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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 05, 2019
Posts Tagged ‘GOP Obstruction
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Let’s Get Dialing
CALL YOUR SENATORS to #EndTheShutdown tomorrow and say #NoWall, ever. https://t.co/VShCZJI6dW
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🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) January 23, 201928
Sep
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Keep Protesting
🚨KAVANAUGH VOTE MOVING FAST; PROTESTS @ NOON FRIDAY🚨
Fri AM: committee vote. Sat: procedural vote. Mon: cloture. T… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Ben Wikler (@benwikler) September 28, 2018****
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Chat Away
Hi. So women, let me be blunt : that feeling? Is FUCKING RAGE. It is incandescent fantastical earth shaking rage
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Sydette (@Blackamazon) September 26, 2018PLEASE keep calling (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you req… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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meta (@metaquest) September 26, 201826
Sep
18
Keep Dialing
PLEASE keep calling (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you req… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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meta (@metaquest) September 26, 201818
Sep
18
#StopKavanaugh
Probably the grandest miscalculation that the Republican Party has made is in thinking that they are unaccountable… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) September 17, 2018"I just want to say to the men of this country just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change," Senator… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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CBS News (@CBSNews) September 18, 201828
Aug
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Chat Away
I remember when Obama tried to build Florida a high-speed rail line and you sent the money back to Washington. twitter.com/scottforflorid…
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Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) August 25, 201830
Jun
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#FamiliesBelongTogether
A round of “shames” at Foley Square directed at ICE headquarters. #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch https://t.co/FqPzeZcYhn
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Jason Rosenberg (@mynameisjro) June 30, 2018If you are attending a #FamiliesBelongTogether rally today, know your rights via @ACLU #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch https://t.co/dTwe5g9oWz
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Families Belong Together March (@WomenBelong) June 30, 2018****
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It isn’t too late!! You can go to a March today!!
Here’s the link to find a #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch near you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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K͙a͙s͙s͙a͙n͙d͙r͙a͙ S͙e͙v͙e͙n͙ (@KassandraSeven) June 30, 2018Please don’t confuse being a peace maker with being passive or confuse practicing nonviolence with promoting normal… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 30, 2018
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Derek Thompson: Thanks, Obama
President Obama has cultivated a reputation for approaching politics with a kind of medical clinicism. But with the full panorama of his presidency coming into view, Obama’s economic legacy is impressive, even historic. First, the centerpiece of Obama’s anti-inequality legacy is the policy that bears his name. Obamacare, a.k.a., the Affordable Care Act, has reduced the uninsured rate from about 16 percent in 2010 to less than 9 percent today, the lowest level in U.S. history. Second, several subtle yet significant tax changes under Obama have made the tax code more progressive. The stimulus bill passed in 2009, a.k.a., the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (or, simply, the Recovery Act), included the most important changes. The law created the Making Work Pay credit, expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, and created new tax credits, like the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college attendees. The most significant change to the tax code since 2010 has been the eleventh-hour agreement to extend the Bush tax cuts for all families except for an increase in the top tax rate for households making more than $450,000 and an increase in the estate tax rate to 40 percent.
Third, the Obama administration has supported initiatives outside of the tax code and health care policy to help the poor and middle class. They have been advocates for higher minimum wages at the national level, which have arguably buoyed the state-by-state effort to raise minimum wages toward $15 in richer areas. They supported extended unemployment benefits while long-term unemployment was perhaps the country’s most insidious economic plague. Unemployment insurance kept more than 11 million people out of poverty in Obama’s first term, according to Census analysis. The president also expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) and Temporary Aid to Needy Families (grants that states can use for a variety of measures including helping the poor). His Department of Education spent more than $60 billion to support states’ education budgets and prevent more layoffs of teachers and administrators. In sum, he grew anti-inequality spending more than any president, as a share of GDP. But at a time when both liberals and conservatives have become exquisitely aware of income inequality and its ills, the seemingly placid, cold, philosopher-in-chief did more to combat that inequity than any president in at least 50 years. For that, two words suffice: “Thanks, Obama.”
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