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Jane Coaston: THE WHITE HOUSE. WASHINGTON, D.C. A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
From the office of President Barack Obama
To the office of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT):
Hey, buddy. Hey, friend.
How’s it going? How are things? Things good? I hope things are good. I hope things are really, really good with you and your family and the nutritional supplement industry and EVERYTHING ELSE IN YOUR THIRD-FROM-THE-PRESIDENCY-BUT-AIN’T-NEVER-GOING-TO-SMELL-THE-DAMN-SEAT LIFE, ORRIN.
Hey, what was that you said last week?
Something about, say, a certain Supreme Court justice nomination?
I believe what you told Newsmax, which is a news source (maybe?), was: “The President told me several times he’s going to nominate a moderate … [Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man … [But] he probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election…”
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Proud to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. I ask Senators to meet their constitutional duty and give him a fair hearing.
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President Obama (@POTUS) March 16, 2025"I have fulfilled my constitutional duty.
Now it’s time for the Senate to do theirs."
—@POTUS #SCOTUSnominee snpy.tv/1pu4lgg
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 16, 2025****
WELL, GUESS WHAT, ORRIN. GUESS FUCKING WHAT. I’M NOMINATING YOUR PAL MERRICK GARLAND TO THE SUPREME MOTHERFUCKING COURT AND AIN’T SHIT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, FRIEND. I JUST INVITED YOU TO A STEAKHOUSE BUT IT’S A FRIDAY DURING LENT, EXCEPT THE STEAKHOUSE IS CALLED “A CENTRIST JURIST YOU ALREADY LIKE” AND LENT IS “YOUR FUCKING PARTY IS A BUNCH OF EELS IN AN UN-AIR-CONDITIONED SUBWAY CAR, SLAPPING EACH OTHER FOR ETERNITY.”
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I put your fucking party on a RAFT with this nomination, Orrin, and I pushed you off the riverbank into the distance. You want to play politics with ME? You think I’m going to just nominate the most liberal person I can find to the Supreme Court when your party is already being a WET BAG OF ANGRY CATS? No. No. I’m going to nominate the candidate who is going to make shit, like, seventh-grade dance level awkward for you, and I’m going to stand by and WATCH. IT’S BEEN A LONG EIGHT YEARS, ORRIN, AND I JUST WENT DOWN TO THE BASEMENT TO SEE IF I HAD ANY POLITICAL FUCKS LEFT TO GIVE, AND NO. NO, IT APPEARS I AM FRESH OUT.
More here
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Liberal Agitators are Wrong. President Obama's #SCOTUSnominee is Brilliant, Both Judicially and Politically. thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/3/16…
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Spandan @ TPV (@thepeoplesview) March 16, 2025WE CHOSE OBAMA TWICE, YOU NINCOMPOOP. twitter.com/OliviaMesser/s…
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Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) March 16, 2025****
"I'm proud to nominate Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court." on.fb.me/1PbStE4 #SCOTUSnominee https://t.co/tMwojOdJQD
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 16, 2025The President kept his word. Chief Judge Garland's credentials are unquestionable. Independent mind and mastery of the law. #SCOTUSnominee
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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 16, 2025****
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There's only one #BidenRule I followed while in the Senate: Every #SCOTUSnominee gets a hearing, committee vote, and floor vote. Period.
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Vice President Biden (@VP) March 16, 2025Judge Merrick Garland has served his country with distinction - as a prosecutor, DOJ official, & DC Circuit judge. #SCOTUSnominee
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Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 16, 2025****
"I’m going to nominate the candidate who is going to make shit, like, seventh-grade dance level awkward for you." on.mtv.com/1TOp8aA
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 16, 2025Republicans are backing down so quickly that they’re already bargaining about what month they will fully cave and confirm Obama’s nominee.
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) March 16, 2025****
No question in my mind that Sen. McConnell will cave, and President Obama will fill this vacancy this year. https://t.co/p2KBysDJTj
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) March 16, 2025.@POTUS' #SCOTUSnominee, Judge Merrick Garland, is a respected jurist who must be given a fair hearing & timely vote goo.gl/CEja2B
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Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) March 16, 2025
You’re on a roll this evening! :-D
Trying to be like you! 😀
:-D
Love this post!
:D
great post…loving it…loving it….
:)
Ooooooooutstanding, thank you sooooooooooo much Nerdy!
:D :D :D :D :D
OHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO……
this is a strange story……why would they try to ambush a police officer…and then record the whole thing…makes no sense
Hate makes you do stupid things
i think that there is more to this story…you have an officer killed deliberately…by another officer….and then there was the so-called ambush and the filming of it….something does not seem right here
Ooh missed first by a whisker
I live this post so brilliant just like our President. It’s going to be dull after he leaves office. It’s like watching a cat play with mice, PBO keeps them alive ling enough for them to destroy themselves.
Whoa
from the story…
The situation arises because Washington is not a part of any state and the Constitution provides for members of Congress to be elected from the states.
Yep.
i think this tweet was a way to disparage the nominee…
Of course emoprogs will try use it that.
You can be sure POTUS knows Judge Garland’s record backwards and forward. I think POTUS would point this as evidence that he’s not an “activist judge” but one who follows the law.
I suspect this would come up in confirmation hearing, if/when that happens.
… use it that way …
Well, what do you know…..
Good!
I’m sorry Texans, but this is just CRASS.
wow, they really can go lower. Sickening and disgraceful.
That’s pretty likely, isn’t it.
Great question, meta.
Could this idiot be more of a fraud?
I think the people voting for him like this about him, meta.
VP Biden is the freaking best…..remind you of anything :???:
“Go get ’em, man!” 😍
“CHICAGO — In his 30s and 40s, the Rev. C.T. Vivian rode with the Freedom Riders, organized sit-ins in Nashville and worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many years later, before the 2008 election, he traveled the country along with other civil rights leaders exclaiming to voters that a Barack Obama presidency was exactly the kind of prize that they had been fighting for all their lives. All of that came back to him during a meeting at the White House three weeks ago between President Obama and several of those leaders. Mr. Vivian told the president how proud he was of him, and how sad he was to see him go. And then he began to cry. “If there was a way I could keep him there I would keep him there for another term,” Mr. Vivian, 91, said later from his home in Atlanta. “It is difficult for people who are not African-American to understand what it has been to have someone in the White House that you know understands you.”….But a large segment of the country has also been busy gazing upon the presidency that is ending. In interviews, African-Americans around the country said they were counting down the last 10 months of Mr. Obama’s term with pride, with sadness and also with a looming despair.
…. At dinner tables, Bible studies and classrooms throughout black America, elders, their children and their children’s children have been asking whether the breakthrough they thought they would never see will turn out to be an anomaly that they never see repeated…“I come from an area where we never thought it was going to be possible,” said Russell Singleton, 64, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and now tends a shoe shine station in the president’s old barbershop. He recalled as a child seeing a racial slur stenciled onto a sidewalk in bright yellow paint, and as a teenager hurling bricks the night Dr. King was assassinated. He added, shaking his head, “I don’t think I’ll see another black president in my lifetime and I’ll say in the younger generation’s lifetime.” “They won’t allow us to have the reins again,” he continued. “It’s a big prize and they hold onto it dearly.” On the West Side of Chicago, Jakya Hobbs, 13, said matter-of-factly that Mr. Obama’s election was a “miracle,” and not in a good way. “Our system isn’t built for a black person to become president,” she said. Perhaps no one expressed the feeling more viscerally than the young black girl who was captured by her grandmother on video wailing hysterically when she learned that Mr. Obama was soon leaving the White House. The video went viral on Facebook, and after Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, showed it to him, he told the girl’s grandmother in a Facebook post to “dry her tears, because I’m not going anywhere.”…continued”
I believe the entire TOD community feels this way! ….some editor picks of comments from the article:
❤️ My President!
XOXOXOXO
Ah LP, love these comments, a brilliant catch by you!
Thanks, Chips! I was contemplating screenshots of more but figured our TOD family could add their own if so inclined :)
You inspired me LP, just tweeted a bunch of them - thank you, oh clothes-less one!
Give me some credit…I went 1/2 (at least shaved before I left the house) :D :D
Such amazing and deeply heartfelt feelings, one and all. Thank you, LP…nice to see these words from strangers that feel what we feel. There will never be another like him in my lifetime, so I cherish every moment of this time.
Here, Here
Thanks LP and thanks Chips.
I’m gonna stop now because my eyes are watering
wow beautiful comments, thanks for sharing LP.
These are all so beautifully stated. Thanks, LP.
LOL!
Google count has it at 673 now, but this mad me laugh!
Aw! Sweet!
OMG, these people have really gone off the deep end!!!
hahahahahaha…they sure have,,,they do not know which way is UP!!!
CUCKOO!!!
CoocooKooChu!
Way off.
It scares me that they walk among us. These people are certifiable.
Me too, df! Unbelievable he said that to someone’s child. What a creep!
Organize!!
i got an email about this…
Love you, FLO
Love this First Lady
Oldie but Goodie…
Malia is funny..she want to know why Chuckie Todd is writing a book
Another Oldie but Goodie
:) If only!
❤️❤️❤️
I just love his cool and his boundaries. He doesn’t stand still for anything. And the girls are so lovely in every way. Amazing fam.
Oh, that’s great. I was hoping the girls would have a chance to go since we’re coming up on Easter week and Spring break.
I’m looking forward to the announcement that they’ll ALL be going to the Olympics in Rio too! 😆
NFLTG Obama is the BEST Obama.
If you DO see yours on the list…contact them and say thanks for doing the job you swore an oath to do….
Not satire! LOL :)
May he RIP. :(
It is a deep thing that Bernie has been n the Senate for 20+ years…and he has NO support for his candidacy…..none….
Then he decides that he want to campaign against the very congress that he has been a part of for 20+ years.
PF, You mean “20+ years” in Congress (Senate and House of Representatives)?
yes
I thought Ken Starr was busy rotting in hell. Oops. Musta been somebody else.
All the KKKrazies will be here this weekend. DT and Cruz…and Rick Perry! Remember him?:) Keep the kids inside!
Are your shoes smarter than a RWNJ?
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/nikes-back-future-self-lacing-shoe-hyperadapt-1-0-finally/
Not the least bit surprised
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/heres-tech-report-card-candidates-guess-got-f/
you thought that new car smell is oh so heavenly, didja?
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160315-is-new-car-smell-bad-for-your-health
Referenced tweet
Nerdy’s new post
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/16/tweets-of-the-day-49/
So this happened. They’re already gaming the system.