Can no longer wait for my situation to change before I get involved. The way I see it, my situation changing DEPENDS on me getting involved. I’m starting here.
If you have to sabotage the economy to win, your ideas suck
Of all the terrible lessons the Republicans have learned since 2009, the worst is: Economic sabotage works.
In 2009, the President’s immediate efforts to stimulate the economy and rescue the auto industry took us from losing 800,000 jobs a month to creating thousands. But, before the policies were even in place, the GOP called it a failure.
KNOW THIS: The Stimulus was the most successful economic effort since World War II. Yet the GOP was able to make it a bad word by employing Karl Rove tactics with Koch brothers money–carefully crafted talking points repeated endlessly.
The way the Stimulus reversed the layoff crisis was obvious. But it couldn’t move fast enough to undo eight years of Bush/Cheney so the public bought into this baldfaced lie and gave the GOP the House of Representatives in 2010. Sabotage worked.
Great article -note the 5 question david cay johnston says teh media should be asking Romney:
“1. Did you buy any illegal or gray area tax shelters?
“2. Did an IRS audit ever uncover serious problems with any of your tax returns?
“3. Did you make use of offshore vehicles to defer, or avoid paying, federal income taxes?
“4. Did you take advantage of any tax strategies that the IRS did not uncover in audits?
“5. Did you fully tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints every year and take a deduction on your tax return that shows that?”
I just randomly went and asked 5 people in my office of different backgrounds and who I think are highly intelligent and considerably informed who Chuck Todd was. 4 had never heard of him and 1 said a rock and roll blues singer. Of course he meant Chuck Berry. 😉
Tomorrow is another opportunity to volunteer for the President’s re-election. Please consider giving a couple of hours to make a differnce in this campaign. You can find a local or online event at barackobama.com
LOL @ Chuck Berry. 😆 Yep, these cable pundits ain’t all that. I haven’t even watched my favorites (Rev. Al, Lawrence, Krystal Ball, Bashir) in about a month. *shrug*
Donna Dem, after that scientific poll someone should tweet Chuck and tell him 80% of Americans do not know who he is, and 20% of Americans think he is a rock and roll blues singer.
Ahh, the power of Youtube! Romney: “And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around.”
Economists: Romney’s ideas wouldn’t fix short-term crisis, and could make things worse
By Greg Sargent
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Mitt Romney frequently faults President Obama for not having any kind of plan to pull us out of our employment slump. But would Mitt Romney’s ideas help fix the economic crisis?
I asked two economists to take a look at that question. Their conclusion: While both said they support some of Romney’s long term goals, they both agreed that Romney’s ideas would do little or nothing to fix the immediate crisis, and could in the short term make things worse.
The question of whether Romney’s ideas would fix the economy in the near term has gotten short shrift, because presidential campaigns amid a bad economy tend to focus relentlessly on the incumbent.
from Bob Cesca: WOW! In other news, 3,215 temperature records were set or matched during the month of June. That’s obviously part of the grand liberal conspiracy.
I set the 3,216 record when I discovered that our central air went out during the night. Oh brother!!! This should be interesting. If I wasn’t so cool on my own accord, and so self-described hawt, I’d be complaining.
Great pics from Ohio. I loved the front pages on the last thread. Willard should be shaking in his mom jeans right about now. Ohio looks like Obama Country to me!
For those of you who scurried over here, rather than to wait for me to post a profound statement on the last thread, it’s your lost. Nevermind, don’t go clicking the ‘back’ arrow button now…I deleted it. Anyway, I josh. BTW, if someone tells you to ‘chill out’ today , they’re just concerned for your safety in this heat (heat index 115 today in Chi-town).
President Obama says he’s up against the most expensive campaign “in history”
(CBS News) As his bus tour rolls through Ohio, President Obama told a crowd in Sandusky that he is facing an uphill battle this election when it comes to matching his Republican rival’s campaign cash.
Mitt Romney and his supporters will spend “more money than any time in history,” the president told a few hundred supporters Thursday in Sandusky, Ohio, a town between Toledo and Cleveland with a population of about 25,000.
Weak jobs report will force the Fed to act, but Congress remains paralysed
With a risk of rising unemployment, the Fed may launch QE3. But where’s the outrage that so little’s done to cut joblessness?
By Justin Wolfers
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I’m stunned to report that in both policy and political circles, most commentators take the fact that Congress will do nothing as simply a pre-ordained constraint. That’s just not the right framing. In reality, it’s an enormous dereliction of duty. Congressional leaders are important economic policy-makers, and they’re turning their collective backs on conventional economics. It’s cliched, but true: if you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention.
And then, there’s the White House. President Obama continues to propose policies that he hopes will yield bipartisan support. The most recent Jobs Act contains many proposals that were originally Republican ideas. Some of them are small ideas; others are bigger. But they languish, and can’t get any traction in Congress. Economists estimate that the various programs that Congress has refused to pass would have led another 1m jobs to be created.
Of course, the Romney campaign has opportunistically jumped on these latest numbers as proof of Obama’s lack of economic leadership. But look a little harder: what is Romney’s policy for reducing unemployment? I spent a whole day on his website trying to find it. Glib talk about a love for free markets and promising ever-greater tax cuts for the rich do not qualify as a serious plan.
I love how PBO has been talking about his background while Robney is off jet skiing. I love the story he jut told about his vacation when he was eleven.
COS, I love them even more because they ring true! When Mitt tries to downplay his Canadian vacation home, on a lake, in a gated community, the majority of listeners will be able to cut through his pretense of being in touch.
clearly, the rethugs are unimpressed with their candidate–maybe as much as we are. reminds me of shrub, who everyone knew was a loser and an idiot. the cynicism of the rethug plan is disgusting: take this chicken shit and serve it up as chicken soup. with a big, expensive ad campaign, folks will buy it, and not realize what they’ve got till it’s too late.
Oh dear! Oh dear! My President is very calmly and conversationally showcasing his ‘common touch’ just by talking about his and his wife’s stories. Mitt, my BOY, deal with it! 😀 😀 😆 😆
Oh, I knew that a4a. We are so on the same page. You zeroed in on the phrase that stuck out to me in that article “ENORMOUS DERELICTION OF DUTY”. Thank you. LH
This CONVERSATION that PBO is having is awesome….he’s having a conversation with those people…talking to them, not AT them…with honesty and humor…it’s wonderful. So at ease and a joy to watch
If one looks at blogs with anti-PBO comments or speaks with someone who is anti-PBO concerning the economy it is impossible to have an intelligent conversation. Not one realistic alternative to PBO’ plans is offered, be it from Willard or anyone else. The country is beyond a conversation. The alternative is nothing but “Obama is bad”.
45% will vote against PBO, no matter what. 45% will vote for PBO no matter what. It’s the squishy 10% who may be swayed. Note, that I didn’t say anyone would be voting FOR Pittiful.
Chuck just admitted that nothing they say matters until after the debates. to paraphrase, he said that they will continue to present the cases as they see them daily as if every day matters, but it doesn’t until independents start taking notice. So now can we resume our efforts to GOTV, volunteer for PBO, and stay on our local media outlets to report fairly (most do now), instead of catching the flu just becuase somebody on cable sneezed?
I totally, totally LOVE PBO’s delivery of this speech!!! It didn’t take the President even a day to hit his stride! I am so just giggling periodically at the thought of Mitt thinking he can measure up to PRESIDENT OBAMA! (Doing the football touchdown dance.) 😀 😀 😀 😀
Lawdy lawks, look above you, Lisa. This is so weird. :lol; I swear this man is a health tonic all by himself. I have NEVER been so uplifted by a politician, AND ON A REGULAR basis!
It’s kind of scarey how often members of this blog come out with the same comment or thought at the same time. Too much hanging out together, is my diagnosis.
I noticed. That’s why I was so tickled. 😆 I saw yours first after I posted and came back to the screen, so I thought, “Didn’t I include ’20’ before the year? Hmmm”, then I realized it wasn’t my entry. Give me my brain back, you, you brain co-opter! Next thing you know *I* will be wishing I were a fly on the wall in PBO’s presence, or calling certain people salty names! 🙄 😉 😉
The Prez was unbelievably good – he started a little subdued and then reved up. It was fantastic as I agree with the earlier comment that the story of his vacation as an 11 year old was wonderful – the tiny swimming pool – nice contrast with the big, ugly jet skis.
Chips, is there a way to get that part of the speech where PBO said that he made no apologies for passing ACA? he was so tough and clear when he said that and the crowd loved it!!
“Billionaires writing these 10M checks … raining down on my head … but I’m not worried … I’m tough …. I’m skinny, but I’m tough …. I know we can win …. because of YOU!!!!
This was one of the very BEST on-the-road speeches PBO has done EVAH. Clear, open-hearted, sincere, warm, straight talk with the middle class in mind. Just brilliant. LOVED it. BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO.
He was great…..what I liked the most about the speech is when the President talked about the ACA and the penalty…1% will be affected…..it was clear!…..the MSM can spin as they want, tax not a tax….it doesn’t matter………oh and I though the President was not going to mention the ACA according to the pundits…..useless idiots.
Why the switch? As he has on so many issues, Mr. Romney caved to Republican conservatives who want him to campaign on the falsehood that the mandate is a vast tax increase on the middle class. The Supreme Court’s decision that the law is constitutional was disastrous to their cause, so they distorted its basic reasoning. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote that the mandate is legal under the Congressional taxing power, which Republicans took a step further, saying the mandate must now be a tax. And not just a tax, but a huge, oppressive tax, one of the largest in history.
Someone FINALLY mentioned this, and that is that Justice Roberts wrote that the mandate is legal UNDER THE CONGRESSIONAL TAXING POWER…..not that the mandate WAS a tax!!! As with everything else, Republicans with their myopic pea sized “brains” saw the word tax and ballooned it to a HUGE OPPRESSIVE TAX!! Oh noes!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway….I thought this was important. What’s even MORE important, is to get rid of these obstructionist Do Nothing’s in the fall so that the adults can get some work done for the people. Hammer this message like nobodies business. We need to move FORWARD!
It’s just possible that Romney’s endless financial resources are serving as an added spur to the president’s brilliance as a campaigner. I think our pres thrives on the competition and it’s giving him extra energy and spark. We should all start making fun of the billionaire props that Willard needs to conduct a campaign. Romney needs billionaires to stand him on his feet. PBO is continually lifted up by the love of the people.
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During the 2010 mid-terms the GOP ran mainly on the platform of job creation and, as a result of such promises, the GOP gained the majority in the House of Representatives. As the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner made the welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican Party was to increase employment in the U.S.
His exact words were: “We’re going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs.”
The following, therefore, is a chronological list of legislation by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011 that I created for my own amusement. That it has reached its current imposing length, without one anecdotal citation of new employment as a result of Republican legislation, is simply shocking. Shame on these useless hypocrites.
I just copied a few on that list…it’s long!..from 2011 to a couple of days ago…the diarist always finish with ”no jobs were created”…..which is a fact….
2-29-2012: The House failed to pass the Research Works Act, which would have prohibitied federal agencies from releasing the result of taxpayer-funded research. No jobs were created.
3-2-2012: Yesterday the House spent most of the day debating and passing the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats, plus Olympia Snowe, fended off the execrable Blunt Amendment. Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner vows to continue contraception fight. Because it’s all about jobs, right? No jobs were created.
3-5-2012: On Thursday, the 1st of March, the House unanimously voted to allow itself to give oral histories of the civil rights era, then condemned Iran for finding one of its citizens guilty of apostasy. The House then took Friday off. No jobs were created.
3-7-2012: On Monday the House spent two whole hours naming two federal buildings and then adjourned. On Tuesday they shuffled paper all day regarding a Bureau of Reclamation bill involving hydropower development. No jobs were created.
It’s easy for these pathetic liars like Cantor and Boehner to go in front of the cameras and say that they have been working on jobs from day 1….nobody knows what they’re doing because the MSM doesn’t report anything…..
In 2006, Romney Called The Same Unfair Accounting He Uses To Assess Obama’s Jobs Record ‘Silly’
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When Mitt Romney criticizes the job creation record of the Obama administration, he contributes job losses to Obama that took place in January 2009, immediately after the President was inaugurated. As the New York Times explained, “By counting from January 2009, Mr. Romney paints the bleak portrait of a country that despite a modest recovery still has fewer jobs than it did when Mr. Obama took office.”
However, when he was Governor of Massachusetts, Romney called that sort of accounting “silly.” In a video uncovered by American Bridge, Romney explicitly rejected attributing job losses from the beginning of his term to his own total, which is exactly what he has been doing to slam Obama:
Campaigns Duel Over Calling Health Care Mandate a ‘Tax’
NPR story with a nice view of the crowd yesterday and good talking points of PBO, you may want to skip the last part here someone tries to explain Romney.
It’s Starting To Look Like Romney Has A Dirty Tax Secret
Kenneth Thomas, Middle Class Political Economist
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“1. Did you buy any illegal or gray area tax shelters?
“2. Did an IRS audit ever uncover serious problems with any of your tax returns?
“3. Did you make use of offshore vehicles to defer, or avoid paying, federal income taxes?
“4. Did you take advantage of any tax strategies that the IRS did not uncover in audits?
“5. Did you fully tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints every year and take a deduction on your tax return that shows that?”
These are important questions. We know that Governor Romney has had a Swiss bank account, as well as money in other tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Bermuda, and Ireland. Romney’s answer to any question about his taxes has basically been, “Trust me.” But the guy’s running for President, for Pete’s sake. He owes us more than that.
“Tucked away in the act is a pilot program for 10,000 people called the Independence At Home program. This is a technique first developed by the Veterans Administration — motto: Single-Payer Works! Just Ask Us! — by which a patient with a chronic disease, like Alzheimer’s, is treated in his or her own home by a team of doctors, nurse practitioners, geriatric pharmacists, and any other health professional whose specialty is required. This is not only cost-efficient, being infinitely cheaper than hospitals and nursing homes, but it is a comfort for the patients and their families, for whom familiar surroundings can be essential for psychological well-being. (Thrusting an Alzheimer’s patient suddenly into a hospital is just asking for a track meet down the halls.) The program also recognizes the reality that a huge percentage of Medicare patients are suffering from two or three chronic conditions at the same time — Alzheimer’s patients have heart disease, people with Parkinson’s also have diabetes, etc”
The Affordable Health Act Is Going to Change Lives
this support for aging at home is another win for women! most older women i know are unwilling to place their husbands in nursing homes, even when their care becomes a round-the-clock, exhausting, heartbreaking, martyrdom. but the support of a professional team will provide some relief, and hope, and perspective.
You silly goose, you thank me everyday by your support and sound advice to everyone at this blog, your leadership here and in OFA is why we will win. I love the Friday money bomb idea, we rock
They need to be called out! One of my local blogs just wrote about the “disappointing” jobs numbers. I wrote back a scathing reply as to WHY…and chastised them for not including this in their piece. I will now ADD this to the mix…we should all do the same:)
Love that photo of our President having breakfast at the counter like Mr. Regular Guy. Mostly because he seems like somebody you’d want to have the pleasure of sitting next to, at a breakfast counter in Anytown, USA. Or my town, in particular!
Visiting grandkids are gathered around son, watching Daddy play Imagine by John Lennon and Love Her Madly by the Doors on the organ in our “music room” – and all’s right with the world!
Nothing to do with President Obama, other than I’m one happy member of TODville right about now!
The Obama Diary 
GM all
Morning Donna 😉
On Guard!
Morning Ms. Chips!
The Force is strong in this one.
Ha, it is Japa!
Morning, Chips. Can you add my fundraiser too, please? https://donate.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/2012/RestoreOurDreams
Thanks!
Done!
Thank you! 🙂
Yippee welcome aboard. On my way to donate to your fundraiser.
Can no longer wait for my situation to change before I get involved. The way I see it, my situation changing DEPENDS on me getting involved. I’m starting here.
Thank you, Donna. *hugs*
May the force be with him! 😀
GM, Baby O’Donna – Congrats on 1st!
Thx J’OB
Hi
LOLGOP @LOLGOP
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The GOP is so angry about the ObamaCare decision that they’ve donated more than $5 million to the guy who came up with the idea for it.
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The GOP is Threatening Your Job
By LOLGOP
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If you have to sabotage the economy to win, your ideas suck
Of all the terrible lessons the Republicans have learned since 2009, the worst is: Economic sabotage works.
In 2009, the President’s immediate efforts to stimulate the economy and rescue the auto industry took us from losing 800,000 jobs a month to creating thousands. But, before the policies were even in place, the GOP called it a failure.
KNOW THIS: The Stimulus was the most successful economic effort since World War II. Yet the GOP was able to make it a bad word by employing Karl Rove tactics with Koch brothers money–carefully crafted talking points repeated endlessly.
The way the Stimulus reversed the layoff crisis was obvious. But it couldn’t move fast enough to undo eight years of Bush/Cheney so the public bought into this baldfaced lie and gave the GOP the House of Representatives in 2010. Sabotage worked.
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http://eclectablog.com/2012/05/the-gop-is-threatening-your-job.html#.T8TrJP-NBXI.reddit
Good day LH! The fact remains ….
This is the kind of information that we can easily with our ‘social’ contacts as the facts are so simply, yet comprehensively stated.
Streaming now at: http://www.wytv.com/content/news/local/story/Opening-Remarks-Begin-at-Dobbins-Obama-Still-in/E9pmSUFr1k2cdueB2EAmEw.cspx and
http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/UPDATE-Obama-Motorcade-Arrives-at-Boardman/E9pmSUFr1k2cdueB2EAmEw.cspx
Thank you JER!
My heavens, that was one wonderful speech, every point covered beautifully, and the enthusiasm was off the charts. Thank you JER!
Posting from earlier cause important.
Great article -note the 5 question david cay johnston says teh media should be asking Romney:
“1. Did you buy any illegal or gray area tax shelters?
“2. Did an IRS audit ever uncover serious problems with any of your tax returns?
“3. Did you make use of offshore vehicles to defer, or avoid paying, federal income taxes?
“4. Did you take advantage of any tax strategies that the IRS did not uncover in audits?
“5. Did you fully tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints every year and take a deduction on your tax return that shows that?”
Read more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Hzoh/~3/sBr8Df4opQo/what-is-mitt-romney-hiding.html#ixzz1zqpp8FGB
Bomb reporters with these questions – dare them to do their jobs.
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-mitt-romney-hiding-2012-7
I just randomly went and asked 5 people in my office of different backgrounds and who I think are highly intelligent and considerably informed who Chuck Todd was. 4 had never heard of him and 1 said a rock and roll blues singer. Of course he meant Chuck Berry. 😉
Tomorrow is another opportunity to volunteer for the President’s re-election. Please consider giving a couple of hours to make a differnce in this campaign. You can find a local or online event at barackobama.com
Also,
It’s Friday so it’s Money Bomb Time!
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/06/28/money-bomb/
Your $3.00 donation can have a tremendous impact on this campaign.
Chips, can we please have the fundraiser links posted on a thread today. Thanks so much!
LOL @ Chuck Berry. 😆 Yep, these cable pundits ain’t all that. I haven’t even watched my favorites (Rev. Al, Lawrence, Krystal Ball, Bashir) in about a month. *shrug*
Done Donna! Added the links to this post, and will post them again later.
Thanks so much Chica. Now I had better go get some work done 😛
Thank you so much, Chips. We have to do everything we can to boost our POTUS.
Donna Dem, after that scientific poll someone should tweet Chuck and tell him 80% of Americans do not know who he is, and 20% of Americans think he is a rock and roll blues singer.
Wonderful, Bill!
Bill, I took you up on that suggestion and tweeted chucky
Pasted your post on my Facebook page and will donate.
Thanks Sista!
I would rather see Chuck Berry present the news than Friar Tuck Todd, any day.
Also, can we remind our twitter followers to remind their followers to remind ….. to send an extra $1 or 7?
Ahh, the power of Youtube! Romney: “And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around.”
Is that a brown suit ? The Horror…..what would Capehart say ?
Economists: Romney’s ideas wouldn’t fix short-term crisis, and could make things worse
By Greg Sargent
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Mitt Romney frequently faults President Obama for not having any kind of plan to pull us out of our employment slump. But would Mitt Romney’s ideas help fix the economic crisis?
I asked two economists to take a look at that question. Their conclusion: While both said they support some of Romney’s long term goals, they both agreed that Romney’s ideas would do little or nothing to fix the immediate crisis, and could in the short term make things worse.
The question of whether Romney’s ideas would fix the economy in the near term has gotten short shrift, because presidential campaigns amid a bad economy tend to focus relentlessly on the incumbent.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/economists-romneys-ideas-wouldnt-fix-short-term-crisis-and-could-make-things-worse/2012/06/07/gJQAHKUWLV_blog.html
We will never forget ….
from Bob Cesca: WOW! In other news, 3,215 temperature records were set or matched during the month of June. That’s obviously part of the grand liberal conspiracy.
I set the 3,216 record when I discovered that our central air went out during the night. Oh brother!!! This should be interesting. If I wasn’t so cool on my own accord, and so self-described hawt, I’d be complaining.
Great pics from Ohio. I loved the front pages on the last thread. Willard should be shaking in his mom jeans right about now. Ohio looks like Obama Country to me!
For those of you who scurried over here, rather than to wait for me to post a profound statement on the last thread, it’s your lost. Nevermind, don’t go clicking the ‘back’ arrow button now…I deleted it. Anyway, I josh. BTW, if someone tells you to ‘chill out’ today , they’re just concerned for your safety in this heat (heat index 115 today in Chi-town).
Yep, and possibly higher in the suburbs where I am. Further evidence that global warming and climate change is a big hoax.
I’m suburban too Japa21. I say chi-town, cause everybody knows where that is.
President Obama says he’s up against the most expensive campaign “in history”
(CBS News) As his bus tour rolls through Ohio, President Obama told a crowd in Sandusky that he is facing an uphill battle this election when it comes to matching his Republican rival’s campaign cash.
Mitt Romney and his supporters will spend “more money than any time in history,” the president told a few hundred supporters Thursday in Sandusky, Ohio, a town between Toledo and Cleveland with a population of about 25,000.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57467256-503544/obama-says-hes-up-against-the-most-expensive-campaign-in-history/
AWESOME tweet, alice!!
w00t!
Weak jobs report will force the Fed to act, but Congress remains paralysed
With a risk of rising unemployment, the Fed may launch QE3. But where’s the outrage that so little’s done to cut joblessness?
By Justin Wolfers
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I’m stunned to report that in both policy and political circles, most commentators take the fact that Congress will do nothing as simply a pre-ordained constraint. That’s just not the right framing. In reality, it’s an enormous dereliction of duty. Congressional leaders are important economic policy-makers, and they’re turning their collective backs on conventional economics. It’s cliched, but true: if you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention.
And then, there’s the White House. President Obama continues to propose policies that he hopes will yield bipartisan support. The most recent Jobs Act contains many proposals that were originally Republican ideas. Some of them are small ideas; others are bigger. But they languish, and can’t get any traction in Congress. Economists estimate that the various programs that Congress has refused to pass would have led another 1m jobs to be created.
Of course, the Romney campaign has opportunistically jumped on these latest numbers as proof of Obama’s lack of economic leadership. But look a little harder: what is Romney’s policy for reducing unemployment? I spent a whole day on his website trying to find it. Glib talk about a love for free markets and promising ever-greater tax cuts for the rich do not qualify as a serious plan.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/06/weak-job-report-force-fed-act?CMP=twt_gu
I love how PBO has been talking about his background while Robney is off jet skiing. I love the story he jut told about his vacation when he was eleven.
COS, I love them even more because they ring true! When Mitt tries to downplay his Canadian vacation home, on a lake, in a gated community, the majority of listeners will be able to cut through his pretense of being in touch.
Didn’t doing something ‘New England-ish’ doom John Kerry in Republican eyes? But their spoiled, pampered, out of touch candidate can do what he wants?
clearly, the rethugs are unimpressed with their candidate–maybe as much as we are. reminds me of shrub, who everyone knew was a loser and an idiot. the cynicism of the rethug plan is disgusting: take this chicken shit and serve it up as chicken soup. with a big, expensive ad campaign, folks will buy it, and not realize what they’ve got till it’s too late.
Oh dear! Oh dear! My President is very calmly and conversationally showcasing his ‘common touch’ just by talking about his and his wife’s stories. Mitt, my BOY, deal with it! 😀 😀 😆 😆
oh LH I meant this as a reply to your article just upthread – thanks.
Oh, I knew that a4a. We are so on the same page. You zeroed in on the phrase that stuck out to me in that article “ENORMOUS DERELICTION OF DUTY”. Thank you. LH
my pleasure!
This CONVERSATION that PBO is having is awesome….he’s having a conversation with those people…talking to them, not AT them…with honesty and humor…it’s wonderful. So at ease and a joy to watch
If we hadn’t already tried their theory, it’d be different. But we tried it. It didn’t work!
Now let’s talk about my theory, my vision.
Mr. President, relaxed and in his element. I feel sorry for Mitt & the GOP….well, I really don’t! Bring it on, PBO! 😆 😀
If one looks at blogs with anti-PBO comments or speaks with someone who is anti-PBO concerning the economy it is impossible to have an intelligent conversation. Not one realistic alternative to PBO’ plans is offered, be it from Willard or anyone else. The country is beyond a conversation. The alternative is nothing but “Obama is bad”.
45% will vote against PBO, no matter what. 45% will vote for PBO no matter what. It’s the squishy 10% who may be swayed. Note, that I didn’t say anyone would be voting FOR Pittiful.
Yay. Fedex makes it to the finals in 4 sets.
And he is the first man to reach 8 wimbledon finals
A mindblowing record. Murray’s looking good, unfortunately 😦
I am hoping the pressure will be too much for Murray in the finals. He can become flustered.
yup, murray is a choker. The title is as good as fedex’s now.
I am rooting for Murray.
well, there is always loser’s plate.
Chuck just admitted that nothing they say matters until after the debates. to paraphrase, he said that they will continue to present the cases as they see them daily as if every day matters, but it doesn’t until independents start taking notice. So now can we resume our efforts to GOTV, volunteer for PBO, and stay on our local media outlets to report fairly (most do now), instead of catching the flu just becuase somebody on cable sneezed?
+10000000000000000000000000000
I totally, totally LOVE PBO’s delivery of this speech!!! It didn’t take the President even a day to hit his stride! I am so just giggling periodically at the thought of Mitt thinking he can measure up to PRESIDENT OBAMA! (Doing the football touchdown dance.) 😀 😀 😀 😀
Thanks….I guess that was ” lost in the excitement ” for some people…..I doubt the good people of Az missed it.
Awesome!
‘I’m skinny, but I’m tough’ – PBO 7/6/2012
Here comes PBO’s patented ending. 😉
Followed by rousing claims of “Four more years!” Oh why can’t we just hold the election now? We are ready! PBO is ready!
“I’m skinny, but I’m tough.”—–PBO 07/06/12
Lawdy lawks, look above you, Lisa. This is so weird. :lol; I swear this man is a health tonic all by himself. I have NEVER been so uplifted by a politician, AND ON A REGULAR basis!
It’s kind of scarey how often members of this blog come out with the same comment or thought at the same time. Too much hanging out together, is my diagnosis.
we wrote it at the same time too. 🙂
I noticed. That’s why I was so tickled. 😆 I saw yours first after I posted and came back to the screen, so I thought, “Didn’t I include ’20’ before the year? Hmmm”, then I realized it wasn’t my entry. Give me my brain back, you, you brain co-opter! Next thing you know *I* will be wishing I were a fly on the wall in PBO’s presence, or calling certain people salty names! 🙄 😉 😉
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lisa, I loved that line, I’m skinny but I’m tough.
Well well well TeaNN had a problem with showing the President speak this morning.
The Prez was unbelievably good – he started a little subdued and then reved up. It was fantastic as I agree with the earlier comment that the story of his vacation as an 11 year old was wonderful – the tiny swimming pool – nice contrast with the big, ugly jet skis.
duny,And that big ugly boat the Romneys were righting in.
The boat really is ugly. Complete lack of taste.
Chips, is there a way to get that part of the speech where PBO said that he made no apologies for passing ACA? he was so tough and clear when he said that and the crowd loved it!!
Hi Lisa, unfortunately I wasn’t able to record it, just hoping it’ll appear somewhere later, it was brilliant.
AMEN!! my brows shot up as soon as the words left hims mouth and i almost pumped my fist in the air. 🙂
That speech was magnificent, PLEASE let it be on C-Span later.
Here ya go, Chips ….
http://www.c-span.org/Events/President-Obama-Campaigns-Through-Ohio-and-Pennsylvania/10737432092/
“Billionaires writing these 10M checks … raining down on my head … but I’m not worried … I’m tough …. I’m skinny, but I’m tough …. I know we can win …. because of YOU!!!!
This was one of the very BEST on-the-road speeches PBO has done EVAH. Clear, open-hearted, sincere, warm, straight talk with the middle class in mind. Just brilliant. LOVED it. BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO.
Totally agree Meta. I love how he said I am just like you in so many words.
I loved this quote!
Whoa! Catching up on a series on Hulu and just caught an advertisement for ACA and info at healthcare.gov
Way to go OFA
Loved this speech——engaging, brought audience along, they were there with him the whole time. Great appearance.
He was great…..what I liked the most about the speech is when the President talked about the ACA and the penalty…1% will be affected…..it was clear!…..the MSM can spin as they want, tax not a tax….it doesn’t matter………oh and I though the President was not going to mention the ACA according to the pundits…..useless idiots.
Brought this over from Rise and Shine:
Morning everyone:) Just been reading and thought I would share this
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/opinion/mr-romney-changes-his-mind-again-on-health-care.html?_r=1&hp
Why the switch? As he has on so many issues, Mr. Romney caved to Republican conservatives who want him to campaign on the falsehood that the mandate is a vast tax increase on the middle class. The Supreme Court’s decision that the law is constitutional was disastrous to their cause, so they distorted its basic reasoning. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote that the mandate is legal under the Congressional taxing power, which Republicans took a step further, saying the mandate must now be a tax. And not just a tax, but a huge, oppressive tax, one of the largest in history.
Someone FINALLY mentioned this, and that is that Justice Roberts wrote that the mandate is legal UNDER THE CONGRESSIONAL TAXING POWER…..not that the mandate WAS a tax!!! As with everything else, Republicans with their myopic pea sized “brains” saw the word tax and ballooned it to a HUGE OPPRESSIVE TAX!! Oh noes!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway….I thought this was important. What’s even MORE important, is to get rid of these obstructionist Do Nothing’s in the fall so that the adults can get some work done for the people. Hammer this message like nobodies business. We need to move FORWARD!
It’s just possible that Romney’s endless financial resources are serving as an added spur to the president’s brilliance as a campaigner. I think our pres thrives on the competition and it’s giving him extra energy and spark. We should all start making fun of the billionaire props that Willard needs to conduct a campaign. Romney needs billionaires to stand him on his feet. PBO is continually lifted up by the love of the people.
Totally agree with you, Jackie. He thrives when it’s tough. #BainMitt wilts. #PRESSON
POTUS seems to be giving out lots of kisses in Ohio!!
Send her this one….it goes all the way back to the beginning of 2008…..when the jobs losing began……
Thanks Bob !
Of course, Linda, and thought it best to provide her and Mr #EtchASketchMitt some weekend reading material (h/t Christi, below, for the source 🙂 ) ….
A lot a people seem to think the job loses BEGAN after the crash…….
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donated! and thanks, donnadem, for all you do for the president and for this country.
I think I’m going to follow this person on Twitter.
http://republicanjobcreation.com/
”Republican job creation”
During the 2010 mid-terms the GOP ran mainly on the platform of job creation and, as a result of such promises, the GOP gained the majority in the House of Representatives. As the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner made the welcome claim that the primary goal of the Republican Party was to increase employment in the U.S.
His exact words were: “We’re going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs.”
The following, therefore, is a chronological list of legislation by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011 that I created for my own amusement. That it has reached its current imposing length, without one anecdotal citation of new employment as a result of Republican legislation, is simply shocking. Shame on these useless hypocrites.
I just copied a few on that list…it’s long!..from 2011 to a couple of days ago…the diarist always finish with ”no jobs were created”…..which is a fact….
2-29-2012: The House failed to pass the Research Works Act, which would have prohibitied federal agencies from releasing the result of taxpayer-funded research. No jobs were created.
3-2-2012: Yesterday the House spent most of the day debating and passing the San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats, plus Olympia Snowe, fended off the execrable Blunt Amendment. Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner vows to continue contraception fight. Because it’s all about jobs, right? No jobs were created.
3-5-2012: On Thursday, the 1st of March, the House unanimously voted to allow itself to give oral histories of the civil rights era, then condemned Iran for finding one of its citizens guilty of apostasy. The House then took Friday off. No jobs were created.
3-7-2012: On Monday the House spent two whole hours naming two federal buildings and then adjourned. On Tuesday they shuffled paper all day regarding a Bureau of Reclamation bill involving hydropower development. No jobs were created.
Thanks Bobfr! I was hoping you would pick it up……I actually read the whole thing……it’s sickening!…..
Lots of “NO’s” and vacation time in there:) Freeloaders are getting paid big bucks to do nothing!
It’s easy for these pathetic liars like Cantor and Boehner to go in front of the cameras and say that they have been working on jobs from day 1….nobody knows what they’re doing because the MSM doesn’t report anything…..
MORE EYEBALLS ON THE ROMNEY “SILLY” VIDEO
In 2006, Romney Called The Same Unfair Accounting He Uses To Assess Obama’s Jobs Record ‘Silly’
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When Mitt Romney criticizes the job creation record of the Obama administration, he contributes job losses to Obama that took place in January 2009, immediately after the President was inaugurated. As the New York Times explained, “By counting from January 2009, Mr. Romney paints the bleak portrait of a country that despite a modest recovery still has fewer jobs than it did when Mr. Obama took office.”
However, when he was Governor of Massachusetts, Romney called that sort of accounting “silly.” In a video uncovered by American Bridge, Romney explicitly rejected attributing job losses from the beginning of his term to his own total, which is exactly what he has been doing to slam Obama:
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/06/511883/romney-video-jobs-silly/
Remember when Mitt went to this place and insulted their cookies? Yep, Jen does too 😉
I hope everyone is following her on twitter. She is great!
Campaigns Duel Over Calling Health Care Mandate a ‘Tax’
NPR story with a nice view of the crowd yesterday and good talking points of PBO, you may want to skip the last part here someone tries to explain Romney.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec12/tax_07-05.html
Federal Judge Richard Posner: The GOP Has Made Me Less Conservative
May this be a trend – fingers crossed
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/07/05/156319272/federal-judge-richard-posner-the-gop-has-made-me-less-conservative
And they’ve made me more Liberal.
THE GUY’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, FOR PETE’S SAKE.
It’s Starting To Look Like Romney Has A Dirty Tax Secret
Kenneth Thomas, Middle Class Political Economist
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“1. Did you buy any illegal or gray area tax shelters?
“2. Did an IRS audit ever uncover serious problems with any of your tax returns?
“3. Did you make use of offshore vehicles to defer, or avoid paying, federal income taxes?
“4. Did you take advantage of any tax strategies that the IRS did not uncover in audits?
“5. Did you fully tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints every year and take a deduction on your tax return that shows that?”
These are important questions. We know that Governor Romney has had a Swiss bank account, as well as money in other tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Bermuda, and Ireland. Romney’s answer to any question about his taxes has basically been, “Trust me.” But the guy’s running for President, for Pete’s sake. He owes us more than that.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/its-starting-to-look-like-romney-has-a-dirty-tax-secret-2012-7
Yay Cali…
California lawmakers pass historic foreclosure protections
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/07/california-lawmakers-pass-historic.html
Gearing Up: Proposed Auto Efficiency Standards Will Create 570,000 Jobs By 2030
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/07/gearing-up-proposed-auto-efficiency.html
Another wonderful surprise in ACA
“Tucked away in the act is a pilot program for 10,000 people called the Independence At Home program. This is a technique first developed by the Veterans Administration — motto: Single-Payer Works! Just Ask Us! — by which a patient with a chronic disease, like Alzheimer’s, is treated in his or her own home by a team of doctors, nurse practitioners, geriatric pharmacists, and any other health professional whose specialty is required. This is not only cost-efficient, being infinitely cheaper than hospitals and nursing homes, but it is a comfort for the patients and their families, for whom familiar surroundings can be essential for psychological well-being. (Thrusting an Alzheimer’s patient suddenly into a hospital is just asking for a track meet down the halls.) The program also recognizes the reality that a huge percentage of Medicare patients are suffering from two or three chronic conditions at the same time — Alzheimer’s patients have heart disease, people with Parkinson’s also have diabetes, etc”
The Affordable Health Act Is Going to Change Lives
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/07/affordable-health-act-is-going-to.html
this support for aging at home is another win for women! most older women i know are unwilling to place their husbands in nursing homes, even when their care becomes a round-the-clock, exhausting, heartbreaking, martyrdom. but the support of a professional team will provide some relief, and hope, and perspective.
A Supreme Win for Women: The Crucial Benefits of Obamacare
http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/07/supreme-win-for-women-crucial-benefits.html
Thank you for providing us with all this info and for being so consistently generous to my grassroots fundraiser. I cannot thank you enough!
You silly goose, you thank me everyday by your support and sound advice to everyone at this blog, your leadership here and in OFA is why we will win. I love the Friday money bomb idea, we rock
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/06/511940/5-ways-republicans-sabotaged-job-growth/
They need to be called out! One of my local blogs just wrote about the “disappointing” jobs numbers. I wrote back a scathing reply as to WHY…and chastised them for not including this in their piece. I will now ADD this to the mix…we should all do the same:)
Absolutely how to fight back. Take it to them directly, often, and with facts that are own our side.
You just gotta click.
Love that photo of our President having breakfast at the counter like Mr. Regular Guy. Mostly because he seems like somebody you’d want to have the pleasure of sitting next to, at a breakfast counter in Anytown, USA. Or my town, in particular!
Visiting grandkids are gathered around son, watching Daddy play Imagine by John Lennon and Love Her Madly by the Doors on the organ in our “music room” – and all’s right with the world!
Nothing to do with President Obama, other than I’m one happy member of TODville right about now!