The 21st Century V.A.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Obama's Speech on the 21st Century V.A. (Video and Transcript)
Obama's tackling another one, IMMIGRATION
As we watch this president continue to put a check mark on the "to dos" of the Americans list, another checkmark is coming, IMMIGRATION.
Be careful what you wish for. And Republicans be careful what you say. This group is one that you lost because of your divisive rhetoric.
While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country’s immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
Mr. Obama will frame the new effort — likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue — as “policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system,” said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.
Mr. Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.
Some White House officials said that immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Mr. Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges Mr. Obama made to Hispanic groups in last year’s campaign.
He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Mr. Obama in the election.
“He intends to start the debate this year,” Ms. Muñoz said. read more here......
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Rinse, Repeat, Rinse, Repeat
Watching morning joke or morning joe (Joe Scarborough) whine about everything Barack Obama does is a joke, in itself. Why do I watch as I get ready for the daily grind? Because we need to watch everything and listen to what is said.
Scarborough was attempting to argue John Ridley down, as soon as the video is available I will put it up later, about Barack Obama and the spending that is going on. Ridley was listening, but as Ridley repeatedly told Scarborough, we would not be in this position if it was not for George W. Bush.
Scarborough's rinse and repeat of Obama and his spending is the only thing he has to say. As Ridley pointed out, there are no more tax cuts available, that is all the Republicans have to offer. We have had everything cut to the bone for tax cuts by the Bush Administration and look where we are at? As Scarborough could not argue that, Ridley again pointed out, that Obama wanted to give the Republicans 400M in tax breaks for the stimulus bill, more than any president has ever given, again it was not good enough for the Republicans.
What Scarborough does not get is that as Obama has reached over to the Republicans in a bi-partisan way, more than any president, they rebuked him, it just was not good enough for them. I guess they have forgotten who actually won this election.
The Republicans are running around with a Pew Poll saying that Obama is the most divisive president ever (no one is listening or believe it), and Scarborough had the gall to quote an article by Karl Rove and his verbal garbage. Again, Scarborough the problem with quoting Rove is that the public understands he was one of the main divisive characters coming out of the Bush White House. What he says at this point carries no weight. As in, not the kind of weight the Republicans need to move people in the polling numbers.
Lastly, as Andrea Mitchell pointed out this morning to Scarborough during his whine and as he tried to pump the Pew Poll is this, the Republican brand or identifier as being Republican is the lowest it has ever been. Only 23% identify themselves as Republicans, which means the Independents and Democrats have Obama where he is at in the polling numbers. Suddenly, silence, not a peep or argument from Scarborough.
As I watched Ridley continue to ask Scarborough where is the Republican plan besides more tax breaks, not a peep or attempt to answer that question, because quite frankly, Scarborough can not. There is no plan. There is no ideas. There is nothing from the party of no, but rinse and repeat and hope something will stick.
As folks are reeling right now, saying Bush is not in office is not good enough. He is still there, we are dealing with his bad decisions for this country EVERY SINGLE DAY. We have not forgotten how we have got to this point in this country.
Now rinse and repeat that.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Obama calls and congratulates UNC for winning the NCAA Tournament
.....and making him LOOK GOOD.....
President Obama, a well-documented basketball fan, didn’t wait until his plane touched down in Washington before calling North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams to congratulate him on the Tar Heels’ win over Michigan State in Monday night’s NCAA championship game.
Flying back from Baghdad, Obama called Williams from Air Force One to extend his congratulations and also thank the coach and his team for making the president look pretty darn hoop savvy.
Obama picked the Tar Heels to win the tournament in the much publicized bracket that he did with ESPN's Andy Katz.
"The President offered Coach Williams his congratulations and thanked him and his team for vindicating him in front of the entire country," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. "The President told him he’d done a great job and asked the Coach to tell the players how proud he was of them and that he looked forward to seeing them at the White House soon."
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CNNs Rick Sanchez BLASTS the Right Wing and Fox News on the Gun Violence (Video)
This jackass, representing the gun owners, is totally on right-winged talking points and was on MSNBCs Hardball and got creamed. So, now he is hopping over to CNN, Sanchez puts dude on BLAST.
These type of characters are starting to pop up all over television. Anyone smelling 2010, yet?
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Vice-President Joe Biden shuts the "Dick Cheney" noise down (Video)
And Ed Schulz calls Dick Cheney an "All American NOBODY"
AMEN on that one, Ed.
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Michael Steele still can not keep his mouth shut
From the mouth of Michael Steele, RNC Chairman:
“Could you help a brother out? No more national conventions with 36 people of color in the room,” Steele told fellow Republicans on Monday, according to the Miami Herald.
Well, the problem is not helping a brother out, the problem is the Republican Party's platform and policies.
The platform and policies of the Republican Party were rejected in November, and not by a slither of a margin but resounding.
Jim Greer, the state's party chairman, added that the party would focus on increasing its use of technology to invigorate a younger generation of the GOP.
''We will not praise President Obama,'' Greer said, ``but we will learn from him.''
Steele said he wants to refocus the Republican Party's core message.
''A lot of people are losing their jobs right now and losing their homes,'' he said. ``What does the Republican Party have to say about that? That's what the people of Florida are waiting to hear.''
He added: ``We're beginning to set up an argument between creating wealth and creating opportunities versus what we feel the administration is doing, which is redistributing wealth and suppressing opportunities and relying more on government solutions as opposed to small business solutions.''
We will not praise him but learn from him? How dumb of a statement is that? The issue is that the GOP thinks they can throw a black man or a hispanic man on the stage and all of a sudden it is ok. The GOP thinks that they need that minority face to change the face of its party, that is not the problem with the GOP. The problem is their constant side of pro-business, especially Wall Street. Their problem is that they don't care about public education, but touts "No Child Left Behind", but damn sure did not fund it under their watch. It is not Barack Obama that is a problem, which they believe the country has just fallen under his spell, it is that the Republican Party policies are shitty.
Leadership means something these days. The Republican Party had it and got lost by their own personal greed. The divide in this country of rich vs. poor is staggering. Wages have not kept up and those who were rich, got mega richer. This country under the past 8 years have been starved of the basics, because the Republican Party did not feel it was necessary.
If the Republican Party really want to turn around, start with your message and be real about it. Folks are hurting now, but you are silent. People are losing jobs at rapid rates, but you have nothing to say. Folks are being thrown out of their homes, but you don't have a plan. Until you can convince folks that you actually care about THEIR ISSUES, you will continue to be a moot point.
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The US Navy after the Pirates? Guess, swashbuckling and Errol Flynn is not dead. (Video)
I mean, this is like a Hollywood movie. This shit still happens? Pirates? Pay offs? Surreal.
The American crew of a hijacked U.S.-flagged ship retook control of the vessel from Somali pirates Wednesday but the captain was still being held hostage in a lifeboat, according to crew members.
U.S. officials said an American warship and a half dozen other ships were headed to the scene.
Kevin Speers, a spokesman for Maersk Lines Limited, confirmed that the crew had the Maersk Alabama and were unharmed but the captain was being held by pirates off the cargo ship.
"They're on another boat," he said. He gave no other details.
The second in command, Shane Murphy of Seekonk, Massachusetts, called his wife at 10 a.m EDT and told her that pirates had taken over the ship before dawn local time, she said.
Murphy said that pirates then had taken away the captain and he was now in charge, Serena Murphy, 31, told The Associated Press from her front doorstep.
Shane Murphy's father, Capt. Joseph Murphy, an instructor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, told the AP that he was called by the Department of Defense and told the crew, including his son Shane, had control of the ship back from the pirates. read more, here....
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Most Polarizing President? Barack Obama?
PUHLEAZE.
When you have the highest polling numbers, the country behind you, now you become the most polarizing because the Republicans say so? Send that noise over to George W. Bush.
Who has been the most polarizing new president of recent times? Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? George W. Bush?
No, that honor belongs to Barack Obama. According to the Pew Research Center, the gap between Republican and Democratic approval ratings for Bush a few months into his first term was about 51 percentage points. For Obama, this partisan gap stands at 61 points. Obama has been a unifier, of sorts. He has united Democrats and united Republicans -- against each other.
Polarizing is when you have eroded support all across the board and this is not the case with Barack Obama.
Did anyone expect the Republicans to like everything he does? Hell, even Democrats? No. I heard morning joke, that is Joe Scarborough say this morning that he expected Obama to govern like Harold Ford, Jr. Are you gagging yet? morning joke don't understand that Obama was never a DLC'er, no he did not have issues with the participants, he just did not agree with many of their policies.
There is nothing different Barack Obama is doing that we don't know about because Barack Obama told us what he was going to do when he was running for President of the United States. He told us he was going to fight for the environment, energy, invest in education and healthcare. He told us he was going to close Guantanamo Bay, renew our standing internationally and work with the international community. He did not know, however, how destroyed the financial markets were, nor the whole story of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Being president is about editing. Meaning things may alter, change or become obsolete. Being president means you won't make everyone happy, either, but to try to tag Obama the most polarizing president is utter bullshit.
That tag, still belongs to George W. Bush. The real divider and not a unifier.
And morning joke, a continual gas bag is what he truly is.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
More from the good old, "white and bitter", morning joke
That is Joe Scarborough from morning joe. This man continues to put his foot in his mouth and continues to show us he does not know what the HELL he is talking about. h/t Daily Kos
Yes, while the daily morning gas bag is running his viagra mouth about Obama "never really worked", shit what has he done?
Hell, it seems like 'ole Joe himself didn't do much except go to law school, work briefly for a law firm, and then get elected to Congress. By this logic, I could certainly make the claim he's never earned a "paycheck", either. He's certainly never had to work a nine to five, or work two jobs to put food on the table for a baby girl, or wonder how you'll make the next mortgage payment.
Man, these shows really think that we are stupid.
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The Republicans are pulling a Newt (Video)
The Newt is an old trick that Cantor is pulling in congress. Embarrass, offend, bully new freshmen democrats on the floor and make them look ridiculous. This is an old trick that Newt Gingrich played when he was in congress, back in the day. Well, guess who is Eric Cantor's mentor? Newt Gingrich. So, now Eric Cantor is whipping Republican house members to march onto the house floor and pounce on freshmen democrats with questions on how they have voted, while the democratic house member is addressing the floor. This crap is like trying to turn the house floor into the Republicans right wing talk show, full of Republican talking points. It is pathetic. Ed Schultz calls the Republicans out on this tactic, but it takes Keith Olbermann to tell it like it is.
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