Steve Benen: …. Keep in mind, the GOP’s filibuster last night was on the motion to proceed – they blocked the Senate’s ability to even discuss the jobs bill.
How many Republicans broke ranks and agreed that the proposal deserved an up-or-down vote? Zero. Not even one alleged “moderate” mustered the courage to give a wildly popular jobs bill a chance to get a vote.
Three conservative members of the Democratic caucus – Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman, and Mark Pryor – sided with Republicans.
The outcome didn’t come as a surprise, which is probably why it isn’t a bigger story in the media, but that shouldn’t make the developments any less scandalous….
Full post here
Contact Mark Pryor here
Joe Lieberman – Twitter – Email
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Statement from President Obama on the Senate vote on teacher and first responder jobs:
“For the second time in two weeks, every single Republican in the United States Senate has chosen to obstruct a bill that would create jobs and get our economy going again. That’s unacceptable. We must do what’s right for the country and pass the common-sense proposals in the American Jobs Act.
Every Senate Republican voted to block a bill that would help middle class families and keep hundreds of thousands of firefighters on the job, police officers on the streets, and teachers in the classroom when our kids need them most.
Those Americans deserve an explanation as to why they don’t deserve those jobs – and every American deserves an explanation as to why Republicans refuse to step up to the plate and do what’s necessary to create jobs and grow the economy right now.
We must rebuild the economy the American way and restore security for the middle class, based on the values of balance and fairness. Independent economists have said the American Jobs Act could create up to two million jobs next year. So the choice is clear.
Our fight isn’t over. We will keep working with Congress to bring up the American Jobs Act piece by piece, and give Republicans another chance to put country before party and help us put the American people back to work.”
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Link – thanks amk 😉
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9:30 AM President Obama signs the Korea, Panama, Colombia Free Trade Agreements and the renewal of Trade Adjustment Assistance for workers
10:30 The President attends a reception in the Rose Garden
2:30 The President honors recipients of the 2010 National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation
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Did you all get that email from Jim Messina the other day titled ‘2,644 people named Joyce’?
Well, very oddly, when I’ve logged in to barackobama.com recently my name has come up as Joyce Daniels – and I’m not Joyce Daniels! I’m not any kind of Joyce at all!
This happened me before, a couple of months back, when the site told me I was Barbara (can’t remember surname) – I emailed them about it, but never heard back.
Is any one else having these problems?? I’m mystified!
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miliawahoo76: When two esteemed and respected journalists members of the Professional Left decided to make a fashion statement foray amongst the protesters on Wall Street recently, they were surprised at the reception they received. They were served with a healthy helping of hot home truths, and – like all of their ilk – they turned and fled.
You don’t get two bigger mouths (or asses) than Dylan Ratigan and Cenk Uygur…..
…. notice former corporate lawyer and recent Republican convert Cenk Uygur – you know, the one who calls the President a moron. Cenk just “happens” to be there, decked out in his Young Turks teeshirt, obviously advertising his new show on Current. Cenk’s the one, who – when the gentleman’s protest was getting too loud – condescendingly pursed his lips and shushed him, in such a way as an adult might shush a child or a pet…..
Full post here
Thank you Dorothy (sorry it took me long to spot your email!)
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Rubio’s website
I had a link to the Washington Post’s story on Marco Rubio in last night’s wrap-up, but here’s more from Steve Benen:
… Even this morning, more than 12 hours after the Washington Post first broke the news that Rubio’s family history is not what he says it is, the senator’s office hasn’t bothered to correct his online biography. The second sentence, as I type, reads, “In 1971, Marco was born in Miami to Cuban-born parents who came to America following Fidel Castro’s takeover.”
Unless Rubio believes 1956 follows 1959, that’s plainly not true. To publish a falsehood is a problem. To leave the falsehood uncorrected after it’s been exposed is brazen….
Full post here
The Obama Diary 
Good morning! And…
By John T. Bennett – 10/21/11 08:15 AM ET
The NATO-led military intervention in Libya is headed for a close, according to the alliance’s top general.
About 24 hours after reports began to surface of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s capture and death, U.S. Adm. James Stavridis took to social media to announce the military portion of the mission likely would soon be over.
“An extraordinary 24 hours in Libya. As SACEUR, I will be recommending conclusion of this mission to the North Atlantic Council of NATO in a few hours,” Stavridis wrote on his Facebook page, using shorthand for his NATO title of supreme allied commander-Europe.
“A good day for NATO,” wrote Stavridis, also U.S. European Command chief, and one of the American military’s rising stars. “A great day for the people of Libya.”
President Obama on Thursday also suggested the NATO mission would end soon by saying the U.S. mission would soon be over.
Only a handful of Gadhafi-loyalist fighters remain on the offensive in Libya, according to regional media.
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Now, I gotta gotta go play all these videos chip gave us.
Be back in 15!
I guess President Obama is given more opportunities to go before the American people to talk about the jobs bill.
Another opportunity for the American people to know how far some folk are willing to take this country to the brink. It seems as though we are slowly becoming a third world country where Congress does not care about teachers, fire fighters and law enforcement.
As long as a majority of us keep pressing on our work is not in vain. It can turn around. Keep the faith.
The day after the Senate blocked passage of one component of President Obama’s jobs bill on Thursday, the president’s top economic adviser is airing his grievances against Republicans to the pages of the Wall Street Journal.
“We are disappointed that Republicans have so far blocked passage of the American Jobs Act,” Gene Sperling wrote in an op-ed on Friday. “Yet what is most surprising and disturbing is that Republicans have thus far made no serious attempt to put forward a strategy that would ensure that growth is strong enough over the next 12 to 18 months to start bringing the unemployment rate down.”
The director of the National Economic Council accused the GOP of having “repackaged” a number of long-term measures, then proceeding to stick a “’jobs plan’ label” on them. These provisions are “not designed to create jobs in the immediate term or to address the current crisis of long-term unemployment,” he said.
Sperling added, “This aversion to measures designed to move the needle on jobs and growth is particularly disappointing given that many Republicans supported them only a short time ago.”
He accused Republicans of turning good ideas into bad ideas “solely because President Obama supports them.”
“Our economy cannot afford Republicans to both say no to the American Jobs Act and to have no meaningful alternative. The moment is too serious. The stakes are too high,” he said.
I just seems so hopeless. the Repugs have their way and a willing Media mock our Pres. and VP>
I am discouraged today.
The only reason the GOP feels they can say or do anything, they are DC.
In other words, the MSM, lobbyists, special interests the GOP has control of!
Luckily, they are out of touch with the rest of America!
I’m not discouraged. The media is getting more and vicious (along with the Repubs) because they are getting more and more desperate. With Qaddafi’s defeat yesterday, that just about did them in for the remainder of this year. They are not going to allow what they perceive to be a “win” for this President if they can help it.
One thing I’ve noticed is that more and more people are now observing that this President does a superior job when he is not hamstrung by congress and/or the media. That will become even clearer in the months to come.
Sukey, look pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get ready for the battle ahead. You know these sorry ass Republicans are going to play dirty and nasty. They will do what they can to win. We can’t afford to become hopeless or get down. Believe me the battle is not over . If you are fired and ready to go, then I say remain strong, keep the faith. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
We’ve been fighting the Republicans for 3 years. Almost every accomplishment of this administration has been a fight. Yet as they say, “hard trials strengthen”. We will feel like Hercules when this is over. It’s going to get even tougher over the next 12 months so be prepared. We’re going to win this fight.
it is time to tack the marching boots to Congress….
to stage a sit-in outside the Senate Republicans office….to take the fight to them…time to gather ..Dems…Rep…and Independents …a united front in this struggle for jobs and the middle class…
Our Country deserves better than this…
Sukey, don’t be discouraged. I know it is difficult sometimes not to feel down over the obstruction and vitriol from the republicans but we have the most amazing president in the oval office and he has a fantastic bunch of people campaigning for him. We all have his back and we will all fight for him no matter what the other side do we will fight back. I understand your frustrations, it is so natural to feel that way and we all care and want the same thing – PBO re-elected next year. More and more people are seeing the media for what it is and less have trust in them.
Keep the faith Sukey, we are all with you and support you. Love ya.
Good morning Sukey. Hold yo chin up. No pity party allowed. We have a lot to do. Time has come to shift into high gear and let’s go “spank the monkey”. 🙂
Sukey I don’t mean to FLAME or be mean, but please don’t feel discouraged. We are getting the Teapublicans best shot. They want Obama supporters and independents to feel hopeless and powerless. Of course I can’t control your feelings, but you can’t let this get you down. In order to win in November of 2012 we have to remain strong throughout. This is just the beginning girl. We have a whole year of fierce resistance and hate. The established “Good Ole Boy” network is petrified of Pres. Obama. They see where he plays a different game and they want him out.
Stay strong. We can only be victorious if we PRESS ON and persevere. This is just a bump in the road to inauguration night January 2013! 😀
Sadly the media will spin it as Obama’s defeat.
BBC America had it on its crawl this morning: GOP blocks key component of President Obama’s job bill that would tax the rich to create jobs. I thought it was closer to neutral than most things we read and drilled down to what it’s all about. The Hooded Claw McConnell and Johnny Orange should be called daily and asked, “where are the jobs you promised?”
Maybe not. See Balloon Juice this morning. Please we have the power to change the narrative.
I despise the republicans with a passion.Morning TOD family.Vice President Biden put his teaching hat on 😯
I was right. The President is going to Colorado and Nevada next week.
Lol!
He will also be in California!
On a three day trio.
Hi Chips, when I made a donation via the TOD fundraising, I got a thank-you email from “Joyce Daniels” as well. And it said, love, Chips at the end so I assumed it was you! So it’s possible that there is some error in the name associated with your portal – but you should definitely look into it.
Is someone hacking into Chips’ donation page ?
Hopefruit, you’re a complete gem – thank you SO much! But that Joyce Daniels thing…..arrgghhh!! I truly am mystified. I tried again to change my profile there last night when I got a few emails saying “Hello Joyce” 😳 I’m not sure if it worked, will check – and will email them again. Thanks again Hopefruit, you’re incredibly kind.
I also got a thanks from Joyce Daniels after contributing.
Hiya Diane, thanks for letting me know – and thanks a million for the donation. I’m trying to report the problem through the site, but so far the message won’t go through 😦
Me too. Here I was thinking “Joyce Daniels” was Chips’ gubmint name.
Show us your birth certificate, chips. 🙂
Ha. I was thinking: “Joyce Daniels, sounds like a proper Irish name.” 😆
Ha, it is a bit Irish alright PJ, maybe she’s my long lost Aunt and OFA was just trying to link us up!
😆 Here ya go:
Chips, you should have your own cable show!
🙂 🙂 🙂
You’re goooood.
LOL
BWWAAHAHAAA!!!! That’s it! It’s official!
Ha! Yah, I got something from “Joyce” too. We’ll use it as your Secret Agent Man name. 😉
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Chipsticks – you are toooooo funny! It’s no wonder we love you!!!!
PRICELESS! 😆
I heard from Joyce Daniels too. Just thot it might be your actual name or I would have let you know earlier.
Yikes, thanks Sequana – I feel llke I’ve stolen poor Joyce’s identity.
I also received the same message after donating Chipsticks. I thought to myself hmmmmm……what a proper sounding name for a young lady with a deliciously filthy and salty potty mouth. 😉
the thank you I got when I donated was without a name, just a generic ofa thanks for your donation.
I got a Joyce Daniels thank you, too. Could it be that there was a contributor called Joyce Daniels and the computer did a hiccup and got donor and fundraiser confused? I also got a generic OFA thank you. I just hope, Chipc is getting proper credit for the TOD donations.
Oh, same here, silly me for it crossed my mind that Joyce Daniels might be Chips’ nom de plume……. I never received the email from Jim Messina re 2,644 people named Joyce. I’m guessing he sent it to all the Joyces….. Good Luck Chips, hope they straightened that out. The one thing OFA does in my barackobama.com account is they have 303 as my apartment number, I’ve deleted/edited my profile to correct it since I don’t have any apartment # but it keeps showing up. In the physical mails I get from them, the address is correct though.
I just e-mailed McConnell to say that with each “no” vote he makes the president more sympathetic to the American people and himself more reviled. Told him his no vote inspired me to give more to the Obama/Biden campaign and then went and added to Chip’s campaign total. I would love them to get the idea that their votes increase the president’s campaign chest. Told McConnell he was helping with the president’s re-election. Then tweeted that twit Cantor and told him the same. I saw on the lead Balloon Juice story that reporters were finally getting the story straight about this being Republican obstructionism, which the Ed clip helps reinforce. This is good–no more “both sides at fault” nonsense, despite losers like Nelson.
The Republicans are too obvious now. They’re are so desperate to destroy the president, so inflated by their own egos and so flush with Koch Brothers cash, that they are forgetting to be subtle. When they drop the mask and reveal their ugliness this openly, people get repelled as you see in the rising poll numbers on Democratic positions. They are making the president angry and they are making people angry and their over-bloated arrogance is making them forget the consequences of public wrath. Yes, there may be stringent voter suppression tactics in place and yes they are going to nightmares to overcome, but the R’s are putting their thumbs on the scale in too obvious a fashion and at some point, the frustration people feel is going to blow.
Our job is to continue to grow the re-election war chest; set the story straight for anyone who tries to blame the “federal government” as a whole, and get people to vote, vote, vote. I talked to our local OFA rep about promoting the Occupy a Voting Booth theme next year and he was very receptive to taking this idea up the ladder. Don’t despair; get busy.
Good for you! I wanna see McConnell looking all ashen and shaken like he did around the time of the healthcare vote. So the jobs bill is broken down into pieces that the Rs spit out one by one. At some point, their boy Luntz will have to give them some palatable language for their vote on *something* or they will continue to look like their heels are so dug in that they’re set in concrete. Starting with the most critical jobs was important.
He’s shaken alright! So much so that he said that the Dems had the Congress for 2 years and never ONCE thought to RAISE TAXES!!! HEAR THAT< BAGGERS????
Good Jackie! Yes! You ARE helping to change the narrative 🙂
We are “FIRED-UP!” “READY TO GO!” This is what we must do from now until election day….
GATHER ALLLLLLLLLL DEMSSS….REPUBSSSSSSS…INDEPENDENTS………LET US STAGE A SIT-IN….AT THE OFFICES OF THESE POLITICIANS…HOW DARE THEY CONTINUE TO PUT PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY…
WE SHOULD SEND LETTERS TO OUR LOCAL NEWS PAPERS…OUR COMMUNITY PAPERS….WE NEED TO PUSH THERE REPUBLICANS ON THEIR FREAKIN ASSESSSSSSS….HARD
I SENT EMAILS TO THE DEM DEFECTORS…..BUT EVEN WITH THEIR VOTES WE COULD NOT BREAK OUT OF THE FILIBUSTER…WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS….THE REPUBS WHO ARE OUT OF WORK…THE REPUBS WHO WANT A JOB….WE NEED TO ENLIST THEM IN THIS FIGHT FOR JOBS…
FIRED UPPPPPPPPPPP….READY TO GO
Good, Jackie…case in point… http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/10/21/quickie-house-democrats-outraise-house-republicans/
I’m composing a similar email to Mark Kirk in IL. This is a decidedly moderate state and I wonder if Illinoisans even know his voting record.
Well, I’m going to do what I can to make sure they know. Moderate my ass.
Joyce, I love your email! Right on!!!
Cracks are already beginning to appear in McConnell’s so-called calm facade. TPM reported yesterday that he released a bit of truth this week when he got angry and said that PBO got everything he wanted, but he forgot to raise taxes. This is an admission that the republicans have been lying about unprecedented tax increases under PBO. There have been none. McConnell knows it, and he got just mad enough to admit it.
ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL..PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS STRENGTH DURING THESE TIMES OF TRIAL. PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE SUCCESSFUL DEMISE OF DICTATORS..WITHOUT HIM..THESE EVENTS WOULD NOT HAPPEN! HE IS WATCHING OVER US AND WE ARE BLESSED WITH AN AMAZING PRESIDENT AMERICA NEEDS TO LEARN TO APPRECIATE!
Amen Sue Duvall.Amen
You are so right Sue. God is in control and that keeps me focused because I know this is God’s plan.
Sue, Amen! Regardless of what it looks like, God remains in control at ALL TIMES!!!!! Thank you for that word on this morning! God Bless you.
Amen SDS! God IS in control and as Jackie so eloquently stated, the Repugs are firing American’s up by their continuing to vote Nay on the AJA bill.
Keep it up Repugs….WE.SEE.YOU!
Congress is on a 10 day break. We should be contacting their local offices and voicing our position that we will be taking names and voting accordingly.
Name confusion: nah, Messina’s e-mail had my real and actual given name in the subject line. Hopefully you can clear up the Joyce/Barbara*/whatever confusion soon!
*Barbara seems appropriate in this instance: it’s Babylonian for stranger.
Chips, don’t know if you have the time but I would advise calling OFA HQ in Chicago to inquire about the name ID mess-up. I’ve had good results from them in the past in terms of responsiveness and I’m sure they would find this a serious issue. Anyway, FYI:
312-698-3670
As I wrote late last night, I think it’s time for all of US to grab the narrative in our respective states and fight the lies and smears. Remind the people exactly WHO is on their side…write LTE’s, participate on local blogs, participate on local TV station sites and do everything you can to educate and correct the lies…it is up to all of us to take our country in the direction it needs to go. I think the R’s have really overplayed their hands, and we need to capitalize on this, on a local level, from now until election day!
Every state.We can do this! We are the change that we’ve been waiting for….be relentless. Be focused.Be the real Americans that they love to hate and smear!
They have made themselves perfectly clear, and so has the country….there is OVERWHELMING support for this Jobs bill, yet they are sheep that listen only to Grover Norquist and their corporate masters….
Don’t be discouraged, Sukey! BE EMPOWERED!!!!
THISSSSSSSSSSSSS…AND THISSSSSSSSS…SOME MORE..
Rise and shine indeed. Morning Chips and TOD famiglia!!!! It’s a wonderful day when Cold Play is on the Today Show rocking out with their AMAZING songs! I love love love Cold Play to death. They and U2 make a day absolutely beautiful. 😀
Good Morning TOD family
Seems like we are a bit down this morning. Hang tough, I believe public opinion is swinging in our favor. We need to remain hopeful.
I have this video at my blog to cheer me up – some senators are good folks
US Senate – It Gets Better video
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/10/us-senate-it-gets-better-video.html
Absolutely! Thank you:)
First Lady Michelle Obama Announces Major Private Sector Commitment to Hire Veterans and Military Spouses
I sliced up the video into 2 pieces, Flotus and Potus. They are such cuties.
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/10/first-lady-michelle-obama-announces.html
Judiciary Committee to take important next step toward repeal of Defense of Marriage Act
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/10/judiciary-committee-to-take-important.html
Morning TODville, PBO knows exactly what the GOP is up to and with his & our help, we shall overcome. Has a nice day everyone and remember to never lose hope no matter what 🙂 by the way Chips I also got the Joyce Daniels Email and thought it was you 🙂
Sorry for the typo I meant have a nice day everyone.
Chips – I also got a Joyce Daniels email which I thought was you. It was a thanks for donating. Has anyone used yoru computer to log onto mybarakobama.com? I had an OFA party and folks were using my computer to join our OFA group, for a few days I was Barry Wiggins, go figure.
Okay I am in love with the guy that confronted that rat Ratigan and the blowhard Cenk Uyger. Is he on twitter? I’d love to know who he is so I can send out a huge WAY TO GO to him.
I hate to bother you guys: I can’t stream. Can someone give me just a quick description of the Ratigan/Cenk smackdown?
Cenk and Ratigan came down to OWS thinking they would get a heroes welcomes but a smart guy called out Ratigan for the fraud he is. Cenk tried to shush the guy up (by the way Cenk was wearing his Young Turks shirt; shameless promoting 🙄 ) but they guy kept calling ratigan a liar. He said – truthfully – that ratigan was part of wall street, he worked for CNBC and Bloomberg News and was deep in the pocket of wall street. Now ratigan is trying to pretend that he’s one of the 99% and trying to pretend that he never had ties to Wall Street. When the guy called him out, Ratigan walked away in a huff like the coward he is.
I hope Randi Rhodes sees this video. She’s been puffing up Ratigan like he really is interested in helping the 99%, and even giving Cenk a platform on her show. Never revealing that Ratigan was part of the network that built up the lies that allowed Wall Street to sell the toxic assets to unsuspecting investors, or that he’s been a tool for Wall Street right up until the time he joined MSNBC. And never revealing the despicable and insulting (and blatantly racist) language that both Cenk and Ratigan have used against President Obama.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE needs to see this and pass it around!
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_10/gop_rediscovers_infrastructure032961.php
Criminy
Video on private prisons making a fortune off of detaining migrants and how Rubio has been receiving donations from the prison groups.
Moveon did a good thing this time.
Rubio needs to have one term. Then he needs to go sit down.
Why does the MSM feel the need to discss PBO’s fundraisers and how much it cost to attend in detail? I just saw MSNBC discussing his upcoming CA fundraisers with a pundit.
Hi, COS – First, I’d say jealousy. People want his life, his job, his charisma, his intelligence. Ha ha – no can do, Republicans and corporate media!
Second, the media has no idea what the important topics of the day are, to the American people. Don’t know and don’t want to know.
My take!
Good answer Jacqueline. Happy Friday.
And to you, COS!
They are trying to undermine him but the open transparency with which he runs his fundraising operation gives them no traction whatsoever. If they think his supporters – grassroots, orgs, high-tech, those with fame and fortune – are going to sit idly by while the GOP stacks up their money from their SuperPac fiascos, they’re crazy. The MSM don’t understand how PBO manages to do it ALL, so they are spinning their wheels furiously. And they look like utter fools doing it.
Word. And you might add to your subset on categories of his supporters: ” and people with an actual brain” !
THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I also saw the hit piece on MSNBC too COS. It was Chris Jansing and some pundit from Variety who were discussing in uncomfortable detail the varying prices of PBO’s fundraisers. How it ranges from about $500 for working professionals to about $35,800 for people who can afford it and want to donate the max. They were trying to make the upcoming fundraiser at Melanie Griffiths and Antonio Banderas’s home as a way to appease and beg Latino Voters to come back into the fold and love PBO. They made it sound as though PBO has huge disapproval numbers in the Latino community; which is an outright lie. They never talk about the republicans fundraising efforts or suggest that they’re pandering to various groups. They only level that accusation at PBO. It was a very uncomfortable and irrelevant segment.
I’m glad I missed it.
Think we all should agree not to get demoralized by any of this, since President Obama is going to win by a landslide in 2012.
I’m thinking that positive thought each and every day! 🙂
I e-mailed both my Republican Senators… Saxby “Shameless” Chambliss and Johnny ” Good Ole Boy” Isakkson and told them every time they vote NO on the AJA , I will donate to President Obama’s re-election campaign.
After seeing your fine example, I’ll be contacting my one R senator again today (luckily, the other is Sen. Durbin!). Thanks.
Excellent, Linda. I like that approach. I have two Republican senators and I’m going to call again and tell them that.
A videos that explains a new economic with pictures and animation in a syle similar to the “Story of Stuff”
Visualizing a New Economic Model – Plenitude
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/10/visualizing-new-economic-model.html
let’s visualize a day when we all meet up at my house, eat veggies from my garden, take a bike ride to the park where we all sway “obamawear” and share stories about the 2012 election and how we gave the republicans a shellacking.
Well that is pretty darn cool. Thanks, WiW.
That is cool thanks LInda.
k. Lunch is over….. Back to work…..
California approves cap and trade!
Yes, we did. PROGRESS.
Chips – I also got the “Joyce Daniels” email. Hope you can get that squared away. 🙂
BTW, this is how the email came in:
From: Joyce Daniels
with “theobamadiary@gmail.com” – so maybe it’s an issue with your gmail account?
Maybe it would be easier for Chips to change her name to Joyce Daniels.
Guess it’s not going to well for Obermann, aw shucks
Keith Olbermann: Paid $10 Million to Lose Viewers
http://www.bnet.com/blog/sports-entertainment/keith-olbermann-paid-10-million-to-lose-viewers/1680?tag=mantle_skin;content
Maybe, if Keith tamps down his ego a bit his viewership will go up. Too bombastic and self aggrandizing for my tastes. I appreciate people with a sense of humility 😀
I have to deal with medical paper work and hospital bills today, will be out for a good wihile, but will look forward to checking back in later.
Glad to hear Sam’s Dad is on the mend, anyone hear from our Joan yet…am anxious to hear that she is also on the mend and in a comfortable place. Press on all, you are all so awesome, and do not despair…we are a growing force and we WILL PREVAIL. Bless you all!
I tell ya, I tune in on a consistent if not frequent basis. Keith should be in a position to do some good. But if I see West/Smiley, Markos or his over-the-top coverage of OWS as if he’s a hippie in 1968, I turn him off. Understand I WAS a hippie in 1968. Well, not actually a hippie but 90% of everyone I knew from my generation was doing something about the Vietnam War and civil rights. I am all for covering police and power abuses when it comes to protests, but this “the police state is out to get you” is just old and hyperbolic.
He has some decent guests. He has something of value to say but it’s not consistent enough or undamaging to me to be a regular.
I’m really disappointed in Al Gore. He, of all people, should know what it’s like to be smeared by lies. Has anyone contacted him about hiring Cenk who calls our President names like “moron”?
The GOP and much of the MSM have been promoting lies and distortion. The thing to remember is that they have chosen that path and they just keep going farther and farther on it. The rest of the US has been hearing facts, hearing PBO’s speeches and living in the real world. The disconnect is getting bigger and bigger. The same thing happens when you have two tectonic plates going in different directions — at some point it has to give. They really can’t keep living in an unreal world forever and be in power. I was looking through some old newspapers I kept from the 1960’s and saw a piece by Strom Thurmond that could have been by a teabagger. We aren’t going to get rid of that viewpoint or those people and we don’t need to. We just need to keep on standing firm on our point of view and working for the President. Once people discover the facts and it doesn’t fit in the BS they’ve been fed, then they start questioning all of it.
The other thing is that our continued love and appreciation of the President and his administration shines through every conversation we have and every person we meet. The President knew that when he was running for office — he knew the power of people connecting with others. So the most powerful things we can do is just be who we are and let other people know what we think. The tweets, the emails, the conversations, volunteering for OFA are all powerful. You have one vote, but you have the power to influence many others. When I hear someone criticize the President, I just smile and say with appreciation, “I just love that man” and I tell them some of the reasons why. They looked shocked. I know it rocks their world a little bit in a very good way. Like ripples on a pond — I see the good thoughts and appreciation going out into the world.
I love Nancy Pelosi! I received an email from Leader Pelosie and the DCCC this morning about their progress to take back the House:
[quote[ It’s game time.
Just over two weeks from now, we’ll be one year out from the 2012 election. The choices we make today will help determine how many Tea Party Republicans we can afford to target for defeat in 2012.
We have recruited a groundbreaking 60 Democratic candidates to compete in Republican-held or open seats. Many of these districts are held by Republicans who voted to destroy Medicare to fund tax cuts for Big Oil and Billionaires.
With just 25 Republican-held seats between us and a Democratic Majority this achievement represents a giant step down the path to victory in 2012.
But our candidates are already under attack from the radical right, and it’s only going to get worse. They must have the resources they need to fight back….
I have set a goal of recruiting 600 new Victory Partners in the next 24-hours — ten for each Democratic Challenger — to show our candidates that grassroots Democrats are ready to stand with them and hold Tea Party Republicans accountable every step of the way through the 2012 election.
Link to sign up for the Victory Partners
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DCCC Rapid Response Network
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Hello Friends
I am probably the only one who feels so strongly about this (without reading this whole blog) but I was shocked to see Cornell West included. I turned my channel because I see these invitations as validations of him nonsense. His attacks on PBO even if tampered down now still sting.
Hi smilingl8dy, what are you referring to when you say “Cornel West included” – where was he include?
I agree with you that he’s a first class jerk.
I am soo tired of politics at this point. The whole US governmental system makes me really sad.