Update: "GOP caves to Obama" Politico. Charles Krauthammer: "Democrats set a trap and Republicans walked right into it."
WH going full-tilt boogie shaming House Repubs to pass the two-month payroll tax cut extension giving Americans 40 bucks more in their paychecks.
Wash Post
To Obama, #40dollars means two dog toys.
People mag
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| Bone appetit: $41 bucks for large bone and chew toy at PetSmart. |
The WH staged the Everyman stunt at the same Alexandria, Virginia mall where Michelle Obama was photographed in an orchestrated Target shopping spree.
At Best Buy where he bought nearly $200 worth of stuff, Obama chews the fat with the cashier:
"Let's see if my credit card still works. Ah, it'll be really embarrassing if it, uh, if it doesn't, uh, if it doesn't go through."
RE: chewing fat. Longtime Wisconsin Repub Congressman
Jim Sensenbrenner got his ample ass chewed after someone overheard him on his cell phone in an airport club whining about Michelle Obama's "large posterior" and
Reported It To The Media. ABC News reports Sensenbrenner is apologizing.
Someone needs to shame these guys! I mean really, do they want to hand back the House to the Democrats while at the same time give them even more numbers in the Senate? Whoever sits in the oval office has the ears of the American people and, he's doing a great job of painting the Republicans as obstructionists. Then again by not voting on this bill the House is handing the president the ammo on a silver platter.
ReplyDeleteI continue to be amazed at how dumb these guys are. Cantor-Boehner-McConnell are going to be the topic of college political science classes on How Not To Do It.
ReplyDeleteSo, apparently $40 is what 100,000 American workers are going to pay in taxes the first week in January to pay for Michelle Obama's Christmas vacation.
ReplyDeleteSteve, good thinking! Never figured it like that, but you put it in perspective.
ReplyDeleteI think John Boehner's run as Speaker is ov-vah!
ReplyDeleteWhat does Obama need with a working credit card? He's got the Gross National Credit Card--don't leave home without it.
ReplyDeleteThe last thing the republicans need is to have a tax hike hung around their necks. Temporary deals are worth it til the GOP can get a shot at House, Senate, and White House. The tea party should realize that they can't get everything all at once.
I knew Sensenbrenner after he was elected to Congress in 1978. His family made its fortune in Kotex. Well, their company is Kimberly-Clark. Last year Sensenbrenner got rid of the last of his shares in the family biz. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/96441179.html
ReplyDeleteThis goes beyond the "payroll tax bill" what about the other crap the media buries...like the ones who start paying freddie mac and fannie mae $17 dollars more per paycheck or monthly on their loans.
ReplyDeleteNo business or govt faction never does a short term fix... WTF??? Crap they are going to be gone a month!!! out of the 2 month extention...words cant describe this...if the repubs can reverse spin this all the power.
and really while we are on it...who came up with those lame bitch like names freddie mac and fannie mae??
NPR answers your Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sallie Mae question.
ReplyDeleteYahoo answers: All three started as government sponsored enterprises but are independent corporations. Fannie Mac was established in 1938. It's name comes from the abbreviation of the original name Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA). People started calling it Fannie Mae and the name has stuck. In fact, it's now the official name of the corporation. Freddie Mac comes from Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC). A bit of a stretch but that's what it's from. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. Sallie Mae is similar...Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA). It was established in '72 with federal backing but has since severed ties with the government and is a stand-alone corporation since '04.