Obama ‘Has Offended Every Christian’

Once again the right wing is offended when confronted with the truth!

At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama told fellow Christians that their religion had been abused and misappropriated in the past, just as Islam has been by terrorists in recent years. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ,” he said. Critics, including many Republicans, were outraged. “The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,” former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore told The Washington Post. “He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.”

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Republicans Have Failed As Obamacare Enrollment Spreads Like Wildfire In Red States

Despite the protests of Republicans and red state conservatives, millions of people in Republican controlled states have enrolled in the federal health insurance exchange. The Republican efforts to stop Obamacare at the state level have been a failure.

A guide to the policies Obama mentioned in the 2015 State of the Union

The State of the Union is really two speeches in one. First, it's a description of where the country is at this moment in time (and if you're interested in that, here are 33 charts and maps that tell the tale). But second — and more importantly — it lays out the president's agenda to address the nation's most serious problems.

In this post, Vox has pulled apart those two threads of the speech: these are the policy proposals Obama laid out — both what he said and what the underlying policy would do

Obama To Disband the Marine Corps

You didn't know this, did you?

On a flight home I sat in between two individuals, a Marine and boxing promoter. The boxing guy was an older gentleman, and told interesting stories, such as meeting Don King. Both men were very pleasant and that helped make time pass on the flight. We were all combat veterans and all Southerners, so we had a lot in common. Then the discussion, inevitably, turned to politics.

The older guy turned to the Marine and said "You know Obama is getting rid of the Marine Corps, right?"

The Marine was puzzled. He hadn't heard this news. Neither had I. "Yeah, Eric Holder just had a meeting with the Joint Chiefs. Obama is going to disband them by Executive Order."

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Saving O-Care From SCOTUS Might Be A Whole Lot Harder Than It Sounds

If conservative justices rule to invalidate tax credits offered through HealthCare.gov, dealing a punishing blow to Obamacare, it isn’t clear that the White House will have the legal and practical leeway to save it.

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Obama Surging As Second Poll Find Broad National Support For Immigration Executive Action

A poll by Hart Research on behalf of Americans United For Change has found broad popular support among Democrats (91%), Independents (57%), and 41% of Republicans for President Obama's executive orders on immigration.

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More.....Things Get Worse For Republicans: Poll Finds 89% of Latinos Support Obama On Immigration

Republicans Who Cry As Obama Acts Alone Must Explain Why They’ve Done Nothing for 509 Days

Sure, they haven't done anything for 509 days, but Republicans suddenly claim to have secret plans for immigration reform, just to make Obama look bad.

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After Immigration Speech Republicans Admit That Obama’s Got Them By The Balls

Oh I am sure they will think up something mean spirited and unproductive.

Behind the scenes, Republicans are not feeling too good about Obama's executive action on immigration. They say they feel like Obama has them by the balls, according to MSNBC political correspondent Kasie Hunt.

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Republicans Threaten To Shut Down The Government To Stop Obama From Acting On Immigration

House Republicans are increasingly talking about shutting down the government in order to prevent President Obama from signing executives orders on immigration.

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Obama’s Move To The Left Is The Beginning Of A Nightmare For Republicans

President Obama statement on net neutrality and climate change agreement with China are two strong signals that the president is building a unified front with congressional Democrats that will be a nightmare for the new Republican majority.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/13/obamas-move-left-beginning-republican-nightmare.html

Obama Is Doing Everything Right As McConnell Is “Disturbed” By The President’s Actions

Judging from Mitch McConnell's reaction, President Obama is pushing the right post-election buttons. The incoming Senate Majority Leader described himself as disturbed by the path that Obama is on.

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Obama: Regulate Web Like Phone Companies

President Obama spoke out in support of reclassifying the Internet as a utility, which would allow the FCC to regulate Internet service providers more strictly and protect so-called net neutrality. “The time has come for the FCC to recognize that broadband service is of the same importance and must carry the same obligations as so many of the other vital services do,” Obama said in a statement released Monday morning. The president also outlined several major points for how the Internet should operate, including prohibiting ISPs from blocking websites offering legal content, giving certain websites preferential treatment in terms of speed, and offering fast lanes to certain content providers.

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Obama Drops The Reality Hammer On Republicans, “Nobody’s Stopping You From Passing Bills”

President Obama is turning up the heat on the incoming Republican congressional majority by bluntly telling that nobody is stopping them from passing bills on issues like immigration.

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Republicans Are Shocked That Obama Refuses To Cave and Give Them Everything They Want

He should give them NOTHING - just like they did to him!  Time for Dems to 'man up'!  Why do they think their constituents didn't show up to vote?


Aides to Sen. Mitch McConnell are frustrated because President Obama has made it known that he is not going to back down and give the Republican controlled Congress what they want.

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Democrats Lost Because Republicans Hid Their Agenda

Why Republicans Always Get Away With It, MSNBC Edition

Our current political media's largest failure has been their well-practiced ability to not only excuse Republicans' bad behavior, but to conveniently forget about it, too. This is why we have midterms where everyone is shrugging and exclaiming that they've never seen an election like this where everything is so...tied.

Here's why that happens. Chris Christie goes out and bullies a constituent, making the fatuous claim that Christie, and Christie alone, was taking care of Sandy victims after the cameras left, unlike that rude man with the sign who just wants to heckle him.

We now know from Chris Hayes that the gentleman holding the sign took a month off work without pay to go and help with the Sandy cleanup. And yet Andrea pronounces the entire episode some "great TV." Cillizza nods and agrees wisely, as if he knows exactly what she means while both of them gabble about whether it's "presidential."

The other side of that coin

Now I want you to imagine a different episode of this particular show. In this one, Obama is giving a speech somewhere and gets heckled, as has been the case at most of his events this year. Instead of tossing his "Don't get mad, vote!" line at the hecklers, he goes off. Loses his temper, tells the hecklers to shut up and sit down because no one -- NO ONE -- has worked harder to (fill in the blank here) than he has, and that person heckling him has no damn idea so they should just shut the hell up and sit their asses down.

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President Obama Shreds Fox News For Their Bogus Criticisms Of His Foreign Policy

President Obama engaged in one of his favorite press conference hobbies. The president handed Ed Henry his head for asking yet another Fox News fueled stupid question that was entirely based on Republican talking points. As soon as Henry broke out the phrase red line, it was easy to see the utter BS question coming.

Obama went through and debunked point by point the right’s bogus criticisms of his foreign policy. The president got in an immediate jab at Fox News by suggesting that the network ignored the complimentary pieces about his foreign policy. Obama directly took on the Republican talking point that Fox News pushes on a daily basis that his foreign policy isn’t strong or manly enough.

The president hit Fox News and the Republicans hard by saying that haven’t learned the lessons of the decision to invade Iraq, and that they keep hitting the same note over and over again. He called out Fox and the GOP for being wrong about Syria, and for advocating military strikes that the American people want no part of. He made it clear that his foreign policy decisions aren’t made because some clown at a cable news network thinks that they will make him look strong.

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Obama To Sign Executive Orders On Equal Pay .

President Barack Obama will sign two new executive orders on equal pay for women Tuesday, Politico reports. The executive actions coincide with "Equal Pay Day" -- the date that symbolizes how far into 2014 women must work to earn the same amount of money men earned last year.

Both executive orders mirror provisions of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which Congress has twice failed to pass. One would prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against employees who share their salary information with each other. The provision is inspired by Lilly Ledbetter, the namesake of the first bill Obama signed on equal pay in 2009, who worked for nearly 20 years at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. before discovering that men in her same job with equal or lesser experience were earning significantly more money than she was.

The second executive order will instruct the Department of Labor to create new regulations requiring federal contractors to report wage-related data to the government, in the hope that it will hold them more accountable for salary differences based on sex or race.

Women who work full time in the U.S. make an average of 77 cents for every dollar men make -- a number that has remained stagnant for a decade. Researchers who have taken into account factors that may contribute to that gap, including industry, education, college major and location, still find that men get paid 7 percent more than women, according to the American Association of University Women, a non-profit that works to increase equity for women and girls. The gap widens over the course of a woman's career, especially if she has a college degree.

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Obama: The Republican Economic Plan is Like the Movie Groundhog Day, But It’s Not Funny

Nailed it!

President Obama perfectly summed up the Republican Party’s entire economic plan by calling it an unfunny version of the movie Groundhog Day.

Transcript:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, to give them credit, they do have one original idea, which is to repeal Obamacare — (laughter) — because they haven’t tried that 50 times. (Applause.) Fifty times they’ve tried to do that. (Laughter.) So that means they would take away health coverage not only for more than 7 million Americans who’ve done the responsible thing, signed up, bought health care for themselves and their families, but for the 3 million young adults who’ve been able to stay on their parents’ plan under this law. What I just told you about being able to stay on your parent’s plan — the Republicans don’t like that.

And their budget guts the rules we put in place to protect middle-class families from another financial crisis like the one that we’ve endured. So if this all sounds familiar, it should be familiar because it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign, it was their economic plan in 2010. It’s like that movie Groundhog Day — (laughter) — except it’s not funny. (Applause.) If they tried to sell this sandwich at Zingerman’s, they’d have to call it the Stinkburger, or the Meanwich. (Laughter and applause.)

Look, here’s the truth. They’re not necessarily cold-hearted, they just sincerely believe that if we give more tax breaks to a fortunate few and we invest less in the middle class, and we reduce or eliminate the safety net for the poor and the sick, and we cut food stamps, and we cut Medicaid, and we let banks and polluters and credit card companies and insurers do only what’s best for their bottom line without the responsibility to the rest of us, then somehow the economy will boom, and jobs and prosperity will trickle down to everybody.

And when I say it that way, I know it sounds like I’m exaggerating — except I’m not. This is their theory. They’re pretty unabashed about it. And it’s not a new theory. They’ve held it for decades, through good times and bad. They were making the same argument against FDR when he was setting up Social Security.

 

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With A Swoop of His Pen Obama Makes Millions Workers Eligible For Overtime Pay

President Obama stood up for 135 million American workers today by using his pen and power make sure that workers get paid for all of the hours that they put in.