Vice President Biden on President Obama: “This man has courage in his soul, compassion in his heart and a spine of steel” “This guy’s got a backbone like a ramrod.”
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Despite President Obama providing a brilliant ObamaCare fix during today’s press conference
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/401034613641859073
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https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/401058961664667648
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There are Democrats still pushing for a legislative fix that will derail ObamaCare.
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Here is their contact information. The power is in your hands. Make your voices heard.
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Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA): Twitter Handle: @SenLandrieu and @MaryLandrieu
Contact Info Here
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV): Twitter Handle: @Sen_JoeManchin
Contact Info Here
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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): Twitter Handle: @SenJeffMerkley and @JeffMerkley
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Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN): Twitter Handle: @SenDonnelly
Contact Info Here
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Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC): Twitter Handle: @SenatorHagan and @KayHagan
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Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK): Twitter Handle: @SenatorBegich and @MarkBegich
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): Twitter Handle: @SenFeinstein
Contact Info Here
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Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR): Twitter Handle: @SenMarkPryor and @PryorForSenate
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Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO): Twitter Handle: @MarkUdall
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The Obama Diary 
nice work UT!
Congrats a4Alice, and thanks UT for crucial contact info.
http://twitter.com/FardigJudith/status/401165732987158528
FIIIIIIIIIRST!
If you exclude Alice 😥
UT ….. I love ya.
Thanks so much Chiparoo. You bundle of Cheesy Puffness that is definitely not Mrs. Özil Mesut.
ha! I just got back! You’re First in my book baby! 😀
On December 9, a law banning firearms that can go unnoticed by a metal detector is set to expire. Since 1988, the Undetectable Firearms Act has banned undetectable guns, which can be made from plastic through 3D printers.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have introduced legislation that expands the undetectable firearms law to ban 3D-printed guns, require guns to be recognizable as guns, and them to contain significant metal. “The expiration of this law, combined with advances in 3D printing, make what was once a hypothetical threat into a terrifying reality,” Schumer said, according to the Associated Press. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced his own version in the House to renew the law.
Still, the urgency of the issue does not mean Congress will take up the bills in its remaining days.
Even the soon-to-expire law contains a major loophole that permits plastic guns as long as they have a small metal piece that could be easily removed. One widespread model, the Liberator, uses a nail so small that it would not be picked up by metal detectors.
Okay CA peeps, if you want to use my open letter to DiFi, let it fly. And if anyone else wants to use it—edited, of course—go for it.
Thanks LL – because it’s perfect!!
Word
UT, very nice of you to make it convenient for us to contact these cretins.
Then you give us a prize – that picture of POTUS. It’s so simple….yet….so powerful !!
“The American people do not want to see a kangaroo court here,” Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said midway through Wednesday’s four-hour prosecution of Obama administration technology experts by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) hopped to attention. “ ‘Kangaroo court’ is quite an accusation,” he said, “and I hope the gentleman from Tennessee, when he uses the term kangaroo court in the future, will think better of making an accusation.”
Sorry, Mr. Chairman, but the pouch fits. It was indeed a kangaroo court, and Issa was the main marsupial. No human makes leaps quite like Darrell Issa. He leaps to conclusions. He makes huge leaps of logic. He leaps before he looks. And he invariably leaps right into the White House, alleging high-level political misbehavior and administration corruption for just about everything that goes wrong.
On Wednesday, the topic was Obamacare, but the California Republican followed the script he used when investigating “Fast and Furious” gun-running, the Benghazi attack, and IRS targeting: make inflammatory allegations of high-level skullduggery, release selective information that appears to support the case while withholding exculpatory details, then use his chairman’s privileges to turn hearings into episodes of “The Darrell Issa Show.”
Darrell can’t help himself. The GOP are so useless here in CA that they have to go to DC in order to be noticed. But still, don’t cut him any slack – hit him hard!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) expressed his frustration with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) over immigration reform on Wednesday, calling Boehner’s rhetoric on the issue an “intellectual yoga drill.” “They’re doing nothing over there,” Reid said of House Republicans, in an interview with Fusion TV. “Zero. And to do this intellectual yoga drill where nobody knows what he’s talking about, is like some of the yoga moves I tried and I can’t do.”
“If they pass something we could at least go to conference, we could do something there. Because in a conference, the American people are watching what we do. The way it is now, he does nothing so there’s nothing to watch,” he continued.
Reid was reacting to Boehner’s comments Wednesday that House Republicans have “no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.”
GE, TOD…… between classes. Great post, UT. Congrats on 1rst, Alice. …..some may have missed this important leg. signed into law yesterday!
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a bill that, it turns out, hits close to home. H.R. 2094, the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act, was passed with bipartisan support to help students with food allergies, including oldest daughter Malia.
“This is something that will save children’s lives,” the President said at the signing. “Some people may know that Malia actually has a peanut allergy. She doesn’t have asthma, but obviously making sure that EpiPens are available in case of emergency in schools is something that every parent can understand.” The new law provides incentives to schools to set up plans to have EpiPens and trained staff members more readily available.
It gives funding preferences for asthma treatment grants to states where schools keep emergency supplies of epinephrine, allow school employees with training to administer it and develop a plan to make sure trained staffers are available during all school hours.
This is the first time Obama spoke of Malia, 15, having a peanut allergy.
It was in the Rise and Shine that I did this morning.
Gothcha……..sorry just logged on during a break. Great post BTW!
THIS. THIS. THIS.
They are too busy putting articles of impeachment together against the AG Eric Holder.
I love the premise of this post. What a lovely soul we have the honor of getting a glimpse into and he is our President. There are not adequate words (though LL probably could come up with some) to describe how lucky and blessed we are.
I have one and only one thing to say to Yardarm and his comment about Cheney on the previous post: I cannot begin to say and probably should not say how much I despise that man, I thank you for sharing what he said about his transplant and it just further indicates to me proof that transplant or not, surgery or not, that man still has no heart. There may be an organ having once belonged to and beat in another man’s body, but now it is not a heart, just a muscle that keeps evil alive …. I only hope …. no, cannot disgrace this wonderful blog with the rest of my wish.
NBC/ChuckTodd’s report on today’s health care development was worse than you can imagine. By a billion. Selectively edited to shed the worst possible light on President Obama, even went as far as just airing a part of a sentence!—–and since I watched I knew what he was leaving out. It was as misleading a report as I’ve ever seen. Then they had an insurance executive on to cry tears about this development, which will leave them penniless. Unbelievable. Then Tom Costello gave a report and yelled that “everyone’s premiums are going to skyrocket.” I felt like I was in Pravda USSR. Propaganda at its worst. And something has to be done about Chuck Todd—-there needs to be a petition to get him off our airwaves. He is purposely doing a lot of damage by this hateful, dishonest, maligning reporting. He just sneers when he reports on PBO, which he does every day/night, reeks of hatred for PBO.
Todd is on the top of my sh*t list!
I know it seems like they have a lot of power right now and they do ONLY to the extent that people watch and report what they’ve said, perpetuating their memes. But it feels to me like they are actually in their death throws, desperate for attention.
Seems like this matter of Todd tonight needs to be brought to the attention of Media Matters, since it can be checked that he reported erroneously. MediaMatters is the group that has been after CBS for erroneous reporting, first 60 Minutes Benghazi report, then Sheryl Attkinson’s Issa partial report on the ACA.
They are good at digging into these matters, and they can get a lot of followers and bring others in.
So sad to see NBC and CBS descending to the level of Fox!!! They’re not news any more, they’re all opinion, and Todd seems to be setting the message at NBC. I totally despise that man. The thing is…..he’s not been right on anything, from predictions of the election to understanding legislation.
Todd belongs on FOX not MSNBC.
Todd belongs nowhere near national news.
His sneering is absolutely appalling and unprofessional.
Cannot believe that CBS’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and that Todd is NBC’s Political Director.
Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley would not believe their eyes if they saw what has become of the two stalwarts of network news.
Scott Pelley and Brian Williams are sinking pretty fast too right now.
I have come to hate this site – but this is an AWESOME piece that must be read and shared.
Excellent piece that needs be shares widely! Thank you so much, Tally, for sharing it. The MSM are a disgrace. Instead of trying to educate people about ACA they would rather inflame them to turn against the President.
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/statuses/401123825221251072
Thank you UT!!!!
Methinks it’s time for some entertainment.
A scene that wasn’t shown on “Oscar” night.
http://www.twitvid.com/embed.php?guid=L558O&autoplay=0
Thank you, buddy. BTW, belated Happy Veterans’ Day!
Belated Happy Veterans to you, Alycee, and congratulations on your reelection!
Hey Terri! Long time no see! Thank you, on both counts. Now tell me, what the heck is in the water in Jersey? I ask because I have some otherwise sensible cousins that voted for crispy creme…
I know. I guess there are a large number of people in New Jersey that ingested too many toxic fumes!
I was busy trying to get out the vote for both Buono and for the Cherry Hill democratic team running for City Council. It was a very weird election day. I went from one phone bank that was pretty upbeat, because they were clearly going to win, and then I went to the phone bank for Barbara Buono, who really didn’t have the help from the bigwigs in the party. I went home around 6:30 to get some sleep.
Thanks “Daddy Warbucks”. 🙂
I’ve been lurking for months, but now delurking to say THANK YOU UT for this wonderful post. Well, I must say that all of your posts are WONDERFUL and full of information. By providing all of the contact information for the Democrat senators supporting this “fix”, including my senatorial rep Dianne Feinstein, you made me shoot off an e-mail to Mrs. Feinstein and tweets to all of the other senators so fast that my head is still swimming. In my e-mail to her, I told Sen. Feinstein that I am a loyal Democrat who has voted in every election (federal AND local) since she first ran for senator and that I expect better from Democrats who should be supporting President Obama. I also quoted part of LL’s wonderful post “A Few Thoughts On Democrats” and linked to it so that she could see how I really feel about her participating with the red-state Dems to undermine the ACA law, benefiting nobody but the GOP. THANK YOU LL for so eloquently expressing my thoughts.
Keep up the good work Blog Queen Chips and BTs UT, LP, LL, AMK, ZiZi, Tally, and any other BT I’ve missed working to make this such a stellar site. With all of the nonsense being spewed daily by the MSM, I would never make it without your informative, meticulous, PBO-supportive efforts.
THANK YOU ALL!!!
… Now back to lurking because I do that so much better than posting. 😀
By the way, I saw a bumper sticker today that stated “I am an Elizabeth Warren Democrat! Look out in 2016” Hmmmmm. Think some of our established Dems had better take note. Shake-up is coming!
You should de-lurk more often.
Agree with sjterrid, de-lurk more often, the more the merrier!
I have been worried about the next election since PBO inspired me to become involved in politics and HRC does not inspire me. She just reminds me of old school politics, more of what is wrong. Elizabeth Warren does inspire me. I even sent her campaign donations even though I live on the other side of the Country. However, PBO had more foreign policy experience than she does with all of his Nuclear Proliferation work and his undergrad degree emphasis in foreign policy. HRC certainly has foreign policy experience, but I think she would just go along with what big money wants.
You’re welcome, Lmrj.
I see Mr.MilitantNegro is busy stealing again. Unbelievable.
https://twitter.com/MrMilitantNegro/status/401146489558167552
Went to the Rand Paul School of Plagiarism, I see. Really dude? Think for yourself…or at least say where you got your thoughts from!
Blocked that punk ages ago. Really was hoping not to see his tweets here.
No worries Dudette! He’s been copying most of my tweets the last few days, word for word, image by image, I’m guessing he’s desperately seeking attention. A seriously pathetic man 😆
Pathetic indeed. He’s should be ignored.
me too
Gooooooood Eeeeeevening Friends! 😀
Greetingsssssssssssss Dudette…
Hey there PF58! Good to see ya!
Hey TODable Dudette 🙂
Howdy Nena! 🙂
https://twitter.com/BeCovered/status/401029086329315328
This is an interesting read:
So, I just called bullshit on one of my patrons.
He’s a man of a certain age, white, and generally a good guy. But, quite frankly, he borders on emo territory. Big supporter of GG and Snowden, etc. etc.
Today he came up to me and said “I know you’re an Obama hardliner”, which I didn’t deny. Then he went into a speech we’ve all heard: “Obama had control of Congress for two years and was still trying to be ‘bipartisan’, he was so naive.”
You should have seen me. He did. He remarked on my barely controlled rage.
I informed him that, no, Obama DID NOT have control of Congress for two years. ACA passed by the slimmest of margins in the House, and even with 60 Senators caucusing with Dems, many of them like Lieberman were skunks and traitors to the core. And once Scott Brown took his seat, even that paper filibuster-proof majority went away.
And, I said, what would the media have done with PBO if he had come in like a gangsta, as so many white “liberals” wanted him to be.
It’s amazing. This guy is in the library every day, and as I said, he’s generally a good guy. But he’s far from rich. And his concerns are the NSA, and Monsanto, and other emoprog shibboleths.
However, I did give him food for thought. I know I’ll never make him an Obot, but he may put down the koolaid once in a while.
Ammunition for your next encounter with your feisty patron.
And, as I told him, a good chunk of those 60 seats were ConservaDems.
good for you LL. I get so ticked off with these guys I just tongue tied.
I sent North Carolina Senator Hagan a email and I plan to call her office tomorrow. I am going to fine out just what legislative fix to the ACA she is after.
Is there anything concerning FLOTUS speech in Florida today?
From yesterday, but bears repeating:
Was at an appointment this evening and Hardball was on, Tweety was going on and on about POTUS’ management style and the fact that he hadn’t fired anyone over the healthcare rollout. Got to be a bit much and I said OUT LOUD “You’re not the f***ing POTUS and until you are, you need to STFU and STFD” (I actually said the cuss words — out loud — REAL LOUD).
I love you, Alycee. Ha!
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/398428608869728256
**** you Ezra.
note “for the private sector.” but i thought the free market only hires the best and brightest, and public service is where lazy people go since there’s no profit motive. here we have a failed public servant getting the big bucks now from the free market?!? wonder how republicans explain this case and the thousands of others like it…
Again, old school! Always throw someone under the bus as that makes everything better! PBO believes in fixing the problem, not doing cosmetic fixes that achieve nothing. He definitely is not afraid to let go of screw ups as witnessed by the military leaders he has fired in the past. Chris Matthews represents the old ways we are trying to change. I cannot watch him any more. Once I understood his thinking process I could not accept it
Whoops this post was meant to go with the Chris Matthews one and I was referring to PBO not firing Kathleen Sebelious.
Good evening fellow TODvillians. For some reason I can no longer comment here at my work computer. I can read everything fine, and there is a box for me to reply, but no place to put in my log in info.
So, sometimes it is frustrating because there might be something I want to respond to, but I can’t.
Oh well, maybe soon.
Regarding today’s events, there is a good reason (from their perspective) that insurance companies don’t like this. It means they can’t blame OCare for what they have been trying to do.
I have no problem w/insurance companies making a profit, that is the reality of where we are.
However, all this whining is really making them look really bad. With the way this is going, I see a public option in place within 5 years and single payer within 15.
Insurance companies whining, DC pundits cheerleading.
Both ignoring the fact that the US is just about the only developed country without a humane response to medical needs of its citizens.
Not sure there are any words to describe how weird this is!
I don’t know about this particular issue, but the Pope has spoken out in general, several times, on being good stewards of our planet.
I kinda feel like he’s being photoshopped into every single odd situation now, kinda like McKayla Maroney.
Or like Woody Allen as Zelig. LOL.
Yeah!
https://twitter.com/deaconmill/status/401160587595358208
Exactly! President Obama is not like them at all. Clearly our POTUS lives for a lot more than money. That’s why they fear him. President has no future campaign, isn’t impressed by their wealth let alone controlled by it. All this makes him dangerous in the GOP view.
Did not watch this, but the facial expressions of the people behind Michelle Obama seem negative in the opening shot.
I called Mediamatters in 2009/2010 telling them that Not including MSNBC, particularly Mourning Joke as part of their rightwing misinformation media was misguided. They assured me they will look into it and they have Never done so.
JoeScar is given 3.5hrs M-F to single handedly double down and trash pres Obama, Pelosi and any Dems while pretentiously using Mika, Ford, Deutsch, etc to carry water for Rush, Drudge, F&Fs, etc. There is no place on TV/Cable where such program is available for Liberals. Yet the MSM is widely called the Liberal Media.
http://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/401162970924711937
this is the exact point i’ve been making here, and still have not seen one person make this point in “the news” and hardly anywhere online either.
MASSIVE difference.
KaBoom ❗
Don’t understand how CBS news director David Rhodes (and Ben Rhodes brother) and 60 Minutes management could have possibly thought that #Benghazi was newsworthy and that their fabrications would not be noticed.
What were they thinking?
But still, all the news networks are continuing to report non-factual stories as news.
Read the man’s bio. What you’d be looking for is in the 4th and 3rd paragraphs from the bottom
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18564_162-7329695/
“Prior to joining CBS News, Rhodes held senior roles at Bloomberg and at Fox News. At Bloomberg he was head of US Television, responsible for all programming, development, editorial, and newsgathering. He made significant changes in the network’s talent and programming, relaunching the financial news service’s flagship cable channel in 2009.
Rhodes began his career as a Production Assistant at the newly-launched Fox News Channel in 1996, where he later became Vice President of News. At the network he managed coverage of three presidential elections, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, hurricanes including Katrina, and was the channel’s Assignment Manager on the news desk the morning of September 11, 2001.”
😀 😀 😀
And with this, fine people, I take my leave:
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/401167144227860480
Happy Birthday to Mrs. LL! Have a lovely evening and weekend!
Cheers and happy trails!!
Happy Birthday to your wife, LL! Hope you have a lovely dinner and weekend.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. LL. I hope you both have a great time celebrating the occasion.
bbc has become a pox news affiliate, I see.
I have a feeling the numbers which come out the first part of December will be very good.
Oh, no. For those of my generation who remember the day it happened as though it were yesterday, I am so not looking forward to seeing all of the new documentaries on the JFK assassination. Still too soon. Going to try to watch some in parts, just to be reminded of the early years of his campaign and presidency – a different time. Kind of glad Amb. Caroline Kennedy has other new things on her mind this month, although I know she remains proud of her father and mother and brother and celebrates their lives, privately.
I’m with you andI feel the same way. I can’t relive that time yet again. It was horrendous and inconsolable.
I’m right with you. It was the day before my birthday…..what a birthday that was. It took a while for me to separate my birthday from the assassination. So…..I’m not going to watch everything either.
Oh, that’s terrible. Worse than 9/11 in many ways.
I’m forcing myself to watch a bit of CNN’s documentary. Just started crying like the teenager I was back then. Will never forget that entire weekend, or watching it all unfold on TV – after we got out of our high school class that day, where we first learned the news. Of course, the news spread like wildfire across the country and the world.
Seems the boomers who lived through this event are of similar mind.
But from a historic perspective, its good that younger Americans learn about this time and event.
I mentioned before that my 5th grade teacher encouraged us to learn about President Kennedy and to tackle our assignments with “vigor” a favorite word of his.
But I don’t need to see visuals of what happened, since everyone was glued to their black and white TV sets for the entire long weekend, from the shock of the shooting on Friday through the funeral on Monday.
Side note. My favorite author during my teen years was Aldous Huxley, who died on the same day as President Kennedy. His death was overshadowed by the events of that long sad weekend.
Thanks for sharing your memories and thoughts on that awful weekend. We’ll never forget it.
I so agree. It is so painful to watch.
No matter how many times I’ve seen the coverage, it never gets any easier to take in.
I agree, JOB. I don’t want to relive that time–it was so devastating as if all the hope and joy just got sucked out of the world in one day. There are some things we don’t need to go through again because once was more than enough.
Hard to believe the same devastating feelings haven’t gone away, even 50 years later. Guess part of it was our youth and innocence – a big part of which was lost Nov. 22, 1963, not to mention on many others days during that decade.
In case any of you missed it ….
Obscure popular culture references for the older set… 🙂
https://twitter.com/TheNardvark/status/401168531636912128
No kidding!!
😀 I thought it was GREAT! 😀
These creeps are despicable.
I mean no harm meta, if it is so despicable, then why bring her B.S. here.
No different than all the other posts that appear here.
One genius TODer tweeted that what the president is demanding of insurance companies by his announcement today is full disclosure. I believe we are going to learn ALOT about them….some facts that even the disengaged won’t be able to ignore.
Why do people complain so much about health insurance? We just got notice that our car insurance has gone up 10 dollars a month….do we yell and go on TV? No, we pay it. When I had a wreck last October we got good coverage and a good settlement that would not have been possible without good insurance. That’s the way it works.
Car insurance goes up all the time.
Sometime soon this will be Chips and Jovie’s puppies! 🙂
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/401175000301858817
Ignore the unfortunate logo to the right of the article synopsis. It’s a good story. 🙂
https://twitter.com/thejaoana/status/401172616053944320
https://twitter.com/38_28_38/status/401134609913872384
Pf, our president is very serious about giving Dems in the Senate and the House a decent chance to win seats or keep them. Wish they were as serious about helping him.
BooMMM!
https://twitter.com/CallOut4/status/401176299810455552
Will always love VP Joe.
What? My VP was/is here today? Awww, MAN! I didn’t know! Dang!
Great post…and, I might add, the proper citation for TOD:)
http://jimstuartnewblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-integral-president.html
DF, Jim Stuart is getting to be one of the best bloggers around. I love his perspective and his writing.
There oughta be a law…
There are laws, Dudette, and I’m sure HHS and DoJ are pursuing the cyber-assailants ….
I know. 🙂
I’m looking forward to some perp walks and some huge fines!
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/11/14/cleveland-orlando-atlanta/