Never heard of this person, have never seen the show, didn’t watch the President on “The View” — and I had no clue there even was this oh so important controversy going on.
But I thought this was damned good, the DNC comeback to whatever it is:
* Profoundly important exchange of the day: The RNC attacked Obama today for taking a question about Snooki on The View, arguing that the president should spend more time on the economy than on the Jersey Shore. DNC spox Hari Sevugan responds with a barb about the RNC cash spent at the bondage-themed nightclub:
“What’s clear is that while the President took bold action to pull our economy out of the ditch that Republicans had left it in, the GOP sat on the sidelines playing political games that didn’t do a thing to help American families. So, thanks, but we’ll pass on advice from a party that spent more time helping the Southern California sex club economy than the American economy at large.”
“They intended exactly what they did. They were looking for the result they got yesterday,” she said of Fox. “I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
They’re not campaigning on it in earnest — at least not yet — but Republican leaders say that, given the power, they would like to do away with Wall Street reform much like they have already discussed repealing health care reform.
“I think it ought to be repealed,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, in response to a question from TPMDC, at his weekly press conference this morning.
President Obama arrived back at the White House this afternoon and immediately heralded Senate passage of “the strongest consumer financial protections in history.”
An upbeat Obama was reacting to the Senate’s 60-39 vote on legislation designed to tighten Wall Street lending practices and expand consumer protections following the U.S.-led financial crisis that led to a global economic recession in 2008.
“The American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes,” Obama said moments after stepping off Marine One on the White House lawn. “From now on, every American will be empowered with the clear and concise information you need to make financial decisions that are best for you.” …
As part of that message, Obama said the measure will ensure that firms “compete on price and quality, not on tricks and traps.” He said they’ll have nothing to fear unless their business models require “cutting corners or bilking your customers.”
Obama noted that House Republican leader John Boehner has called for the measure’s repeal, but he echoed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vow that Democrats won’t go back on their actions.
The Birther Minister of Hate is still chewing sour grapes, because so many “patriots” stayed away from his Birther Trial of the Century:
Many are even naive enough to think there is some hope in Sarah Palin. When all truth is known it is as if Sarah Palin is Obama’s wicked sister, seducing the men while he robs the barns. What a major distraction, from the only weapon that will stop Obama; The CIA Columbia Obama Sedition and Treason Trial verdict of guilty on seventeen counts of sedition and fraud is the only silver bullet or ballot.
It’s like a Catskill Mountain Resort — a Jewish comedian playing to a bunch of senior citizens (but in this case, there are more gentiles than Jews in the audience).
If only the 11 spies had grown fat and covered themselves in tattoos and constantly threatened to kill the president and blow up Congress, nobody would’ve ever noticed them.
During his round of phone calls to top officials of the Obama administration whom he and his team disparaged to a Rolling Stone reporter, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, “I’ve compromised the mission,” a senior administration source tells ABC News.
Whether he did so irrevocably is at the top of the agenda in his Oval Office meeting with President Obama this morning. The president will press him as to what he was thinking and whether he still has the ability to serve as commander of 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan after making remarks about the president and his national security team that the general could use to justifiably fire any of his underlings if they were made about him. …
Officials described the reaction within the West Wing as immediate anger and certainly that McChrystal be fired, followed by a willingness to hear the counterargument given the importance of the war, its perilous state, the fact that the story revealed no policy disagreements, how closely tied McChrystal is with the current strategy, and the fact that Gen. David McKiernan was dismissed from the same job last Summer.
But if McChrystal by his own admission has compromised the mission, where does that leave him?
