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New Obama campaign ad: “Jobs” and yet more lies from Mitt Romney

By on June 8, 2012 in Barack Obama, Obama for America, President Obama

GOP: The Goddam Obstructionist Pissants

The Obama campaign has a powerful new television ad out titled “Jobs” that calls out Republican obstructionists in Congress who refuse to act on the President’s jobs plan:

From the Obama campaign:

Obama for America today released a new television advertisement called “Jobs” that asks Americans to join the President in calling on Congress to pass his commonsense bipartisan plan to create jobs now as we continue to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and rebuild an economy that’s meant to last.

Nearly nine months ago, President Obama gave a speech before Congress where he laid out the American Jobs Act, with ideas to cut taxes to help small businesses hire and grow, rebuild American infrastructure, create pathways back to work for Americans looking for jobs, and cut taxes for every American worker and their families – all paid for within the President’s long-term deficit reduction plan.

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President Obama’s spokesman calls out Republicans directly on their obstructionism

By on January 27, 2012 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Today, on their way from Michigan to Andrews Air Force Base, Press Secretary Jay Carney held a press gaggle. In it, he specifically laid the blame for obstructionism at the feet of Republicans; House Republicans in particular.

Question: Some Democrats sometimes get upset when he refers to the obstructionist Congress, and they feel that he’s lumping them in with Republicans, and I’m wondering if he’s going to make a distinction –

MR. CARNEY: I certainly don’t think you’ve heard that kind of concern expressed by Democrats in any — in recent memory. I think we’ve made pretty clear, because the facts are incontestable, that the unfortunate obstructionism the country has encountered in passing common-sense, mainstream measures to get the economy going, in passing a balanced approach to deficit reduction and long-term control of our debt, have been Republicans exclusively.

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“MOMMY!!! Barack won’t let me keep hitting him!”

By on March 29, 2010 in Barack Obama, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

He was warned, oh yes he was. Having missed Bill Maher’s “New Rule“, the GOPosaurs warned the president that, by God, if he made any recess appointments, well, they would just quit being all bipartisany.

So he did anyway.

15 of ‘em. Average number of days these folks have been waiting to be confirmed: 214.

Now he’ll have to pay the price: no bipartisanship from Congress anymore.

Cry me a damn river.


As the New York Times reports, that was the final fucking straw for Republicans. They have tried and they have tried and they have tried to be bipartisan but the goddam president just wouldn’t let ‘em.…


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Yet more Republican lies

By on March 4, 2010 in Conservatives, GOP, GOPocrisy, Politics, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Have you heard the one about how “most Americans are against health insurance reform (HIR)”. When you hear this endless repeated by Republicans and right-wing radio and television pundits, know this:

THEY ARE LYING.

The Republicans and anti-HIR forces have spent months demonizing this legislation to the point that they have effectively freaked people out about it. But when you poll people on the individual elements like the Kaiser Family Research Center did, the results are stunning. As you can see in this graph from their report (pdf) large majorities of Americans support the individual elements of the bills.

They also found that 58% of Americans would be “disappointed” or “angry” if Congress doesn’t pass HIR legislation.…


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Republican lies about reconciliation

By on March 4, 2010 in Conservatives, Democrats, GOP, GOPocrisy, Politics, Republican-Fail, Republicans

The next time you hear some Republican say that Democrats are using the budget reconciliation process to ram through health insurance reform and that is an unprecedented use of it that affects 1/6 of our economy, know this:

THEY ARE LYING

Not only have they used it for gigantic, party line votes themselves, the way it will be used for health insurance reform is very small. Congress will pass the Senate version that passed with a SUPER MAJORITY and then reconciliation will be used for very small fixes of that legislation.

Do NOT let these lies get perpetuated. Republicans are desperate and freaking out and, like a cornered wild animal they are using desperate measures and are behaving erratically and unpredictably in response.…


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Republicans demand “scrapping the bill” TWENTY times!

By on February 26, 2010 in Democrats, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Yup. Twenty demands by Republicans at yesterday’s bipartisan Health Care Summit to scrap all existing legislative efforts and start anew. And there were only ten of them there.

Sheesh.

Pat Oliphant nailed it:

My name is Eclectablog and I am a politaholic. I actually took a vacation day yesterday to watch all seven hours of President Obama’s bipartisan Health Care Summit so that I could live-blog it.

In the course of the day, I made a drinking game out of it where everytime a GOPosaur demanded, in one fashion or another, that the President and Democrats start over and scrap all of the work that has been done in the past year to assemble a health insurance reform package to pass out of Congress for the president’s signature.…


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White House offers to put GOP HCR plan online – Where is it?

By on February 23, 2010 in Bwahahahahaha, Conservatives, GOP, GOPocrisy, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

This morning, the White House offered to put the GOP’s health insurance reform plan online alongside their own plan in preparation for Thursday’s bipartisan summit.

Problem is: there isn’t one.

Via Dan Pfeiffer at the White House blog:

What you can’t do just yet is read about the Republicans’ consensus plan – because so far they haven’t announced what proposal they’ll be bringing to the table. To be sure, there are many Republicans who share the President’s conviction that we need to act on reform, and there are several pieces of Republican health care legislation out there. Previously we were told this was the House Republican bill.…

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GOP can’t deny that they’re the Party of NO, part II

By on February 8, 2010 in GOP, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

In an interview with Katie Couric last night right before the Super Bowl, President Obama announced that he is scheduling a bipartisan commission to go over the best ideas for health insurance reform. It will take place on February 25th. The idea is to bring Republicans back into the dialog after they took their ball and went home. They did this saying they had nothing to contribute as long as a public option was on the table. Well, now it’s gone and the President is extending his hand.

It was, of course, immediately smacked away. Here’s House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA):

After going it alone on health care reform for nearly a year, President Obama has decided he wants to bring Republicans into the conversation.…

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GOP can’t deny that they’re the Party of NO — they can’t

By on February 5, 2010 in GOP, President Obama, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Any Republican who argues that they are not the Party of NO should be told flatly to shut the hell up.

Ugh.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the Senate, according to multiple reports this evening. The hold means no nominations can move forward unless Senate Democrats can secure a 60-member cloture vote to break it, or until Shelby lifts the hold.

“While holds are frequent,” CongressDaily’s Dan Friedman and Megan Scully report, “Senate aides said a blanket hold represents a far more aggressive use of the power than is normal.”

And these 70 are just part of 177 nominees waiting Congressional confirmation by the Obama administration.…


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