Hi sweetie. I did not mean to have you in tears. I hope you and Tucker are doing fine, got your voice message and hope to talk to you later or over the weekend. Keep your chin up and know your friends have your back.
Morning all. HOPE you have a great Friday. DF, is it raining over where you live right now? It is raining downtown where I work. It is
w o n d e r f u l!
No…not raining here…looks like it wants to! I’ll take it…rained a bit last night, but not as much as it did Wednesday night…I sure love the desert rains….Happy Friday the 13th…always a great day for me!
I need to go back and read that! The info is coming so….dare I say……so FAST AND FURIOUS!…that it’s getting hard to keep up! It’s only JULY! Maybe he’ll be in jail by Nov….
Let me say what I said late last night, and that is, that I think there are still MANY things that even Romney’s own people don’t know about him. Things that he has kept locked away to himself because he has always managed to win DESPITE those, because they never came out before….he kept repeating the same lies that worked for him in the past..so much so that they have become his new reality. He repeated them enough times, won on them enough times, that they are now just a matter of course. This is what VETTING looks like…and it has never happened to this extent to him before.
Charlie Rose saying that Willard has not been claiming that his Mr. Fix It experience and his making a lot of money were qualifications for president was odd. PBO immediately corrected him and Rose backed down.
Charlie Rose has been getting on my nerves for the last several years. He used to be so much better and more curious but now he’s full of self-importance and often pushing a rigid agenda.
I have not been watching him on CBS and was surprised by his off the wall comment. I never understood why he took the CBS job. He is 70 years of age and does not need the money.
I don’t watch morning TV and agree with you about the CBS move. Strange. One of my closest friends worked for him as an editor on his PBS show and she said he’s actually (physically) old for his age.
I’ve watched him on CBS and he is ghastly in his interviews with Mitt and Ann Romney. He chuckles with them and act as though he’s their best buddy instead of a respectable journalist. He lets them get away with lies and yaks on and on about how nice they are, how friendly, how blah blah blah.
Good morning all. I am off today 🙂 and woke up to the sound of RAIN in California in July????? WTF, but I LOVE it! I can finally watch PBO speeches today. I hate missing them, there’s just something about watching them live. I am watching NOW with Alex Wagner, is Ed Rendell a piece of sh** or what? He constantly criticized PBO saying the Bain attacks could reflect badly on PBO? What!!!!! I liked the other guy who interrupted him and said that it wasn’t PBO that wrote Vanity Fair article, etc. Awesome and shut Rendell right up.
Rendell need to shut the heck up about Bain Capitol. It was Mitt Romney who brought Bain into the picture. Bragging about what he did at Bain and how he created 100,000 jobs and this make him qualified to come in and fix things. Mitt wasn’t bragging about his job as Governor.
I love it too! How awesome to get rain, here it was through the night!!! I was driving home to RPV from Loma Linda and it started raining around 5pm, then by the time I went to bed it was raining steadily. When I woke up to hear rain again I was THRILLED!
Please put President Clinton. And Governor Strickland in the second term, President Obama. If Mittens was. It such a troll I would almost feel sorry for him after watching that clip of President Obama with Charlie Rose. I like Mr. Rose but don’t interrupt the President ever again.
Well we will agree to disagree. I love President Clinton I was very disappointed in his actions during the 2008 primary but I will chalk it up to being in love with his wife. Regardless of everything I do think President Clinton wants President Obama to succeed in both terms.
Watch the fool say something soon. He’s always trying to make himself look good. Don’t forget that he said in former times the President would have been serving him coffee. Don’t like the man, don’t trust him.
Foes of Obama’s tax plan are mainly protecting the top one percent
By Greg Sargent
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Here’s why. As a few of us keep pointing out, Obama’s plan continues the tax cut on all income up to $250,000, including that earned by those who make more than that. The restoration of Clinton-era rates would only hit income above $250,000, which is earned by two out of every 100 taxpayers, and represents only a very small share of the overall income enjoyed by many of them.
Some folks get this. But the significance of it has gotten lost. What it means is that the tax hike component of Obama’s plan represents a far smaller tax increase than much of the rhetoric on this issue would lead you to believe.
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To recap: Senators who vote against this plan will be voting against a continued tax cut on all income up to $250,000. Even that enjoyed by the wealthiest taxpayers among us, including the “job creators.” All because the plan doesn’t also continue the tax cut on the income above $250,000 that’s enjoyed by only two out of every hundred taxpayers.
President Barack Obama holds baby Kerry Christophe (III) as he greets well-wishers after meeting with military spouses at Rick’s Cafe July 13, 2012 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Dana Milbank said yesterday that Mark Warner (D-VA) in the photo hates the Senate so much and finds it so much a waste of time he will probably not run for reelection.
Paying taxes forthrightly has long been a matter of civic pride for most American politicians, a demonstration of honesty and of a willingness to share in society’s burdens. Since the Watergate era, presidential candidates have released several years of tax returns, allowing voters to peer at their financial choices and discern their entanglements.
Mitt Romney has upended that tradition this year. He has released only one complete tax return, for 2010, along with an unfinished estimate of his 2011 taxes. What information he did release provides a fuzzy glimpse at a concerted effort to park much of his wealth in overseas tax shelters, suggesting a widespread pattern of tax avoidance unlike that of any previous candidate.
Mr. Romney has resisted all demands for more disclosure, leading to growing criticism from Democrats that he is trying to hide his fortune and his tax schemes from the public. Given the troubling suspicions about his finances, he needs to release many more returns and quickly open his books to full scrutiny.
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A foreign investment, however, is not the same as an offshore tax shelter. A more conscientious politician would have urged his blind trusts to have nothing to do with shelters not available to the general public. And Mr. Romney is tarnishing an important political tradition — one set by his father, George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns in 1967 — by continuing to keep the sources of his income in the shadows.
But according to Kessler, this must be a lie and therefore a felony. How does Romney attend board meetings of Bain acquisitions, sign six filings on Bain acquisitions, get a six figure salary as an executive, list himself as sole owner and CEO with the SEC in these years, and insist he was not “involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way”? Bain went further and stated that in the period involved Romney had “absolutely no involvement with the management or investment activities of the firm or with any of its portfolio companies.” All of this is a spectacular contradiction – and yet Kessler, defending, one suspects, his own reputation, refuses to give an inch.
Is Kessler that much in the Romney tank? Or can he not read his own column?
I’m glad to see people are back to focusing on Bain and are not distracted by this Condi talk. Mitt is having a very bad summer and he’s trying to change the subject. Let’s not let him.
A quick (unusual for me) comment. As some of you may remember, I sent a LTE to our local paper utilizing some sarcasm concerning our infamous Rep Jow Walsh. Well I can report that so far, that letter hasn’t been published. This is not surprising as the paper is somewhat (although not blatantly) conservative. And they may still decide to publish it.
However, I have been reviewing the website and responses to other LTEs and I can say with some certainty that Walsh is in trouble. It seems that the Koch funded trolls are much less in evidence. Any RW letter meets far more pushback than it does support. And this did not used to be the case. Comments anti-PBO and Dems used to be about 3 times the pro-PBO and Dem comments. Now it is the other way around. To me, this means that the Koch funds are being sent elsewhere and without that, Walsh is toast.
I think he’s in trouble. Tammy is getting better and better as a speaker. She was excellent on Stephanie Miller yesterday. But she has her work cut out for her.
Just saw this report on Twitter, and am amazed that independents still like Romney so much? They must be Republican leaning. I am amazed it is so close.
To me a lot of today’s Independents seem to be the embarassed GOP that switched to save face becoming Independent in the 2008 election. So they are really Republicans returning home.
The Obama Diary 
Nice day ahead!
Hello everybody.
Good morning. Has anyone seen Jojothecat? She has me in tears.
Hi sweetie. I did not mean to have you in tears. I hope you and Tucker are doing fine, got your voice message and hope to talk to you later or over the weekend. Keep your chin up and know your friends have your back.
There’s this ….
And, the contrast could not be more stark and am thankful to Mr Tomasky for being explicit and comprehensive …
And, #ADollarADayToOFA …
(many more in my TL; including the State OFA’s)
Are they showing PBO’s speech today??
Hi DF, CNN have all three speeches listed in their schedule …. but you know them 🙄 CBS live streaming have all three listed too.
Thanks, Chips:) I choose CBS….
Good choice 😉 I’ll post a heads-up nearer the time.
Thank you, sweetness…thank you and giant hugs for….well, just for being you and loving us:)
Ha, how could I not love y’all? 😆
It WOULD be hard! We are quite the group:)
Extraordinary is the only word I can think of 😆
This is why I’m soooo addicted to this site even tho I rarely post. It’s the LOVE mixed with silliness & fighting spirit oozing from y’all!!!
Ha, thanks Obamalia – they’re a crazy bunch alright!!
I guess the juveniles for Romney are circling the bus at the President’s VA event again…2 year olds.
Morning all. HOPE you have a great Friday. DF, is it raining over where you live right now? It is raining downtown where I work. It is
w o n d e r f u l!
No…not raining here…looks like it wants to! I’ll take it…rained a bit last night, but not as much as it did Wednesday night…I sure love the desert rains….Happy Friday the 13th…always a great day for me!
Holy shit stains, Mitt….http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney-testified-he-maintained-business-ties-during-olympics.php?ref=fpa
Not ready for prime time…
You know DF, the more I read the more spot-on the headline was on Jonathan Bernstein’s piece: Did Republicans forget to vet Romney?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/did-republicans-forget-to-vet-romney/2012/07/12/gJQAXrb4fW_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
I need to go back and read that! The info is coming so….dare I say……so FAST AND FURIOUS!…that it’s getting hard to keep up! It’s only JULY! Maybe he’ll be in jail by Nov….
I’m hoping he’ll be locked up by Monday, but I’m an impatient type.
Let me say what I said late last night, and that is, that I think there are still MANY things that even Romney’s own people don’t know about him. Things that he has kept locked away to himself because he has always managed to win DESPITE those, because they never came out before….he kept repeating the same lies that worked for him in the past..so much so that they have become his new reality. He repeated them enough times, won on them enough times, that they are now just a matter of course. This is what VETTING looks like…and it has never happened to this extent to him before.
Charlie Rose saying that Willard has not been claiming that his Mr. Fix It experience and his making a lot of money were qualifications for president was odd. PBO immediately corrected him and Rose backed down.
Where was this?
On the above interview excerpt tape with POTUS, FLOTUS, and Charlie Rose.
Charlie Rose has been getting on my nerves for the last several years. He used to be so much better and more curious but now he’s full of self-importance and often pushing a rigid agenda.
I have not been watching him on CBS and was surprised by his off the wall comment. I never understood why he took the CBS job. He is 70 years of age and does not need the money.
I don’t watch morning TV and agree with you about the CBS move. Strange. One of my closest friends worked for him as an editor on his PBS show and she said he’s actually (physically) old for his age.
I’ve watched him on CBS and he is ghastly in his interviews with Mitt and Ann Romney. He chuckles with them and act as though he’s their best buddy instead of a respectable journalist. He lets them get away with lies and yaks on and on about how nice they are, how friendly, how blah blah blah.
F’UGH.
Good morning all. I am off today 🙂 and woke up to the sound of RAIN in California in July????? WTF, but I LOVE it! I can finally watch PBO speeches today. I hate missing them, there’s just something about watching them live. I am watching NOW with Alex Wagner, is Ed Rendell a piece of sh** or what? He constantly criticized PBO saying the Bain attacks could reflect badly on PBO? What!!!!! I liked the other guy who interrupted him and said that it wasn’t PBO that wrote Vanity Fair article, etc. Awesome and shut Rendell right up.
Rendell need to shut the heck up about Bain Capitol. It was Mitt Romney who brought Bain into the picture. Bragging about what he did at Bain and how he created 100,000 jobs and this make him qualified to come in and fix things. Mitt wasn’t bragging about his job as Governor.
I know!! Rain!!! I love it.
I love it too! How awesome to get rain, here it was through the night!!! I was driving home to RPV from Loma Linda and it started raining around 5pm, then by the time I went to bed it was raining steadily. When I woke up to hear rain again I was THRILLED!
FLOTUS looks nice sitting there in that orange dress. 🙂
What are you watching?
Betsy, Chips posted a 2 minute clip of the interview. Refresh your page and it’s at the top of the thread.
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooo Lisa.
Hi, Chips!!! How you doing?
I’m doing severely well Lisa, hope you are too?
Severely, Chips! I’m doing severely well, too! 😉
Severely pleased to hear it, Lisa 😆
Hi Betsy, it’s the video in the post:
Thanks everyone, I missed them for some reason, forgot to scroll down. Just got up, so am still sleepy 😀
Please put President Clinton. And Governor Strickland in the second term, President Obama. If Mittens was. It such a troll I would almost feel sorry for him after watching that clip of President Obama with Charlie Rose. I like Mr. Rose but don’t interrupt the President ever again.
I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree. I don’t want Clinton anywhere near the WH while PBO is in office. Lord only knows what that man would get up to.
Well we will agree to disagree. I love President Clinton I was very disappointed in his actions during the 2008 primary but I will chalk it up to being in love with his wife. Regardless of everything I do think President Clinton wants President Obama to succeed in both terms.
Watch the fool say something soon. He’s always trying to make himself look good. Don’t forget that he said in former times the President would have been serving him coffee. Don’t like the man, don’t trust him.
“If Mittens wasn’t such a troll”. forgive the typos.
Foes of Obama’s tax plan are mainly protecting the top one percent
By Greg Sargent
————————————————
Here’s why. As a few of us keep pointing out, Obama’s plan continues the tax cut on all income up to $250,000, including that earned by those who make more than that. The restoration of Clinton-era rates would only hit income above $250,000, which is earned by two out of every 100 taxpayers, and represents only a very small share of the overall income enjoyed by many of them.
Some folks get this. But the significance of it has gotten lost. What it means is that the tax hike component of Obama’s plan represents a far smaller tax increase than much of the rhetoric on this issue would lead you to believe.
.
.
To recap: Senators who vote against this plan will be voting against a continued tax cut on all income up to $250,000. Even that enjoyed by the wealthiest taxpayers among us, including the “job creators.” All because the plan doesn’t also continue the tax cut on the income above $250,000 that’s enjoyed by only two out of every hundred taxpayers.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/foes-of-obamas-tax-plan-are-mainly-protecting-the-top-one-percent/2012/07/13/gJQASEt1hW_blog.html
President Barack Obama holds baby Kerry Christophe (III) as he greets well-wishers after meeting with military spouses at Rick’s Cafe July 13, 2012 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Dana Milbank said yesterday that Mark Warner (D-VA) in the photo hates the Senate so much and finds it so much a waste of time he will probably not run for reelection.
Hi All,
Speeches have started at the Virginia event. I am looking at the link on the Rise and Shine thread.
I’m watching the local channel at http://www.wavy.com/generic/onpolitix/President-Obama-In-Hampton-Roads
Thank you muscatinegal!
Streaming here: http://www.wvec.com/live-stream/Live-Video-Flash-Stream-B.html
Thank you JER!
Paying taxes forthrightly has long been a matter of civic pride for most American politicians, a demonstration of honesty and of a willingness to share in society’s burdens. Since the Watergate era, presidential candidates have released several years of tax returns, allowing voters to peer at their financial choices and discern their entanglements.
Mitt Romney has upended that tradition this year. He has released only one complete tax return, for 2010, along with an unfinished estimate of his 2011 taxes. What information he did release provides a fuzzy glimpse at a concerted effort to park much of his wealth in overseas tax shelters, suggesting a widespread pattern of tax avoidance unlike that of any previous candidate.
Mr. Romney has resisted all demands for more disclosure, leading to growing criticism from Democrats that he is trying to hide his fortune and his tax schemes from the public. Given the troubling suspicions about his finances, he needs to release many more returns and quickly open his books to full scrutiny.
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A foreign investment, however, is not the same as an offshore tax shelter. A more conscientious politician would have urged his blind trusts to have nothing to do with shelters not available to the general public. And Mr. Romney is tarnishing an important political tradition — one set by his father, George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns in 1967 — by continuing to keep the sources of his income in the shadows.
Sully
But according to Kessler, this must be a lie and therefore a felony. How does Romney attend board meetings of Bain acquisitions, sign six filings on Bain acquisitions, get a six figure salary as an executive, list himself as sole owner and CEO with the SEC in these years, and insist he was not “involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way”? Bain went further and stated that in the period involved Romney had “absolutely no involvement with the management or investment activities of the firm or with any of its portfolio companies.” All of this is a spectacular contradiction – and yet Kessler, defending, one suspects, his own reputation, refuses to give an inch.
Is Kessler that much in the Romney tank? Or can he not read his own column?
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/the-bain-of-his-campaign-ctd.html
Good! These so called fact checking entities are turning out to be more truthy hogwash. BUNK.
I’m glad to see people are back to focusing on Bain and are not distracted by this Condi talk. Mitt is having a very bad summer and he’s trying to change the subject. Let’s not let him.
A quick (unusual for me) comment. As some of you may remember, I sent a LTE to our local paper utilizing some sarcasm concerning our infamous Rep Jow Walsh. Well I can report that so far, that letter hasn’t been published. This is not surprising as the paper is somewhat (although not blatantly) conservative. And they may still decide to publish it.
However, I have been reviewing the website and responses to other LTEs and I can say with some certainty that Walsh is in trouble. It seems that the Koch funded trolls are much less in evidence. Any RW letter meets far more pushback than it does support. And this did not used to be the case. Comments anti-PBO and Dems used to be about 3 times the pro-PBO and Dem comments. Now it is the other way around. To me, this means that the Koch funds are being sent elsewhere and without that, Walsh is toast.
Thank you, japa!! This is hopeful. Walsh is obviously a loon and lost cause. I hope the voters see that.
I think he’s in trouble. Tammy is getting better and better as a speaker. She was excellent on Stephanie Miller yesterday. But she has her work cut out for her.
Heads up everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/07/13/heads-up-president-obama-speaking-in-virginia-beach/
Tim Kane and Mark Warner – you wimps. 🙂
Just saw this report on Twitter, and am amazed that independents still like Romney so much? They must be Republican leaning. I am amazed it is so close.
http://www.people-press.org/2012/07/12/section-1-the-2012-race-issue-strengths-views-of-the-parties/
To me a lot of today’s Independents seem to be the embarassed GOP that switched to save face becoming Independent in the 2008 election. So they are really Republicans returning home.
That Repeal Obamacare Shampoo cartoon is priceless! Thanks for the deep belly laugh.