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Obama administration will NOT approve permit for Keystone XL pipeline

Posted on January 18, 2012 by | 16 Comments

I told ya so. I shore did.

A couple of weeks ago, I was perusing the transcript of one of Presidential spokesperson Jay Carney’s press briefings where he was asked about the Keystone XL pipeline. I got a lot of signals that he was about to reject the pipeline so I posted a piece called Has the GOP given President Obama the “out” he needs to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline?

Turns out I was right and the effort by Republicans to force President Obama to make a rush decision on issuing a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline has backfired.

The State Department Wednesday will reject the Keystone XL pipeline, multiple sources following the project tell POLITICO.

The formal announcement is expected at 3 p.m. from Deputy Secretary of State William Burns. Although the permit would be rejected, TransCanada would still be allowed to continue to work on and pitch an alternative route through Nebraska.

Now, can all of you on the left who keep attacking President Obama for things he has not done and does not ultimately do stop doing that???!

Probably too much to ask…
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Anti-tax Republicans fight against tax cuts for the bottom 98 percent

Posted on December 6, 2011 by | Leave a comment

What does an oil pipeline through the middle of the United States have to do with payroll tax cuts?

Obama at Monday's press briefing

Absolutely nothing.

Grasping for whatever leverage they can find in a tax battle with Democrats they’re sure to lose, and hoping to “sweeten the deal” for Teapublican House members weary of supporting any measure backed by the Obama Administration, Republican leaders have proposed speeding up the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline project and eliminating some environmental protections as a lure to Republican lawmakers to get on board with a payroll tax cut extension affecting 98 percent of Americans.

As a dagger in the heart of Democrats, this is a beautifully repugnant example of partisan politics. As an incentive to the staunchly conservative, anti-everything Tea Party members in the lower chamber, it’s yet another sign of just how reliant Republican leaders are on the sanity of the opposition party when it comes to keeping government functioning.

“Talk is cheap,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Friday, according to a report in The Hill.

When President Bush said the country was in trouble, Democrats responded in a bipartisan way. When the Republicans couldn’t keep government running without our help, they got our help. The second time they couldn’t keep government running without our help, we gave them our help. They couldn’t make sure that America paid its debts, paid its bills, (and) Democrats helped.

Democrats have shown — not just talked about it — have shown that we are prepared (to cross the aisle).

Considering that Republicans are the anti-tax party, you’d think a payroll tax cut would move swiftly through the House with a rubber stamp and a parade of worship for GOP lawmakers sticking up for American workers everywhere. Instead, the “Taxed Enough Already” caucus apparently wants to increase taxes on all but the rich.

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In a powerful MLK dedication speech honoring the struggles of our past and those of our present, Obama says 'our work is not done'

Posted on October 17, 2011 by | 1 Comment

President Barack Obama has been called a sellout.

He has been called a crook. He has been called a Muslim. He has been called a terrorist, a “lion African,” a Kenyan, an illegal alien, a Manchurian candidate, a socialist, a racist, a Communist, and a dick.

His motives have been questioned. His legislative victories for women’s rights, for gay rights, for children’s health and the health of 9/11 first responders have been called into question, downplayed, excused and opposed even by those who claimed to support the type of change he knew was necessary and thought was possible during his 2008 campaign for the presidency.

The one caveat of his mission, the one point he knew he had to emphasize daily both for those who stood with him and those who doubted him from day one, was that change would not come easily.

During the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial, President Obama renewed his request for patience, persistence and continued dedication in a speech that both honored the Civil Rights hero and contextualized the fight for equality that continues to this day.

The following excerpt of Obama’s speech is worth reading a thousand times over. I ask only that you read it once, and that while so doing you think of the wars, the budget cuts, the attacks on women’s rights, the right’s resistance to both social and economic justice, the growing economic inequality, the opposition to health care reform and financial regulation reform, and the hundreds of other actions he’s taken in an effort to curb the injustices of both the minorities and the masses in America who have been unequally represented in government, and that you put these individual battles into the context they require for fully grasping the real historical significance of electing our first black president.

[Read the transcript and watch the video after the jump]

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Nom Nom Nom: President Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Provides Free Meals for All Detroit Schools

Posted on August 19, 2011 by | 23 Comments

Reason Number Eleventy that I Support Our President

 A new program enacted under President Obama’s Health, Hunger-Free Kids Act authorized the USDA to select up to three states to test the Community Eligibility Option, and long story short — all students in Detroit Public Schools will receive free breakfast, lunch and snacks.

Free healthy food for Detroit children!

That’s what Obama’s talkin’ about:

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Child Asks Obama: "Why Do People Hate You?"

Posted on August 14, 2011 by | 20 Comments

I support our President.

I also support this kid:

You’re welcome.

(H/T Janet T.!)

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Angry Black Links: Stories You May Have Missed – Linky Goodness

Posted on August 14, 2011 by | 2 Comments

Here is a boatload of links for your enjoyment. One more day of vacation for me, then it’s back to the grind.

Cross-posted at Extreme Liberal’s Blog

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Glenn Beck: Black People Will Riot if Obama Is Not Re-Elected

Posted on August 13, 2011 by | 23 Comments

If we’re rioting, I need at least two weeks advanced notice.

This black person had planned to move to New Zealand if Obama isn’t reelected, but I suppose I could be down for some light rioting:

“I firmly believe that race riots are on the way. They are being encouraged. Remember when Bill Clinton left office and remember they took all the Ws out of the keyboard and they defaced parts of the White House? What do you think these people are gonna do? What do you think this administration — this administration won’t worry about the White House. They will take this country down. If it looks like they are losing, the uber left, they will take it down. If I can’t have it, no one will. ”

As long as the rioting doesn’t occur before noon or last past five. I’m on a schedule, here.

Oh, now would be a good time to plug Elon James’ latest hilarious effort, The How to Guide for Understanding Rioting Negroes. There are a lot of helpful tips there, so study up.

[via The Grio]

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PHOTOBLOG: President Obama visits (another) Holland, Michigan battery plant

Posted on August 12, 2011 by | 7 Comments

Ooo! President Eye Candy! Fuck YEAH!!!

President Obama was back in Holland, Michigan again yesterday, just over a year from his last visit there. In July 2010, he visited the groundbreaking of the LG Chem/Compact Power Inc. vehicle battery plant, an event where he called out Pete Houkstra who attended the event despite having voted against the stimulus legislation that made the federal grant to LG Chem/Compact Power Inc. possible.

This visit was to the brand new Johnson Controls plant, another vehicle battery-making facility that received federal funding. This plant was built thanks to a $299.2 million federal stimulus grant and $168 million in state grants.

Driving up to the plant, there was a cluster of what appeared to be protesters. Turns out they were supporters of the president.

(More amazing photos from my wife along with excerpts from the president’s comments after the jump)

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Musical Interlude Open Thread: The Chemical Brothers – Leave Home

Posted on August 11, 2011 by | 3 Comments

The Brother’s Gonna Work it Out.

Thanks to @tragedyman for suggesting this track as the #TFY theme song. I love it.

I love the Chemical Brothers. I’ve seen them a couple times at Coachella over the years, and I think I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl, too. Who can remember, really.

Let’s see, what else –

Oh, I have a couple of parody trolls on Twitter. Sadly, they are neither funny nor interesting, and reportedly are very similar to a particular troll who is being investigated by the FBI for threatening and stalking another Twitter user. So that’s fun, innit?

Also, too, the plumbing in my apartment building seems to be exploding, and there is water gurgling up from my bathtub and the sink. I don’t suppose there’s any possibility that the fact that the water is brown means anything other than I’m about to be drowned in a wave of my neighbors’ shit?

No?

Great.

I need to leave the house and get food and head to the office, but I don’t want to come back to a Shit Wave.

Harrumph.

Notwithstanding all of the above, I’m still in a good mood. Go figure!

What are you folks up to today?

While you ponder your answer, here are two more of my most favoritest Chemical Brothers tracks:

Ok, time’s up! What are you folks up to today?

TELL ME!

Please?

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