President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a meeting of The President’s Export Council in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Composed of Obama administration officials, elected leaders and executives from the private sector, the council is an advisory committee on international trade
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President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with the President’s Export Council. President Obama expressed caution on Thursday about the possibility of the United States adding more sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Ukraine because it could cause divide Washington and Europe. Also pictured are Boeing President and Chief Executive Jim McNerney and Xerox Chairman and Chief Executive Ursula Burns
President Barack Obama meets with the President’s Export Council. The Export Council advises the president on policies and programs that affect trade performance and promote export expansion. Back row, from left are Jeff Zients, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney
The President’s Export Council Chair and Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney listens to President Barack Obama
The Obama Diary 
worth reminding peeps.
amk, here’s my response to you on the previous thread:
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):
Yes, Arapaho!
Zeke nailed it 🙂
Moreover, as I’ve noted in the previous thread, despite the fact that DEMS DO NOT DESERVE IT, the number of House Republicans voting against the budget bill totally reveals the vast leverage that President Obama, Senator Reid and Nancy Pelosi are going to have in the 114th US Congress ….
#TrustBarack
Yes We Can
Excellent point! Anything that passes will need Dem votes.
Precisely, Bill. TY
1 to 4 – peanuts
5 – they cut off epa funding, so…
6 – gazzllionth attempt to repeal and only PBO’s veto will stop it. 2017 is an open season
7 – they funded homeland security only up to feb 15, then they will push their anti CIR agenda
Congrats amk — excellent tweet. Left you a detailed response in the previous thread.
NW, cannot thank you enough for highlighting the brilliance and goodness that our President shares with each of us, each day!!
Thanks Bob. I somehow don’t share your hope. Come 2015, the thugs will unite, except may be for a few hardcore teabagger nuts, and will pass all their 1%er agenda.
Respectfully, not going to happen, amk, for the simple reason that Cruz, Rubio, & Rand, to name a few, have their OWN agenda and they are way more ruthless than McConnell and Boehner. See my tweet, below.
#TrustBarack
Yes We Can
I fail to see how the dems, vastly reduced in numbers in both houses, are going to score a win for the ordinary people, clueless as they are. Let’s see.
They aren’t ‘vastly reduced’ amk and what Speaker Pelosi engineered today, if Boehner had any functioning neurons, should cause him to consider retiring.
Senator Reid forced the 2 day CR. He could have brought the House bill to a vote tonight.
Neither McConnell or Boehner are anywhere close to the votes required to override a Presidential veto during the 114th session.
All the issues the Kleptocrats to whom Boehner and McConnell report are issues that most Americans despise.
Even those Americans who can’t stand the fact that President Obama is BLACK will be confronted with affront after affront by Boehner and McConnell and, yes, they will also realize that that BLACK guy is 1) not running for office again & 2) sticking up for them — that’s going to be a new day in America.
That’s what’s going to play out from Jan 2015 to 8 Nov 2017. and maestro Obama is going to lead a performance that historians will be earning a living chatting about for at least a few centuries – as long as climatic chaos doesn’t wipe out our species.
#BackBarack
bbl …
Love it. And I, too, believe that’s more than just painting a pretty picture. Because I back Maestro aka President Barack Obama!
Yes, not a ‘pretty picture,’ Jacqueline, but reality and anyone paying attention to the House votes today knows that Maestro Obama and his two allies, Senator Reid and Nancy Pelosi are positioned to bring a metric tons of grief to Boehner and McConnell during the next two years – unless they decide to legislate responsibly.
#BackBarack
And I love those thoughts, too, Bob! (Just seeing this – not on the blog earlier!)
I’m inclined to believe in Dr. Bob’s analysis.
2015 means that the next Presidential election is tantalizingly close, and Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are delusional enough to think that each can be President.
And Dems will have Drudge on their side, whipping up the ill-informed tea party base.
This tweet holds a lot of truth — these are the uninformed Americans who swallow everything the MSM/GOP/Comcast/Kochs tell them:
Thanks, Bob.
So admire your efforts and tweets, NW!
I assume you have one ear tuned to the test match.
yup. Our guys did well in the 1st innings to fight back. match headed for a draw. Only in cricket, you slog on the field for 5 days and get no result.
WHAT THIS IS……………….IS SHAMEFUL PERSECUTION OF A COMPASSIONATE PRESIDENT WHO LOVES THE PEOPLE…OUR COUNTRY WILL PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR THIS!
Thanks Nerdy, you’re THE BEST!!!!
For those saying this is a crap bill, like any bill there’s good and bad. But there is a LOT of good in it including
The bill will increase the max Pell Grant award. There will be 8.7 million Pell Grant recipients next yr, an increase of 142,000 students.
The bill provides a $108.9 million increase for Social Security administration.
The bill provides $7.42 billion for health care and support services for homeless veterans.
The bill provides $500 million more to meet the health care needs of Iraq and Afghanistan vets.
The bill provides $7.3 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF), $172 million more than fiscal year 2014.
The bill includes $24 million to help complete construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
See all the tweets from Senate Democrats here:https://twitter.com/SenateDems
That’s why I get so annoyed with any politician who is a One Issue person. They blanket the airwaves and social media with their pet cause with total disregard for the big picture.
“That’s why I get so annoyed with any politician who is a One Issue person. They blanket the airwaves and social media with their pet cause with total disregard for the big picture.”
BRAVO, forus!!!
#TrustBarack
Thank you sir! I hope all is well with you. I’m going to now close the laptop and get back into my book I’ve been reading; J.K. Rowling’s “The Cuckoo’s Calling”. Has anyone read this yet? She penned it under a different name; Robert Galbraith and it’s the first of the Cormoran Strike detective series. Damn, she is a great writer.
I haven’t read it, forus, but am delighted you can close your laptop and enjoy her enormous talent. Wishing you a fine evening.
Yes, saw this on @nytimes’ home page tonight.
Nobody likes the hit on the banking regulation law, but that has to be balanced with all the good that can be got from a bill from this good for nothing GOP Congress by leveraging some compromise. Excellent points.
I think many of the whiners didn’t vote so they can’t complain.
Any republican that doesn’t vote to defund the government is a Drudge betrayal – sick and sad the state of US politics
Bottom line ….
#TrustBarack
Yes We Can
More perspective on CRomnibus:
And @BrianBeutler believes that Banks will be the singular focus for Pelosi and Reid next year.
looks like labs! My favorite dog breed!
So while the House CRomnibus drama was going on, it appears there was a party at the White House tonight:
A couple more…
I’ve been paying attention to the decorations at the White House for many years, and I don’t think I’ve seen the “Christmas tree dress” before – no doubt in honor of our glamorous First Lady, or at least should be!
Republicans begin their whining … and I laugh.
They are all dolts JoB – unbelievable – I would hazard a guess 90% of them have no idea what the voted for or against! There never seems to be time for anyone to actually read legislation – so much for democracy
So true.
Thank you for reminding us to take some time to enjoy the holiday pleasures, including the still-lovely music of our youth!
More coming tomorrow too.
Great!
Beautiful! ‘Tis the Season! Thank you, Sailor!
The youth of America are learning a big (albeit bitter) lesson.
I LOVE THE COOKIES..PRICELESS…………….IT’S A CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST…SO I’M REALLY NOT INTO ALL OF THE OTHER STUFF…I’M MORE INTO THE MANGER THAN ANYTHING ELSE. IT’S BEAUTIFUL NO DOUBT…I’M JUST A ‘NO FANCY’ GIRL. HAVE A BLESSED NIGHT EVERYONE. I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THOSE WHO HOLD PUBLIC SERVICE SEATS IN THIS COUNTRY…WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PBO AND HIS ADMIN……………..THE OTHERS…THE UNDIGNIFIED…THE IMMATURE…THE OVERPAID…THE TYRANNICAL…THE INSULTING…THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE…THEY ARE SHAMEFUL,DISGUSTING AND DON’T DESERVE A COUNTRY! GOODNIGHT ALL!
That’s a biiiiiiig tree!
There’s really nothing like a Redwood grove. Just stunning trees.
Oh dudette – I read that story – I have walked into my bank with much larger cheques (checks) and no-one has EVER questioned my right to have it or the validity of the cheque. It is impossible for a white person to understand the racism that a black man has to face – I have great difficulty understanding why anyone would act in such a fashion. I hope he wins 10 times what he is asking for.
As someone who is opposed to many aspects of our “sue-happy” mentality, this is definitely reason to sue.
The bank made NO ATTEMPT to research their client’s banking history — if they had, they would have seen a withdrawal for a similar or larger amount within weeks of this transaction. And if the check were fraudulent, a dollar hold against the funds would have resulted in no loss to the greedy and racist bank.
Aside from being arrested, its insulting that the bank thinks that “an initial offer to reverse certain fees on his account” would help matters for them. Banking fees are a huge source of revenue for banks and waiving fees for a few dollars cost them nothing.
Unlike the USA, this bank customer is suing for a reasonable amount — I hope this is settled quickly in his favor.
#BankingWhileBlack
I’m on a nerdy-geeky high! 😀
You can zoom in/out on this one. Under each image is a representation of how many people the space craft can acomodate.
Love me some Wonkette!
I like him a lot better than Elvis… just sayin’
This cracked me up! 😀
Way Kewl! 😎
Weeeeeeee…. I’m just a tweet-postin’ fool! 😀
Thank you for all these informative tweets, Dudette.
good night TOD
#BackBarack
Those two, forever bound together in history.
Good Night, Good Morning, Good Afternoon Wherever/Whenever You Are!
Once upon a time, abortion AND birth control were illegal. A woman who had a problem with miscarriage was given drugs to prevent same. Many of those drugs had horrible side affects on mother and fetus. After several children were born with birth defects and several more miscarriages, she became pregnant for the tenth time and her weakened health became horribly worse. She and the fetus would never make it. Her doctor and her surgeon consulted with each other and took the biggest chance of their careers. They advised her to abort the 5 month fetus. She did and she lived, which was a very good thing for her five surviving children and her husband.
I am NOT a one issue voter and am glad some of the poisoned pills have been removed from this monstrous bill and I LOOOOOVE PBO, but I’m crying my eyes out. If that 20 week ban on abortion is still in, it will condemn women like MY MOTHER to death! As the oldest, I cared for her AND my younger siblings, while my father was in denial!
One thing is for sure. Every one of those filthy amendments inserted and passed will continue to chip away what progress has been made and embolden the viciousness. We the people are being punished for having the nerve to elect President Obama twice.
I love ya, Chips, Nerdy and all the TODers, but this bill is a sick pos. Now I have to go someplace quiet where I can wail in peace and dispair, Then I have to go visit my deaf sister. She needs help packing up her late son’s belongings. He was a down syndrome child and only 18 when he died this spring.
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/12/12/early-bird-chat-438/
Ms. Chips, please please bring my comment over from the last thread. I need someone to see it and I don’t know how.
Sorry, meant to post this on early bird. I’m having trouble seeing.