ABC News is reporting that Tom Daschle's tax problems are a lot more significant than a borrowed car and driver: "Mr. Daschle also didn't report $83,333 in consulting income in 2007." I was okay about Geitner's problems because it just seemed like an honest mistake. Even a car and a driver seemed understandable, but people don't forget $83,333 in personal income. That's tax evasion plain and simple.
Senator Daschle, you need to withdraw your name; you are an embarrassment to the President and the Party.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The President's Weekly Address
Politico reports:
In his weekly address, Obama announced that a new bailout strategy is coming soon "that gets credit flowing to businesses and families" and will "lower mortgage costs and extend loans to small businesses … ensure that CEOs are not draining funds that should be advancing our recovery. And we will insist on unprecedented transparency, rigorous oversight, and clear accountability…"That sounds to my ears like music.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Republicans wants to raise your taxes
Yes, that's right. The Republicans carelessly crafted a Stimulus Plan that would force many Americans to pay the alternative minimum tax, a tax that actually would increase their tax burden.
With their characteristic lack of judgment and caution, the Republicans really would like the privilege of hammering the last nail into the coffin they've been building the last eight years.
With their characteristic lack of judgment and caution, the Republicans really would like the privilege of hammering the last nail into the coffin they've been building the last eight years.
Michelle Obama was right around the corner
My bank is right around the corner from Georgia Brown where Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty had lunch today. I missed the First Lady by just minutes as I stood in line at my bank to make a deposit. I could hear the cheers from the crowd when she came out of the restaurant.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
ACTION ALERT: Tell Obama & Congress to Support Family Planning Health Care!
I just found this at TalkLeft. After all the hell progressive/feminist activists raised over needed family planning funds being cut from the economic stimulus package, President Obama may be listening to our concerns after all. And better yet, he may be willing to do something about it!
So what can we do to ensure working-class women can access the health care they need? We talk to President Obama! We call Congress! We take action to make it happen!
It's a shame that so many women have been denied family planning health care for the last eight years simply because Dumbya Bush and his Rethuglican Party have been vehemently opposed to any and all forms of contraception. But now that those @ssclowns are out of office, we have a chance to fix this problem and fully fund the health care that so many women need. Please join me in asking the Democratic leaders in Washington to stand up for the many women who helped put them into office.
Women's health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress' economic recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. [...] But the dismay may not last long. A source present at today's White House signing ceremony for the Lilly Ledbetter bill tells me that President Obama gave assurances that the family planning aid would be done soon -- perhaps as soon as next week, when the House is set to take up a spending bill that would keep the government funded until October.But hey, you know me better than to think I'll just "hope" that Congress just magically includes this in the spending bill next week. No, we need to make it happen!
So what can we do to ensure working-class women can access the health care they need? We talk to President Obama! We call Congress! We take action to make it happen!
It's a shame that so many women have been denied family planning health care for the last eight years simply because Dumbya Bush and his Rethuglican Party have been vehemently opposed to any and all forms of contraception. But now that those @ssclowns are out of office, we have a chance to fix this problem and fully fund the health care that so many women need. Please join me in asking the Democratic leaders in Washington to stand up for the many women who helped put them into office.
Finally! Payback for Obstructionism!
This is the new ad in support of President Obama's stimulus plan about to be broadcast nationwide. And really, it's about time that our side starts applying pressure and stops allowing The Bush Party (aka Rethuglicans) to keep framing the debate on economic recovery. After all, the American people just voted for Democrats to take this nation in a new direction of balanced, sensible, Keynesian, progressive economics. So really, Dem leaders in DC need to stop being afraid of what the big, bad corporate media villagers will say and tell them & their GOP buddies who's in charge now!
John Kerry has it exactly right
Politico reports that Kerry says we should ignore the Republicans if they aren't going to vote for bills where they negotiate changes:
if Republicans aren’t prepared to vote for it, I don’t think we should be giving up things, where I think the money can be spent more effectively.Hear, hear.
Sarah Palin for Republican Presidential Nominee 2012!
Go, Sarah! A first step toward reelecting Obama-Biden in 2012.
Okay, folks, leave Mayor Adams the hell alone
The media are all aflutter once again about the relationship between a politician and an intern. This time, the media's obsession happens to be two men, one of them the mayor of Portland and the other of them, a legislative intern.
I am not going to retell the story. If you don't know about it but want to learn about it, go to the link and read all about it. I want to talk about the media and their obsession with people's zipper-related behaviors.
Personally, I think the reason we vilify persons who make a living, one way or the other, off of sex is that it's just too easy. It preys on an almost universal vulnerability and takes advantage of a place of real but mysterious weakness in the human psyche.
So too it is with reporters and media when they pry into this area of our lives. Really, who among us doesn't have some sexual thing we have done that we don't talk about and we don't want others to know.
Good grief. Stop it. Is this man a good mayor? Portland didn't hire a guidance counselor; it elected an advocate for the people and an executive for the government. Is Sam Adams going to do that job? That's all we need to know.
I am sick of the media exploiting issues related to human sexuality to sell papers.
I am not going to retell the story. If you don't know about it but want to learn about it, go to the link and read all about it. I want to talk about the media and their obsession with people's zipper-related behaviors.
Personally, I think the reason we vilify persons who make a living, one way or the other, off of sex is that it's just too easy. It preys on an almost universal vulnerability and takes advantage of a place of real but mysterious weakness in the human psyche.
So too it is with reporters and media when they pry into this area of our lives. Really, who among us doesn't have some sexual thing we have done that we don't talk about and we don't want others to know.
Good grief. Stop it. Is this man a good mayor? Portland didn't hire a guidance counselor; it elected an advocate for the people and an executive for the government. Is Sam Adams going to do that job? That's all we need to know.
I am sick of the media exploiting issues related to human sexuality to sell papers.
More thoughts on the Republicans' big mistake
I think the Republicans made a horrible tactical error yesterday. By not allowing even one of their members to vote for the Stimulus Bill, they made themselves effectively irrelevant not just to this process but every subsequent process over the next two years. They sent the message to their fellow members on the Democratic side and the president that any efforts to extend their hands would be met with clenched fists and that concessions made by Democrats (like funding for abortion) would receive no reward (Republican votes.) Moreover, they taught us a lesson that united Democrats can walk all over the minority party and achieve progressive objectives.
What fools these irrelevant Republicans are as they march lockstep into the dustbin of history.
What fools these irrelevant Republicans are as they march lockstep into the dustbin of history.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Republicans demonstrate they're irrelevant
The House has passed President Obama's $819 billion stimulus bill. The measure passed the House by 244 to 188; 11 Democrats and 177 Republicans voted against it. Not a single Republican would unclench her or his fist to shake President Obama's open hand of friendship and bipartisanship. But something more important happened tonight. Wow, I have to confess it hadn't dawned on me how irrelevant Republicans had become until this vote came up in Congress. They're sort of like the crowd who stood on the dock yelling to Columbus that he was going to fall off the edge of the ocean. We now know that every one of the Republicans can oppose us, and they can't win.
It's a pity. I mean, for them. Not for the country or us: It's a pity for them.
It's a pity. I mean, for them. Not for the country or us: It's a pity for them.
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