(Source: reuters)
Bloomberg News poll reveals a majority of Americans believe in Obama mandate
- 65% of voters believe that President Obama has a mandate to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans after being reelected last month. That includes 45 percent of the Republicans surveyed as well.
- 64% of voters believe that President Obama also has a mandate to protect programs like Medicare and Social Security during his next term. Considering Senate Republicans are now relying on filibusters of their own proposals related to the “fiscal cliff,” something tells us that Speaker Boehner was probably correct in telling House Republicans not to make holiday plans this year. source
So according to Limbaugh, if you’re a man supporting Romney, you’re just a man supporting Romney—but a man supporting Obama is apparently gay.
Stay classy, Limbaugh.
You’ve got to love how Limbaugh (and by extension, his listeners) will smear the living fuck out of anything that doesn’t fit squarely into the GOP message.
For example, a republican governor having praise for a democrat president because they pulled together in the face of a disaster. The GOP has turned into a bunch of fucking children.
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
President Obama has been on vacation 78 days from 2009 to 2011. At the three year mark into their first terms, George W. Bush spent 180 days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas and Ronald Reagan spent 112 vacation days at his ranch in California.
Calls to several Presidential libraries reveal that President Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, was on vacation more — 1,020 days — than any U.S. President since Herbert Hoover and possibly more than any other President in history.
Republicans won’t let little things like facts phase them!
FightBigotry.com, a new Super PAC registered with the Federal Election Commission this week, makes no bones about its aim. It intends to run an attack ad that it says will hit President Barack Obama for “his disturbing, yet crystal-clear pattern of tacitly defending black racism against white folks before and since being elected president.”
FightBigotry.com’s founder and treasurer is Stephen Marks, a well-known Republican opposition researcher whose 2008 book Confessions of a Political Hitman detailed his work in what he called “the dark side of politics.” In 2000, he launched an attack ad under the misleading name “Americans Against Hate,” attempting to tie Al Gore to controversial comments by Rev. Al Sharpton. Another Marks spot in 2004 attempted to link John Kerry to convicted murderer Willie Horton. He was forced to retract a claim in the book about then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), acknowledging that “the information was not accurate.”
A two-minute version of the new spot is already available on the group’s website, though the group promises a one-minute version is forthcoming. In it, he says:
The Obama administration has injected race into the presidential campaign. Obama Attorney General Eric Holder recently said – with no argument from the president – that their white critics are motivated by race. Implying whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is in-and-of-itself racist against whites, reinforcing Mr. Obama’s disturbing pattern of tacitly defending black racism. …
Obama’s attorney general said pursuing the New Black Panthers does a great disservice to whose “who risked all, for my people.” So it’s okay for his people to commit racial crimes? In 2009, President Obama defended his friend Henry Louis Gates after a racist altercation with police, telling a white officer he wouldn’t speak to him but would speak to his mama. Mr. Obama’s response? “The Cambridge police acted stupidly.” …
Mr. President, you ran as the candidate of change. But one thing has not changed—your tacit defense of racism against white folks, despite receiving nearly half the white vote to win the presidency.
Beyond the obvious race-baiting, the ad is riddled with factual errors. Holder’s March 2011 statement was criticizing a Congressman for equating an a 2008 New Black Panther Party incident with the much more violent assaults against voting rights advocates in the 1960s – not about “pursuing the New Black Panthers.”
And what this group terms a “racist altercation with police” involved a Harvard University professor being stopped by police for trying to enter his own home. Even conservative Fox News legal analyst and former New Jersey state Judge Andrew Napolitano called it an “improper arrest.”
In 2008, Marks said that he was “retiring from politics.” Sadly, he’s back to his old tricks — using an Orwellian name to inject racism into yet another campaign through smears.
"If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own! I’m always struck by people who think, “Well, it must be ‘cause I was just so smart!” There are a lot of smart people out there. “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.” Let me tell you something: There are a whole bunch of hardworkin’ people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help."
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President Barack Obama
Apparently this is a controversial statement? Even though it’s true? (via annaetc)
I tried but failed to find (lol logic) what is controversial about it. Never mind the notion that no human being is an island, there’s still the pesky truth about roads, law enforcement, municipal services, and schools. Unless you were spontaneously born with some magically affixed bootstraps in a bubble in the vacuum of space, and arrive on earth fully formed without the assistance of NASA, you did not become whoever you are without other human beings.
There is literally no one in the Republican party I don’t hate right now.
(via someauthorgirl)
That’s exactly it. It flies in the face of their narrative that the only reason anyone is unsuccessful in life or in a poor financial situation is because they didn’t work hard enough or that they are lazy or stupid.
Their narrative says that anyone can be successful if they just “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” without any outside help.
The fact of the matter is, no one in the U.S. does this on their own, and every time someone says so in public, the people who have an interest in keeping the meme that successful people are successful simply because they work harder (or are smarter) than everyone else shout it down.
This is exactly what the controversy is about. It’s created to make people doubt the line of thinking that perhaps no one does it on their own.
(Source: shakesville.com, via achesville-deactivated20130508)
Wow.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told the National Review’s Bob Costa that there is a “growing consensus” in favor of not deporting undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. “If you were four years old when your parents brought you here illegally, and you have grown up here your whole life and don’t even speak Spanish, and you are your high school’s valedictorian, you have a lot to contribute to our future. It kind of feels weird to deport you,” Rubio said. Before President Obama announced a new policy to not deport DREAM Act-eligible undocumented students, Rubio had been planning to introduce a GOP version of the bill, but now, he said he will not push for it.
(via questionall)
My problem with Obama: He only listens to what he wants to hear.
Obviously I support President Obama and his campaign for reelection in November. I’ve posted many times before about why and how I think overall this administration has brought to an extent the ‘change’ promised despite the pundits and disenchanted supporters. My support however is not a free pass and increasingly I’ve been alarmed by the way certain things have been handled despite overwhelming opposition by the very people who put this administration in office.
Transparency and greater involvement with the everyday Americans that government often overlooks, the poor, the middle class, minorities and so on, were a large part of the ‘change’ that was promised in 2008. Yet in 2012 our voices only seem to be heard when ‘change’ matches ‘gain.’ There’s no denying that President Obama has done many great things for women, for the LGBTQ community, for students and young people, for tax payers, for home owners, for the military, for our country. We have moved forward, but we’ve also taken huge steps back. We’ve been conditioned to believe that everything is black and white, that Democrat and Republican is what defines us not compromise, not progress, not innovation. You’re either for us or against us and any sort of criticism casts you as extreme. This is not the ‘change’ I supported in 2008, but a watered down, mainstream, nicely wrapped excuse for the change that we are capable of.
I completely agree! Thank you for putting it into words.
MORE FACTS AT THE LINK about the group’s attempt to do to Barack Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans did to Kerry’s 2004 campaign.
In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million view on Youtube. [YouTube, 5/1/12]
The group’s sole employee and founder is coordinating with key Islamophobic figures on the far-right.[ThinkProgress,2/12/12;For The Common Defense; New York Times,3/4/05]
The group’s founder helped promote a documentary advocating war with Iran. [Flier; ThinkProgress, 11/3/11]
Veterans for A Strong American is fully endorsed by Karl Rove. The man known as “Bush’s Brain” tweeted his support of their first web ad. [Twitter,5/3/12]
The group’s founder — posing as a “journalist” — organized and participated in a taxpayer subsidized propaganda trip to Iraq in 2008. [Charleston Gazette, 8/28/08]
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA has consistently given more positive coverage to likely Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney compared to President Barack Obama, according to a new survey of media coverage from the Pew Research Center’s Excellence in Journalism Project. During the early weeks of 2012, Romney’s media coverage was slightly negative—between January 2 and February 26, 33 percent of the stories about the ex-Massachusetts governor were positive and 37 percent were negative, according to Pew’s analysis. But Romney has received mostly positive coverage since then (47 percent positive to 24 percent negative). By contrast, according to the report, President Barack Obama “did not have a single week in 2012 when positive coverage exceeded negative coverage.” The media’s overwhelming focus on “strategy” and Obama’s consistently negative coverage indicate that a preoccupation with public policy and an unwillingness to criticize the president are two afflictions the mainstream press is not suffering from. – Mother Jones
- So much for that vast left-wing conspiracy – “There will be an effort by the quote ‘vast left-wing conspiracy’ to work together to put out their message and to attack me. Many in the media are inclined to do the president’s bidding.” — Mittens Romney, last week
Also, the president never said, “Unlike some people I wasn’t born with a sliver spoon in my mouth.”
That was made up by Fox New’s Steve Doocy.
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JOHN BOEHNER YESTERDAY: “This election is going to be a referendum on the president’s economic policies. They’ve not only not helped the economy, they’ve actually made it worse. When you look at his higher taxes, his refusal to deal with the debt, the regulatory regime here in Washington out of control, they’ve scared every businessperson and investor in America.” Speaker Boehner has an odd definition of “worse.” While Boehner talks about Obama’s “higher taxes,” Obama has actually cut taxes. While Boehner said Obama has refused to deal with the debt, Obama offered Boehner a $4 trillion debt-reduction plan that Republicans rejected. While Boehner frets over a “regulatory regime,” Obama has actually created fewer regulations than his Republican predecessor. And then there’s the notion that Obama made the economy “worse.”… [Time for Boehner to update his talking points]
Time for the GOP to stop out-right telling lies and not getting call out for it at all in most of the main stream media.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qhwvH1dd1qf10tro1_400.jpg)
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JOHN BOEHNER YESTERDAY: “This election is going to be a referendum on the president’s economic policies. They’ve not only not helped the economy, they’ve actually made it worse. When you look at his higher taxes, his refusal to deal with the debt, the regulatory regime here in Washington out of control, they’ve scared every businessperson and investor in America.” Speaker Boehner has an odd definition of “worse.” While Boehner talks about Obama’s “higher taxes,” Obama has actually cut taxes. While Boehner said Obama has refused to deal with the debt, Obama offered Boehner a $4 trillion debt-reduction plan that Republicans rejected. While Boehner frets over a “regulatory regime,” Obama has actually created fewer regulations than his Republican predecessor. And then there’s the notion that Obama made the economy “worse.”… [Time for Boehner to update his talking points]
Time for the GOP to stop out-right telling lies and not getting call out for it at all in most of the main stream media.
Background from Right Wing Watch:
Nugent called President Obama a criminal and denounced his “vile, evil America-hating administration” which is “wiping its ass with the Constitution.” Taking it a step further, he said that “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” …Nugent concluded with a call to cut off the heads of Democrats in November: “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?”
According to ThinkProgress, “The Secret Service, which investigates all threats against the President, confirmed to New York Magazine’s Daily Intel blog that they have in fact flagged Nugent’s comment” and will be conducting a follow up.
Thank goodness polite society has condemned Hillary Rosen for her remarks about Ann Romney. That’s so much more outrageous than Romney-endorser Nugent.
In the same rant, Nugent urged NRA conference attendees to find “a couple of thousand” people each to vote for Mitt Romney and said those who don’t are worthless.
But again, Hillary Rosen is just so goddamned awful. Right? </sarcasm>
Reblogging for commentary.
