House GOP 2 msgs recently – border in crisis, Obama a dictator. House GOP today – we can’t do anything about crisis, Obama should deal with
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) July 31, 2014
We killed border bill bc Obama doesn’t need new law to act, he has the exec authority! Also, we’re suing him for exceeding exec authority!
— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) July 31, 2014
I’m the guy doing his job. You must be the other guy. pic.twitter.com/45HBrNeVnX
— BWD (@theonlyadult) July 31, 2014
#HouseGOP pic.twitter.com/Gg8deWWeDk
— Danielle (@DCPlod) July 31, 2014
RT @ron_fournier We may never see another GOP president. #ImmigrationReform || Poor Ron, he’s not taking it well. pic.twitter.com/EPuC7u9kdq
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 31, 2014
Make the townhalls hell for every @GOP rep. If yours is a Dem, head to nearest GOPer’s demanding #DoYourJobHouseGOP.
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) July 31, 2014
It wasn’t easy, but the President tried *really* hard not to laugh this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/DERKi5nzEu
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 31, 2014
Indisputable: The @GOP is an absolute fumbling bumbling laughing stock.
— meta (@metaquest) July 31, 2014
House Republicans were desperate to prove they’re capable of being a governing party. They’ve proven the opposite http://t.co/Z75Mj07onc
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) July 31, 2014
Boehner yesterday: We have to sue to rein in King Obama Boehner today: Obama has to act unilaterally on border crisis Me: Hee hee
— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) July 31, 2014
If only the House showed some #leadership and reached out to the House more, maybe it could pass its own bills.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) July 31, 2014
I know how you feel about this House Security Bill, son, but we can’t be seen helping pass a bill that helps Obama pic.twitter.com/jos2UgfSWC
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) July 31, 2014
So, which route will the #HouseGOP take? pic.twitter.com/FbQhutAnvX
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) July 31, 2014
And ….. still weeping:
Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks. MT @foxnation: Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore http://t.co/QKe0PkyYQK
— Bill Weir (@BillWeirCNN) July 31, 2014
The Obama Diary 
😀
Taaaaaalllllllllly!!
Hey You!!! Congrats!
Tally is tops!
A gold medal for Tally! ⭐
Congrats on 1st Tally 🙂
I couldn’t agree more:
“What is driving this is a desire to protect President Obama, who they view as being under siege by Republicans. To have his back. A desire that will surely increase now that the House has authorized House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against the president.”
Congrats Tally! GA Chips, TOD 😎
Posts are coming in at warp speed and we’re all rushing madly to keep up. Great tweet choices, Chips, except for the nausea inducing one.
And twitter is on FIRE right now!
Yikes, sorry Jackie, shoulda left it out to save your tummy!!
teehehehe 🙂 🙂 🙂
Chips – I love that b/w photo of PBO. The Distinguished President 🙂
It’s a GEM, GGail – like yerself 🙂
Awww, ain’t you sweet ❤
BTW – You, Nerdy & LL have been cranking out some pretty good Posts. I've just been so busy, that I can only peep in every now and then.
Keep supporting our President! "You're doing a heck of a job Boney" LOL!!!
🙂 Nice events coming up tonight if you’re around, GGail:
7:25: The President and First Lady host ‘A Celebration of Special Olympics and A Unified Generation’, East Room
8:25: Attend a concert commemorating the Special Olympics, State Dining Room
I’ll be on the road home and will probably miss all of the first event and most of the second one. Will TOD be re-broadcasting any??? Please??? (((hugs & kisses))))
No worries GGail, we’ll post the videos as soon as they appear – and so long as the live videos are left on YouTube, you can forward to the action 🙂
I knew TOD would have my back…jack 😀
Great Tweets Chipsticks. Thanks.
Burning Down the House was a great song in the 1980s.
Speaker Boehner is indeed, Burning Down The House.
Congrats Tally on your Au ⭐
Poor Speaker Boehner, the DC/NY press would say? Excuse me…..what about for once, these lazy arse Pundits stop with the excuses for Boehner.
Weak. Incompetent. Sucks at his Job. Confused. UnAmerican. Feckless.
Wow – such delicious tweets (except the urinal one which I can’t bring myself to RT but secretly love).
Thanks to this tweet which led me to the WaPo article – I now know what went on in the House today…
Boehner’s decision to punt on the border bill set off a wild scene on the House floor during a vote on the highway bill. Dozens of moderate and mainstream conservative Republicans, furious with the far-right Republicans who torpedoed the legislation, surrounded Boehner and newly minted Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), demanding that they not leave town without voting on immigration legislation.
In response, leaders called an emergency 3 p.m. closed-door meeting to discuss a potential way forward, delaying the start of the August recess.
“America did not send us here to do nothing,” said Rep. Steve Southerland II (R-Fla.), a junior member of the leadership team facing a tough November election.
“facing a tough November election” – says it all – they care not about the border issues – nor the children – they care about joining the unemployed – who they have completely ignored by not extending UI benefits.
And this one – upset because she was “upgraded” – talk about the spoils of office
In a vivid example of the fluidity of the situation, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said she was at Reagan National Airport preparing to board a flight home to Miami when she was called to return to the U.S. Capitol.
“I was upgraded because of my miles, I was so close!” she said
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-gop-leaders-spike-border-bill-rather-than-see-it-defeated/2014/07/31/1b720ff2-18e0-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html
GM 99ts.
I see you went and read the whole article too. Amazing how they think about how this vote or non-vote will affect them. To hell with the subjects of the vote.
You do need to read it all – still full of “both sides” from the reporter but the gems actually come from the verbatim quotes from the GOPers. They truly “know not what they do – nor what they say”
I think this one got elected because “frequent flyer points and upgrades” – sigh.
Mooooooooorning 99ts!
Morning Ms Chips – you have been busy today. If it wasn’t so serious – I could laugh at Boehner through to the end of August.
Very telling (I think in the WAPO story) the more Boehner changed the bill to placate the right, the more democrats he lost. The original bill may have passed with democrat support. The later seems to be the only way Boehner can pass anything.
Larry-Moe-and Curley.
JoBoomer. You are so right on target with your response.
“Farbissener” is a yiddish description for the entire GOP. Loose translation–sucks on lemons-bitter.
Dem press shops are having as much fun as we are…..
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/494956707861102595
😆 Ooooooh, wouldn’t that be bliss?!
Tee hee 😆
I’m more than surprised that CNN hasn’t made Mr. Weir delete that tweet.
Me too!!
So far, he’s standing by it:
🙂
Public school? Pshaw. Us Catholic school kids curse like drunken sailors in a whore house.
😯 Shocked I am, SHOCKED!!!!!
Yeah, we were fucking classy.
I’m just now catching up with this Bill Weir story and I just fell out of my chair laughing!! Bill Weir? LOL!!! You go boy!
I’m older and it was a different time so back when I was still in Catholic high school in the early 1960s (ignore that part), we weren’t the ones cursing in my family … when I started 9th grade, my mother would say things to me like “You tell that goddamned nun tomorrow that I’m not taking that goddamned hem out of your gabardine uniform AGAIN just because she thinks it’s ‘too short.'” Of course, if I had told the goddamned nun that, my mother may or may not have stood by my side at the Joan-d’Arc-style trial.
Ha. These are stories her grandchildren and great grandchildren still cannot believe, because she later became a real sweetie, after we three daughters were raised and out of Catholic schools!
Ha!
This was the era of mini skirts … the school rule (all girls’ Catholic high school for first two years) was your uniform had to be 14″ from the floor. The principal measured every girl on the first day of school that year, and I’m not kidding. I’m 5’9″ tall, so it was not my most attractive look during the era of mini skirts – Ha! – and it was an awful dark green gabardine material. After school, before joining our friends at the local luncheonette for a soda and a cigarette, where BOYS were, we’d use our uniform belts to hike up the skirts to proper length for the bleepin’ 1960s.
Don’t worry, I’m more or less over all that. Ha!
LOL! Sounds like you Mom exemplified Bill Cosby’s definition of sweet, liberal grandparents — “Old folks trying to get into heaven.”
Oh, Alycee, that’s so true. Ha ha ha!
He’s apologized – pfffft – but not deleted
Nooooooooo! 😦
Well I took it as an apology – would like to be wrong
Bill Weir @BillWeirCNN · 3h
The glop of Midwestern guilt stuck in my chest prob won’t go away until I apologize to @foxnation for name-calling. Dumb move. My bad.
Ah, flip! Pressure from on high, no doubt.
As LL said, amazed he hasn’t deleted it, still there:
Yep – next thing he’ll probably get fired! RW media must NOT ever attack other RW media.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was fired, 99ts – CNN can’t be seen to be rudely insisting on the existence of climate change, they’ll lose all their RWNJ viewers 🙄
hahahahahahahahahaha
Chipsticks, these posts are fast and furious. I stepped for 10 minutes and returned to see another great one. Thanks much.
I love the development of The House of Tan Man’s caucus. This is back pay for supporting the teabaggers in their government shut-down. Now, there is no way to control them. In fact, the teabagger caucus controls Mr. Tan Man. What a charade! And to see the amount of money these losers are getting paid is frustrating. What are they doing for it??? They can’t even pass their own version of anything.
Meet Speaker Senator Ted Cruz.
Meanwhile, the DCCC is sending a fundraising letter for each of Mr. Tan Man’s missteps and mischiefs. Just got another one:
News just broke that Boehner shook down his Tea Party Republicans THIS MORNING for last-minute cash.
Love it. Happy to oblige. We have to CANTORIZED the rest of those teabaggers comes November.
Who in their right mind would dislike PBO based on what pundits & rwnj say?
It’s kinda like how people booed, cursed, mistreated any AA athlete that worked hard and broke racial barriers..Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Tiger Woods, etc. Then america wants rewrite history as if that behavior never happened.
Can you just imagine what it was like for blacks like Jackie Robinson?And they didn’t dislike him cause he was a bad player, but cause he was black. History repeating itself.
I looked at that video and you can tell that POTUS miss being able to be among everyday people.
Merele Haggard talked about this early on. He said PBO wasn’t anything like the media portrayed him. He’s the real deal. You see that in all of these videos.
This!!!
POTUS is so down to earth. My favorite … when he asked the car salesman if he “had one of these” referring most likely to the beast and salesman responded — HEELLL No! hahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh, I hope this holds….
BREAKING:
What does this mean???? be still my heart.
a 72 hr ceasefire, which can be the start of a longer truce. And of course, a big chunk of the money to rebuild Gaza will come from, yes, the US. We get to clean up Israel’s shit.
Ok. Thanks I over-reacted. Any cease-fire beats the the heck out of endless assault but I jumped to an unwarranted scenario of “The gates are open.”
“We get to clean up Israel’s shit.”
It is unfair that U.S. tax dollars will be used to pay for Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Israel should be responsible for paying for the destruction it inflicted on their occupied Gaza territory!
So, to re-cap
Seems like we are getting a bill to help Veterans thanks to hero Senator Sanders!!!!
And just maybe a border/immigration bill to do the decent humanitarian thing the moment demands. GOP humiliated as a by-product.
Not bad.
I’m nauseous because this is a city where I lived for a bit … of course, it’s not the only city in the South with this history.
And there are still people around – hiding out – who would gladly and openly wear the same costumes today, if they could get away with it.
https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/494958231136247808
Compare and contrast: AA’s out in the open, showing their faces. Racist white people: hiding their shame behind hoods.
Important point. You are so smart.
As the white racists would be, today … even in their practice runs back in the deep woods.
Fast forward to 1/20/2009…they nolonger are ashamed and no longer wear hoods thanks to John McCain, Sarah Palin, The Romney’s, all the GOP, and our media.
Nausea inducing, disgusting hate-filled cowards who have to hide their faces under Halloween costumes. Every one of those African Americans facing them deserves a medal for courage and grace in the line of fire.
Totally agree.
To be politically correct. Back in 1938, we were called Negro’s not African American.
Some time back…I think it was Kasai who posted a vid of Smokey Robinson talking & singing about the many names we’ve called ourselves and have been called since we arrived in this country.
I do remember a superb video from Smokey Robinson about those topics and others … maybe I can dig it up.
Great! J’OB
This could be it.
Yup! That’s it !
It is a must listen for everyone.
Thanks Jacquelineoboomer ( mwah! )
I did just have one ugly memory come to mind about living in Lakeland … I hired a woman to clean for me one day, found her on Angie’s List or something. She had grown up in the area, and was white – in her 40s. Since I was new there, she gave me a little history of her own, including mentioning a “town hanging tree” that was still somewhere in the city, possibly near a school or something. Not sure if that were the case or she just made it up, but in a controlled voice, I asked why it hadn’t been cut down. She said, with a half-smile, “It’s still a perfectly good tree.”
This was 2008. The reason she brought it up was that I had gone into my “I support Barack Obama … are you voting in November” mode (I even hit up the cable guys that year, after I moved in, poor things), and she said she “never” voted, so I gave her more of my thoughts and basically stopped talking to her after she interjected how proud she was of the tree, paid her, and obviously never called her again.
The face of ugly, right in my home. A memory I guess I had pushed down, but still there.
Bless you J’OB.
Don’t beat yourself up for someone else’s ignorance.
Did the City of Lakeland turn the lights out when you left…so you couldn’t find your way back? 😀
You was one of them “Northerners” coming here to “stir things up”!
Yep. Yankee from New Jersey!
Actually, GGail, people like W.E.B. DuBois had to fight for the capitalization of the word “Negro.”
Look like I see Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, and his Tea Party Republicans with those hoods.
You nailed it.
I can’t wait until someone tell Cruz on a hot mic to mind his own blankity blank business… It’s coming sooner than we think 😉
Amazing – Ted Cruz, born in Canada – immigrant parents – does he not see the horror of what he does! Or is it – I’m in – now barracade the door.
In South America…..Tribesmen are fleeing too……In the Amazon.
Meta – Bibi must be getting lit up.
I am so grateful to those who did not pretend not so see the horrific treatment of other human beings and chose to speak out. I hope we continue to do so and hold Bibi accountable for this massacre of a people so this genocide will never happen again.
Sad and demented but social.
jovie – hahahaha!
I will just congratulate D. Jeter and not say anything else.
LOL! Yeah I smell a painting coming on.
Come to think of it, Is GW Bush once again 😉 wiping his palm off D. Jeter?
Poor George. He can’t help it. He was born with a spoon in his mouth………The late Ann Richards.
Shit!!
Unless, this can be verified, it should not be out on twitter – especially not in the Atlanta area. Widespread panic and rumors will run amok.
CDC has a quarantine Station at the Atlanta airport.
How did they get to Atlanta? Wonder if they could have infected other people?
Cdc
They are not here yet…..a plane was sent to get one person……
With all due respect, I really do not appreciate all your inflammatory, alarmist, and fear mongering posts. I have more confidence in CDC than I do in you and CNN.
Go Get ’em Harry!
Quarantines using troops. We’re in disaster movie area now.
Drunk and Glo did it again. He let Ted Cruz and the tea partiers in his own caucus buffalo him into making a complete idiot of himself.
The Senate bill was sitting on his desk for a year. Boehner could have gotten this out of the way last year! But no the man with the radiation tan let a certain Montreal moron run the show and today demonstrated once again why he’s the worse Speaker of the House since. Well. John Boehner.
He’s got to be working on giving the gavel back to Nancy. I mean right? No one can be this willfully bad at their job
Calgary, Alberta
Calgary kook. Yeah that works better. Thank you.
Montreal is a beautiful liberal city. He would not have done well there at all. Calgary, very conservative, Harper land…fit right in!
Hi Layla – I love that coming to TOD gives a worldwide view of things – for most of my life Canada has been “pink” on the world map & other than sharing a Queen, I knew little about it. Finding close family living there has somewhat changed that – and TOD has provided a wider political and administrative picture – many thanks 🙂
Canada has to be pink!! – you need to see my 1953 school atlas!!!
😆 Oh, okay then:
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/494969607753445378
: ) 🙂
I have read somewhere that sen Sessions from AL was holding AL GOPers and another Southern state to NOT vote for the Boehner bill.
And Mississippi.
Thanks. Yes. MS it was.
“No one can be this willfully bad at their job”
apparently the answer is yes. Yes someone can be this willfully bad at their job.
CNN….HAMAS AND ISRAEL HAVE AGREED TO 72 HOUR CEASE FIRE!
There are only 2 stories being discussed on CNN.
The War
and
Ebola
Not anything on what is happening in Congress that I have seen….have you ?
Hi Linda – the media buries GOP bad news stories – have done so for 6 years.
Nothing about the failure of John Boehner to get the votes he needed to pass his bill. But you can bet every penny you have if POTUS couldn’t get the votes CNN would be running it 24/7.
Heavens to betsy – as they say – what a post to wake up to. The GOP are incapable of managing their internal affairs – why would anyone let them loose on the nation – let alone the world!!
The Bush administration created 2 disastrous wars and a massive economic collapse – why did anyone in the country think voting the GOP into congress would be a great idea!!!
Good Morning TOD – chilly sunny morning in my world
https://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/statuses/494960072687370240
We need someone to search for that dog and make sure his head is still attach to his body.
ANNIEBELLA.
Warnings please. I fell off the chair screaming!!!! hahahahahahahahahaha
https://twitter.com/Lib_Librarian/status/494968397029842944
LOL!!!
Off to think pleasant thoughts!
Later.
Waiting for that pencil necked geek’s column lamenting Boner’s “competency problem”. If the man who got healthcare reform passed, eliminated Bin Laden, saved the auto industry and saved the nation from a second Great Depression can be so cavalierly deemed incompetent, what term would describe Boner? Or are only African-American’s competency questioned in polite society? Also waiting for all the polls deeming Boner “worst Speaker of the House EVER”. This has been a very bad day for the GOP/MSM as reality keeps trumping the propaganda.
THIS! Thank you EricFive!
“Reality keeps trumping the propaganda” has been the story of the Press vs. the Pres since before he was elected! I remember my ex at the time was a huge comic book collector. In 2008, Alex Ross (a well-known graphic novel artist) did a portrait of then candidate Obama as Superman and I got a print framed for him as a gift. That painting was prescient, ’cause our PBO is like a superhero the way he gets things done against all odds, but the MSM keeps setting their bar for “competency” higher and higher or they credit others with his accomplishments.
The painting is sold out http://www.ruppsworld.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=14887 but you can still get the artwork as a shirt: http://www.stylinonline.com/alexross.html
THIS!!!
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has A Badass ‘Dissenting Collar’
Watch the full interview, Ginsburg shows off her collar collection at the very beginning:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dissenting-collar
Pigs aloft. Ed Rendell praising PBO calling him a “Leader.” Better late than never, Ed.
“Pigs aloft”
😆
Oh, isn’t that special.
Piiiiiiiiiiigs Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Hey everyone, I know this thread’s getting a bit long, but not enough time for another one before the 7:25 EDT heads up, so hang on in there!
Do I need to write a post showing jazz hands?
We will, Chips. Remember the days before the other BTs came on board. LOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG threads sometimes. We hung in then. We’ll do it now. 🙂 🙂 🙂
😳 😳 😳 —> http://theobamadiary.com/2012/10/03/chat-away-65/ <— 😳 😳 😳
Thank you tnmtngirl! 🙂
Okay, Okay! I’ll stop talking – LOL!!!!
Don’t you dare!! 🙂
🙂
No more votes in House for tonight:
Meanwhile, Hook-em Harry is rounding up votes for tonight.
These people have at least get a personal heads up….
Citizens of Gaza, not so much….
Stay strong young woman – stay strong!
https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/494960191000301568
https://twitter.com/marieharf/status/494962241520037890
Strength and blessings to SoS John Kerry. Once again – a member of the Obama Administration multi-tasking…while the House repugs…nothing
Strength and Blessings indeed Gail.
http://abcnews,go.com/blogs/politics/2014/07/michelle-obama-on-ending-veterans-homelessness-we-take-care-of-our-own/
http://abcnews.com/blogs/politics/2014/07/michelle-obama-on-ending-veterans-homelessness-we-take-care-of-our-own/
http://news.instyle.com/2014/07/31/michelle-obama-carolina-herrera-botanical-african-leaders-speech/
LP, that first tweet by Robert Mackey deserves to stand along so comments can fall directly under it.
Morning Joe only has the RWNJs watching his shoe – so of course they would not like him calling out Israel (which, of course, he talked back, like the good media GOPer he is) – may his ratings be the level of Boehner’s.
https://twitter.com/nmuaddi/status/494973943280054272
The war criminal still has about 6 hrs left to destroy and kill and he will not waste a second of it!
Priceless!
Time in
Look at you clocking in and out!
😉 Part of my new trial strategy to warn those who talk about me ‘behind my back’; what do you think Lib_L?
😀 😀 😀
Hi, Bobfr. What’s cooking?
I see you like my new offensive. 😀
vc, nobody would talk behind your back here, except maybe to discuss just how wonderful you are. I promise
Sorry, Layla, I have evidence to the contrary, but I’m not calling any names, right Lib_L? 😉
😆 Welcome, geek!
Ooooo, I’m moving on up, to the geek side, am I? 😀
TY /she smiles and says coyly/
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/494980731433533440
Heads up!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/31/a-celebration-of-special-olympics-and-a-unified-generation/
Good evening Chips,TOD, lurkers, everyone! 🙂
Good evening Hopefruit!!
Here’s Josh at the WH presser today, 7-31-14