Night Owls: Greatest Comebacks

One of the greatest groups in music history came back together for one night and killed it! Tell us your greatest comebacks. 😀

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Rise and Shine

The Nokia Theater, Los Angeles, October 7 (MSNBC/Reuters)

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Today:

PDT / ET

8:50 / 11:50: President Obama departs Los Angeles

9:45 / 12:45: Arrives Bakersfield, CA

10:35 / 1:35: Tours the Memorial Garden at Chávez National Monument, Keene

11:15 / 2:15: Announces the establishment of the César E. Chávez National Monument

12:35 / 3:35: Departs Bakersfield

1:40 / 4:40: Arrives San Francisco

4:0 / 7:0: Attends a campaign event at the InterContinental San Francisco (closed press)

7:15 / 10:15: Delivers remarks at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco (print pool coverage)

9:40 / 12:40: Delivers remarks at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (pooled for television)

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(Kevin Winter/Getty)

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

(Jay Clendenin, LA Times)

Nokia Theater, Los Angeles, Oct 7 (Kevin Winter/Getty)

Text of the President’s remarks at the Nokia Theater here – the video should be up on C-Span today

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‘the greatest accomplishment’

Real Clear Politics

Thank you Donna Dem

‘class warfare’

CBPP: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, the repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans.

The plan is, thus, tantamount to a form of “class warfare.” If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.

This may sound hyperbolic, but it is not. The mathematics are inexorable:

See link for details

…. the Boehner plan would force policymakers to choose among cutting the incomes and health benefits of ordinary retirees, repealing the guts of health reform and leaving an estimated 34 million more Americans uninsured, and savaging the safety net for the poor. It would do so even as it shielded all tax breaks, including the many lucrative tax breaks for the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and corporations.

President Obama has said that, while we must reduce looming deficits, we must take a balanced approach. The Boehner proposal badly fails this test of basic decency….

See full article here

Thanks SouthernGirl and Bob