I absolutely don't understand appeal of bully Christie to Dems. He's disastrous for education, jobs, women's rights, business, gay rights
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meta (@metaquest) October 28, 2013Since @GovChristie took office, NJ has ranked 44th in job growth. #TheChristieRecord #NJGov http://t.co/nUClgKx2VX
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Barbara Buono (@BuonoForNJGov) October 28, 2013Shouldn't Dems' argument be: Yes, some plans will be cancelled because they're substandard, and ppl are given subsidies to get better plans.
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(@Taniel) October 29, 2013I voted today to support TX veterans and water infrastructure! Early voting ends Friday and Election Day is Nov. 5. http://t.co/c71VPCVvO9
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Wendy Davis (@WendyDavisTexas) October 28, 2013Things that also happened before Obamacare:
1. Insurers canceled coverage
2. Premiums went up
3. Buying coverage sometimes took too long
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 29, 2013New HHS report: 66% of uninsured 18-34 year olds will have ability to buy insurance <$100; would be 86% if all states expanded Medicaid.
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Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 28, 2013
FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans.
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) October 29, 2013President.
That's all.
#BlessedToBeAliveInHisTime http://t.co/vJ1Afe0ses
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 29, 2013I'm proud that, in the govt funding bill we passed, the VA will have $300 million more than last yr to reduce the claims backlog.
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) October 22, 20134 ways to #GetCovered #Obamacare Apply online; by phone: 1-800-318-2596; in person or by mail healthcare.gov http://t.co/hYHrOITQNL
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meta (@metaquest) October 28, 2013Better for media to chase its tail with Merkelgate, website glitches and missing stock photogirl than to hammer GOP about wasting $24billion
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(@eclecticbrotha) October 28, 2013Gays and lesbians should not be fired from their jobs just for being themselves. Senate will soon work to #PassENDA. http://t.co/Jfz66EdWXK
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Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) October 28, 2013If you like 26-45,000 Americans dying a year for a lack of insurance, you can keep pretending to repeal Obamacare.
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HELL-OL GOP (@LOLGOP) October 29, 2013Anyone who hates Obamacare exchanges is still free to buy insurance on the individual market. I hear it's super easy w/o the gov't involved
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 28, 2013The 900,000 veterans whose food stamps are being cut must be glad to know GOP congressmen's farm subsidies are safe. nationalmemo.com/food-stamp-cut…
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HELL-OL GOP (@LOLGOP) October 29, 2013Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery (to have saved 7.1 million seniors $8.3 billion on prescriptions).
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Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) October 28, 2013Dear people w/ sticker shock:
You paid low premiums b/c your sick neighbors were priced out of coverage. And 1 day u could've been too
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(@igorvolsky) October 28, 2013Voter fraud, one problem that America doesn't have, is the only problem the GOP is trying to solve.
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HELL-OL GOP (@LOLGOP) October 28, 2013****
The Obama Diary 
Thanks for calling it what it is, Bob!
Congrats on a Fine First! 🙂
Thank you Dudette. And thank you for all your fine tweets today (and, always). Had just posted that tweet when UT’s (yet another) excellent thread appeared.
#FORWARD Together
You’re my inspiration! 🙂
You are very kind, Dudette!!!
In gratitude ….
Just how EVIL they are, Arapaho!!!!
Women who represent the GOP do a great disservice to all other women – I don’t know how they justify the policies they support.
Congrats Bob! The media would rather not speak on the $24 billion Teapublicans wasted.
Am keeping our dear TODsters Layla, NoChildLeftBehind, & MightyPamela in my thoughts and hope they are all doing as well as possible.
Chips has created an exceptional community and it is a privilege to participate in it.
#FORWARD Together
Thank you Sabreen!!!
I thought the previous comment would appear at the bottom of this thread.
In any event, you could not be more correct about how those who willingly wasted BILLIONS could care less about the consequences. That’s what hate and avarice will do to anyone who trades in such evil commerce.
Hey Bob, nice to see you up top again!
Thank you Judith and thank you for all your RTs!!!!!
Good stuff UT!
Thanks!
This is GREAT!
Top 15 alphabetically (more in the link):
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/Union-Made-in-America-Halloween-Candy-Shopping-List
1. Baby Ruth
2. Butterfinger
3. Candy House Buttons
4. Caramello
5. Clark Bar
6. 5th Avenue chocolate bar
7. Ghirardelli Chocolates
8. Halloween Candy Corn (Herman Goelitz Company)
9. Hershey’s Candy Corn Kisses
10. Hershey’s Extra Dark Chocolate bar
11. Hershey’s Hugs
12. Hershey’s Kisses and Kissables
13. Hershey’s Nuggets
14. Hot Tamales
15. Jelly Belly…
I took this list with me when I went shopping for my candy. Thanks to whomever began passing this around.
So cool! 🙂
In a handy tweet form:
Thought that looked familiar. 🙂
thank goodness! Hot tamales!! Love those…though I can’t eat them right now because of all that blasted surgery!
Thank yoooooooooooooooou UT!!!
Thank you for this fantastic photo–perfect to dream on.
This is my wallpaper:) 🙂 I LOVE waking up to this every day!
That’s mighty fine wallpaper you have DF!!!
She is afterall a woman of discriminating taste and exceptional pedigree!
Thank you, Dudette! I like to think so:)
Yesiree!!!
One of my favorite POTUS portraits – wowie zowie!
Not to be impolite, but who is the ole dude with Wendy?
A smart, informed voter:)
I love the hashtag, because it really points out that most of what is being discussed in the media/public square has nothing to do with reality. Nothing to do with the issues that normal families are dealing with every day.
For those interested in the history of Black U.S. Senators (thinking of educator nath):
Thanks for sharing this article, Arapaho! Yes the period after the Civil war, known as Reconstruction, saw unprecedented numbers of African Americans being elected to office on local, state and national levels in the former Confederate States. The Mississippi legislature
(this was before the passage and ratification of the XVII Amendment) elected two African American Americans to the U.S. Senate. The first was Hiram R. Revels who was elected in January, 1870 to fill the one year of the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. In 1874 Blanche K. Bruce, also from Mississippi, became the first African American elected by the legislature to serve a full six year term in the U.S. Senate. He served from 1875 to 1881. He would have served with another Black elected Senator, P.S.B. Pinchback, from Louisiana, but the Senate refused to seat Pinchback. With the overthrow of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow period, Bruce would be the last Black U. S. Senator until Jan. 1967 when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts (elected in Nov.1966) became the first and only African American elected statewide to serve two terms (1967-1979) in the U.S Senate. It took another 20 years before another African American, this time an African American woman, Carol Mosley Braun of Illinois, to be elected statewide to the U.S. Senate.
Black U.S. Senators are extremely rare! In the entire 224 year history of the U.S. Senate, only 4 African Americans have been elected to a six year term in the U.S. Senate. Cory Booker is going to be the 5th. 4 other Blacks have served as Senators to finish out the time of Senators who resigned before serving their allotted six year term.
I know TOD won’t be distracted by 2016, with so much work to do in 2014:
Woooo, I can’t begin to tell you how much I wish Georgia was in that list. We’ve still got work to do.
Dudette, I think Georgia stands a good chance of electing a Democratic U.S. Senator since the incumbent is not running. I would love to know your take on this.
More on Jeff Denham (posted over the weekend). CA CDs have been redrawn, but Denham basically has Gary Condit’s old seat (remember him, the big story in 2001 before 9/11 was Chandra Levy):
Okay so I’m still thinking about Christie, and the likelihood that he’ll retain his seat in NJ really bugs me ’cause he seems like such a hypocrite. Since I cannot shorten videos, I’ll just tell you guys to start at ~5:50 for the reminder that he only cares about himself and his own ambitions..
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/vp/52102204#52102204
For those who missed Hopefruit2’s Halloween Party invitation:
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HEADS-UP: We’re having another TOD Halloween party next week (Thursday OCT 31)!
I just read off names that were on this thread so far (and a few others I could think of), but I know there are many more TODers who will attend…and more costumes are being made as we speak, and you can always swap with someone or change costume if you like…costume suggestions are welcome!!!
VC – Mark Knoller
Bobfr – Ezra Klein
Jovie – Morning Joke
Lovelyplains – Ted Cruz
Globalcitizen – Katrina Nation
amk – Marco Rubio
Hopefruit2 – Chuck Todd
dessertflower – Boehner
Yardarm – Ed Henry (the one who stomped out of the WH Press briefing)
UT- Karl Rove
Chips – Glen Greenwald
Liberal Librarian – Chris Hayes
Carolyn – Jake Tapper
Anniebella – Anne “diversity” Lowry (Ezra’s wife)
Nathkatun7- Snowden
J O’Boomer – John King (CNN)
Arapaho – Andrea Greenspan Mitchell
Angdogriff – Jane Hamsher
GGail – Willard
Nena – Mitch McConnell
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.(more to come)….
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/23/obamacare-is-here-to-stay-3/#comment-865262
😆 😆 😆
Just brilliant, Hopefruit!!!!!!!!!
Oh man, I totally missed that.
[In my shrillest, whiny baby voice]… I don’t wunna be David Gregory.
Can’t I be Michele Bachmann, so I can wear googly-eyes and say batshitcrazy stuff? I can DO that! 🙂
Sure dudette, you can be Michele Bachmann – these are just *suggested* costumes, and folks are more than welcome to come as whomever they please 🙂 🙂
It will be a BLAST! I took a stroll down memory lane when we had something similar back in 2011, and boy did we have FUN that day! I came dressed as Ron Paul…LMAO!
Then I call dibs on danny.
But you were gonna be so cute with your water bottle. 🙂
danny can be cute with that water bottle.
LOL! What a cop out…
You will be Rubio with a new pet pup named Danny….
Tell him, hf! Rub-i-o! Rub-i-o! Rub-i-o! 🙂
I am rubio. Copping out is what I do.
This is going to be fun….
Rubio with new puppy pretending he’s the GOP’s PBO with new pup- Sunny…
Okay, that’ll work.
Just letting you know now, I’m gonna be more than fashionably late. Will be out doing my Auntly duty: Taking the little one out for trick or treating, then helping Mom inspect the haul (basically toss anything that’s not on the union-made list) 🙂
Some of us will be here on the west coast late shift, so it’ll be fun to continue the costume party!
Hopefruit, is there a party start (and end) time, or are we doomed to be the jerks all day? Would you object to restricting the impersonation to the afternoon/evening hours? What say you, or others?
You can start at any time on that day, and most people go in and out of costume throughout the day – depending on what’s going on.
I’m linking the R & S thread from Halloween 2011, so you can get an idea of what people did! I had quite a chuckle reading through some of those posts….
http://theobamadiary.com/2011/10/31/rise-and-shine-11/#comment-155773
Be warned – there’s a Newtkini in that post just waiting to destroy innocent eyes… 😯
Oh LAWD….
Nope. From now on, you will be only known as knoller. For evah.
Rutabaga speak to me in the moonlight! 😯
Hossenpfeffer!
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Okay that was my first practice at injecting crazy, non sequitur. How’d I do? 🙂
Oye, I’m gonna have to read up on this Willard fella…
UT, I will trade your TX, for my TX………. I have the perfect Rove costume 🙂
well you guys I’ve had all last week and today off for a little staycation. Got a lot of things done around the house which is nice. But I gotta go back to work tomorrow and so I gotta go to bed. I’ll see yez tomorrow night!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Nite TOD!
‘Nite Alice! Have a good day back at work tomorrow! 🙂
Nighty nite, a4A! Sweet dreams!
I’ll be following you shortly as I have to go in tomorrow too.
time to prepare some dinner … will bbl … in the meantime, we all should be sending Senator Reid as much support and clear messaging as we can regarding the fact that he has all the justification he needs to #NukeFilibuster to halt #GOP obstruction and incalculable harm to Americans ….
Yes WE Can
OMG – Maybe using highways and bridges built using federal dollars is a conflict of interest, too? Or maybe the federal retirement benefits, Social Security benefits, and Medicare I pocket because I’m a “taker” means I shouldn’t vote? Oh, I’m so confused by it all.
My thoughts exact!
“Exactly” — guess she hasn’t seen that list of states that take back more from the federal govt than they contribute in taxes. Wonder if she lives in one?
She seems to be from another planet, only inhabited by the underbelly of society aka RWNJs, no offense to any underbellies out there.
Wow, Dudette, these people have totally lost it! I bet if Liberty Bunny FooFoo had her say so she would love to see slavery restored! I keep asking my self what century am I in? Some of these tea baggers sound like people in Europe’s dark ages, or at least people in the centuries before the Enlightenment. Has the technological revolution that has brought us instant communication short changed us when it comes to knowledge of history, science and critical thinking? Does this idiot not realize that the selfish wealthy, who want to use government to protect and advance their interests, are the ones with the most obvious conflict of interests? Can they be relied upon to promote the General Welfare, one of the goals clearly stated in the preamble of the Constitution?
Chips, you are remarkable, you found what I was looking for. Thank you so much. You save me everyday from this crazy world.
Hey! No fair! We wanna see the picture! C’mon! 😦
Chipsticks, that photo of President Obama is HAWT!
That’s all.
Night all….was up with the dog in the middle of the night last night….worked all day…..sleepy night night time 🙂 Chips….congrats on the 22 million today. I’m not surprised:)
President Obama is going to be in VA campaigning for McCaulife!!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW (IMMIGRATION & THE DO NOTHING CONGRESS SEVEN DAY WEEKEND)
House GOP gives up on working rest of year (19 minutes)
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Jose Diaz-Balart, anchor for Noticiero Telemundo, talks with Rachel Maddow about why House Republicans should work on immigration instead of going home early.
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/house-gop-gives-up-on-working-rest-of-year-58117187958
Ok friends, it’s been a ridiculously busy day. I’m home, I’m fed, I’m cold, I’m sick, I’m going to bed. I’ll practice my tetchy Chris Hayes mannerisms tomorrow for the Halloween party.
Speaking of the Congresswoman…
please bear with me while I vent a little:
I can’t stand privileged imbeciles who do not understand a subject they choose to publicly speak about;
I have tried to keep my thoughts about that idiot Suzanne Sommers to myself but I have to be fair to myself and let a few of them out tonight;
Now I feel a little better.
Brava Linda! Somers deserves every bit of humiliation she gets. And as for the WSJ…
Linda, you deserve a standing ovation for calling out this spoiled, entitled, and ignorant woman!
Is this from The Onion? If not, were/are there no editors at the WSJ in ’08/’13?
Good night, Obots. Tomorrow is ….oops…today! Have to get some sleep so that I’ll be somewhat coherent at work tomorrow.
‘Character is what you are in the dark.’ ~American Proverb
Good night, VC. I should also be following your example, but alas – I’m still up for a couple more hours…I might miss something exciting!
John Schindler @20committee 2h
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US Senate can’t pass budget, execute basic functions, but will now review all US espionage.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304200804579164083658333034 …
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Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
eclecticbrotha @eclecticbrotha 11h
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Better for media to chase its tail with Merkelgate, website glitches and missing stock photogirl than to hammer GOP about wasting $24billion
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Retweeted by Jeff Gauvin
Linda – This one’s for you (I finally read an article about the WSJ article):
In conversations among the investor class (of which I’ve had countless over several decades) the meme of ’rounding error’ is pervasive. It’s a terse way of conveying that some amount of $ being invested is so insignificant that the risk is readily justified.
What plutocrats have in common is that they view all but a few members of humanity as so insignificant that whatever number of those humans perish is not only of no consequence, it’s actually a net gain, i.e., fewer ‘takers.’ They do not distinguish a monetary ’rounding error’ from a human life ’rounding error.’
They could care less if 20 or 30 or 100 or 500 thousand Americans perish every year for lack of health care. They’d be delighted if that number was a million or more. And, they are just as committed to paying those who don’t succumb to death as low a wage as possible – any doubt just look at how the Walton’s treat their Walmart employees (and among the plutocrat class they are not unique).
All plutocrats never reflect on the fact that EVERY life is an ONLY TIME EVENT.
EVERY LIFE, not just theirs.
They have zero capacity to recognize and admit that the moment any human views another human through the lens of currency they are EVIL.
They have zero capacity to recognize that NO such thing as a ’rounding error’ exists in the equation of the treasure of each and every human life.
The equation of EVERY human LIFE evaluates to INFINITE VALUE.
The fundamental disconnect between those who abhor President Obama and President Obama is that HE GETS the INFINITE VALUE OF EACH LIFE.
…. time for some rest …
#FORWARD Together
Decided to send a letter to our wonderful President before getting a bit of rest:
29 October 2013
Dear Mr President,
In conversations among the investor class (of which I’ve had countless over several decades) the meme of ’rounding error’ is pervasive. It’s a terse way of conveying that some amount of $ being invested is so insignificant that the risk is readily justified.
What plutocrats have in common is that they view all but a few members of humanity as so insignificant that whatever number of those humans perish is not only of no consequence, it’s actually a net gain, i.e., fewer ‘takers.’ They do not distinguish a monetary ’rounding error’ from a human life ’rounding error.’
They could care less if 20 or 30 or 100 or 500 thousand Americans perish every year for lack of health care. They’d be delighted if that number was a million or more. And, they are just as committed to paying those who don’t succumb to death as low a wage as possible – any doubt just look at how the Walton’s treat their Walmart employees (among the plutocrat class they are normative).
Plutocrats never reflect on the fact that EVERY life is a ONE TIME, EVER, UNIQUE EVENT.
EVERY LIFE, not just theirs.
They have zero capacity to recognize and admit that the moment any human views another human through the lens of currency they are EVIL.
They have zero capacity to recognize that NO such thing as a ’rounding error’ exists in the equation of the treasure of each and every human life.
The fundamental disconnect between those who abhor you, Mr President, is that you GET the INFINITE VALUE OF EACH LIFE.
The reason they have obstructed you, in unprecedented ways, since 20 Jan 2009 is that they know precisely how you value life and that you have the intellectual, emotional and physical stamina to not only stall their avaricious crusade, but defeat them conclusively.
You, Mr President, can not only lead a 3rd Reconstruction to success but truly end the root cause of the Civil War.
You, Mr President, are already mightily propelling an American society that rejects any threat to ANY American’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Thank you,
Bob
Yes We Can
may tweet it to a few folk tomorrow if I have time …. as always, feel free to cut and paste any or all of it if any of you find it useful … no attribution required.
Great letter, Bob, as usual!
Nothing to do with your letter, but, coincidentally, just came here to post this song – Ha! #SaveOurPostalService Goodnight to you and the TOD community! #DreamInHashtags
Early Bird Chaaaaaaaat!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/29/early-bird-chat-57/