As first lady of the United States, and the first Black person to serve in the role, Obama "has emerged as one of the most influential and iconic women of the 21st century," a statement from the National Women's Hall of Fame says. https://t.co/0mO4EVuqaJ
Good morning all. It is a good day! First day of spring break so we have a week off from homeschooling. Mommy took off today and tomorrow so she and Aliya can do things together. 🙂 I returned to the Y Friday after one year and a day. Whew! The weekend soreness was something else. I returned this morning and it was easier than Friday. 🙂 We returned to in person church yesterday after exactly one year. It was amazing and wonderful!! The sun is shining before rain tonight. 🙂 The Biden administration is saving us and moving us forward a little each day, but we all need to do our part to not end up back in a mess.
Two Black women directors were nominated for Oscars today. Please celebrate Garrett Bradley and Sophia Nahli Allison today. Two wonderful women. Stellar filmmakers. Congrats on this recognition of your work, my sisters. And watch their docs: TIME and A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA. 💕 pic.twitter.com/q5NUz6nyTk
Had a lovely sit down and listen with a cup o’ tea…
To President Obama and Springsteen’s 5th episode of Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.
—moving stories, good for what ails thee!! Brought up some of my own family stories about Pay Day,
e.g. how grandfather put his Sunday suit in hock every week, and then got it out again on pay day!
“Corporations Have A Responsibility: GA Firms Pressed To Stand Up For Voting Rights”
“LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter,
talks with Maddow about a new campaign to pressure corporations based in Georgia to make good on past ad campaigns about racial equality, and use their political clout to defend democracy from Republican voting restrictions.”
The #FBI is seeking information that leads to the capture of individuals involved in the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. If you recognize this participant, leave a tip at https://t.co/iL7sD5efWD, and refer to photo 256. pic.twitter.com/cb3gvat7tn
I’m sure the FBI has a tough job to do but gohtdammit the Capital is how far from the J. Edgar Hoover building, and they’re still having trouble identifying the insurrectionist? Are we also to assume that this same FBI doesn’t have a clue as to the hierarchy of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Don, I’m still pissed that they let the insurrectionists stroll free from the Capitol grounds. The Feds know how to kettle a mass crowd. It’s almost like they didn’t want to arrest them. 🤷🏾♀️
VP Kamala Harris tells vaccinators they “are saving our country” on tour of UNLV’s COVID vaccination site. She’s in Las Vegas today on the #BidenHarris “Help is Here” tour. pic.twitter.com/9Os02Qgnvb
— Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT! (@flywithkamala) March 15, 2021
“Deafness Isn’t A Disability, It’s A Culture”
“Riz Ahmed spent seven months learning American Sign Language to prepare for his role in “Sound of Metal,” and says it taught him the true meaning of listening.”
Exclusive: Former Harris aide Lily Adams is joining the Treasury Department to help promote Biden's stimulus package and the administration's broader plans to combat income inequality. https://t.co/g8v4pHdDxc
NEW: Biden has now sent his 3 nominees for the USPS board of governors to the Senate. If confirmed, Democrats would have a majority on the board– enough to remove Louis DeJoy as postmaster general.
For the Dems as usual the usual suspects will most assuredly show their asses, and the suspects will be Bernie, Manchin and Warren. And the reason that they will show their asses is because why not.
Yet I was kinda impressed that Bernie came on board so quickly when he temporarily lost the $15 min wage thrust. Must be because he knows Biden/Pelosi won’t stop @ one-time defeat!
🐾 Friends, our pawsome mom @FLOTUS arrived today in New Jersey for her first stop of the #HelpIsHere tour about the covid relief package. That’s why we are not back at the WH yet, we’re always in Delaware when she’s away. Once mom is back, we’ll be back too. – Champ & Major pic.twitter.com/27JrPDJW1Y
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) March 15, 2021
🐾This is my brother, my best friend and my mentor, Champ. He has been nothing but loyal and loving to our dad @POTUS and mom @FLOTUS for 13 years. Champy is a sweet senior pupper. If anyone pawttacks him again, Winston, Charlie & I are ready to fight. And we will bite! – Major pic.twitter.com/yqI2V76rfW
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) March 15, 2021
Jen Psaki says President Biden would of course support vaccine advocacy from the former guy, but says other presidents didn’t “need an engraved invitation.”
Biden Relief Bill Shows “Not Just New Policies, But New Thinking”
“Anand Giridharadas talks to Lawrence O’Donnell about how the coronavirus relief bill, with its historic investment in the poorest Americans, shows how Democrats have shifted to the left on government spending.”
(March 11)
“Deb Haaland Becomes First Native American Cabinet Secretary”
“Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico made history on Monday when the Senate confirmed her as President Biden’s secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency.
Ms. Haaland in 2018 became one of the first two Native American women elected to the House.
But her new position is particularly redolent of history because the department she now leads has spent much of its history abusing or neglecting America’s Indigenous people.
Beyond the Interior Department’s responsibility for the well-being of the nation’s 1.9 million Native people,
it oversees about 500 million acres of public land, federal waters off the United States coastline, a huge system of dams and reservoirs across the Western United States and the protection of thousands of endangered species.”
An Indigenous woman of the Laguna Pueblo tribe of NM has become the 54th US Secretary of the Interior. Sec Haaland will oversee the management & conservation of our federal lands & natural resources—replacing an oil lobbyist.
Good Morning! It’s a good day for some Waffles & Mochi! ❤️
Waffles + Mochi is now streaming on Netflix! If you’ve got little ones or just want to laugh and learn a little about good food, I hope you’ll check it out. This show is so dear to my heart, and I can’t wait for you to watch! #WafflesAndMochi ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8ZfUjx3X1F
I’m also proud that we’re working with @PHAnews to address food insecurity and help provide more than one million meals to families in need through our Pass the Love campaign. If you’d like to learn more and pitch in, visit https://t.co/s0WCBvE8HK.
‘The Wealth Tax Is Popular Across America’
Senator Elizabeth Warren makes the case for the wealth tax:
“This would affect the top 1/10th of 1% in America. And it would be a way to raise about $3 trillion in revenue.
Joe Biden ran on raising taxes on the people at the very top and on giant corporations … (Republicans) get why this is popular.”
“White House Launches ‘Help is Here’ Tour”
“U.S. President Joe Biden travels Tuesday to a suburb of Philadelphia as his administration focuses on small businesses in its campaign to promote the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package he signed last week.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden would highlight “how the Rescue Plan invests in small businesses — a key component of the package — including minority-owned businesses, so they can rehire and retain workers while keeping them safe.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are taking part in the effort as well, meeting with small business owners in Colorado on Tuesday after visiting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in the state.
This is still on the wall in my “Happy Room” in City Hall. I just noticed that I wrote it one year ago today. What a difference a year makes. But, I think I’ll keep it up a bit longer. pic.twitter.com/BpWTVfoqdh
Sen. Whitehouse asks DOJ to review FBI's "Fake" Brett Kavanaugh Investigation. They never even interviewed the woman he exposed himself to at Yale or any of the witnesses. It was a sham investigation into a psychopath led by psychopathic administration https://t.co/JeeInnsmkz
Thank you Senator White House. imo America was traumatized by this candidate who should’ve been in rehab treatment never mind at any kind of hearings. What the heck happened there?
The @vp makes her point on the front page of the @reviewjournal highlighting the American Rescue Plan and COVID relief during her stop in Nevada https://t.co/JfUUJbVIRr
Former president Barack Obama reminisced about dating his wife Michelle amid a chat with Bruce Springsteen for the pair’s “Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.” Spotify podcast.
“When I meet her, she is driving a Saab — and she’s joined a wine club,” Obama said.https://t.co/j2VOygsCUz
— SNYDE (sorry, not sorry celebrity news) (@snydenydn) March 15, 2021
Just an observation, Harry is more like this Mom than William. William is more like his dad, it would appear. Harry is a kind and compassionate soul. His mom would be proud
Please ban glyphosate poison sprays in America.
Please ban ROUNDUP = Bayer…(Monsanto until 2018.
Ace Hardware stores and our supermarkets are loaded to the gills with this cancerous poison, shelf after shelf.
Meanwhile lawyers have ads out aimed at folks who already have cancers caused by this stuff…
ROUNDUP is routinely sprayed on our football fields, park greens, schools, regularly exposing our children, pets, produce, farm workers.
Billions have been paid out in compensation for cancers.
Roundup is banned in Europe.
Why are we allowing warehouses of this deadly stuff to be unloaded upon Americans?
“CDC Purges Trump Era Junk Guidance In Quest To Restore Reputation”
“Maddow looks back at the Donald Trump administration’s practice of forcing the CDC to release politically motivated, unscientific Covid-19 guidance, and reports on the new leadership under the Biden administration ordering a review of past coronavirus guidance officially getting rid of the junk.”
Question: How many people did the Trump Administration kill with their lies?
—No free pass!!
Sept 2020:
“Political Appointees Meddled in C.D.C.’s ‘Holiest of the Holy’ Health Reports”
“Trump loyalists at the Health and Human Services Department have been exerting influence on the Centers for Disease Control’s weekly reports on all disease outbreaks, the coronavirus and beyond.”
((https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-politics-cdc.html))
Senate Leader Schumer speaks to Maddow (excerpts from a long interview):
“If we don’t get Republican support, we have to move forward with big, bold action.”
“Everything will be on the table and we WILL move forward. We have to.”
Leader Schumer:
“You mentioned Deb Haaland. What a historic choice.
Native Americans have never had a seat at the table. Now they do. We put more money into the AARP bill for Native Americans than ever before. And she will stop the rape of our federal lands by the oil companies…”
“Rachel we are just getting started.
Our caucus knows from one end to the other that we need big, bold action.
Not just to get out of the Covid crisis, as difficult as that is. But also there were so many problems that America had before Covid started. We have to tackle them. There are many that we have to tackle. We have to tackle climate. We have to tackle income and racial inequality. We have to strengthen our democracy and not let the despicable activities that you mentioned earlier by these Republican legislators go on.”
“We have a big, bold agenda, but we’re getting it done. We’re going to have to get it done. Failure is not an option and we are just getting started.”
On the sudden assault on voting rights by GOP:
“What they’re doing is despicable and it’s racist. Racist. It’s Jim Crow.”
Schumer’s We The People bill (S1) and the Biden Build Back Better proposal which combines climate change and green jobs….pay particular attention to people who are left out of the jobs market.
“We have a big agenda to do and our caucus knows we have to get it done. Will it be easy? No. Passing this AARP was not easy, but we have no choice if we want to move America forward. The good side of this is people saw when Democrats got in, it’s really making a difference in their lives.”
“…we would welcome Republican support, no question about it. And maybe some of them will see the light on some of these issues. But if we don’t get Republican support, we have to move forward with big, bold action and our caucus will come together.”
“I WILL put them on the floor and we will see on very popular issues where Republicans stand.
I recently said when the House passed the background checks bill, I’ll put it on the floor.
90% of the American people are for background checks. 80% of gun owners are for background checks.”
“Every Democrat understands that we have to move forward in a very significant way…I have a leadership team we meet Monday night…where we discuss where to go. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin and Mark Warner. And time and time again we respect each other’s views. We talk it through and then we move forward successfully. And that’s what I believe we will continue to do in a big, bold way. We have no choice. America needs it.”
Moving on from Trump’s judicial appointments…
“They had no understanding of walking in the other person’s shoes.
They were narrow, right wing often young people. So we have to restore the balance to the bench. And that’s of great urgency. And we will….We will move on and start appointing judges and redressing the imbalance that Trump put on the bench.”
“And tell your listeners we will change America in a big, bold way. We must.
It’s an imperative and failure is not an option.”
“Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot”
(Spencer S. Hsu, Peter Hermann and Emily Davies)
“Khater and Tanios are each charged with nine counts, including assaulting three officers with a deadly weapon.” (WaPo)
-of course the nazi block of wood is a representative of KOCH.
Those who propose starvation wages always pretend that minimum wage earners are high schoolers when they are grown people with children and other dependents. Why not start the ‘discussion’ with that?
ORGANIZING WORKS! It appears the Homestead detention camp for migrant children will not reopen thanks to the work of advocates on the ground. We will remain vigilant. We will always oppose these immigration detention profiteers. Not on our watch.https://t.co/DCwshV9lTa
Horror, outrage and incredible sadness grips Atlanta after a hate-fueled massacre targets the Asian-American community. 💔
Tonight, we hold close to our hearts Georgia’s AAPI community, which was targeted in a spree of Metro Atlanta shootings. As we await more details on these tragic events, we must commit to overcoming xenophobia and racism. #gapol
The senseless attacks against my Asian sisters and brothers must stop! This is a national problem. 8 killed, 1 injured in shootings at 3 spas in metro Atlanta; suspect in custody https://t.co/kOaMPgmkAh
The racist violence carried out in Atlanta tonight against the Asian American community is horrifying. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. We are committed to fighting the rise of xenophobia and hate crimes against Asian Americans.
My heart aches for those lost in this hateful act of violence. May those who loved them be wrapped in love by all of #Atlanta. pic.twitter.com/f398JvqH8h
If you're looking for some way to channel your rage and frustration tonight, here's an organization that could use the support! https://t.co/SHafBw33Fw
Last week @JulianCastro talked with the founder of Stop AAPI hate about the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans. It’s worth a listen. https://t.co/3mqelpbVL8
“There’s a deliberate media movement underway to not use the clear, accurate language to describe Republican efforts to suppress the vote, just like there was a deliberate media movement to not accurately describe Trump as a "liar" for four years.”
Even as we’ve battled the pandemic, we’ve continued to neglect the longer-lasting epidemic of gun violence in America. Although the shooter’s motive is not yet clear, the identity of the victims underscores an alarming rise in anti-Asian violence that must end.
Yesterday's shootings are another tragic reminder that we have far more work to do to put in place commonsense gun safety laws and root out the pervasive patterns of hatred and violence in our society.
Michelle and I pray for the victims, their families, everyone grieving these needless and devastating killings—and we urge meaningful action that will save lives.
Last night's shooting & the appalling rise of anti-Asian violence stem frm a sick society where nationalism has again been stoked & normalized. Anti-Black & anti-Asian racism & violence run in tandem in the U.S. Both grps were brought here for labor but never meant to be citizens
Six Asian American women were killed in Atlanta today. We're still learning about the motive. However, you should know this: most racist attacks against Asian Americans this past year have targeted women, and Asian American women are on edge. (1/15)
— Dr. Melissa May Borja (@MelissaMayBorja) March 17, 2021
@StopAAPIHate (an organization with which I am an affiliated researcher) found that 68% of the attacks on Asian Americans in the past year targeted AAPI women. (2/15) https://t.co/YsxdOmOlJn
— Dr. Melissa May Borja (@MelissaMayBorja) March 17, 2021
Our hearts are with the families of the AAPI women slain yesterday. Hatred is infectious and cumulative – it begins w pejoratives about race and evolves into acts of unspeakable violence. We must do more than condemn. Our responsibility is to protect and defend. By word and deed.
The Obama Diary 
Congratulations to our Hall of Fame First Lady Michelle Obama!
Thanks for the new post Nerdy! Hope you’re having a Marvelous Monday!
Congrats to our forever Michelle Obama!!!
thx NW.
“Beyoncé wins 28th Grammy Award,
passes Alison Krauss to become the most decorated woman in Grammys history”
(https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2021/03/14/beyonce-wins-28th-grammy-award)
Morning everyone. So proud of Michelle Obama. It really was a no brainer though:)
Good morning all. It is a good day! First day of spring break so we have a week off from homeschooling. Mommy took off today and tomorrow so she and Aliya can do things together. 🙂 I returned to the Y Friday after one year and a day. Whew! The weekend soreness was something else. I returned this morning and it was easier than Friday. 🙂 We returned to in person church yesterday after exactly one year. It was amazing and wonderful!! The sun is shining before rain tonight. 🙂 The Biden administration is saving us and moving us forward a little each day, but we all need to do our part to not end up back in a mess.
Michelle Obama #ourforeverFLOTUS 🙂 🙂 🙂
wish’t to go swimming…been so long…happy for you on your Y news!!
Well, there’s some promising news!
Yes, our Forever First Lady, how many of love, cherish and deeply appreciate all she has given to so many!
Bravo! Congratulations Michelle Lavaughn Robinson Obama! You are the Best of the Best!
{{{💙TOD💙}}}
*us love, cherish and deeply appreciate . . .
😽
Had a lovely sit down and listen with a cup o’ tea…
To President Obama and Springsteen’s 5th episode of Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.
—moving stories, good for what ails thee!! Brought up some of my own family stories about Pay Day,
e.g. how grandfather put his Sunday suit in hock every week, and then got it out again on pay day!
“Corporations Have A Responsibility: GA Firms Pressed To Stand Up For Voting Rights”
“LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter,
talks with Maddow about a new campaign to pressure corporations based in Georgia to make good on past ad campaigns about racial equality, and use their political clout to defend democracy from Republican voting restrictions.”
I’m sure the FBI has a tough job to do but gohtdammit the Capital is how far from the J. Edgar Hoover building, and they’re still having trouble identifying the insurrectionist? Are we also to assume that this same FBI doesn’t have a clue as to the hierarchy of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Don, I’m still pissed that they let the insurrectionists stroll free from the Capitol grounds. The Feds know how to kettle a mass crowd. It’s almost like they didn’t want to arrest them. 🤷🏾♀️
Maybe they were all flashing “FOT Passes…”
FOT = Friends of trump…
NOW – PRESIDENT BIDEN DELIVERS REMARKS ON AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN IMPLEMENTATION –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Also here: https://youtu.be/boxoFWfib9w – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
She’s landed…
“Deafness Isn’t A Disability, It’s A Culture”
“Riz Ahmed spent seven months learning American Sign Language to prepare for his role in “Sound of Metal,” and says it taught him the true meaning of listening.”
Love!
For the Dems as usual the usual suspects will most assuredly show their asses, and the suspects will be Bernie, Manchin and Warren. And the reason that they will show their asses is because why not.
Yet I was kinda impressed that Bernie came on board so quickly when he temporarily lost the $15 min wage thrust. Must be because he knows Biden/Pelosi won’t stop @ one-time defeat!
Sinema.
History made again this Women’s History month! Deb Haaland has been confirmed as our barrier-breaking Interior Secretary!
Biden Relief Bill Shows “Not Just New Policies, But New Thinking”
“Anand Giridharadas talks to Lawrence O’Donnell about how the coronavirus relief bill, with its historic investment in the poorest Americans, shows how Democrats have shifted to the left on government spending.”
(March 11)
SECRETARY DEB HAALAND !!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!
“Deb Haaland Becomes First Native American Cabinet Secretary”
“Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico made history on Monday when the Senate confirmed her as President Biden’s secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency.
Ms. Haaland in 2018 became one of the first two Native American women elected to the House.
But her new position is particularly redolent of history because the department she now leads has spent much of its history abusing or neglecting America’s Indigenous people.
Beyond the Interior Department’s responsibility for the well-being of the nation’s 1.9 million Native people,
it oversees about 500 million acres of public land, federal waters off the United States coastline, a huge system of dams and reservoirs across the Western United States and the protection of thousands of endangered species.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/climate/deb-haaland-confirmation-secretary-of-interior.html)
❤ ❤ ❤
You go, woman! 💞🎶
Surprised that Home Depot is coming out against voter suppression, they seem to always be on the wrong side of everything.
😭😭😭
Good Morning! It’s a good day for some Waffles & Mochi! ❤️
… and Chef Andres! 😃
Totally my speed…looking fwd…!!!
‘The Wealth Tax Is Popular Across America’
Senator Elizabeth Warren makes the case for the wealth tax:
“This would affect the top 1/10th of 1% in America. And it would be a way to raise about $3 trillion in revenue.
Joe Biden ran on raising taxes on the people at the very top and on giant corporations … (Republicans) get why this is popular.”
Morning everyone
“Remarks by President Biden on the Implementation of the American Rescue Plan”
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/15/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-implementation-of-the-american-rescue-plan/)
“White House Launches ‘Help is Here’ Tour”
“U.S. President Joe Biden travels Tuesday to a suburb of Philadelphia as his administration focuses on small businesses in its campaign to promote the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package he signed last week.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden would highlight “how the Rescue Plan invests in small businesses — a key component of the package — including minority-owned businesses, so they can rehire and retain workers while keeping them safe.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are taking part in the effort as well, meeting with small business owners in Colorado on Tuesday after visiting a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in the state.
“When it’s a package of this size, people don’t always know how they benefit,” explained Psaki.
(https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/white-house-launches-help-here-tour)
—(That joker McConnell is trying to claim credit !!)
Love me this Mayor!
Was just coming to post this:) As if I needed another reason to love Sheldon Whitehouse:)
Thank you Senator White House. imo America was traumatized by this candidate who should’ve been in rehab treatment never mind at any kind of hearings. What the heck happened there?
You go digging into Kavanaugh’s background and you don’t know what you’ll find. But whatever it is ain’t good.
MVP is always on point!
A thread of front pages in areas represemted by GOP reps! 😁😆😄
“Jane Fonda Joins Protests To Stop Pipeline Replacement In Minnesota”
Lifelong activist Jane Fonda speaks to O’Donnell.
Ms. Jane Fonda’s speech at the Golden Globes:
(https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2021-02-28/jane-fonda-receives-cecil-b-demille-award-2021-golden-globes)
Just an observation, Harry is more like this Mom than William. William is more like his dad, it would appear. Harry is a kind and compassionate soul. His mom would be proud
Dear President Biden,
Please ban glyphosate poison sprays in America.
Please ban ROUNDUP = Bayer…(Monsanto until 2018.
Ace Hardware stores and our supermarkets are loaded to the gills with this cancerous poison, shelf after shelf.
Meanwhile lawyers have ads out aimed at folks who already have cancers caused by this stuff…
ROUNDUP is routinely sprayed on our football fields, park greens, schools, regularly exposing our children, pets, produce, farm workers.
Billions have been paid out in compensation for cancers.
Roundup is banned in Europe.
Why are we allowing warehouses of this deadly stuff to be unloaded upon Americans?
If you want to end cancer, start with this.
-love
Monsanto/Bayer capped their payouts at $2 Billion – but they CONTINUE to sell the cancerous poison.
-Are we ready to die for them $$$.
WOW…Our Forever Flotus…continues to shine…shine…shine!
“CDC Purges Trump Era Junk Guidance In Quest To Restore Reputation”
“Maddow looks back at the Donald Trump administration’s practice of forcing the CDC to release politically motivated, unscientific Covid-19 guidance, and reports on the new leadership under the Biden administration ordering a review of past coronavirus guidance officially getting rid of the junk.”
Question: How many people did the Trump Administration kill with their lies?
—No free pass!!
Sept 2020:
“Political Appointees Meddled in C.D.C.’s ‘Holiest of the Holy’ Health Reports”
“Trump loyalists at the Health and Human Services Department have been exerting influence on the Centers for Disease Control’s weekly reports on all disease outbreaks, the coronavirus and beyond.”
((https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-politics-cdc.html))
Thanks JER! 💞
Senate Leader Schumer speaks to Maddow (excerpts from a long interview):
“If we don’t get Republican support, we have to move forward with big, bold action.”
“Everything will be on the table and we WILL move forward. We have to.”
Leader Schumer:
“You mentioned Deb Haaland. What a historic choice.
Native Americans have never had a seat at the table. Now they do. We put more money into the AARP bill for Native Americans than ever before. And she will stop the rape of our federal lands by the oil companies…”
“Rachel we are just getting started.
Our caucus knows from one end to the other that we need big, bold action.
Not just to get out of the Covid crisis, as difficult as that is. But also there were so many problems that America had before Covid started. We have to tackle them. There are many that we have to tackle. We have to tackle climate. We have to tackle income and racial inequality. We have to strengthen our democracy and not let the despicable activities that you mentioned earlier by these Republican legislators go on.”
“We have a big, bold agenda, but we’re getting it done. We’re going to have to get it done. Failure is not an option and we are just getting started.”
On the sudden assault on voting rights by GOP:
“What they’re doing is despicable and it’s racist. Racist. It’s Jim Crow.”
Schumer’s We The People bill (S1) and the Biden Build Back Better proposal which combines climate change and green jobs….pay particular attention to people who are left out of the jobs market.
“We have a big agenda to do and our caucus knows we have to get it done. Will it be easy? No. Passing this AARP was not easy, but we have no choice if we want to move America forward. The good side of this is people saw when Democrats got in, it’s really making a difference in their lives.”
“…we would welcome Republican support, no question about it. And maybe some of them will see the light on some of these issues. But if we don’t get Republican support, we have to move forward with big, bold action and our caucus will come together.”
“I WILL put them on the floor and we will see on very popular issues where Republicans stand.
I recently said when the House passed the background checks bill, I’ll put it on the floor.
90% of the American people are for background checks. 80% of gun owners are for background checks.”
“Every Democrat understands that we have to move forward in a very significant way…I have a leadership team we meet Monday night…where we discuss where to go. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin and Mark Warner. And time and time again we respect each other’s views. We talk it through and then we move forward successfully. And that’s what I believe we will continue to do in a big, bold way. We have no choice. America needs it.”
Moving on from Trump’s judicial appointments…
“They had no understanding of walking in the other person’s shoes.
They were narrow, right wing often young people. So we have to restore the balance to the bench. And that’s of great urgency. And we will….We will move on and start appointing judges and redressing the imbalance that Trump put on the bench.”
“And tell your listeners we will change America in a big, bold way. We must.
It’s an imperative and failure is not an option.”
Thank you Leader Schumer and Democrats in Congress!!!
Yes, please. And good day, TODville!
Someone get Mitch McConnell a diaper.
Too funny! (But for the Ugh, Mitch part, of course!)
“Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot”
(Spencer S. Hsu, Peter Hermann and Emily Davies)
“Khater and Tanios are each charged with nine counts, including assaulting three officers with a deadly weapon.” (WaPo)
“Biden Chooses Prosperity Over Vengeance”
“The future of American democracy depends on the president’s ability to show that even when the Republican Party loses, Americans who vote Republican do not.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/biden-chose-prosperity-over-vengeance/618279/)
-of course the nazi block of wood is a representative of KOCH.
Those who propose starvation wages always pretend that minimum wage earners are high schoolers when they are grown people with children and other dependents. Why not start the ‘discussion’ with that?
European Best Pictures Of The Day – March 16, 2021
Sounds like someone I’d wanna hang with.
Horror, outrage and incredible sadness grips Atlanta after a hate-fueled massacre targets the Asian-American community. 💔
😔
A message from President Obama
Important thread
yessssss…..i am Fannie Lou Hammer…
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired
Another important thread
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/take-up-space/