Discussion for article #225847
Seems possible House GOP might get taken to the immigration woodshed, just in time for them to go back and face the constituents.
He will formally dub it ‘The Goofy GOP Congress.’
- Shutting down the government unless they got their way.
- Leaving the country in ruins unless they get their way
- Leaving town without solving any immigration problems unless they get their way.
- Suing the president cause they didn’t get their way.
EDT, one presumes.
Such hard-hitting fact-filled journalism. Can a Pulitzer be in the making?
If he is as angry at Boehner as press reports (and meeting logs from such an extremely secretive administration) indicate, this would be time to show it. Immigration, yes, but everything, really.
Red meat for Dem base, pitting Republican messaging against its own base…maybe both?
I certainly haven’t done any textual analysis or looked for research, and I freely admit it may be a case of confirmation bias in action (these two disclaimers together adding up to a claim I am not a conservative comment troll), but over the last five years, it has seemed to me that MSM reporters just cannot seem to bring themselves to refer to him as simply “the president” the way they have always done with other presidents. Even now, closing rapidly in on the official start of the “lame duck” phase of his presidency, they always seem to refer to him as “President Barack Obama” as if we don’t fucking know what his first name is by now, or “President Obama,” as if somehow referring to him as just “the president” would be to imply that he a “real” president, just like the 43 white guys before him, who is is entitled to the respect due the office even if you dislike the occupant by virtue of having won an election in a democracy.
My sense is that in previous presidencies, they would transition to referring to a new president as “the president” and begin dropping first names within a year of inauguration. But somehow, there’s just some thing about Obama, I can’t quite put my finger on just what it might be, that has inhibited them from making that transition with him.
You tell them Mr. President. Rub their own shit in their faces!! Nit picking assholes
Isn’t it great that when government does nothing, the economy and our livelihood dramatically improves?
I liked this presser. I saw the President I voted for display the qualities I saw when he was a candidate. He handled those questions calmly, as easily as if he were sitting in his office talking to staff and friends. He again demonstrated his superior ability to think on his feet and discuss any topic intelligently. He neither evaded nor avoided - even called on Front Row Clown - questions from those whose careers depend on bashing him. And, he made important comments about torture - straightforward and clearly articulated. There has never been a day when I have regretted working on both of his campaigns, and there have been many days when I’m especially proud that I helped, in my small way, get this fine man elected. Today is one of those days.
Yeah, things have just been going gangbusters since the Republicans took control of Congress and started obstructing every effort to make things better. Boy howdy. Happy days are here again.
Meanwhile, in the reality-based community, employment and income growth for all but the top 1% began to flatten in 2011, as soon as the Teahad against government spending began, and the net worth of they typical household has actually declined from 2003 from 88K to 57K but the net worth of the top 5% increased 14% of the same period. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/the-typical-household-now-worth-a-third-less.html?_r=0
Thank God for George W. Bush and for the wisdom of the Republicans in Congress who know that only by implementing policies that effect a direct upward redistribution of wealth can America be saved. And thank god for people like you who enable it by letting their ideology generate their “facts.”
Well, according to the delivered statement, President Obama himself disagrees with your take.
Goodness, already graduating from passive aggressive concern trolling to transparent nonsense are we?