On This Day: President Obama leaves Capitol Hill after his closed-door meeting with House Speaker John Boehner and Republican lawmakers to discuss the budget, March 13, 2013
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Today (all times Eastern):
1:0: Press Briefing by Jay Carney
2:20: The President delivers remarks and signs a Presidential Memorandum on modernizing overtime protections, East Room
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#ObamaCare is a train wreck alright. … … For the @gop. pic.twitter.com/x1zuikFtEh
— amk4obama (@amk4obama) March 13, 2014
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NYT: In Alabama, College Students Take On Challenge of Health Insurance Sign-Up
Students at the University of Alabama Honors College here are encouraged to do volunteer work in the community and on campus.
For Marlan Golden, a senior, that has included being a Big Brother; running an education project for local Latinos; serving as president of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity; and, most recently, signing up people for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
AMAZING: University of Alabama Honors College students bring hope in the form of #ObamaCare to their community. http://t.co/wRwf3ZjSv4
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) March 13, 2014
For that last one, Mr. Golden, 21, has not had to leave the fraternity house. He and several other student volunteers have been spending recent afternoons signing up the kitchen help and housekeepers of Alpha Tau Omega, as well as those at other campus fraternities and sororities.
“These are people who feed us and clean up after us but have no health care,” Mr. Golden said as he and a cook sat at his laptop filling out an application …. Mr. Golden is one of about 600 student volunteers from a dozen colleges around Alabama who have been trained to help enroll people for insurance under President Obama’s signature law. They have canvassed churches, job fairs, barber shops in black neighborhoods, libraries — wherever people unlikely to have health care gather.
More here
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Don’t *defend* Obamacare. Weaponize it. Demand to know what Republican candidates would do in place of ACA protections. They got nuttin.’
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) March 12, 2014
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Fifteen benefits you could be missing out on: http://t.co/DMUGVQzrjv #LastCall2014
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 12, 2014
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The People’s View: Outside Beltway Media, Obama’s “Between Two Ferns” Appearance is a Giant Hit
While the beltway media is Truly Upset (TM) that the President of the United States went to Funny or Die to promote Healthcare.gov, in real America, the appearance seems to have worked tremendously well. Bill O’Reilly is super upset, other traditional media is crapping their pants, and the White House Press Corpse (no, I know, but is the ‘e’ really unnecessary?) bellyached about it to Press Secretary Jay Carney yesterday.
In the mean time, the president’s appearance has already had over 12 million views, sent nearly a million people to Healthcare.gov, and made traffic to Healthcare.gov jump by 40% in a single day. And to the dismay of the entire beltway media and conservative pundits, this time they did not have a story about how the flood of traffic broke website – because it didn’t! And the people who actually watch the video are overwhelmingly impressed…
More here
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At White House today & these are the Obama Between 2 Ferns ferns. No, I’m not kidding. Be all BHO/ZG & #getcovered pic.twitter.com/CSrzYnb2uz
— Betsy Hodges (@MayorHodges) March 13, 2014
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1 #MSMFail. || MT @AriMelber: 2 Ferns 13 million viewers 40% spike in traffic at http://t.co/Zw6MZyeTec
— Eric Wolfson (@ericwolfson) March 12, 2014
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Jonathan Cohn: Obamacare Enrollment Didn’t Slow Down in February – Attention, critics: February has 28 days.
The latest Obamacare enrollment figures got a pretty lukewarm reaction on Tuesday. One reason is that the number for February was lower than the number for January, creating an impression of waning interest. Here’s the lead from the Washington Post’s account:
The pace at which Americans signed up for health plans slowed last month in the fledgling federal and state insurance marketplaces, according to new government figures showing that slightly fewer than 1 million people enrolled in February…..
The facts are right but the interpretation is not. The months HHS has been using for tabulation don’t correspond precisely to the calendar, because of state reporting methods and where weekends fall. As it turns out, “February” is actually February 2 through March 1. That’s 28 days. “January” is actually December 29 through February 1. That’s 35 days. Plug in the numbers, and you’ll see the average daily enrollment for January was 32,744 and for February it was 33,673. As you can see in the graph, the pace actually increased a bit. Among the very few who noticed were Charles Gaba of ACASingups.net and Sy Mukherjee of ThinkProgress.
More here
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Love the irony of TV pundits debating if @funnyordie debases the presidency. Want to know what debases politics? TiVo yourselves.
— Matt Bai (@mattbai) March 12, 2014
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After 5 years of birth certificates, “you lie”, bones in nose posters, and more – Republicans are now worried about dignity of office. Oh.
— rootless (@root_e) March 12, 2014
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TPM: The New Obamacare Reality Facing GOP Candidates
About 4.2 million Americans have now signed up for private health insurance under Obamacare, according to new data from the Obama administration. Each of them is part of a new reality established by the law that GOP candidates must confront in their campaigns.
As TPM has reported, Republicans and their congressional candidates are struggling to figure out what their message should be now that millions of people have gained coverage through the law. That internal battle is typified by Senate candidates like Michigan’s Terri Lynn Land and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, who are trying to straddle the line between pushing repeal with the base while voicing some support for popular pieces of the law.
More here
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Cindy chose to #GetCovered and found a plan to fit her and her family. http://t.co/bu41pS8xDj #ThisIsWhy pic.twitter.com/pOEpPW4WPe
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 12, 2014
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Do your part now to support the final push for health care in 2014: http://t.co/0CfVT9MLyw pic.twitter.com/Aldtd0XMbG
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 12, 2014
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Charles Pierce: What Democrats Should Learn From Their Loss In Florida
…. If you want to take any lesson from the election in Florida, take this one. Defend the law. Defend it on the basis of the fact that millions of people no longer face economic ruin because a member of their family might get sick. Defend the law on the basis of economic populism; marry your support for the law to an increase in the minimum wage, Elizabeth Warren’s student-loan reform, and expanded unemployment benefits. (Tie it to this excellent idea that the president announced today.) Explain, in detail, why expanding Social Security makes sense in a stalled economy. Defend the law on the basis of the fact that the Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer on the issue….
More here
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Wake-Up Fellow American’s Your Vote counts whether U cast it ~ Or NOT Cast Your VOTE this November pic.twitter.com/n8QrDCZNAc #LastWord #MSNBC
— John Foster Way (@JohnFosterWay) March 13, 2014
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Greg Sargent: Why Dems are tying Republicans to the Koch brothers
The Dem strategy of tying Republican Senate candidates to the Koch brothers continues to be portrayed simplistically, as little more than an effort to tar Republicans with the image of distant and menacing plutocrats.
But to understand what this strategy is really about, watch this new Senate Majority PAC ad that’s airing in Louisiana, tying GOP Senate candidate Bill Cassidy to the Kochs in response to Americans for Prosperity attacks on Senator Mary Landrieu:
A Dem source tells me the spot is backed by a $200,000 buy. Script….
More here – the ad:
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ThinkProgress: Obama Will Give Workers A Boost By Making Sure More Earn Overtime Pay
Using his executive authority, President Obama will update labor regulations that dictate which workers are exempt from the requirement that their employers pay time and a half for working more than 40 hours a week, the New York Times reports.
Under current rules, workers can be classified as executive, administrative, or professional and denied overtime pay under what is known as the white-collar exemption. That means someone who oversees a clean up crew can be classified as executive and not be paid time and a half for extra work. Obama’s change would readjust the rules for which salaried employees can be blocked in this way.
It would also significantly raise the salary threshold that currently stands at $455 a week, or $23,660 a year, meaning anyone who makes more than that is exempt from overtime. That threshold hasn’t been significantly updated since 1975, allowing it to erode as inflation rose.
More here
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@petesouza: President Obama with Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk
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Bloomberg: Jobless Claims in U.S. Fall to Lowest Level Since November
The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level since the end of November, a sign of further improvement in the labor market.
Jobless claims dropped by 9,000 to 315,000 in the week ended March 8, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 53 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a rise to 330,000. Continuing claims decreased for a third straight week.
More here
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Ever heard a liberal denounce the “powerful?” Yeah, they’re getting it totally wrong http://t.co/zEN6vP6Rq8
— Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) March 12, 2014
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Washington Post: Holder will call for reduced sentences for low-level drug offenders
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday will urge reduced sentences for defendants in most of the nation’s drug cases, part of his effort to cut the burgeoning U.S. prison population and reserve stiff penalties for the most violent traffickers.
Holder’s proposal, which is expected to be approved by the independent agency that sets sentencing policies for federal judges, would affect 70 percent of drug offenders in the criminal justice system, according to figures provided by Justice Department officials. It would reduce sentences by an average of nearly a year.
More here
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Veiled #racial attacks by @RepPaulRyan this morning are deeply offensive and cannot be tolerated. http://t.co/fTKBeZg6nm
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) March 12, 2014
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Want to find out if “inner city” men are lazy? Put them in the House and see if they work more than 114 days a year. http://t.co/oc3ddb1mjT
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 12, 2014
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A Word from Don:
Yesterday Paul Ryan called every black male that I’ve ever known, lazy. Paul Ryan, a man that could have easily been the Vice President of the United States of American. The fact that he thought it was safe enough for him to utter such hurtful and demeaning language is a testament to the poisonous environment which President Obama must navigate on a daily basis.
How do I let what Paul Ryan said about me roll off of my back? How do I get over the fact that the fifty-million people that voted for him to be Vice President more than likely don’t have a problem with him saying what he said?
I remember a long time ago listening to Dick Gregory make the statement that the reason that black men used to walk around with boom boxes on their shoulders blasting music is so that they could drown out all the negative stereotypes that were said about them.
I work in a federal prison; I’m surrounded by people that are deemed too dangerous to live in society. I like my job, I like what I do for a living, I’m paid well and I’m grateful. But now I have an anger that I don’t know what to do with.
Back in my youth I would not have had this anger because I would not have let it get bottled up, I would have released it somehow or someway. But now that I’m older and wiser it gets harder and harder to deal with the disrespect that gets directed at black men like me.
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Paul Ryan & GOP “OUT to LUNCH” |Continues Their Attack on the Poor, Black Americans & the Hungry. http://t.co/JmspCXMHJ9
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) March 12, 2014
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ThinkProgress: African-American Congresswoman Slams Paul Ryan For Racially Charged Comments
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, fired back at House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) for claiming that poverty is caused by men in “our inner cities” who are “not even thinking about working.” His comments “are a thinly veiled racial attack and cannot be tolerated,” Lee said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “Let’s be clear, when Mr. Ryan says ‘inner city,’ when he says, ‘culture,’ these are simply code words for what he really means: ‘black.’”
More here
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If there would be an Olympic Champion Freeloading, it would be #GOP hater Paul Ryan who lived off your tax dollars every minute of his life.
— John (@linnyitssn) March 13, 2014
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Steve Benen: Paul Ryan still struggling on poverty
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) went out of his way in recent months to express an interest in poverty, even touring several parts of the country as part of a fact-finding mission. It’s unclear, however, what kind of lessons the congressman learned from the experience.
For example, Ryan published an audit, of sorts, criticizing federal efforts to combat poverty, but the Republican was soon accused of misrepresenting much of the research he cited in his report. Soon after, Ryan suggested low-income children who rely on the school-lunch program aren’t treasured the way wealthier children are, relying on an anecdote that wasn’t true anyway.
The Wisconsin lawmaker continues to dig deeper….
More here
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TPM: The Clusterf*ck Of Candidates Who Might Replace Jan Brewer
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced Wednesday that she would not seek a third term in office, ending a tenure that included falsely very publicly wagging her finger in President Barack Obama’s face (to the delight of tea partiers everywhere) to later bucking Arizona conservatives and pushing to expand Medicaid through Obamacare. It’s been an interesting tenure but, as Brewer said, “there does come a time to pass the torch of leadership.”
Fortunately, the Arizona gubernatorial field has its share of interesting characters that could succeed Brewer. Polling has also shown a wide open field. Here’s a guide to the crowded field of candidates running to be the next governor of Arizona….
More here
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I think Obama hijacked that plane and he flew it to Benghazi from where he’s gonna start his war on Israel.
— John (@linnyitssn) March 13, 2014
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Media Matters: Meet Brandon Ambrosino, Homophobes’ Favorite Gay Writer And Vox’s Newest Hire
Ezra Klein’s much-hyped news and policy site, Vox.com, has hired Brandon Ambrosino – a gay man who has made a name for himself by suggesting that being gay is a choice and whitewashing anti-gay bigotry and discrimination.
Vox, the news and policy site headed by Ezra Klein, announced on March 12 that Ambrosino had been hired as a writing fellow:
Klein’s new venture – announced to considerable fanfare in January – will provide Ambrosino a formidable platform as the go-to gay writer for anti-gay conservatives seeking to legitimize their homophobia.
More here
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Here’s how raising the minimum wage would help #WomenSucceed by closing the wage gap → http://t.co/y3z0BLsPJf, pic.twitter.com/GzNS6V1GHj
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 12, 2014
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Oh my…..
Mediaite: Oklahoma Fox Station Cut Only Mention of Evolution From Cosmos
When Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey premiered on Fox last Sunday, it was the first time in decades that a show dedicated to science was appearing on prime time on a major network…..
The show’s host, Neil deGrasse Tyson waited until the last ten minutes of the show’s premiere to bring up the theory of evolution. But just before he described how humans “stood up and parted ways from” our ancestors, viewers in Oklahoma City were treated to sharp mid-scene cutaway to a local news promo. After about 15 seconds, when Tyson had finished talking about the human transition to “standing on two feet,” the station returned to the show.
Accidental coincidence? Or deliberate effort by that Oklahoma station to scrub evolution from Cosmos’ premiere? Take a look at both versions of the scene and see what you think….
More here
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Sometimes – only sometimes – I LOVE the internet:
Our office is DYING at Mitch McConnell in 90s sitcoms: https://t.co/7yigAg4Hkw
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) March 12, 2014
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“I may not be a Marine—but I am marine life. I salute you!” —Kermit honoring kids from military families with FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/6JSSrGvntB
— FLOTUS (@FLOTUS) March 13, 2014
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On This Day:
March 13, 2000 – you can see the full show here
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President Obama has a briefing with a staff member prior to a phone call in the Oval Office, March 13, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama talks on the phone with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the final details of the START Treaty, in the Oval Office, Saturday, March 13, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama speaks to the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search finalists in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2012
President Obama delivers a statement announcing new efforts to enforce fair trade rights with China, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on March 13, 2012. Obama was joined by Commerce Secretary John Bryson (L) and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
President Obama talks with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom aboard Marine One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., before traveling on to Dayton, Ohio, March 13, 2012. Press Secretary Jay Carney is seated at right (Photo by Pete Souza)
First Lady Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron, wife of Prime Minister David Cameron, attend a mini-Olympics with local area school children at American University in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2012
President Obama talks with students during game one of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament “First Four” at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio, March 13, 2012. The President watched Mississippi Valley State take on Western Kentucky with Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, right, and Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, center. (Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Obama drops by a meeting with the Business Roundtable CEO Committee in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, March 13, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)
The President talks with House Speaker John Boehner after the President participated in a Q&A with the House Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol, March 13, 2013 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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MoooOOOooorning!
The Obama Diary 
Wake up Democrats.
I’m awake, Vicki! (Barely.)
As I said on the last thread: If you are a Democrat you support Obamacare wholeheartedly. It is a Great program that covers Millions of Americans giving them the care they need and the financial security so important to a good life.
If you are a DINO , perhaps waiting for Hillary in 2016, you mutter about fixing the ACA as though it is a heavy burden that’s been laid on you.
Morning Vicki and Jacqueline – and everyone.
Morning!
Hear hear, Vicki! Congrats on snagging the top spot!
Mornin’!
GM All, Great R&S Chips! Thank you.
PAUL RYAN AND THE DO NOTHING CONGRESS
Working Hard, or Hardly Working? Congress Gives Themselves 239 Vacation Days in 2013
Read more at
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42468_Working_Hard_or_Hardly_Working_Congress_Gives_Themselves_239_Vacation_Days_in_2013#xtFSdzGGVYzpZL4z.99
Disgusting! It’s a mockery of our democratic system, and people are being fooled by ’em all.
But POTUS, FLOTUS and their daughters goes away to Florida for two days and Republicans have alot to say about it. Those Congress people are getting paid a salary for doing nothing but being on vacation.
So much deliciousness here! My event got cancelled due to a shooting in the neighborhood. The police took out some guy who had been stalking my teenaged neighbor after he shot the policeman (only in the arm, fortunately).
Today, I’m tweeting for #TBT with the Ofa-recommended hastag #TimeToEnroll and mentioning ofa.bo/ItsTime if you want to join me. Here’s an example:
That last picture of PBO with The Orange One is so telling. If there had been a picture of Nancy Pelosi and GWB sitting like that and Pelosi had that look on her face, she would have been crucified by the GOP and the media for not showing the President proper respect.
Don, I just had to put your comment in R&S, it’s powerful, enraging and heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Wise choice.
So glad you put his comment front and center. America needs to think about this.
More ACA tweets:
Well, this will make ya want to go back to bed and pull up the blankets over yer head!
G’morning Chips, TOD, lurkers, everyone and congrats Vicki on #1 🙂 Thanks Chips for this much anticipated, fabulous R & S roundup! Lots of great economic and ACA-related news to read about. Thanks for front-paging Don’s comment – I thought it was spot on!
A pleasure, thank you Hopefruit!
Tell me when to stop…
Fantastic Rise and Shine, Chiparoo.
Great news and President Obama’s pictures with John Boehner and after his meeting with Boehner are hilarious.
Don? Bravo on your commentary. 100% truth.
Someone, I can’t remember who, gave me the link to the wonderful NYT Obamacare story. Oh yeah, it was YOU! 😆 Thanks a million Nerdy – and a very happy Thursday to ya!
Don’t *defend* Obamacare. Weaponize it.
fuck, yeah.
Absolutely LOVED that – I’m sick of hearing ‘defend’, there’s nothing to defend, there’s lots to boast about. So, yes, WEAPONIZE!
Bravo. Exactly. Push it in their stingy racist faces every chance you get.
Democrats are knocking themselves out to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.
DINOs are dithering.
GOP/TP/MSM are trying to turn you upside down and shake every last penny in your pocket out to give to the already rich.
Vote every chance you get.
Vote for actual Democratsif you are given that choice.
DINOs if they are the only choice . Just Vote.
Excellent wonderful news. So happy for the people and the families affected by our unjust sentencing laws.
Go Mr Kermit.
Great Rise & Shine, Chips!
Good Morning, Everyone!
GeeeeeeeBeeeeeee, thank you – morning!!!
Last one:
Today is my mother’s birthday. Made her a cake last night, pancakes this morning. I had a dinner planned but she has to go to work early so I will be making it tomorrow night. I don’t want her to rush and eat. I also got her a supply of reading glasses and a pair of New Balance walking shoes. She was quite happy.
Woah, your mother has a very lovely daughter – cake, pancakes, reading glasses and walking shoes. Huh, I wish you were my daughter! Happy Birthday Mother GoBrooklyn!
LOL!! Thanks, Chips. 🙂
you are special….GoB…very special…..
Thanks, Prettyfoot!
WOW, you are an incredible daughter! Cheers to you and Happy Birthday to Mom!
Thanks, Meta!
Beautiful, GB!
Happy Birthday GoBMama!
“GoBMama” 😆
{{{{G♥B}}}}
Happy Birthday to your Mom.
She gave Us GB. That is a great gift 😉
Oh, that’s very sweet, Nena. Thank you.
Chips this is a great R&S – thank you!
In the first picture, I was wondering “where is Boehner, then when I got to the bottom of R&S and saw what pic you had posted, I fell out of my chair laughing!!! PERFECT!
And thank you so very much Don for your touching and real words and thank you Chips for posting them. Now that’s real talk from a real person who’s living the real life every day!!!
Judith – who is that cute blond haired baby that’s in your OFA/ACA tweets?!! I love the photo’s and the message!
Thank yoooooou GGail – oh, that Rusty pic cracks me up every time!!
Thanks, GGail – those little ones are my kids. We found out when Krister was two that he has a major heart defect. He’s about to turn 33 and a big motivator for me to preserve Obamacare!
Your children are so beautiful. All grown up now and voting for Democrats, right?
Our kids were the ones in 2007 who convinced us to back Barack Obama early in the primaries. They both had friends working on the campaign who said Edwards was a fake, Hillary was too dependent on Bill’s advisers and too entitled, and Barack was the real deal. We have never looked back!
Awwww, Judith – wonderful motivation.
Charles Pierce does it again. In a post about the explosion yesterday, he noted that the pipeline that exploded was 127 years old. Then he wrote this:
The country needs some combination of the WPA and the space program to put itself back together again. Real unemployment is stubbornly in the low double digits. Meanwhile, bridges fall into rivers, and sinkholes devour houses, and 127-year old gas pipes explode and kill people. And yet we’re too lazy, or too goddamn cheap, to tax ourselves to rebuild what everybody with eyes knows needs to be rebuilt. In 2011, the president proposed a $60 billion infrastructure bill as part of a hobs package. It died in the Senate. He beat the drum for an “infrastructure bank.” The Republicans in the House voted 50 times to repeal his health-care law. This is what John Boehner, that fop, said about the idea.
Republicans responded by saying they also wanted to upgrade American roads, bridges and other infrastructure, but only if it could be paid for. Speaker John A. Boehner’s office distributed comments he made last month after Mr. Obama’s State of the Union address. “It’s easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all the things you want to give away,” Mr. Boehner said. “But at some point, somebody has to pay the bill.”
Go to Harlem today, Mr. Speaker. The bill is being paid in blood.
Read the whole thing.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_United_States_Of_Rubble
Boehner stills believes in Santa Claus ?
Unlike the wars W charged into, which were never counted into the deficit. As long as they’ve got theirs…..
Nancy SMASH
A guy that dated a Black lady and has a sister-in-law that is African American…….shame on him for he lacks humanity and should no longer be a House member. What an idiot.
And this is ONE of The Smart Ones? Shame.
Ha.! I just figured out the picture…..They need to spend less on gadgets and more on real reporting.
All the other pictures were just fine except that last one of POTUS with that piece of crap John Boehner. What was the purpose of that picture, with Boehner, Yuke.
The ‘purpose’ of the picture is because the President is in it and it was taken ‘on this day’. Simple, really.
And because the awesome body language of our POTUS says it ALL.
Ha yes, that too! 😆 Morning Meta!
Morning, my deah!
Still don’t like it because John Boehner is in it. Yuke.
POTUS is just fine, to hell with John Boehner.
You’ll get over it.
Love you Ms. Chips 😉
Even when I’m a snarky cow? 😆 Afternoon Donna!!
Don’t be so sure.
We live in hope.
😆 Look at the flippin’ length of his ears!
yeah, joke about his flippin’ ears while he is flippin’ truly worried.
wimmin/smh
That bunny look like it need a xanax.
anxiety bunny.
I could not understand her…….but the fact that he did not even bother to turn around is telling.
Loved the Univ of Alabama students’ initiative to get healthcare for their low-paid staff. The yung’uns truly get it. Now, if only they move their asses to the polls.
“And that’s borne out by the experience of Australia. So Australia used to have a single-tier system and did in the 1990s move toward a multiple-payer system where private insurance was permitted. And a very well-known study by Duckett, et al., tracked what took place in terms of wait times in Australia as the multipayer system was put in place.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-watch-a-canadian-20140312,0,2995139.story#ixzz2vsgmo2or
Not sure where this came from. There has never been a single-tier public health system in Australia. In the 1990s the government started using tax incentives (positive and negative) to encourage/force people to take private health insurance as an alternative to the public health system – but since forever there has always been private health insurance – which remained in place when the public system was introduced.
Rob, Cheat, Lie – Rethug ways of winning elections.
I just read “A Word from Don,” at the top. I’ve got 67 years on this Earth myself of using words, but they fail me now. Pretty much all I can do is acknowledge your words, Don, and tell you that if I could comfort you, I would.
Beautiful, Jacqueline, just beautiful.
Thank you Jacqueline…
Love ya, Don.
Seems like the American media has pressed the hold button for any news other than the missing plane.
Ok … that may be the best tweet ever, EVER! The one from Blue DuPage …. yes, they are a culture of men not working! Paul Ryan makes me so mad, so freaking mad!
https://twitter.com/mrsloctastic/status/444100755956715520
Just look at those figures, unbelievable.
But notice, we get no counts from Mr. Knoller on those issues. I will forward him this tweet…
Ah ha, exactly Hopefruit, but he’s way too busy counting golf rounds to deal with this trivial stuff.
Where are the freakin’ Kochs when ya need ’em, Chuckie? Going down, that’s where.
I need to send the Bloomberg polls to Chucky Todd/ and his partner Rupert Murdoch.
Here’s chuckie sobbing in the NBC bathroom (starting at 1 min 30 secs).
I hope 99ts sees this 😆
http://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/443940767489609729
Enroll-A-Thon – Independence Blue Cross
http://ibxevents.localist.com/event/enroll-a-thon_3618#.UyHeh76Hq-s.twitter
Karma always comes back for people like Paul Ryan… always. Consider John McCain & Sarah Palin. They were at the top of the heap -for a minute. Ryan’s comments aren’t shocking.. Mr. 49% Romney chose him to be his VP- that’s a clue there to exactly what Ryan believes.
What’s disheartening is that our fellow voters/humans/neighbors vote for this immoral bastard.
((((((Don))))))
I think I will close my eyes a moment and picture the time the President invited Paul Ryan to sit in the front row, and then took him and his idiotic one-page budget plans or whatever it was down before the crowd.
Ahhh.
Oh yes, jacqueline. That was a bright shining moment.
I remember Paul Ryan’s stony face as he exited the room.
I guess up until then he believed in his own untouchable greatness.
Hahahahaha
He’s an untouchable, but there’s no greatness attached to him!
Hahahahaha!!!!
The Senate is voting on the Coburn Amendment… vote currently 97-0
This amendment would prohibit individuals earning $1 million
or more annually from receiving federal tax credits for
purchasing and installing residential renewable energy power
systems in their homes
purchasing electric vehicles; and
paying for child care.
The amendment would also prohibit millionaires from taking advantage of
certain tax deductions, including
the mortgage interest deduction
rental expenses deduction;
the gambling loss deduction
and the cancelled debt deduction
The annual average amount of these tax breaks claimed by
millionaires is $28.5 billion.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=91739713-559f-48ed-88a5-cb0f22669168
Whatever.
Oh no he didn’t, please tell me Lindsey didn’t ask Kerry if he needed help with a Boehner?
LOLz!
Morning Joke’s name is on a ballot survey this weekend in New Hampshire.
lol….
This is Chuck Todd’s reaction when he finds out that his stupid polls about PBO/Dems are not panning out….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcT8KN3F_28#t=1m30s“
Okay, start at 1 min 30 secs.
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/13/chat-away-340/
What THEY really don’t want to talk about.
Loads of Information Chips on this R&S. Great Job.
Thanks.