President Obama looks out the window of Marine One during the flight to Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 11, 2012 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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The Week Ahead:
Monday: The President will welcome the President of Spain, Mariano Rajoy Brey, to the White House
Tuesday: The President will hold a Cabinet meeting, and in the afternoon he will welcome the 2013 NBA Champion Miami Heat to the White House to honor the team on winning their second straight championship title
Wednesday: The President will travel to Raleigh, North Carolina, for an event on the economy
Thursday: The President and First Lady will host an event at the White House on expanding college opportunity
Friday: The President will make remarks about the outcome of the review that he has led on the issue of signal intelligence
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What Chris Christie woke up to this morning. pic.twitter.com/TpEp30lkwj
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 11, 2014
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Steve Benen: How not to respond to scandal
As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) bridge scandal continues to unfold, his allies and defenders have a serious challenge. Under the most generous of scenarios, the governor was clueless about his own team’s corruption, kept in the dark while his top aides abused their power in his name, deliberately crippling a community over petty politics.
Many Republicans and Christie admirers aren’t sure how best to respond, but they’ve taken a long look at the available evidence, and have decided to ask the question that matters most to them: “Isn’t President Obama awful?”
…. It’s hard to know where to start with such a ridiculous response to a controversy….
…. Republicans and other Christie admirers, instead of dealing with the bridge story on the merits, are comparing the responses to a legitimate controversy and discredited faux-controversies. In their eagerness to defend the governor, they’re criticizing the president for reasons that simply don’t make sense.
Full post here
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Usual Comments From Rightwing When Trying 2 Divert Criticism #CHRISCHRISTIE #NJGov #ChrisChristieExcuses #bridgegate pic.twitter.com/T7fFBd5cO0
— Barbara T (@StopTheCrazies1) January 11, 2014
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MoooOOOooorning everyone – grrr, got completely distracted this morning and ran out of time to look up newsie stuff, will try to catch up through the day. Meanwhile, happy Saturday!
The Obama Diary 
GM All!!
Allison! Mooooorning everyone!
Thanks for the R&S. Hope Danny is doing well!
Good morning Chips and Danny, and congratulations on first, Alison!
Moooooooorning Mary!
Thx Mary1!!
Chelsea = Winners.
Manchester United = Losers.
Good Morning, Chiparooooo. It’s a beautiful day.
“grrr, got completely distracted this morning and ran out of time to look up newsie stuff, will try to catch up through the day. ”
A HAH 🙂
Cave Canem !
Ha, I can’t blame Danny, Toon – although he didn’t help!!!
Happy Saturday!!!!
Congrats on first, Allison!!
Thanks Africa!!
“In their eagerness to defend the governor, they’re criticizing the president for reasons that simply don’t make sense.” And how is this different from the way they’ve behaved for the past 5 years? Is this a surprise?
Does this sound familiar, Chips?
Awwwwwwwwww Mary, deliciously cute!! 🙂
Welcome to my world…….
GREAT tweet. 🙂
😆 Look at his face!!! I want to adopt him! Or her.
I love it!!
They do grow into huge gorillas. You know that, don’t you?
🙂 But probably no bigger than Danny, 57 – I think he grew another three feet this week!
You have fitted him for a saddle, haven’t you?
A two-ton black lab – one for the record books.
Ha, we’re getting very close to saddle-fitting time – what an excellent idea!
That could solve some of your early morning problems…
😆 I LOOOOOOOVE these pics!!!
I remember this photo from a year or two ago. Still adorable:)
three figure RT’s? 😯
think 1st time evah.
You megastar!!!! 🙂
I should tweet more often when I’m sleepy.
Or when you’re asleep – that’d be a hoot.
Amk, I said that was a sweet tweet yesterday & I was correct! It’s awesome!!
TY GG (wait gg ? :shock:)
Stop it! You know it’s me, GGail, not that gg person 😆
Hmmmmm…… Amk? Have you ever seen GGail and GG in the same room??
Not you too! See – that’s how rumors get started!! LOL
egg.sack.lee
how do I know for sure? show me your burth certyficayte.
Do you want to see the amurikan version?
nah, the brazilian version
Oh… that will take some…time, I need some ink for my graphics printer 😀
Your spelling is atrocious It’s ‘curtifacat.
my bayd.
Actually, my spelling is atrocious, too. It’s ‘surtificat’. My bayd.
Amk, it’s a fantastic tweet (thank you) . You certainly captured the GOP’s modus operandi.
TY WT.
Well deserved, amk!
Happy Saturday, Chips and TODville!
Haaaaaaaappy Saturday Jacqueline!!!
Enjoy yer day, sweetie pie!
WHOA! You struck gold with that one!
Great Read…they should all be laughed at and ridiculed for this farce.
http://pleasecutthecrap.com/the-republican-small-government-joke/
Oh my gawd, that’s a scream – cats really do rule.
OMG, I love it. That is my Sassy, she rules the house!
Happy Saturday everyone. Well this winter warming trend is here. We go from 0 to a high of over 40. I really hate this weather. I want snow lots of snow. But there is no climate change.
GOP scandalmongers hope and dreams.
Well, this explains a lot…
“Chris Christie Unaware That He Was Governor”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(18)
Egypt’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would run for president if the people request it and the military supports the bid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25697004
juuuust great
Still GOP don’t care.
😆 The meanie, he doesn’t even want it! The way he puts his paw on the kid’s hand is tooooo funny!
watch the kid’s eyes literally bulge when the animal devours the cookie.
direct tv
Chipsticks, is my Good morning stuck in moderation?
Well, I’ll try it again…
Good West Coast morning Chipsticks & TOD family!
Ahoy mates. I will probably need a bit of shoring up today, for sure. I awoke to the middle of the MHP show. As my eyes begin to focus, the first thing I see is the Uncle Tom Ron Christie..sheesh! My day is in ruins. And I haven’t had me coffee yet…….Christie’s are everywhere. 😦
“The strategy also served to distract attention from the real cause of the working class’s shrinking paychecks — corporations that were busily busting unions, outsourcing abroad and replacing jobs with automated equipment and, subsequently, computers and robotics…
But the divide-and-conquer strategy is no longer convincing because the dividing line between poor and middle class has all but disappeared. “They” are fast becoming “us.””
And the GOP never learns and will never change.
It is WHO they are…no matter how much suga coating they try to put on their message…the bitterness comes thru
Former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean, one of the state’s most revered figures and a mentor to current Republican Gov. Chris Christie, contends that the leadership qualities Christie has shown while in office should give pause to voters nationally, as they begin to size up Christie as a potential president.
“On the one hand, I think he’s got a lot to offer. I think he’s the most able politician since Bill Clinton,” Kean (R) said in an interview with The Washington Post. “On the other hand, you look at these other qualities and ask, do you really want that in your president?”
Bill Clinton ?
Gag…
I think he’s the most able politician since Bill Clinton,”
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this statement nullifies everything he says….call in question his judgment!
Bill Clinton?
Nuff said
We already knew that!
nice to have confirmation from a ‘respected’ gop govnor though.
I heard Kean on the teevee yesterday, and he slipped in a “this isn’t the guy I knew,” and seemed to be giving Christie the benefit of the doubt … gag. I see that’s changed. Apparently, Christie “showed up at Kean’s door at age 16” to get involved helping his campaign. So, it’s all a matter of who you know and don’t know. Gag again!
The long knives are out, baby!!!!!
Good Saturday TODable TODbots.
Christie got his political start at 16 by volunteering during Gov Kean’s race in the 1970s. Not too long ago, Christie went after Kean’s son who was a NJ state senator for he mildly criticized Christie and Christie wanted a Pound of Kean’s Flesh by making things harder for him and wanting to dethrone him from office.
Note Christie won with 22% of the Votes over Buono, however, his coattail was Just One win. Minimum wage passed. Marriage equality after his veto and several court challenges is now the Law of the land in NJ.
I will repeat again. There is no difference between Nixon and Christie. He got that way for as Buono said during her concession speech, so many NJ Dems made Christie’s abusive behavior possible. Now the whole state is aware of this corruption. It is now a matter of time as Buono said before Christie would Call Uncle.
https://twitter.com/wholden42/status/422053028665905152
Lately, all the tweets posted here have shown up as text only; they used to be the full tweet. Does anyone else see this or have any info as to why?
Hiya Mary, that must be a browser issue? They’re coming up fine for me, I use Firefox.
I can try a different browser. I use Chrome and that has always worked, so maybe there was an update that changed something. Thanks 🙂
chrome has been giving me all sorts of problems lately. I think the latest update messed up everything.
That’s too bad; i really like Chrome 😦
They are showing up for me, too. I’m on Safari.
Have you tried shutting down your browser and opening up a new page?
Thanks Meta, I’m on Chrome and it’s always worked before. I’ll try a different one.
some time you have to give them time to show up.
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is a piece of dog shit; this fucker couldn’t even provide safe drinking water for the citizens of his state. But yet this fucker wants to runs around bad-mouthing Obamacare and sucking the balls of any industry that comes to his state looking for tax breaks and trying to avoid paying minimum wage. This guy never met an owner of a coal mine whose dick he wouldn’t suck. This guy has let private industry come to his state and gangbang the people of West Virginia. I despise this motherfucker, he stands for nothing, he sits up on tv with an intense cockeyed gaze and act as though the gobbledygook that comes out of his pie-hole makes sense. His ambition in life is to be Wayne LaPierre’s fluffer, god help the good people of West Virginia.
basically, me thinks the voters don’t deserve it.
sometimes I agree with you…I try not to let my cynicism get in the way of My Hope…..
On Friday while waiting for the bus…I struck up a conversation with one of my bus mates…she is a woman around my age…we were speaking about Christie….I told her that this is what happens when folks do not vote and are not taking an active role in their gov/she was not convinced she stated that it does not matter what we do/that politicians are going to do what ever they choose/I countered by saying what PBO has said that WE are the Change we Seek/I also told her another thing that PBO has said…that a cynical electorate is a threat to our democracy/well the outcome of this conversation is that she got offended that I called her …ummm…cynical…..Hellooooo…but I will say…I have had this discussion with lot of folks….my response to them is that you can not use that as an excuse to be uninvolved/and I remind them that we elected PBO not once but twice!
Keeping HOPE alive!
His own mentor says this:
But he goes too far here:
Africa let them have that, let them have Christie and Bill Clinton; let’s not deprive them of their fleeting joy. Even a man on death row gets to choose his final meal.
hahahahaha…
THIS:
Ariel Sharon Dies At 85.
Who won the state senate seat that was open in VA?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-senate-control-hangs-in-balance-as-democrat-leads-special-election-by-22-votes/2014/01/07/490629f0-7735-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
Dem leads by just 22 votes as of 3 days ago.
So your ass want to push that “rugged individualism” bullshit, you believe in “states-rights” and “market driven solutions,” you think there is too much “regulation?” then have at it motherfucker. But when the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has to step in and provide clean drinking water so your citizens don’t catch Botulism or Cholera or any other nasty sounding disease all because you want to show the country how much you don’t need the EPA or any other government agency tasked with keeping your funky ass state from turning into a modern day “MadMax” or “Book of Eli” dystopian wasteland. Well then motherfucker go right on ahead and keep praying to the gods of “deregulation.”
AMEN!
Dear Red State Republicans and citizens
Who keep voting for the GOP:
If you are still for small government and deregulation go get your self a tall glass of WV dirty water! You hate the black man sending you clean drinking water and health care, show your true tea party colors and say no thanks I like dirty water, going w/o medicine and breathing foul air.
KaBoom.
Nothing Like Investigations from all quarters to unearth the unearthable. NJ, the Garden state, Sunshine and Heatwave are about to descend in NJ in WINTER. 😯 😆 🙄 😎
The Larger their Massive Ego, the Quicker the Fall ❓
Right about now everyone in Christie’s “den of thieves” are out looking for lawyers. I’m still sticking with my theory that sex is somewhere hidden in all this mess.
Hmmm there’s the Rachel Maddow alternative theory and then there’s Don’s can’t trust a big butt and a smile theory. Wonder who’s right:)
Ha:)
Crisis In West Virginia: Wal-Mart Calls In Police To Guard Bottled Water Delivery
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/10/3149971/crisis-wal-mart-west-virginia-water-delivery/
UP WITH STEVE KORNACKI – FASCINATING SEGMENT ON CHRIS CHRISTIE SCANDAL
Who’s who in the Chris Christie scandal
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Chris Christie is the biggest star of the George Washington Bridge story, but right now it involves 5 other key players. Steve Kornacki introduces the major people involved.
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http://on.msnbc.com/1dFlmGD
So today is the 12th anniversary of the Opening of the Guantanamo Detention camp?
Jan 11, 2002-Jan 11, 2014.
A Detention camp in Cuba.
Now that the NJ Bridge was closed during the 9-11 anniversary……perhaps, Christie should be sent to Gitmo?
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/01/11/chat-away-315/
media darling christie