Obama is Loving Life

I had to laugh at this one. I was watching CNN today and saw this wonderful pan of the G20 photo from Obama's European tour last week. I had to laugh. Look at this elementary school photo. All the little 3 graders not paying attention to the photographer except one person right in the middle with the big shit-eating grin. The guy who actually LOVES 3rd grade. He loves everything about 3rd grade. The recesses, gym, his teacher, the principle. He loves everything! That is what I love about Obama. He loves doing this work.

Click on it to get a closeup.

And, I hope in a couple of years it will show, he's good at it as well.

Rachel Maddow is Skewering the Repubs

The repubs have come up with the worst title to a protest. On April 15th (tax day), the fiscally conservative repubs are demonstrating against the tax and spend government with a Boston tea-party-like event called "teabagging." Yes, that is right. They also want voters to teabag member of congress as well.

But Rachel Maddow really goes all the way with this one.

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Now, for those of you who are not familiar with what the slang term for "teabagging" means, let Samantha Jones explain it.



You can make up the stuff coming out of repub headquarters.

Murphy Leading in NY 20 Special Election

The special election to fill Gillibrand's spot is going well for the dems. (Gillibrand replaced Clinton's senate seat after she took the sec of state.) This is a highly repub area with a 7000 edge voter registration list so technically the repubs should be winning. That just ain't so.

"In the NY-20 special election, the latest update shows Scott Murphy's (D) lead is now 46 votes over Jim Tedisco (R)."

Now there are still lots of absontee ballots to count but this should have been over on election night with Tedisco winning. But it wasn't. It can go either way but there are good indications that the dems will be keeping this seat.

Update: Murphy now has  a 35 vote lead.

When Is an Increase a Cut?

The right wing has trotted out its newest line of attack. Attacking Obama for "cutting" the Pentagon's budget. But the confusing part is that he's increased the Pentagons budget by about 50 billion.

Here's the vid.


So, the lies continue!

Repub Gov's Really Don't Like the Voters

Ever since the stimulus passed some repub govs have been saying they won't take the money for political aspirations financial reasons. (Mainly, they want to run for pres in 2012.) Now, both dem and repub state reps are turning against them.

"But what began with a bang is ending with something closer to a whimper. All three of those governors have been forced to scale back their expectations, to varying degrees, as the push of conservative philosophy gave way to the pull of political reality....All three found that praise from the conservative movement in Washington meant nothing to furious state legislators of both parties."

Basically, they wanted to cut unemployment from the money and some wanted to cut health care as well.

I can tell you how sick it makes me to think that these fools would trade money/benefits for those down and out for political aspirations of the future.