled with trash and junked cars. On her final trip to Greenwood, Harris’s car got stuck on one of the roads. “I didn’t feel it was safe to visit anymore,” she says.
Alabama Guv Dismisses Outcry Over DMV Closures: ‘It’s Race Politics At Its Worst’
ByTIERNEY SNEED
PublishedOCTOBER 15, 2015, 11:51 AM EDT
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) called the outcry over the state’s mass closure of DMV offices after passing a photo voter ID law “race politics at its worst,” in remarks to state Republican leaders in a closed-door meeting last week.
A recording of the Oct. 7 meeting was obtained by AL.com. In it, Bentley discussed with 17 members of the state GOP Steering Committee the Alabama budget woes that had prompted the closures and dismissed the concerns it would make harder for residents — especially African-Americans in the rural regions particularly hard hit by the closures — to vote.
The southern strategy is alive and well in 2015. How sad it is that those who are influenced by it are being used and victimized by the wealthy groups and candidates who employ it. Trump and his ilk hold these people in contempt and pass policies and laws that negatively affect them.
Only partway through this one - the reaction to climate change - “blame Obama”.
It becomes easier to understand why it is so hard to get a President who will “do the hard stuff” and why the GOP is so keen to lie about reality. I do fear for our world without PBO. There are so few (if any) willing to use their political capital to face reality.
I got up to Tuesday and had to get away from article for awhile. I knew people said that but I’d never heard much of it myself. It’s hard to read. I want to know who the “Elected Official” is that said “the fifth floor of the hospital means electrodes.” IT DOES NOT, Another stigma for people with mental health issues. When I calm down I will write a “Letter to the Editor” and challenge the paper to find out who it is. No wonder we have very high suicide rates.
I doubt the author saw anyone carrying a gun around.
Thanks 99t.
Remember there are many more in your state that are like you - but you never read about them - they get on with their lives and read the news on TOD :)
My life may be an isolated example but does anyone watch TV advertising? Everything I watch is DVRed except one game of NFL football a week & we even DVR that most of the time. I never get my news from TV anymore. I guess I do have to listen to news shorts on TV Internet sites if I watch their News shorts. Again I’m isolated in WY. Not even Republicans advertise here. We would see it on a Denver station or our newspapers I guess but it’s not starting this year. We have stupid writers in our “Letter to the Editor” section all the time but they help no one but the ego of the writer.
What burden is that? Being elected mayor, representative, Senate by a majority white constituency? In Congress for years and only accomplish passing legislation to rename post offices? Burden of walking in a nice neighborhood and never being harrassed by police or passed up by a taxi because of his race or color of his skin. Funny no one gives a S#&t about the burdens on PBO shoulders. THOSE are REAL burdens.
I’ve seen it, Dudette and it is a lovely ad.
Sadly, I am beginning to doubt that the Vice President will enter the race. There’s still a chance, of course. Until we hear it from Joe there is Hope.
they are still trying to put our country at risk by revealing secrets….is all of this from the stolen cache of records that Snowden took..or is this info from new sources..
I could be wrong about this but it is at least possible that PBO made this announcement today to remove the troop levels as an issue from the 2016 race.
I don’t think the President made the decision for any kind of political gain (including to his own “legacy” - and I don’t think he makes any decisions on that, either), but you could be right about the fallout for 2016.
It makes Afghanistan very important in 2016, unfortunately. It makes a difference in the Democratic primaries, and could hurt Hillary immensely. Bernie, with absolutism, will say to pull the troops out and damn the consequences.
My husband is ready to vote for Bernie on this issue, if the IL primary were held today. I’m not happy with either one of these candidates, but this could be a game-changer.
Ratings-driver Donald Trump threatens to drop out of next GOP debate if the RNC doesn’t meet his demands
http://t.co/t5OiFf3d0a
— Katherine Krueger (@kath_krueger) October 15, 2025
Per MSNBC, both Trump and Carson have written a letter to CNBC demanding an opening statement and a closing statement as was granted Dems on CNN two days ago.
They don’t want the debates to go for more than 2 hrs including commercials.
Hello TOD.
Great posts since last night. Thank you Chips, NW, Bts, TOD Twitter Brigades, Commentators and Lurkers everywhere ;)
Lovely. Sunny. Breezy. Tomorrow, it get down to the 20s-30sF
Regarding the President’s announcement on Afghanistan, BriWi turns to renowned military adviser on Middle East affairs du jour, Rachel Maddow, author of book, and I go *click* …
There once was an anchor named Brian
Who got tangled up in his stories by lyin’
Today he needed a fill-in
So Rachel’s on, to chat about killin’
I need the kinda break a nap would be supplyin’.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) threats to withhold state funding did force a charter school operator to remove the Democratic speaker of the state House as its president, a top administrator for the operator testified Thursday.
The testimony that Jack Moore, the chairman of the Good Will-Hinckley board of directors, gave before the state House Government Oversight Committee gave credence to a federal civil lawsuit Rep. Mark Eves filed in July against LePage, according to the Bangor Daily News. Eves had accused LePage of blackmailing Good Will-Hinckley to get him fired, costing Eves his livelihood in retaliation for the House speaker opposing the governor’s policies.
Moore testified that communications between LePage and the board’s interim president about Eves raised a “red flag” in terms of fundraising, according to the newspaper.
“The red flag came from our interim president, Richard Abramson, who did get a call or a direct communication from the governor,” Moore said, as quoted by The Bangor Daily News. “We felt if we didn’t have the funding, that could very potentially trigger a series of events that could conceivably result in the school closing down. That is why as fiduciaries we as a board took the steps that we did.”
White House.gov
Good morning!
Congratulations on first, CarolMae and thanks for the great tweet!
Thank you. The author is the wife of Andy Borowitz. Only reason I know of her. She post on FB about grandparents.
Congrats Carol! 😀
This picture with both his grandparents is one of my favoriites!
Mine two. I could say that about them all though. I’ve been Pinning the First Family. 😉
Congrats CraloMae on your Au :star:
Thank you for this Tweet link.
Thanks Nena. ☺️
CarolMae - what a delightful website - the wonderful reward for growing old - grandbabies
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Danny ambling time, see ya later!
Good morning. Now, to go back and checkout all the delish pictures!! :) Thank you!!!!!!!!!
What an inspiration PBO is just by being present and engaged. These kids can see whats possible.
NJ rethugs to christie - gtfo the race
Two years ago, Gov. Chris Christie was talked about as a Republican presidential candidate who might be able to deliver blue New Jersey to the GOP in 2016.
Now, according to a poll released Thursday morning, Christie is far from the preferred 2016 candidate even among his home state Republicans, the majority of whom think he should drop out of the presidential race.
The Rutgers-Eagleton poll of 781 New Jersey voters found that 67 percent believe Christie should drop out of the race. That includes 54 percent of Republicans, 79 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents. Forty-one percent of New Jersey Republicans think Christie should keep running, as do 16 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independents.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/new-jersey/2015/10/8579710/poll-jersey-republicans-say-christie-should-end-presidential-bid
He should apply for a prison cell. IMHO
NJ is done with Christie.
5%?
Wow!
Good Morning, Everyone :)
Moved to post in this thread:
I can’t wait to see this.
I went and checked on Amazon - you can rent it for $6.99.
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In Theaters as Well as on Amazon and iTunes TODAY: Nelson George’s Misty Copeland Doc - A Ballerina’s Tale’
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
October 14, 2025 at 7:38PM
Sundance Selects opens Nelson George’s documentary, “A Ballerina’s Tale” - a film about one of the most notable and trailblazing figures in the ballet world, Misty Copeland - today, October 14.
Directed and written by George, produced by Leslie Norville, and executive produced by Dorria L. Ball, Ingrid Graham and Copeland, the film provides a behind-the-curtain look at the daily life of Copeland, the first African American female soloist at New York’s American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in two decades. On June 30, 2015, Copeland became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT’s 75-year history.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/in-theaters-as-well-as-on-amazon-and-itunes-today-nelson-georges-misty-copeland-doc-a-ballerinas-tale-20151014
Thanks for the info about the Misty Copeland Documentary, Rikyrah. She’s wonderful!
Yeah Denzel.
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Denzel Washington Will Make His TV Directing Debut with an Episode of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act
October 13, 2025 at 4:20PM
Denzel Washington has, interestingly, signed up to direct an episode of ABC’s Shonda Rhimes medical drama series, “Grey’s Anatomy” for Season 12.
Washington will direct this season’s 9th episode from a script penned by Stacy McKee, which will shoot later this month.
This will be Washington’s very first time directing for TV. He has of course directed two feature films - “Antwone Fisher” and “The Great Debaters.”
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/denzel-washington-will-make-his-tv-directing-debut-with-an-episode-of-greys-anatomy-20151013
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sure, they can. talk about voter registration. voter participation. And, taking back the Congress. See. I just talked about it.
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Why the Democratic candidates can’t confront the real elephant in the room
By Paul Waldman October 14 at 12:30 PM
In last night’s Democratic debate, there was only one question, to Bernie Sanders, on what may be the most difficult challenge that will confront the next president if he or she is a Democrat: What are you going to do about Congress?
We’ll get to the answer Sanders gave in a moment, but first, some context. When Barack Obama was elected, congressional Republicans made what was in some ways a strategically shrewd decision, that they were going to oppose him on basically everything. Because he started with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, he had an extraordinary record of legislative achievement in his first two years, that opposition notwithstanding. But in 2010 Republicans won the House, and four years after that they took the Senate. For all intents and purposes, legislating was over.
In those two wave elections of 2010 and 2014, a generation of extremely conservative Republicans who viewed all compromise as betrayal were elected, moving the party to the right ideologically and making it far more obstructionist. Now let’s say a Democrat wins in 2016. What happens then?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/14/why-the-democratic-candidates-cant-confront-the-real-elephant-in-the-room/
From the last thread…
If this is the case, then the Dems (and DWS for all KINDS of reasons!) should use this opportunity to school America on the specifics of what has been happening in America for the last 7 years because the behavior of the Republican candidates is the same behavior they have engaged in every single day of their holding office. Chaos rules the day and lies and obstruction. A singular focus on smokescreens and diversion while sowing seeds of hate and division. They have no need to intense policy discussions, they just want to blow the entire place up! Hell, they don’t even believe that GOOD GOVT is even possible, so why even try! They scream to every TV camera they can find about “makers” and “takers” and “Cut! Cut! Cut!” It’s so THEY can TAKE, TAKE,TAKE! They are the biggest takers of all, but the smokescreen they put up and the MSM they have in on their rigged game goes along with all of it….follow the $$$.
Yes, Americans need to be sat down, slapped across the face and made to take their medicine…so many live in a self made feedback loop bubble…time to pop that sucker and get real.
They want substance? Good! Give them substance and a big dose of reality about what’s really been going on in their name, on their dime, because Republicans are having a tantrum, a power struggle and a food fight all at the same time. America, they just aren’t into any of us, really. Those Republicans left the barn and joined the Big Tent Dems a long time ago….
This was in response to what you posted about American people wanting to see discussion on policy…and substance. This would be the PERFECT teaching moment!!
Unfortunately voter participation for Dems is also typically influenced by the level of excitment a candidate can generate.
This is a good read. It reinforces my position that Bernie Sanders has no right to call anyone “naive”. If he think Americans are going to rise up in sufficient numbers to “force” red state GOP congresscritters to acquiesce, he’s living in a dream world.
Or he’s living in 1968. He’d better make sure he’s on the right meds.
That period began because every effing American was affected by the draft. EVERYONE. Also, we were better educated, already politically engaged because our parents gave a damn. It’s a different world, a different generation, and a MUCH more lethal GOP.
Dennis Hastert is pleading guilty. We don’t yet know the exact charges or if he’ll go to the slammer (I doubt it).
GOP hypocrisy is deplorable.
a bj poster
I hope they sentence him to be Speaker of the House.
LOL.
Couldn’t happen to a better Zombie Eyed, Granny Killer.
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Speaker or not, Paul Ryan’s career might never be the same
Meredith Shiner
Political correspondent
October 14, 2015
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan does not want to be speaker of the House, for reasons that are as numerous as they are well-documented. But as he considers whether to accede to the overwhelming calls of his colleagues to seek the post, his most significant consideration could be the unintended long-term political consequences of ignoring establishment Republicans’ entreaties at a time they believe they need him most.
The reasons not to reach for the speaker’s gavel are obvious: The job is arduous, thankless, and, at this juncture, practically impossible, with Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigning and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., dropping out of the race to succeed him. The hard-right faction of the party, a group of 40 to 50 members, will never believe any person connected to the GOP establishment — a category that includes Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee — will be conservative enough.
Ryan, who presumably wants to run for president someday, would almost certainly be hurting his chances, perhaps irreversibly, by becoming speaker at such a difficult time. On the personal front, he has said he doesn’t want a job that would require him to spend most of his time, including weekends, away from his young children.
But here’s the Catch-22 for the ambitious 45-year-old politician: If Ryan turns down the speakership because he has presidential ambitions, spurning his Republican allies at their most desperate time could potentially alienate him from them indefinitely. In other words, Ryan is at a crossroads, and both pathways seem to lead away from the White House. Take the gavel, compile a record as speaker that makes you unelectable as president. Or refuse the gavel and be caught in a no-man’s land where you’ve ceded much of your establishment clout and put yourself at odds with a wide range of colleagues who literally and very publicly begged you to run.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/speaker-or-not-paul-ryans-career-might-never-be-191431275.html
Tut, tut, tut. Sooooo hard to feel any level of compassion for these twisted, self-seeking whackoffs, who seem to have only their own best interests in heart and mind. Goes around, comes around, suck it up, bud. Don’t take he eff’ing ‘job’ of speaker - stay out there in your sad life of self-justification and ‘poor me’ mentality. No one will ever think of you again anyway. And those 40-50 extremists need to be put in their place and given no voice until they have earned the right to speak, for the Common Good, not merely for the non-realists who may have elected them, but for the millions upon millions they are meant to represent. Lawlessness taking a new form, on the inside of a governing body.
Well said, darlin’ MP !!!
Totally with you, MP!
MP!!!
Thank you, m’dears, and all that from a brain still in the throes of coming into awake-ness. Maybe I should endeavor to stay in that place of twilight Open Mind!! No typos, even! :) <3 JF, when are you in Seattle, and will there be time for a cuppa?? ;)
FU Lyin’ Ryan! 👻 The angry Mom came out in me when he lied about his marathon time. Moms never forget. 🎃 😈 May you be haunted by your lies for eternity. . .
He wants a job that leaves his weekends free????? Give up thinking about the presidency, then, Ryan. It’s not a 9 to 5 job.
He might as well accept the truth now, rather than later, he is NOT Presidential material
Bush’s $4.8 Million Ad Blitz In N.H. Has Had No Effect On His Polling.
… that in the weeks since the ad buy — which has pro-Bush ads taking up 60 percent of the political airspace in the state — the former governor’s average poll numbers have actually dipped down, from 9 percent to 8.7 percent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bush-ad-buy-new-hampshire
donald dreck’ s #ma
money quote from the gopolitico piece.
Donors frustrated by the campaign’s current trajectory want to see positive movement as a result of Bush’s first month of TV ads; but they recognize that it may not play out that way, especially since many of the candidates polling ahead of him — Donald Trump, Ben Carson and fourth-place Carly Fiorina — aren’t advertising at all.
“In the past, advertising was a show of strength. Now, if you’re advertising it’s because you’re in a weak position,” said Elizabeth Wilner, senior vice president of Kantar Media Ad Intelligence overseeing its Campaign Media Analysis Group.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-2016-campaign-finances-214730#ixzz3oeSJC6w8
sweet sweet schadenfreude.
first, citizens united turned out to be a nightmare for the goppers in 2012 and now in 2016.
second, the cowardly dems now need not cower how the thugs’ ads are gonna kill them.
third but the best, the effing msm will be denied the usual election bonanza in the form of ad revenues.
Yep. #MoneyCantBuyYouLove
But it used to buy votes, but not any more apparently. This is a kinda nature enforcing campaign finance clean-up. :)
Let them 1%’ers keep pumping their ill-gotten $$ into the economy. Every one of them is destined to lose.
yet another innovative experiment by the kenyan. worth a read.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/obamas-effort-to-nudge-america-000276
This picture is so incredibly sexy. Just sayin. VPOTUS is lucky woman.
Always loved this story.
dumbya 3’s 3rd quarter haul is gonna suck and so their stratergy (sic) ? throw some chaff with the bad news.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/jeb-bush-distraction-strategy-ahead-of-fundraising-214826
Hope it sinks.
Morning, all.
Black Deaths Matter
Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding.
By
Seth Freed Wessler
On a spring morning a few years ago in St. Louis, Missouri, Etta Daniels, a spry 72-year-old with oval wire-frame glasses, was in the northeast corner of Greenwood Cemetery, where she often came on Saturdays, searching for gravestones “before they disappear.” She’d already spent more than a decade helping families locate and honor their loved ones buried in Greenwood. That day, she was joined by 69-year-old Barbara Harris, who is “not usually one to go to the woods.” Wearing gardening gloves and long sleeves to keep off the poison ivy and bugs, Harris was hoping that, with Daniels’s help, she could find her great-grandmother’s grave.
“We had to crawl over great big trees that had fallen,” Harris says of the trek through one of St. Louis’s oldest African-American cemeteries, founded less than a decade after the Civil War. “I wanted to find her grave again, but the stones are all covered and the paths, you can’t find them.”
In the thick forest that Greenwood has become, the once-grassy plot where Harris’s great-grandmother, Henrietta Flowers Ware, was buried in 1966 had disappeared. Back then, Greenwood’s 32 acres were well kept, the lawns mowed close by the cemetery’s owners and by the families and funeral homes that patronized it. But by the late 1980s, Harris found whole sections uncut, the ravines piled with trash and junked cars. On her final trip to Greenwood, Harris’s car got stuck on one of the roads. “I didn’t feel it was safe to visit anymore,” she says.
http://www.thenation.com/article/black-deaths-matter/
Good day TOD
Congrats CarolMae :)
TY Chips!!!
FYI …..
#LetsRollJoe
Yes.
Thanks Bob.
racist to the core.
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Alabama Guv Dismisses Outcry Over DMV Closures: ‘It’s Race Politics At Its Worst’
ByTIERNEY SNEED
PublishedOCTOBER 15, 2015, 11:51 AM EDT
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) called the outcry over the state’s mass closure of DMV offices after passing a photo voter ID law “race politics at its worst,” in remarks to state Republican leaders in a closed-door meeting last week.
A recording of the Oct. 7 meeting was obtained by AL.com. In it, Bentley discussed with 17 members of the state GOP Steering Committee the Alabama budget woes that had prompted the closures and dismissed the concerns it would make harder for residents — especially African-Americans in the rural regions particularly hard hit by the closures — to vote.
Per Al.com’s description of the recording:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bentley-alabama-dmv-race-politics-voting
The southern strategy is alive and well in 2015. How sad it is that those who are influenced by it are being used and victimized by the wealthy groups and candidates who employ it. Trump and his ilk hold these people in contempt and pass policies and laws that negatively affect them.
It’s all surreal, and will continue to be so, I’m afraid.
It is in WY too.
Now I know why I don’t have grandchildren.
Where did that damn W come from?
Only partway through this one - the reaction to climate change - “blame Obama”.
It becomes easier to understand why it is so hard to get a President who will “do the hard stuff” and why the GOP is so keen to lie about reality. I do fear for our world without PBO. There are so few (if any) willing to use their political capital to face reality.
I got up to Tuesday and had to get away from article for awhile. I knew people said that but I’d never heard much of it myself. It’s hard to read. I want to know who the “Elected Official” is that said “the fifth floor of the hospital means electrodes.” IT DOES NOT, Another stigma for people with mental health issues. When I calm down I will write a “Letter to the Editor” and challenge the paper to find out who it is. No wonder we have very high suicide rates.
I doubt the author saw anyone carrying a gun around.
Thanks 99t.
Remember there are many more in your state that are like you - but you never read about them - they get on with their lives and read the news on TOD :)
Yes, I know I can come here for TOD friendship. ☺️
Nailed it.
No-one to stop his excesses - generating violence is the GOP way
Unfortunately, YES!
My life may be an isolated example but does anyone watch TV advertising? Everything I watch is DVRed except one game of NFL football a week & we even DVR that most of the time. I never get my news from TV anymore. I guess I do have to listen to news shorts on TV Internet sites if I watch their News shorts. Again I’m isolated in WY. Not even Republicans advertise here. We would see it on a Denver station or our newspapers I guess but it’s not starting this year. We have stupid writers in our “Letter to the Editor” section all the time but they help no one but the ego of the writer.
Lovely neighborhood to be carrying “such a burden” in.
what burden is that?
Perhaps the “knowing-it-all” syndrome? Dunno.
What burden is that? Being elected mayor, representative, Senate by a majority white constituency? In Congress for years and only accomplish passing legislation to rename post offices? Burden of walking in a nice neighborhood and never being harrassed by police or passed up by a taxi because of his race or color of his skin. Funny no one gives a S#&t about the burdens on PBO shoulders. THOSE are REAL burdens.
THIS!!!
Say that JoJo!!!!
Pray tell, who brought on this so called Burden?
74 yrs old…….why is it a Burden? He can always step aside.
Yep.
What burden? He represents “Mayberry RFD” for chrissy sake!!!
Ha. I guess because he has all these thoughts and ideas that he wasn’t able to have listened to, outside of Vermont, before!
looks like a man who can’t keep up to me.
Hi and Happy Thursday Everyone!
Have you seen this?
I’ve seen it, Dudette and it is a lovely ad.
Sadly, I am beginning to doubt that the Vice President will enter the race. There’s still a chance, of course. Until we hear it from Joe there is Hope.
But if the next president doesn’t make the right decision, changing our function where combat ensues president Obama will be blamed.
He’s still being blamed for GWB’s madness! It never stops.
Anybody know anything about this?
http://www.thewrap.com/the-intercept-publishes-explosive-snowden-esque-whistleblower-story-on-secret-u-s-drone-program/
they are still trying to put our country at risk by revealing secrets….is all of this from the stolen cache of records that Snowden took..or is this info from new sources..
it’s a new source. Don’t really care about any of it either way.
That’s what I’m wondering???
Jane The Virgin- Season 1, is now streaming at Netflix!
I could be wrong about this but it is at least possible that PBO made this announcement today to remove the troop levels as an issue from the 2016 race.
I don’t think the President made the decision for any kind of political gain (including to his own “legacy” - and I don’t think he makes any decisions on that, either), but you could be right about the fallout for 2016.
It makes Afghanistan very important in 2016, unfortunately. It makes a difference in the Democratic primaries, and could hurt Hillary immensely. Bernie, with absolutism, will say to pull the troops out and damn the consequences.
My husband is ready to vote for Bernie on this issue, if the IL primary were held today. I’m not happy with either one of these candidates, but this could be a game-changer.
:D
Just finished watching Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story - on Netflix. I liked it. I’m going to show it to Peanut. (It’s mostly animated.)
Per MSNBC, both Trump and Carson have written a letter to CNBC demanding an opening statement and a closing statement as was granted Dems on CNN two days ago.
They don’t want the debates to go for more than 2 hrs including commercials.
Newt Gingrich did the same thing in 2012.
These people are Not serious.
Running for the Presidency for some…….it is a lucrative profitable gig.
😂😂😂
Still cracks me up!
Okay this dude had to be on something.
Hello TOD.
Great posts since last night. Thank you Chips, NW, Bts, TOD Twitter Brigades, Commentators and Lurkers everywhere ;)
Lovely. Sunny. Breezy. Tomorrow, it get down to the 20s-30sF
Regarding the President’s announcement on Afghanistan, BriWi turns to renowned military adviser on Middle East affairs du jour, Rachel Maddow, author of book, and I go *click* …
There once was an anchor named Brian
Who got tangled up in his stories by lyin’
Today he needed a fill-in
So Rachel’s on, to chat about killin’
I need the kinda break a nap would be supplyin’.
Bye, Brian.
Later, TODville.
Sorry about the duplicate. Meant to post this.
… and this
Poor Chrispy Kreme, no one seems to like him. can’t imagine why…
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/nobody_likes_chris_christie_hes_polling_at_5_percent_in_his_own_state/
I love smartypants:
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.ie/2015/10/to-regulate-or-break-up.html
Check out this graph showing bank mergers since 1990 and now there are really only 4 left that own all the rest.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/bank-merger-history
The banks are a serious problem. Breaking them up, even with enough political will, will take a generation.
Starting Soon…
President Obama Delivers Remarks at a Celebration for National Hispanic Heritage Month
New post
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/10/15/national-hispanic-heritage-month/
Yesterday on MSNBC Kate Snow did a segment about which sandwich each Dem Presidential candidate would eat.
Seriously…..
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/good-will-hinckley-confirms-lepage-threat
Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) threats to withhold state funding did force a charter school operator to remove the Democratic speaker of the state House as its president, a top administrator for the operator testified Thursday.
The testimony that Jack Moore, the chairman of the Good Will-Hinckley board of directors, gave before the state House Government Oversight Committee gave credence to a federal civil lawsuit Rep. Mark Eves filed in July against LePage, according to the Bangor Daily News. Eves had accused LePage of blackmailing Good Will-Hinckley to get him fired, costing Eves his livelihood in retaliation for the House speaker opposing the governor’s policies.
Moore testified that communications between LePage and the board’s interim president about Eves raised a “red flag” in terms of fundraising, according to the newspaper.
“The red flag came from our interim president, Richard Abramson, who did get a call or a direct communication from the governor,” Moore said, as quoted by The Bangor Daily News. “We felt if we didn’t have the funding, that could very potentially trigger a series of events that could conceivably result in the school closing down. That is why as fiduciaries we as a board took the steps that we did.”