Happy Birthday, President Obama!
(via nonwriting)
Thanks!
“I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer. Can you imagine Bush and Karl Rove allowing themselves to be paraded through Washington on a leash by some dimwit Republican Senator of a state with six people in it the way the Obama White House this summer is allowing Max Baucus (favorite son of the mighty state of Montana) to frog-march them to a one-term presidency?”
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Matt Taibbi on the likely demise of the public option from the health-care reform bill (via AZspot).
The Democrats, and the Obama administration, do not have a mandate to pander to the crazy, scremaing, ignorant wingnuts and their death-squad propaganda. We elected them to run this place and get things done after a decade of damage and neglect.
The Democrats proved during W.’s term that they had absolutely no balls and no ability to get anything done whatsoever. The Democrats would compromise, the Republicans wouldn’t, so the passed legislation was lopsided, ineffective, and often very harmful. I assumed it was because the Democrats just didn’t have enough power.
Now they have a lot more power, and should be able to pass nearly any policy initiative with broad support. And what’s happening? The Democrats are compromising and the Republicans aren’t. The resulting bill will be lopsided, ineffective, and harmful.
It’s the same old shit.
I expect as much from Congress, but I’m extremely disappointed in the ineffectiveness and lack of balls shown by the Obama presidency so far.
(via marco)
Hey, shut up! Circle the wagons, alright? None of this dissent crap coming from my lefty ranks!
President Obama congratulates Buehrle
(via alcentral)
I’m sure Obama was excited to talk to someone as perfect as himself.
OMFG, you have no idea how refreshing it was.
MICHELLE’S NEW ‘DO First lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama attend a celebration of country music in the East Room of the White House Tuesday. (Photo: Getty via the Chicago Tribune)
I cut it myself. That’s how frugal we Obamas are.
Barack and his Mommy
This was taken around the time I spoke my first word: “government.”
Is Barack Obama Back to His Mom Jeans? — The Cut: New York Magazine’s Fashion Blog
Michelle’s not the only one with a nose for a bargain. I bought my “mom jeans” on sale at Ross Dress for Less.
$23,148,855,308,184,500 for pack of smokes
sds:
A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
I mean, I knew the Democrats had raised taxes on tobacco, and that Obama is trying to pressure people to quit smoking, but this is a little ridiculous.
Hey, don’t put this on me! This just proves that banks and credit card companies need more regulation.
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