wan't that announced months in advance?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
In November, he handed off some day-to-day management duties to Peter Rouse, a senior adviser to the president. I thought he had left in November, but now he's leaving permanently.
Jacob Lew, from OMB (and previously in the Clinton administration ) will be the new chief of staff.
Jacob Lew, is not a Goldman Sachs alumnus. No, he’s a former hedge fund manager who also worked with Citigroup (from whom he received a mammoth payout before he left in 2009).http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/skip-my-lew-no-more-president-obama
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 January 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
she'll still be able to cast pro-NRA votes, I figure.
as a former intern for GG who took calls from her constituents on a daily basis (half of which tended to be extremist 'border' talk) i can attest that GG is as liberal a rep as this district will ever elect.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
not going to doubt that
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
x-post -
Ezra Klein with the inside the beltway take on Jacob Jack Lew:
In Congress, Lew’s stock is unusually high. He has emerged as one of the members of the Obama administration Republicans prefer working with. Earlier this year, Ben Smith, then at Politico, profiled Lew under the headline: “Lew: A liberal GOP says it trusts.” The piece included an admiring comment from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-difference-between-jack-lew-and-bill-daley/2011/08/25/gIQAtts3lP_blog.html?hpid=z1
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Reading the chapter on Obamacare in Taibbi's Griftopia this morning was such a depressing, enervating experience that I sought comfort in Coriolanus.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
He has emerged as one of the members of the Obama administration Republicans prefer working with.
well sayonara to that then
― goole, Monday, 9 January 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
really like this "megabank rotation" we're setting up here, makes the process smoother
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2012 20:36 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
brutal. how are both of these btw? coriolanus sounds good but has some awful 2002 heavy rock song on its trailer*
*btw i'm assuming you mean the film, i feel like a philistine if you were flipping pages of the play
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 9 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
the play. Lots of germane speeches.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 January 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
but no gerard butler
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 9 January 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Here's the big story of the day (Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's secret involvement in the 2009 White House Halloween party) !:
A variety of conservative media outlets, including Fox News, the New York Post, and the Daily Caller, are worked up this week about a newly-discovered White House outrage: a 2009 Halloween party.
It’s tough pinpoint exactly what it is the right is upset about, but it seems to boil down to two main complaints: the White House (1) threw a lavish Halloween party during a recession; and (2) kept the event “secret.”
that's from: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
While the Washington Post's Reliable Source gossip page says:
If Johnny Depp and Tim Burton came to your party, think you might mention it?
Of course you would — heck, you’d probably tweet the minute they walked in the door. But the White House didn’t say a word, which explains the tempest in a teapot over the 2009 “Alice in Wonderland” Halloween party.
In her new book “The Obamas,” author Jodi Kantor describes the first family’s trick-or-treat extravaganza in Washington: More than 2,000 military kids and local students received treats from the president and Michelle Obama (fetchingly dressed as a leopard) while dancers and acrobats roamed the North Lawn. Inside, there was an invitation-only party for about 200 people — mostly military families and White House staffers. “Star Wars” characters mingled with the crowd, and the State Dining room was decorated like a crazy tea party by Burton, whose “Alice in Wonderland” was a few months from release. His star, Depp, greeted the guests in his Mad Hatter costume.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/why-was-white-house-mum-on-johnny-depp-at-alice-in-wonderland-party/2012/01/09/gIQAHkNVmP_blog.html
Tim Burton decorated (His Alice in Wonderland movie was about to come out) and Johnny Depp attended as the mad hatter. Really.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
On Monday, the White House hit back, saying the party was anything but secret, citing extensive media coverage of the trick-or-treaters on the North Portico.
“This was an event for military children and their families inside the White House, where the press came, photographs were taken,” said press secretary Jay Carney, who called Kantor’s account “an example of the kind of hype and sensationalizing that books like this do.”
“We may not have alerted folks that Johnny Depp was coming,” another White House spokesman, Eric Schultz, told us, “but we didn’t announce Chewbacca was coming either.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
When Chewbacca comes, you do not need to announce the fact.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
there is an image from the rip nsfws thread that would be so perfect here
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
If it shows anything, it shows a bunch of assholes who will pull at any cockamamie straw they can find to justify their irrational hatred of the President.
Bush derangement syndrome, anybody?
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
ya no kidding
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
If this had happened under Bush, Fox would be apoplectic about ppl trying to score political points for something meant to benefit military children.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
god, the WaPo is unreadable, isn't it.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was so secret that if I go to Getty Images and type in "2009 White House halloween," I get 81 image results.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
I assume Tim and Johnny were just there to officiate the Illuminati Black Mass of Samhain and that's why it went unmentioned... or maybe Presidents meet celebrities all the time and its not really newsworthy. I'll take my meds before I come to any conclusions...
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
Dear These People: Fuck You with a Chainsaw
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1xlVoPf5UO4/Twuh_J1UpEI/AAAAAAAAC-U/2muX5d_5yi8/s1600/492869594.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
weird I thought Robert E. Lee was from Virginia
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, he was, but his birthday is celebrated as a holiday by several former members of the Confederacy.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Robert Byrd was the last one to die? (ba dum bum)
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Moveon.org is requesting folks on its mailing list like me to sign petitions and host events asking President Obama to "hold Wall Street banks accountable by fully investigating the Big Bank fraud that caused the housing crisis." Next Thursday, January 19, we'll deliver these petitions to local Obama campaign offices so that he uses his power to make Wall Street pay.
President Obama has a choice to make: Let the banks off the hook or order a full federal investigation into bank practices during the housing crisis. President Obama has referenced FDR's famous quote before: "You've convinced me. Now go out and make me do it." Can you help "make him do it" by hosting an event in front of your local OFA campaign office?
Can you host a "Yes He Can?" event to ask the president to use his power to make Wall Street pay?
It's pretty sad that this type of action is necessary to try to get a White House Dem to move, and it probably won't even work (Att. General Holder or someone will insist they are looking into it, but nothing will happen or they will just push for settlements).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
hey what kind of cash do you guys have on you
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204257504577153041166480680.html
The owners of the New Republic, long a fixture in political journalism, are exploring a possible sale of the publication and have hired a financial adviser, people familiar with the matter said.
Blackstone Group is expected to reach out to various media companies, such as Bloomberg LP and News Corp. to gauge their interest in buying the magazine, which is known for its clout among ...
― goole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
In the chapter dealing with the AHCA in Taibbi's Griftopia, there's a revolting scene of MoveOn.org getting its marching orders from the White House.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh man ILX should totally buy TNR
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
murdoch owning TNR would be hilaaaarious
― goole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
isn't Rupey to the left of Peretz on Israel?
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
along with most of the netanyahu cabinet
― goole, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
eh TNR good riddance
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 9:55 PM (Yesterday
They seem to now, per my above posting, be politely differing with him and urging him to do stuff.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'n sure that will work.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
jonathan bernstein found this, about the house member introducing a resolution to disapprove of obama's recess appointments:
http://black.house.gov/press-release/black-introduces-resolution-disapproving-obama%E2%80%99s-recent-presidential-appointments
It’s astounding to me that the president is claiming these are recess appointments and within his authority, when Congress was not in fact in recess,” said Black. “These appointments are an affront to the Constitution. No matter how you look at this, it doesn’t pass the smell test. I hope the House considers my resolution as soon as we return to Washington so we can send a message to President Obama.
uhhh
― goole, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
an affronting smell
― buzza, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I love that the party that has put radical partisan obstructionism ahead of the national welfare for the last two years and stalled on more judges and appointments than any congress ever are up in arms about this.
― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but tbf no other congress had a muslim trying to wrest control of the country from them
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
socialist muslim, be fair
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
socialist atheist muslim
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
iirc
is there any other type rly
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Russ Feingold's Progressives United group is joining with moveon.org to uh pressure the Prez with petitions:
If Wall Street gets investigated for the misdeeds that led to our financial collapse, they're very worried about what we'll find.
That's why they're eager for a sweetheart settlement deal that would give them broad immunity without an investigation. Thanks in part to the pressure thousands of fellow progressives put on state attorneys general, that deal is on hold.
But we don't just need to stop a deal that will cut off an investigation -- we need President Obama to take the lead and launch the investigation. That's why we're joining with our friends at MoveOn to petition the president to investigate Wall Street now.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Hope there's a big Occupy/secular left turnout to protest at the DNC next September in Charlotte, cuz the religious right is a-comin:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-plan-protests-democratic-national-convention
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there's one planned
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link