If I told you two years ago that unemployment would be 5.8%, oil < $60, and Obamacare was working, you’d say Obama’s approval was what now?
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Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) December 11, 2014@ObsoleteDogma @Creature_NYC The highest of any President since FDR, six years in?
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Simply Left Behind (@SimplyLefBehind) December 11, 2014****
14 days left until Christmas, 20 days left until the New Year and #4DaysLeft to #GetCovered healthcare.gov
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Dulé Hill (@DuleHill) December 11, 2014#mtp preview
chuck todd: "some critics say" a thing we actually objectively know you did
cheney: nope
chuck todd: okay.
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Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 11, 2014****
Just so you know: the GOP is making the spending bill as shitty as possible so BHO can veto and take the blame for a government shutdown.
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The Tweet Miser (@eclecticbrotha) December 11, 2014If you distance yourself from a man TWICE elected... you distance yourself from the people who TWICE elected that man http://t.co/uoD68oWI1f
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Wendell M. Young (@wendmyoung) November 06, 2014****
Electing the first black President didn't solve America's race problem, it revealed it theatln.tc/1vHoOJ2 http://t.co/x384LstYQQ
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The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 11, 2014Conservatives pretend like we actually tortured the perpetrators of 9/11, so that somehow makes it ok. No and no.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014****
Conservatives pretend like we actually tortured the perpetrators of 9/11, so that somehow makes it ok. No and no.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014How many hearings would we have had about 9/11 if the country were as outraged about it as the Tea Party was about Benghazi?
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014****
It's really astounding when you consider that Bush/Cheney basically did zilch to bring the 9/11 masterminds to justice.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014The coverup has its own coverup. It really speaks volumes that they can't even be transparent about the initial attack b/c of the aftermath.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014****
Fitting that after months of calling PBO a tyrannical dictator, the #TortureReport comes out as proof that Bush/Cheney were all that & more.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014They want us to believe PBO is abusing his power by expanding healthcare and opening a path to citizenship, but anal rape is freedom.
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Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) December 11, 2014****
Daughter of #EricGarner lies down for 11 mins in the same spot where cops murdered her father. #ICantBreathe http://t.co/x29NDjIeZ5
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) December 11, 2014Great aerial shot of UIC med student die-in #WhiteCoats4BlackLives #Chicago http://t.co/oexUSP2HDr via @plussone
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Danielle (@daneyvilla) December 10, 2014****
For a quick primer on "riders," here's Jon Stewart's "America: The Book" summing them up well http://t.co/PHlhGISUxm
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Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) December 11, 2014Cromnibus moves ahead, 214 to 212
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Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) December 11, 2014****
Pew shows 81 percent of Hispanic adults approve of immigration decision
people-press.org/2014/12/11/imm… http://t.co/sow2Bhp6tA
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Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 11, 2014Pelosi: It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don’t have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus.
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Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) December 11, 2014****
Pelosi: This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed:
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Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) December 11, 2014Boehner spox on omnibus: "We expect the bill to pass … but if it does not, we will pass a short-term CR to avoid a government shutdown."
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Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) December 11, 2014****
Its interesting to watch the purists who dismissed Dodd/Frank as nothing but weak tea now be outraged at R attempts to weaken it.
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Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) December 11, 2014The holocaust was legal, slavery was legal, segregation was legal.
If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
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Lex Looper (@lex_looper) December 10, 2014****
Al Qaeda "an evil we couldn't fathom." Incredible. In a country built on theft, blood and slavery.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 11, 2014So many children have been shot to death since Newtown—nearly 200 in the first year alone: bit.ly/1dlqZuT http://t.co/MMidBlSWdS
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) December 11, 2014****
Remember yesterday, you blamed PBO for GWB's war crimes?
And today, you're pre-mad at him for #CRomnibus?
Perhaps the problem is you.
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Andie the Obamanista (@andie_walsh) December 11, 2014Democrats didn't vote but are mad President Obama has to choose between 'bad' or 'worse' to avoid a shutdown
Irony just chuckled #CRomnibus
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) December 12, 2014****
Despite some concerns, Obama administration offers support for House spending bill wapo.st/1BB5t4z
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 11, 2014Obama: Putin "does not have good cards" in Ukraine conflict wapo.st/1BhAZBH
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 11, 2014****
Happy holidays from the Bidens wapo.st/1zV8A3q http://t.co/nhr4OMelNz
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 11, 2014Just a reminder, RE: Heathcare, I'm a big fan. #4DaysLeft to #GetCovered at Heathcare.gov -- your body will thank you.
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Elizabeth Banks (@ElizabethBanks) December 11, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Evening all
Congrats vetivera 🙂
BRAVO NW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Bob. I agree! Excellent tweets woth a good bite.
Thanks, Bob.
A brilliant compilation Nerdy, huge huge huge huge thanks.
Thanks, Chiparoooo!
Hello!
Man, I don’t know what hit me today. I think Charlie Pierce invaded my soul.
I think you’re just trying to upset our ****ing lurker. You’re a disgrace 🙂
Perhaps I was. I’m evil that way.
Oh dear, was it my family member?
I work for the federal government, so if there‘s a shutdown so be it. If these people want to believe that the story of the Scorpion and the Fog ends differently this time, well then good luck with that.
Unless you are part of the selfish 1% persuasion, regular Joe’s that vote for R’s need to get half a clue…they are being USED! They aren’t and never will be “part of the club.” What they are, are foolish sheep that hang on every word and believe the BS lies they are told…. because, as we all know, facts are non-existent in RW world. I think we all have to crash and burn…AGAIN! Because I thought we did that already back in 2008. I guess THAT clusterfuck wasn’t a big ENOUGH clusterfuck for them to get a clue!
I just see these yahoos laughing at the country club somewhere…or 30,000 in the air in the Learjet, on their way to some private island…saying they fooled the idiots again! They’re so stupid they’ll never stop supporting us until they all have nothing!! HAHAHA. The water will be poisoned, the land useless, college will be only for the wealthy and connected, jobs will go back overseas again…healthcare? Gone. Women’s rights? None. Worker’s rights? None. Immigration? Surely you jest. White Makes Right! Everything will be privatized….water, trash, schools…No more Social Security (they will raid that faster than you can blink!) No Medicare. No Medicaid. No labor laws….so hope you don’t care if little Johnny can start working in that factory or that coal mine for cheap. I can keep going, but I think you get the gist. They’ve already told us this is their dream…this is not something I made up…..this is what happens when you don’t pay attention, don’t think for yourself, believe what they tell you to believe…and have fear and hate/suspicion in your heart. Wake up!! Wake up! Wake up! I am DONE with stupid!
And you know, the successful, competent, empathetic, highly intelligent, long gamer doin’ it better than any President in the last 50 years……can’t get credit for doing it right by the American people. Damn rotten no good shame!
THIS!
Thank you df
Thanks, GGAIL…I get angry and more than a little frustrated with this crap, I really, really do. Sometimes, I just want to wipe the entrenched pols out of their cushy jobs and start all over again. They have no idea about the real people they are SUPPOSED to represent. None. Money, greed, power and access have corrupted everything so many of them are…not all of them, but enough to matter. The fact that the majority of the American public could give a rat’s ass until it is either gone, or somehow affects them, is selfish, shortsighted and dangerous. We want what we want and we want it now is not mature or the model we ought to want to show our children. In short, I’m more than a little disgusted right now. We never seem to learn.
Oh how I wish we could get awesome people like you to run for political office. I know you would make a difference df!
Bless your sweet heart:) My family has told me that more than once…
Thank you for saying this so perfectly, Df. You expressed the outrage and anger all of us are feeling. I don’t want to hear one damned criticism of the president for signing an imperfect bill. Any Democrat who thinks he/she can do better is welcome to run for president, actually win, and then deal with a hostile Republican Congress.
If I’ve repeated it once. . .
The most important political office in America is that of the private citizen. ~ Judge Louis D. Brandeis
There you are! 😀
Good tweet tweet evening NW 🙂
Are you well stocked with spirits to sip while enjoying the rain?
Yes! And I stopped and picked up soup & corned beef sandwich.Are you ready?
Enjoying a cocktail. Thawing some frozen lentil soup. And I have Lays. I’m ready!
It’s just after 7pm in Ventura county, no rain, but the wind has picked up a bit — from the opposite direction of the santa anas (from the south west).
I think you’ll need a cocktail in the wee hours to enjoy it with the rain — heard that Glendora is expecting their rain about 3am.
So LAX should get it about 2. Good. It’ll wake me up and I’ll sigh pleasantly.
Thanks, GGail.
Elizabeth Warren is going to be doing a lot of nonstop slamming for the next two years because the corporations are going to be writing ALL the Republican legislation. If she wants to have a bigger platform, she had better run for president and at least get her opinions in front of a larger audience. When Democrats stayed home in 2014, they allowed corporations to completely control Congress. Corporate interests paid for this Republican Congress and they’re going to get their money’s worth. All the ranting in the world isn’t going to change that.
You are so right. Hopefully Obama can mitigate some of the pain.
NW, Excellent tweets!
Every single one……
Thanks, LDS.
YIKES, hard to fathom a tree this HUGE uprooting:
Glad you’re okay, Meta!
Thank you, dahling!
Nerdy!
I just got home from helping a business-owner friend of mine preview plans on CoveredCA and couldn’t wait to tell TOD and first thing I see is the top tweet! Yay!
This woman didn’t sign up last year because of all the right-wing paranoia (she is gay and married with a 5-year-old, but she’s politically clueless…. I know, right?). I kept telling her last year that I would help her sign up and she waited and waited until it was too late. This year I gave up trying to convince her. Then, today, she told me she was thinking of “doing that Obama thing” I schooled her on how their was no such thing as “Obamacare” insurance and explained how the ACA works. I showed her the Shop and Compare tool of CoveredCA, but it seemed to have a bug in it. I was panicking, “Oh no, I’ve been telling her how great the site works and now there’s a bug!”
Luckily, there was also a “Preview Plans” option at the top of the page and this was basically the same as Shop and Compare. Well, when we put in her income and family members, it showed that she qualifies for a nice subsidy! You should have seen her face! She had been complaining all year about how her insurance went up “because of Obamacare”. I explained to her how the ACA is paid for by taxes; that her extra premium did not pay for my subsidy. After she saw that she qualified for a subsidy and how much she would be saving, her whole attitude changed! Anyway, she just shook her head saying, “I should have done this a year ago; I would have saved so much money!”
The ACA has 3 more new fans!
We love success stories – well done MadameSoph!!
Great job!! 🙂
Well done, Madame!! It’s folks like you who are helping to make the ACA a success.
Well, meta, I will believe this when I see it.
THE CITICORP SHUTDOWN?
correction above the tweet s/b ‘CITIGROUP SHUTDOWN’?
many democrats are mad at Obama for agreeing to sign the bill if it passes congress. It’s a poisoned apple, but given that or facing a shutdown is indeed worrying.
Those Democrats who are “mad” at the president should be the ones to tell their elderly constituents that there will be no SS checks this month and then call veterans and the disabled to inform them they might not be able to eat or pay their rent this Christmas. They can then explain to Americans why vital government services are shut down and millions are being wasted. I’m sure the grandmother who needs her SS check to pay her groceries will understand the niceties of financial hedging and swaps.
Thank you! THIS!
infuriating, isn’t it?
I wonder what our President is feeling and thinking tonight.
pearls, swines and all that.
a sick, sick country.
So true!
Anyone notice Perry said it was not essential to have a high IQ inorder to be President when he was asked if he was qualified? What a terrible contrast to our present leader
Before I leave again, just wanted to say that the Atlantic tweet is spot-on! The election of PBO revealed a lot of people who were racist “lurkers” and hiding their true feelings, or maybe not even admitting their true feelings to themselves. In the last six years, I have learned that many people I thought were “cool” are not. After 2008, they all started out with supportive language about PBO, but, eventually, inevitably, so many showed their true selves by saying something TO MY FACE that they did not realize revealed them. The list of those who are “down” has shrunk considerably, but those that remain, those that get it, have a place in my heart.
And I think PBO’s election, strength and success scared the racists who were already open but now are in full-on “revolutionary mode”
Also, Nerdy’s tweet, “Democrats didn’t vote but are mad President Obama has to choose between ‘bad’ or ‘worse’ to avoid a shutdown…” had me saying “THIS” to the screen, as well as LL’s last essay.
I decided on the night of the midterms that I would give PBO a huge pass on whatever he has to do in the next two years and anyone who complains will instantly get a “did you vote? No? Then be quiet!” from me.
O.k. dinner and sleep is waiting…
‘I decided on the night of the midterms that I would give PBO a huge pass on whatever he has to do in the next two years and anyone who complains will instantly get a “did you vote? No? Then be quiet!” from me.’
🙂
Boehner = Worst Speaker Ever. OMG, seriously, on the House Floor? A little late, buddy.
🙂 🙂 🙂 now that’s a hell no and fu dem style.
Good Evening TOD.
Au ⭐ for Vetivera.
Just learned that Boehner is still incompetent.
Boehner with his Large over-size Gavel……, the Town Crier can’t count either.
Lots going on in the world … updates via RTs in the sidebar.
BTW, a dude responsible for all kinds of evil in the effort to recruit fools to die for #DAESH was exposed today and #DAESH fanboys(and girls) are getting ripped, deservedly …. you’ll find several tweets in the sidebar related to exposing the little piece of trash.
So what’s going to happen in the Senate? Are they really left with only two hours to debate this vast bill?
Thanks to useless Boehner, Harry Reid gave the Senate a 2 day extension to fund the govt. Expectations are that it will pass.
They will write something, I guess a CR for a few days.
Magnificent Tweets NW. Just perfect. Brava, Nerdy. Brava Ms Wonka 😉
Thanks, Nena.
Fact …
ok good people, time for some boob toob. Heheheh, boobies. BBL.
St. Elizabeth (sorry, she is too much like Bernie Sanders to me meaning a one issue senator) was making a big thing about something that isn’t that big. There are a SIGNIFICANT number of various bank and Wall Street regulations still in place so there won’t be another recession over failed banks. If she was making the case that it’s a slippery slope, that may in fact be true but that’s politics. When they have more votes than our side, then you have to give up some of your favorite things.
This is more than the beginning of a slippery slope. This takes us right back to taxpayer funded bailouts by allowing the banks to move their risky derivatives and credit default swaps back INTO the government insured portion of their enterprises. Under Dodd-Frank, they had to keep those risky investments that caused the recession separate from the insured portion of the corporation. So the next time we end up bailing out Wall Street, this is where it started.
And I do recognize there were no good options here, but it just completely pisses me off.
A disclaimer; I work in the banking industry but my company doesn’t trade in swaps so I don’t have a horse in this. However, I am hugely familiar with banking regulations and this change, while I’m not overall in favor of it, is simply overstated by Senator Warren. The Volker Rule now regulates these swaps. Secondly, there are additional regulations within Dodd Frank including very specific standards for testing of bank capital ratios that were not in place prior to 2008. POTUS would not have allowed this to go through if he thought it would lead to a bank failure and/or any type of bailout. A fair analysis of it is below from Vox:
How big a deal is this?
In the grand scheme of things, Section 716 is not earth-shattering in its impact. Repeal would not end all regulation of derivatives, and it would not repeal the Volcker Rule which has some similar effects. But proponents of stricter regulation have two main concerns.
One is simply directional. They feel the banking sector remains under-regulated in the wake of Dodd-Frank, not over-regulated, and that any moves to loosen the chains are simply a step in the wrong direction.
The other concern relates to political economy. As long as lobbyists are fighting on Capitol Hill about swaps pushout, they have less time to fight about other things. If the banks win this fight, then that frees up time and resources to fight for the repeal of other provisions. And the precedent of repealing a bank regulation in a government funding bill would be very dangerous. If it works this time, the banks may ask for more repeals next time around.
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/11/7373831/swaps-pushout
They’ve been warned …. they are sowing the seeds of their destruction and I’m going to be watering and fertilizing it from now until 8 Nov 2016 ….
Yes We Can
tweet of the day.
I know I spoke much smack today, but this is the favorite of my tweets.
This seems like something that might interest Arapaho (and,no Arap, I didn’t look any further that the face of the tweet)
Another one for you?
Thanks for thinking about me, VC — love maps, but couldn’t get the map to open for me. 😦
If the passing of a routine budget becomes a “breaking news”, you know the system is totally fucked up.
Since you don’t tweet…
Thanks man.
you think this budget hurts? just wait till 2015 when thugs will be in total control of your lives.
Don’t we know it. That was the advantage in passing this now, at least the major priorities are funded through Sept 2015. There’s a lot I don’t like in this but could have lived with it and kept my mouth shut but for the Citigroup provision. That just drives me crazy given we still are recovering from the banks’ actions last time around.
wanna bet the first thing the new senate will do is to blow away the 60 votes rule? murkans ain’t seen nothing yet.
Oh. My. God.
I just got followed by Lisa Scottoline.
Who is she? Major author.
I’m plotzing.
Night all…
Hope you have a restful night, df
G’Night, everyone!
Good night VC and thank you for the lovely image …
😀
priceless 🙂
btw, all tweets today are spot on, ut. great selection of propane jane’s.
Thanks, Amk.
truly amazing how the thugs got rewarded richly for their blatant treason by the voters & nonvoters. just because a black man.
My (re-elected) rep voted for the CRomnibus:
Sorry, forgot to say that my rep is Brownley.
so basically, the dems own this clusterfuck? they could have at least gotten some of their demands in.
Just the opposite, amk.
See my tweet, below.
Senator Reid and Nancy Pelosi know that the only way McConnell and Boehner will get ANYTHING done in the 114th Congress is with their support (and the Presidents).
the thugs have gotten what they wanted with this 114th congress – watered down bank reforms, epa lower funding, effectively killing funds for PBO’s immigration plans, rich people get to own congress legally. what and how exactly the dems can and will leverage in the next 2 months?
I’m referring to the 114th Congress which convenes in Jan, 2015, amk.
Look at the number of House Republicans who voted against the bill. That tea party gang will only be larger in the 114th. Boehner will not be able to pass any legislation without Dems. The same holds for McConnell in the Senate, especially with thugs like Rand, Cruz, Rubio, the witch from Iowa and others undermining him every chance they get.
What matters, and why the White House pressed Dems so hard today to achieve, is that we do not have a Government shutdown, now.
President Obama, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi have incredible power over the GOP in the 114th – not because Dems voted but because they know that Boehner and McConnell are stuck with too significant a number of nuts to be able to do anything legislatively without Dem support.
#BackBarack
Josh Earnest outlined today the priorities of President Obama that are funded with the CRomnibus:
1) Ebola
2) ISIL/Daesh
3) Early childhood education
4) Consumer Protection & SEC funding are both doubled from what they are now
5) Climate change
6) ACA
7) Immigration
For a perspective on why 67 Republicans voted no (from yesterday):
Final vote count 219-206; NV-10
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll563.xml
Very proud of my representative who voted against this shame of a bill. When Dimon is lobbying members of Congress…..makes my blood boil.
Advice she should take …
Yes We Can
absolutely!
She’s effective now. The country is conversing about her, and if she runs she’ll get votes because the political parties are changing. Moderate Republicans are dead, and now the Democratic Party is in flux. Democrat-lite cannot combat what passes for the Republican Party nowadays. What’s needed is full-throated Democratic populism. Hillary Clinton’s time may have just come and gone with this vote tonight. It may just be Cruz vs. Warren in 2016 for the future of America and the very definition of democracy itself.
Agree recoop2 – specifically, Hillary should save her time, breath and money.
Whether it’s Warren v Cruz or Warren v whatever scum the GOP oozes onto the ticket in 2016, she will win.
#TrustBarack
Yes We Can
Had a very long, busy day at work today but, my embossed Christmas card from the White House was in my mailbox, so that made up for it. So excited!
Senator Reid on the floor …. 2 day CR up for a vote … unanimous consent requested … 2 day CR has passed … Senate will take up the House bill tomorrow … 4 hours of debate tomorrow … votes on concurrent resolutions to follow … then votes on nominations to follow … then legislative session will resume and that’ll be when they either vote on the budget or ….
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/11/the-presidents-day-39/