GA, TOD.
Thanks for a New Post, NW.
Just saw a tweeter post saying that There’s a Deal in Congress. I am still looking for more back up. How much did #Dems give in?
In the year since Trump’s inauguration, most analysts tend to agree on this: The economy remains essentially the same sturdy one he inherited from Barack Obama. https://t.co/i6XCahL9nn
President Obama inherited a horrible economy from Trump and turned it around. Trump has done nothing to deserve any credit for the booming economy. If anything, his tax cuts could sink it again.
I understant, Pkayden. This Trump regime, which blatantly lies everyday, makes me so angry as well. What makes me even more furious are the Trump sycophants who repeat the right wing propaganda mantra being peddled by their “dear Leader.”
.@CustomsBorder got on a Greyhound bus yesterday at 4:30pm in Fort Lauderdale and asked every passenger for their papers and to prove citizenship. Proof of citizenship is NOT required to ride a bus! For more information about your rights, call our hotline👉 1-888-600-5762 pic.twitter.com/rWJn61o8VP
My long comment just disappeared. I will write about my experience later. In summary, I have been subjected to this before and i was terrified. Gentleman in the seat behind me was arrested by these armed people. It is an experience I will never forget
It’s right out of the white supremacist playbook, that Miller and Kelly are driving from the Oval Office:
1. Stop POC from immigrating to the US
2. Deport the “illegals”
3. Implement policy and strip civil rights to decimate American-born POC communities
They don’t care about the ramifications – they want a white, authoritarian police state.
We MUST flip Congress in 2018 if we can, take as many state elections as possible, and also hope that Mueller’s investigation can produce indictments and erode some of the foundation from Trump’s administration in the meantime.
Amen to your entire comment. The key is flipping both the House and the Senate. That will put a stop to Trump’s agenda for the next two years until he can either be removed via Mueller’s investigation or be replaced by a Democratic President.
Stopping by to let y’all know about the March here today. Police tweeted out they kept 14,000 marchers safe today. Newspaper is reporting 10,000. Regardless of which one it is, those numbers for RED east TN is amazing. #PowertothePolls2018#BlueWaveisComing#RESIST.
Absolutely not, Sheila. Neither one of the three branches of government has the Constitutional power to “postpone an election. I suppose, theoretically, Congress can pass a bill that, with the President signature, can become a law that mandates the postponed of an election. But I am sure the Courts, including the SCOTUS, would promptly declare such a law to be Unconstitutional. After all elections were held during times when this nation was facing more severe crises, such as the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Only the deluded conspiracy theorists, both on the right and the left, are fond of pushing the false idea that elections can be postponed by a president, Congress or the Supreme Court. I doubt that elections can be postponed, unless of course, we have a military coup that decides to suspend the Constitution and declares its allegiance to Donald Trump
Thank yu. I suppose that if that did happen we would no longer have a democracy. My real concern are the Gestapo like tactics of ICE. THEY ARE UNLAWFUL.most of the rhetoic is geared toward brown people. But all POC are at risk and by extension white people.
From October 1 to October 17, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for the interim authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2014 was enacted in time. Regular government operations resumed October 17 after an interim appropriations bill was signed into law.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted several months following the shutdown, 81% of Americans disapproved of the shutdown, 86% felt it had damaged the United States’ image in the world, and 53% held Republicans in Congress accountable for the shutdown.[17]
Bots are going apeshit ✔ Hitpieces are sprouting like weeds ✔ Said hitpieces all have RU ties ✔ Writers of hitpieces have RU ties ✔ Manning, Posopiec, & Fairbanks all become bosom buddies ✔ Trump is in hyperpanic mode ✔
After Four Months Without Power, A Puerto Rican Town Strings Its Own Lines With Volunteers …The “police chief – a retired employee of the utility – and a bunch of other men from this municipality, all volunteering to restore power to their town”https://t.co/Y1xQmLGN4l
Think for a second about what it would be like to discover, as you go in for your driver’s license, that you’re undocumented in the only country you know. To register your contact info w the gov for DACA protection. To have that ripped away. To await a vote tonight. #DreamActNowhttps://t.co/nhaOgBF92H
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You were born on the #WomensMarch2018 when millions declared they will stand up against a president that openly brags about assaulting women. Things are scary now, but we're shaping the future to make the world a better place for you.
John Sinnock, the U.S. Mint’s Chief Engraver from 1925 to 1947, is credited with designing the dime. But institutions like the Smithsonian American Art Museum—and even FDR's son—credit Harlem Renaissance sculptor Selma Burke. A look at where credit is due: https://t.co/qSIRSvy3s4
An FYI to all – I have followed Spaceflight since 1973 (aging myself). Been a journalist since 1981. An author since 1992 and Online here since 2011. My politics crept in in Jan. 2017. Until this corrupt @POTUS departs DC expect more. I will not remain silent to abuse of power.
POLL: 58% percent say the economy is in good or excellent shape, the most in 17 years. However, just 38% say the Trump administration deserves credit; 50% credit the Obama administration. https://t.co/lxmsyg7158pic.twitter.com/fE9RH7ovQn
Just received this email from the DLCC (Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee) Just more crazy from the fascist party:
sheri –
Four days ago, the New York Times reported a terrifying story: Scott Pruitt’s EPA has hired two Republican political research firms to investigate and expose EPA employees who disagree with Trump and Pruitt’s hard-right agenda.
This is a political witch hunt straight from Nixon’s old playbook. Within days of voicing their opinion, EPA employees who had attended rallies, spoke at private events, or simply wrote letters were sent requests from a lawyer for any emails that even “mentioned either Mr. Pruitt or President Trump.”
This kind of political intimidation of regular Americans is INEXCUSABLE — but it’s only the beginning of Trump and Pruitt’s political war on science. Pruitt’s allies in at least ten state legislatures have proposed gutting school science curricula, promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, passed bills denying basic facts about climate change, and much more.
We have to stand up against lawmakers ANYWHERE who follow Scott Pruitt’s anti-science agenda. Quick, add your name now to demand Scott Pruitt bring balance back to the Environmental Protection Agency >>
So disappointed that Senate Republicans just objected to me asking to pay our military and guarantee death benefits for military families. This should be something we can all agree on. Will be on @CNN to discuss why in a minute. Hope you'll tune in.
Met with #Dreamers from across the country tonight who are in Washington fighting for their chance to be a part of this great nation, the only home they’ve ever known. I’m honored to stand side-by-side with them and to keep fighting for their American dream. pic.twitter.com/3v356srhYP
Dreamers need to realize at least now who is totally for them and who is totally against them and support who are on their side 24×7 without flinching instead of constantly snipping at their heels. Plain common sense.
Shutdown is obviously huge story. But still striking the major Sunday shows booked more than dozen lawmakers/officials the morning after massive women's march and none were women: https://t.co/FIYkGlFfo9
Morning everyone. Do you think they know who really has their backs?
Reminder: Claire McCaskill tried to pass a bill guaranteeing military pay and death benefits during the government shutdown and Mitch McConnell blocked it. https://t.co/EeKHwD6EEyhttps://t.co/9Ib5QYvwjn
Graham: “Every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating on immigration, we are going nowhere.”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 21, 2018
It’s telling Kelly culled so much dead weight but Miller holds steady. https://t.co/L2QCcOQ3W8— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 21, 2018
No One Elected Stephen Miller or Tom Cotton President
Trump is allowing even worse nutcases to run the circus.
by David Atkins
January 20, 2018
It would be simple to respond that this is because the president himself is also a far-right white nationalist-—which is to a large extent true. But there’s more to it. Donald Trump’s racism is born of ignorance: his views on racial issues are stuck in the 1970s-era pages of the New York Post, and his views on international relations more resemble clash-of-civilizations ethno-nationalist war games than anything resembling reality. But the president’s understanding of any issue–even his signature ones–is paper thin. He’s also susceptible to being persuaded by the very last person he talked to, and liable to change his mind with maddening frequency.
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The president cannot make a deal on his own terms when he doesn’t even know what those terms are. The extremist march of the Republican Congress and the inability of its leadership to stand up to its worst elements means that without the president’s leadership, the radical Freedom Caucus controls the House. Ultra-conservative zealot Tom Cotton functionally runs the Senate. Within the White House, blood-and-soil racists like Stephen Miller dominate the conversation, and Chief of Staff John Kelly appears to be much in agreement. So much so, that Kelly was passing out a hardline memo of White House demand that Trump had apparently never seen and did not agree with.
Needless to say, this is not what the American people voted for. It’s not even what most of Trump’s supporters voted for. Yes, racial hostility was a key component of Trump’s appeal. But even Trump’s ugly campaign of white supremacy was more nuanced than today’s Republican embrace of pure ethnic cleansing. Trump promised to build a border wall, yes, but he also committed to protecting Dreamers, and his rhetoric around deportations was centered around “getting rid of the bad hombres.” Even many of Trump’s supporters would not have gone along with mass deportations of children and immigrants with no criminal record. And we know that Trump himself even very recently was supportive of making a deal on DACA.
Which means that White House policy is now far to the right of even the nasty virulence of Trump’s presidential campaign, simply because the president is not the president. A small band of unelected ultra-racist extremists is presiding in his absence.
Needless to say, this is not what the American people voted for. It’s not even what most of Trump’s supporters voted for. Yes, racial hostility was a key component of Trump’s appeal.
I would disagree…This is exactly what 62 million folks voted for..
So Democrats SHOULD NEVER meet with the man in the WH to discuss ANYTHING & ABSOLUTELY NO DEALS since he does not make decisions on ANYTHING! They need to talk to McConnell & Ryan and negotiate with them ONLY.
We’re talking about AT LEAST FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18 Trump admin ducking accountability on inaugural slush fund
Fredreka Schouten, campaign finance reporter for USA Today, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Trump administration’s evasiveness on what it did with the extra millions of dollars raised for the Trump inauguration that were not spent.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18 Terrifying reality for children’s health is a game in Congress
Rachel Maddow points out that while Republicans are trying to use funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program as a bargaining tool, millions of American children are losing vital health insurance.
Indeed, I continue to wonder if activism of this scope, and on this scale, is an underappreciated national story. In 2010, if a few dozen guys with tea bags and tricorn hats got together in a park, it was seen as an important development. Nearly eight years later, news consumers are treated to “Trump voters still like Trump” stories with unsettling frequency – as if supporters of a historically unpopular president are the constituency that deserves the most attention right now.
But whether those who marched over the weekend are able to keep the spotlight or not, the fact remains that the Women’s Marches represent some of the most impressive political activism in a generation.
After last year’s events, I said, “The political world may be frequently jaded and cynical about the electorate’s whims, but Saturday’s marches and rallies demanded attention. To look past them is to ignore a brewing backlash of national significance.” A year later, that backlash is bigger, louder, and hopefully more intimidating for those who stand in their way.
Chuck Schumer has been huddled with all Senate Democrats for an HOUR to talk about how they’ll vote on plan to reopen the government but without strong assurances about how immigration and DACA will go. Vote will be called at noon
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham finally said out loud what many legislators are saying behind closed doors.
Senator Graham: “As long as Steven Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration we are going no where. He’s been an outlier for years.” pic.twitter.com/6aR42Jeiu7
— Alan He (@alanhe) January 21, 2018
The reason there will be no agreement as long as Miller is in charge of negotiations is because he is holding Dreamers hostage in order to force changes to legal immigration. He made that clear during a meeting last fall that he arranged with people from Breitbart.
Miller’s goal on this occasion was to sell the group on a compromise: a possible deal offering protections to the young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” in exchange for tougher immigration provisions, such as an end to family-sponsored migration…
“Be a possible ‘yes,’ be open to doing something that makes you very uncomfortable on DACA in exchange for substantive structural reforms that may have been out of reach,” a senior White House official said, summarizing Miller’s pitch on the condition of anonymity to share details of a private moment. “That’s the whole game.”
@sendems must stand firm….the GOP will NEVER AGREE TO PASS THE DREAM ACT…They will use these negotiations as a way to limit immigration of blk & brn people..and to step up their Gestapo-like tactics against undocumented immigrants of color!..#StandFirm
Kamala Harris: “Listen, I’m disappointed with a conversation that suggests a false choice, you either fund the government or you take care of these DACA kids,” Harris says. “We can do both.”
Kamala Harris hits McConnell: " I refuse to put the lives of nearly 700,000 young people in the hands of someone who has repeatedly gone back on his word. I will do everything in my power to continue to protect Dreamers from deportation." pic.twitter.com/xISvuOBMzC
Democrats who said "no" to re-opening the government with a three-week CR. Blumenthal Booker Cortez Masto Feinstein Gillibrand Harris Hirono Leahy Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Sanders Tester Warren Wyden
GA, TODbots.
Once again, Dems do what they do best, Weak and Kneeling.
The government shut down is the second Trump trap that @SenSchumer walked right into. The first was the Roger Stone/FOX set up job on Al Franken. It’s one thing to feel strongly about an issue, but you only help Trump if you do something foolish because of it.
That was my first thought too, but after reading Joy Reid, Al Giordano, Eric Boehlert, Nate Cohen’s takes on this, I’ve calmed down. If the deal is what they say it is CHIP is now off the table, this program get funding for 6 years (so those kids are no longer hostages) and we use the next 3 weeks to push for DACA and real immigration reform. They’re playing long game politics here. It’s a bumpy, messy ride, but worth it.
Important note: the #TrumpShutdown is now over. The next date to put in your calendar is February 8th. The moderates who put this deal together are now on the hook to make a good deal, and the extremists don't have the CHIP kids to take as hostages next time (and for six years.)
Fair question. But since Trump is completely out of the picture, the answer to that is a deal that can get north of 66 votes. It would have to be a pretty generous deal to get that many Democrats to sign on.
so called moderate sen dems will not lose their credibility …this voting was part of a strategy….good cop /bad cop…why are we so quick to abandon Dems https://t.co/p1W9qHQLjY
Here's one way to think about it: are Dems better positioned now than on Thursday? I'd argue yes. –Have a promise on DACA vote. Their GOP doesn't do it. If it passes, that's good for Ds too. –No loss of leverage v. Thurs., since just 3 week CR. Can go shutdown route again
IMO, it was never credible to argue that the GOP would just concede on DACA. They never had an exit strategy. Getting out quickly with any concession is good for them, given that their position was mediocre
The better question is who is in a better position now? Dems gave NOTHING. And now are set up with vote on DACA, chip passed, and worst case in 3 weeks same position now. And Rs know Ds will shutdown govt too
Debt ceiling coming up, CHIP kids aren't a bargaining chip (ha) any longer Some R's in Senate seem sincere about DACA… not McConnell, of course – but he can't lead a caucus with no confidence in his word & sure could come to that. Plus Kelly/Miller reveal is leverage
The Dems got a commitment for an open-ended debate on imm. reform including protecting Dreamers, as condition for funding govt. And they got CHIP extended 6 years. How's this not a win? Immigration reform never should've been tied to funding govt – that it was is a Dem win.
Adding that I know you know that :), but just for anyone who wants to go in on the Dems for ‘caving’, we are at the point with the GOP where this is a hostage negotiation with terrorists.
for 8 fucking years, the thugs didn’t give an inch and won, both politically and policy wise at every level and at every state. at what point does the dem establishment learn their tactics? it’s no more fucking deja vu.
Midterms are coming. More pressure on GOP House members with every seat on the ballot. They're going to paint themselves into a no-win racist corner on this.
I hope you are correct. Other folks smarter than me on this issue write similarly. I don't trust the GOP or McConnell/Ryan to not pull some shenanigans and laugh at the Dems while they do it. A lot of people who will endure real life pain are counting on the Dems.
Not a winner for anyone, especially our military! Repub will continue to blame Dems no matter what. DO NOT TRUST McConnell. He is the bottom of the immoral barrel.
With you on that, Dudette! I recall President Obama would borrow the phrase, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” quite often! Sometimes a tough pill to swallow in individual cases, but, nevertheless, a valuable lesson.
Breaking news: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said the state's congressional map was so partisan it violated the state's constitution. Map is blocked for 2018 and they want it redrawn ahead of the primary.
Profoundly consequential win against partisan gerrymandering
BREAKING: Top executives at the Board of Directors for USA Gymnastics finally resign. It only took 100 victims speaking at Nassar's sentencing hearing. About 60 more victims are scheduled to talk. https://t.co/UPbekOjUbW
Texas keeps records of voters with Hispanic names so they can mail them bilingual election notices. NOT so that Kobach and crew can try to suppress their votes https://t.co/X8Oemj9Hhl
Oh and the voting commission staffer that made the request is the same staffer who was arrested last October on child pornography charges https://t.co/QsVZjIcMyI
So as I understand it, Dems gave Trump 3 weeks in return for promise of a vote on DACA; also got 6 years of CHIP funding. I understand the concerns of immigration activists, but this doesn't sound like a surrender, unless I'm missing something
Govt opens for 3 wks. Lots of people need that. When it shuts down again Feb 8, there won’t 9 million CHIP kids held hostage. They can focus on immigration, opiods, vet benefits, etc. Will have better leverage to negotiate if Turtle renegs. I’m hoping that’s how it works. What’s the alternative? Dig in deeper and hurt everyone longer & harder?
I get it…. But McConnell has zero intention of keeping his word. He’ll blame his flipflop on Trump, and there won’t even be a debate. And Dems will look all look stupid for taking Mitch at his word. Or I could be wrong. I would LOVE to be wrong.
Meanwhile, 9 kids get their health insurance, a bunch more people get their paychecks and the politics continues as we know it will until we take back the Congress.
Keep in mind they’re all about to go to prison. Mitch & Ryan knowingly took Russian laundered money, (probably from more than just the NRA), then distributed it all the way down the ticket… to incriminate all of them, so they’d be able to control their party via blackmail, which seems to be working.
Liar .@SenateMajLdr McConnell says it’s his “intention” to bring up an immigration bill. The use of the word “intention” doesn’t denote/connote a commitment. If that liar had said, He *shall* bring up an immigration bill, that would be a commitment. McConnell tricked Senate Dems again.
I’m personally terrified, because cornered people turn into cornered animals to survive. Hence the GOP adding a poison pill to the CR to not fun our Intelligence Community – so now the GOP are adding yet another venue attempting to shutdown Mueller’s investigation.
I hear you. I’m just counting on Senate Dems to have a strategy and will do what they can to counter the fascists. That and keeping up the pressure seems pretty much all we have, short of violent insurrection.
I agree. I left comments upthread before I got to this!
But the Dems are truly negotiating with domestic terrorists at this point. And I have to believe they know full well what an unscrupulous obstructionist and traitor McConnell is.
Kamala Harris hits McConnell: " I refuse to put the lives of nearly 700,000 young people in the hands of someone who has repeatedly gone back on his word. I will do everything in my power to continue to protect Dreamers from deportation." pic.twitter.com/xISvuOBMzC
BIG NEWS: I'm signing on today to join @HealthCareVoter as one of their six co-chairs.#HealthCareVoters are leading the charge to protect our care and hold the @GOP responsible for their attacks on the #ACA and Medicaid.
I'm exploring mass tort litigation against several pharmaceutical companies that irresponsibly saturated the market with opiates, knowingly putting consumers at risk for addiction. Now is the time to finally hold the pharmaceutical industry responsible. https://t.co/e8Ibu7jWHG
Burr and Warner both furious with appropriators for adding language in the CR that limits Senate Intel’s ability to direct the intelligence community to spend money. Language was added at OMB’s request
They're moving beyond #lying#WH was caught by #press Altering documents & crossing line into=#FORGERY documents➖> https://t.co/WXh9i4XQM6 (That's besides all that other stuff- Like Deleting Govt Websites- Denying Govt #'s & Info to Congress AND Public
Megyn Kelly is a bobble headed dummy and belongs back on fake noise. I wonder how long NBC will keep her on while her show remains in the sub-basement below the dirt floor.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
GA, TOD.
Thanks for a New Post, NW.
Just saw a tweeter post saying that There’s a Deal in Congress. I am still looking for more back up. How much did #Dems give in?
Tweet post…. 😳
Afternoon everyone:)
🙄 😆 🙄
Good. Cannot stand him.
President Obama inherited a horrible economy from Trump and turned it around. Trump has done nothing to deserve any credit for the booming economy. If anything, his tax cuts could sink it again.
Did you mean to say “President Obama inherited a horrible economy from George W. Bush”?
Yes, I’m sorry about that. Was typing too fast and in anger. LOL.
I understant, Pkayden. This Trump regime, which blatantly lies everyday, makes me so angry as well. What makes me even more furious are the Trump sycophants who repeat the right wing propaganda mantra being peddled by their “dear Leader.”
My long comment just disappeared. I will write about my experience later. In summary, I have been subjected to this before and i was terrified. Gentleman in the seat behind me was arrested by these armed people. It is an experience I will never forget
That is a scary video. I don’t understand what is going on in this country where migrants are being treated as criminals.
Hello pkayden,
It’s right out of the white supremacist playbook, that Miller and Kelly are driving from the Oval Office:
1. Stop POC from immigrating to the US
2. Deport the “illegals”
3. Implement policy and strip civil rights to decimate American-born POC communities
They don’t care about the ramifications – they want a white, authoritarian police state.
We MUST flip Congress in 2018 if we can, take as many state elections as possible, and also hope that Mueller’s investigation can produce indictments and erode some of the foundation from Trump’s administration in the meantime.
Amen to your entire comment. The key is flipping both the House and the Senate. That will put a stop to Trump’s agenda for the next two years until he can either be removed via Mueller’s investigation or be replaced by a Democratic President.
YES WE CAN!!
Stopping by to let y’all know about the March here today. Police tweeted out they kept 14,000 marchers safe today. Newspaper is reporting 10,000. Regardless of which one it is, those numbers for RED east TN is amazing. #PowertothePolls2018#BlueWaveisComing#RESIST.
Good to hear that everything went well. I had read earlier that Neo Nazis were vastly outnumbered by the marchers which is also good to hear.
Awwwwwwww!
Happy Birthday AG Holder.
i was just thinking…can Congress…or Trump…or SCOTUS postpone an election
Absolutely not, Sheila. Neither one of the three branches of government has the Constitutional power to “postpone an election. I suppose, theoretically, Congress can pass a bill that, with the President signature, can become a law that mandates the postponed of an election. But I am sure the Courts, including the SCOTUS, would promptly declare such a law to be Unconstitutional. After all elections were held during times when this nation was facing more severe crises, such as the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Only the deluded conspiracy theorists, both on the right and the left, are fond of pushing the false idea that elections can be postponed by a president, Congress or the Supreme Court. I doubt that elections can be postponed, unless of course, we have a military coup that decides to suspend the Constitution and declares its allegiance to Donald Trump
Thank yu. I suppose that if that did happen we would no longer have a democracy. My real concern are the Gestapo like tactics of ICE. THEY ARE UNLAWFUL.most of the rhetoic is geared toward brown people. But all POC are at risk and by extension white people.
Or he can get Russia to pay for it.
Sophie’s Choice was what came to mind initially … when I read that the Democrats were being made to choose between DACA and CHIP.
Nazi Germany folks.
From October 1 to October 17, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014 nor a continuing resolution for the interim authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2014 was enacted in time. Regular government operations resumed October 17 after an interim appropriations bill was signed into law.
According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted several months following the shutdown, 81% of Americans disapproved of the shutdown, 86% felt it had damaged the United States’ image in the world, and 53% held Republicans in Congress accountable for the shutdown.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013
Then they proceeded to vote for more of the S.O.B’s
thanks for posting
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/womens-march-today-2018-womxn-act-on-seattle/
lots and lots and lots….
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/trump-russia-investigation-ties/
might want to keep this handy!
Wow! This is a terrific visual of the Mueller probe. Thanks DF!
KATE! She’s so good.
Dance break!
Uh oh, hold my coat time….bhahahahahahaha. YOU GO LADIES!
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Just received this email from the DLCC (Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee) Just more crazy from the fascist party:
sheri –
Four days ago, the New York Times reported a terrifying story: Scott Pruitt’s EPA has hired two Republican political research firms to investigate and expose EPA employees who disagree with Trump and Pruitt’s hard-right agenda.
This is a political witch hunt straight from Nixon’s old playbook. Within days of voicing their opinion, EPA employees who had attended rallies, spoke at private events, or simply wrote letters were sent requests from a lawyer for any emails that even “mentioned either Mr. Pruitt or President Trump.”
This kind of political intimidation of regular Americans is INEXCUSABLE — but it’s only the beginning of Trump and Pruitt’s political war on science. Pruitt’s allies in at least ten state legislatures have proposed gutting school science curricula, promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, passed bills denying basic facts about climate change, and much more.
We have to stand up against lawmakers ANYWHERE who follow Scott Pruitt’s anti-science agenda. Quick, add your name now to demand Scott Pruitt bring balance back to the Environmental Protection Agency >>
Add my name →
Dreamers need to realize at least now who is totally for them and who is totally against them and support who are on their side 24×7 without flinching instead of constantly snipping at their heels. Plain common sense.
Goodnight TOD ….
there is your enabling enemy.
but a small collection of racist teanutz and a dozen or so turdsters will always get a facetime.
Morning everyone. Do you think they know who really has their backs?
Is this a SERIOUS question???
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-airs-montage-of-2018-womens-march-featuring-cringeworthy-scarborough-single/
It cuts off before it should. Maybe someone can find a better clip
We need to keep going!
It was going to be the CRIMINALS remember?
That’s who they were going to round up and deport. Those that were a drag on Society.
This man is a goddamned DOCTOR!
ICE is phucking out of control 😠😠😠
https://mobile.twitter.com/jessesingal/status/955088992130695169
Uh huh
Uh huh
Graham: “Every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating on immigration, we are going nowhere.”
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 21, 2018
It’s telling Kelly culled so much dead weight but Miller holds steady. https://t.co/L2QCcOQ3W8— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 21, 2018
No One Elected Stephen Miller or Tom Cotton President
Trump is allowing even worse nutcases to run the circus.
by David Atkins
January 20, 2018
Needless to say, this is not what the American people voted for. It’s not even what most of Trump’s supporters voted for. Yes, racial hostility was a key component of Trump’s appeal.
I would disagree…This is exactly what 62 million folks voted for..
So Democrats SHOULD NEVER meet with the man in the WH to discuss ANYTHING & ABSOLUTELY NO DEALS since he does not make decisions on ANYTHING! They need to talk to McConnell & Ryan and negotiate with them ONLY.
We’re talking about AT LEAST FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18
Trump admin ducking accountability on inaugural slush fund
Fredreka Schouten, campaign finance reporter for USA Today, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Trump administration’s evasiveness on what it did with the extra millions of dollars raised for the Trump inauguration that were not spent.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/18
Terrifying reality for children’s health is a game in Congress
Rachel Maddow points out that while Republicans are trying to use funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program as a bargaining tool, millions of American children are losing vital health insurance.
Cool collection of photos to click through:
As millions participated in Women’s Marches, Trump sought credit
01/22/18 08:40 AM—UPDATED 01/22/18 08:50 AM
By Steve Benen
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BOOM
VOTE scheduled for right NOW
This is WILD!!
Stephen Miller’s Plan Has Always Been to Hold the Dreamers Hostage
by Nancy LeTourneau
January 22, 2018
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham finally said out loud what many legislators are saying behind closed doors.
The reason there will be no agreement as long as Miller is in charge of negotiations is because he is holding Dreamers hostage in order to force changes to legal immigration. He made that clear during a meeting last fall that he arranged with people from Breitbart.
UGH. This makes me sick.
me too, meta. I feared this, I cannot imagine the horror 800,000 Dreamers & their loved ones are going through. Who can they even trust anymore?
Kamala Harris is not pleased.
gdamnit Van Hollen & Cardin gave in?
I Think that we should see this as strategy…good cop / bad cop
I really hope so Sheila. I’m trying to think positive on this & believe dems won’t give up on our Dreamers.
GA, TODbots.
Once again, Dems do what they do best, Weak and Kneeling.
what amazes me is how fast we all turn on the DEMS…this reminds me of the left turning on President Omama at perceived weakness
I agree Sheila, There is strategy in this but the Dems really have no power. We have to get what we can.
That was my first thought too, but after reading Joy Reid, Al Giordano, Eric Boehlert, Nate Cohen’s takes on this, I’ve calmed down. If the deal is what they say it is CHIP is now off the table, this program get funding for 6 years (so those kids are no longer hostages) and we use the next 3 weeks to push for DACA and real immigration reform. They’re playing long game politics here. It’s a bumpy, messy ride, but worth it.
And the bottom line, Dudette, is:
Democrats need to give their Congress a VETO-PROOF, FILIBUSTER-PROOF majority.
That’s the only way Dems can quit having to sweat out whatever damage or hostage-taking the GOP decides to inflict next.
Adding that I know you know that :), but just for anyone who wants to go in on the Dems for ‘caving’, we are at the point with the GOP where this is a hostage negotiation with terrorists.
Agreed.
for 8 fucking years, the thugs didn’t give an inch and won, both politically and policy wise at every level and at every state. at what point does the dem establishment learn their tactics? it’s no more fucking deja vu.
I do not think it is a matter of trust..they do not trust McConnell……i think the DEMS have a strategy…good cop/bad cop…we shall see how it turns out
Yep
With you on that, Dudette! I recall President Obama would borrow the phrase, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” quite often! Sometimes a tough pill to swallow in individual cases, but, nevertheless, a valuable lesson.
YESSSSSS!!
Govt opens for 3 wks. Lots of people need that. When it shuts down again Feb 8, there won’t 9 million CHIP kids held hostage. They can focus on immigration, opiods, vet benefits, etc. Will have better leverage to negotiate if Turtle renegs. I’m hoping that’s how it works. What’s the alternative? Dig in deeper and hurt everyone longer & harder?
I get it…. But McConnell has zero intention of keeping his word. He’ll blame his flipflop on Trump, and there won’t even be a debate. And Dems will look all look stupid for taking Mitch at his word. Or I could be wrong. I would LOVE to be wrong.
Meanwhile, 9 kids get their health insurance, a bunch more people get their paychecks and the politics continues as we know it will until we take back the Congress.
Which is all AWESOME.
I just don’t think we’re going to take back anything if the election is still connected to the internet/electricity in any way.
… and this. Much work remains to restore democracy and keep it.
Keep in mind they’re all about to go to prison. Mitch & Ryan knowingly took Russian laundered money, (probably from more than just the NRA), then distributed it all the way down the ticket… to incriminate all of them, so they’d be able to control their party via blackmail, which seems to be working.
McConnell & Ryan are dangerous AF.
This too.
Liar .@SenateMajLdr McConnell says it’s his “intention” to bring up an immigration bill. The use of the word “intention” doesn’t denote/connote a commitment. If that liar had said, He *shall* bring up an immigration bill, that would be a commitment. McConnell tricked Senate Dems again.
Senate Dems know Turtle is a liar. The game is called politics. Get some popcorn. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
BooooooooooooooooooooooM!…..
and the strategy is good cop / bad cop!!!!
Durbin voted Yes….and has been the loudest voice for the dream act….like yu said…strategy
I’m personally terrified, because cornered people turn into cornered animals to survive. Hence the GOP adding a poison pill to the CR to not fun our Intelligence Community – so now the GOP are adding yet another venue attempting to shutdown Mueller’s investigation.
What’s next, Martial Law?
FUND. NOT FUND. FFS…. I need sleep.
I hear you. I’m just counting on Senate Dems to have a strategy and will do what they can to counter the fascists. That and keeping up the pressure seems pretty much all we have, short of violent insurrection.
I agree. I left comments upthread before I got to this!
But the Dems are truly negotiating with domestic terrorists at this point. And I have to believe they know full well what an unscrupulous obstructionist and traitor McConnell is.
Lucy + Football = Charlie Brown.
Megyn Kelly is a bobble headed dummy and belongs back on fake noise. I wonder how long NBC will keep her on while her show remains in the sub-basement below the dirt floor.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/01/22/chat-away-967/
Thank you, NW! These vids brought such a huge smile to my collective world! Bless! 😂😂❤😇❤