I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
Fresh off his presidential win, President Obama held his first press conference of his second term today. He spoke about his mandate, Benghazi, the so-called Fiscal Cliff and the Republican manufactured controversy surrounding General Petraeus, among other items.
Watch the President’s first Press Conference below.
Republicans just lost the presidential election partly because of their very public war against women. You would think that this loss would have been a wake up call to these Republicans to stay out of women’s private decision making regarding their own health decisions, but no, not these Republicans. A week after the American people overwhelmingly voted for Barack Obama, Republicans went to Ohio to continue their War.
Their latest attack on women would ravish Planned Parenthood in Ohio, taking away some $2 million federal dollars from the organization. In a response to these attacks, Democratic Ohio state Senator Nina Turner came to a press conference prepared. She wore a t-shirt with one simple message for the Republicans – Get Out Of My Panties – another meaning for the acronym GOP.
During the Tuesday press conference, Stephanie Knight, Ohio CEO of Planned Parenthood, echoed the message emblazoned on Turner’s shirt, saying in part that the state ‘does not want to turn the clock backward and hand over to politicians the personal medical decisions that belong to a woman.’
Huffington Post reported that Turner, who made headlines earlier this year after introducing a protest legislation that would restrict men’s ability to get prescriptions for Viagra, said that her fellow lawmakers across the aisle need to ‘get a grip.’
‘We are not going back to the dark ages. We are not going to suppress our voice or our choice. And we are not going to forget,’ she warned, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
This is unfortunately becoming a routine. Over the past few days since President Obama won reelection, Republicans nationwide have engaged in acts that are… will… stupid! But this one I think takes the cake. A Salon owner kills himself because a majority of Americans voted to reëlect President Obama.
A former tanning salon owner was found dead two days after the election after telling his partner that he was ‘not going to be around’ if President Obama won a second term.
Henry Hamilton was discovered next tow two empty prescription pill bottles with the message ‘F*** Obama!’ written over his will.
His partner said that the 64-year-old man was ‘very upset about the election results.’
Police are not searching for any suspects in the case, as police spokeswoman Alyson Crean said ‘there’s absolutely no evidence of foul play’.
The Miami Herald reports that Hamilton’s friend had been so worried about his well-being that the unidentified friend requested that the police check on Hamilton at the condo that he shared with partner Michael Cossey.
The last time Mr Cossey saw Hamilton was on the night of the election when they were watching the returns.
What is this world coming to? I always knew politics, policies and the direction of the nation were important, but come on folks, you’re taking this a little too far! If your candidate did not win this time, then try again in four years! Geeze!
Climbing out of the woodshed for his first interview since his ticket lost the presidential election to Barack Obama last Tuesday, Paul Ryan emerged with a new epiphany – the reason the Republicans lost the elections had nothing to do with the crazy policies they were proposing. No. Their loss had everything to do with the “urban” voters who voted overwhelmingly for the President.
In an interview with WISC-TV, the Republican vice president candidate explained;
We were surprised at the outcome. We knew this was gonna be a close race. We thought we had a very good chance of winning it.
I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race,’ he said. ‘When we watched Virginia and Ohio coming in, and those ones coming in as tight as they were, and looking like we were going to lose them, that’s when it became clear we weren’t going to win.
See folks? And all along you thought the loss was a result of his party’s crazy adaptation on economic policies, like repealing ObamaCare and putting families back to at mercy of the insurance companies. Apparently, the Romney/Ryan ticket never heard of Americans going bankrupt because insurance carriers dropped policy holders at the exact time they needed those policies most. So repealing ObamaCare was their “number one priority,” according to Mitt Romney.
And you thought Republicans’ Neanderthal view on women’s issues could have been a reason women voted for Obama in almost record numbers? Well according to Paul Ryan you would be wrong. And issues didn’t cause over 70% of the Latino votes for the president either.
And apparently, seniors were tired of all the great benefits they received from Medicare, so their vote for Obama had absolutely nothing to do with Ryan’s budget proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program.
If this is the message Ryan took from the shellacking he took in Tuesday’s election, then maybe he needs to go back to the woodshed and wait for a different message.
And what’s up with this “urban” language anyway? Ronan Farrow, Writer, human rights lawyer and diplomat, most recently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues, had this to say;
FYI, Paul Ryan, the rest of the country has moved on from using “urban” as a euphemism for “black.”
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) November 13, 2012
The crazies are really coming out now. Yes, President Obama was reelected by a majority of the Electoral votes and he received a majority of the popular votes. Any sane person will accept the fact that democracy worked and the best man won.
But since his win, there have been calls from various states to secede from the Union. There are also individuals calling the president the n-word and wishing assassination on him. We are now hearing of other stories where spouses are trying to kill each other.
Here’s another example of the Republican insanity that has captured the wing-nuts just because democracy worked. She is 28-year-old Holly Solomon, and she ran over her husband with her SUV because Obama won. Her argument? Her husband didn’t vote:
According to police in Gilbert, 28-year-old Holly Solomon of Mesa and her husband Daniel argued loudly in a local parking lot before Holly got in her Jeep SUV and began chasing Daniel around. She eventually managed to pin him underneath the vehicle as he was trying to run away.
Daniel sustained life-threatening injuries and was rushed to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center where he remains in critical condition.
“According to Daniel, Holly believed her family was going to face hardship as a result of President Obama’s re-election,” Gilbert police Sergeant Jesse Sanger said in a statement.
Who would have thought democracy was such a bad thing?
The freaks are really coming out now…!
Often the people who friend or like others on Facebook aren’t friends at all. Perhaps there’s a common interest, and with the click of a mouse, a Facebook friendship is born.
According to the Washington Post, Mitt Romney lost nearly 593 Facebook friends between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning. The losses are happening so quickly, the drop in numbers can actually be watched. A click can launch a friendship as well as end one.
A two-minute study was conducted on Romney’s Facebook page at 4:42 a.m., CT, on Sun., Nov. 11, 2012, and he had 12,053,104 likes.
The page was refreshed at 4:44 a.m., CT, and he had 12,053,097, totaling seven unlikes within a two-minute time span. If the “unlikes” continue at the above rate, within 60 minutes, Romney would lose 210 “friends.”
If you want to join in the fun and watch the mass exodus from Romney’s page, disappearing Romney is a site set up just for that purpose. The site gives a live feed to Romney’s Facebook statistics, as Americans abandons the failed Republican presidential candidate.
Since the departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC some years back, Ed Schultz has unofficially picked up Keith’s banner and ran with it. He is now considered by some one of the most liberal host on the cable network. And with that label, Ed’s primetime television slot at 8PM weeknight receives a decent size audience. But according to reporting by The New York Times, Ed’s show may soon be history.
Brian Stelter, a Times Media reporter wrote a piece about the future of MSNBC and compared the liberal leaning network to Fox News – the more conservative network. And coming to the end of the piece, Brian wrote:
Several MSNBC employees, who spoke about programming plans on the condition of anonymity, said the most likely candidate for a new show was the Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein, a frequent substitute for Ms. Maddow. Mr. Klein may start with a weekend time slot, but these people said the 8 p.m. weekday time slot held by Mr. Schultz was also a possibility.
Mr. Griffin, meanwhile, declined to comment on whether the performance of his prime-time lineup would provide a boost to the channel’s subscriber fees.
Of course the denials would come. When asked about this claim by Mediaite, a spokesperson for MSNBC released the following statement:
“We’re very happy with the performance of our primetime lineup, which topped Fox News Channel three nights this week. There are no changes planned.”
As if to personify the panic brought on by President Obama‘s demographically overwhelming reelection victory, a California woman named Denise Helms took to Facebook Tuesday night to commiserate with fellow embittered white people, posting “Another 4 years of this nigger. Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”
She was subsequently fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery, but insisted to a local news crew that, although “the assassination part is kind of harsh,” she’s not a racist. Asked “But you equate the President with the n-word?” Helms replied, “Sure.”
Helms told Fox 40, outside her soon-to-be former place of employment, that “the assassination part is kind of harsh … and I’m not saying I would go do that by any means, but if it were to happen, I don’t think I would care one bit.”
She also claimed that she wasn’t a racist, and that she has friends of “many different nationalities.”
h/t Mediaite
After his reelection on Tuesday, President Obama continued his push to take this country forward. He continued his call to Congress to extend the tax cuts for 98% of Americans, while allowing taxes on the rich to go back to what they were under President Bill Clinton.
Last year, I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars’ worth of spending, and I intend to work with both parties to do more. But as I said over and over again on the campaign trail, we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. If we’re serious about reducing the deficit, we have to combine spending cuts with revenue – and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes. That’s how we did it when Bill Clinton was President. And that’s the only way we can afford to invest in education and job training and manufacturing – all the ingredients of a strong middle class and a strong economy.
Already, I’ve put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these investments while reducing our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade. Now, I’m open to compromise and new ideas. But I refuse to accept any approach that isn’t balanced. I will not ask students or seniors or middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people making over $250,000 aren’t asked to pay a dime more in taxes. This was a central question in the election. And on Tuesday, we found out that the majority of Americans agree with my approach – that includes Democrats, Independents, and Republicans.
Next time you find yourself in a debt debate with someone who only gets their news from Fox, use this graph to prove your point. We all know they have limited attention span for words and facts, so this will come in handy.
They claimed they loved their country, they swear they’re patriotic. But after the reelection of President Obama earlier this week, a Fox Station in Oklahoma dedicated part of their traffic segment to dishearten Republicans who have had enough of being patriotic.
Fox 23’s Jeff Brucculeri used part of his ‘Beat the Traffic’ segment to advise these Republican patriots on how to “beat the traffic” to Canada.
‘We had some folks make a special request,’ Brucculeri said. ‘I know a lot people said that if their candidate lost the election, they’d be moving to Canada — not sure why, but that was some of the folks’ promises out there.’
The traffic anchor proceeded to give ‘the quickest and directest route’ up north, where big government, same sex marriage and universal health are a part of everyday life.
Members of the newsroom could be heard laughing out of camera shot, to which Brucculeri just said: ‘“This is serious stuff.
President Obama shares his story of being a community organizer with the young people who propelled his campaign through volunteering, knocking on doors and organizing the get out the vote drives. And a tear ran down his face as he expressed his hope for the future. “I’m really proud of you,” the President said, as he wiped his tear away.
