President Obama is right with his comments about Kamala Harris--everyone else, get over it!

This is why I like President Obama:

"You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you'd want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake," Obama said.

He added: "She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country -- Kamala Harris is here. It's true. Come on. And she is a great friend and has just been a great supporter for many, many years."

So the left is outrages.

I'm a leftist. I'm a liberal.

And there is nothing wrong with what he said.

He was not wrong--he made someone very happy and the attorney general actually glows from his compliments.

And he apologized--and I do not understand that at all because everyone wants to be told what he told Kamala Harris--and you know it's true--even you men: if someone said that about your wife and she was next to you, you would turn into a rooster.

By the way, Michelle is knock dead gorgeous--and I'm never going to apologize for that statement.

Paul Ryan and How He Subverts Our Nation

Below are two emails I received about Paul Ryan. Make up your own mind, but I know you know my mind is already made up:

BREAKING Washington Post: Paul Ryan will propose “sharp new cuts to federal health and retirement programs”


Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal hands tax breaks to the Republicans’ largest corporate backers and billionaire CEO funders, and makes crippling cuts to Medicare to pay for it.

John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan would rather protect tax loopholes so their oil-tycoon financiers can buy yachts and private jets than provide health care for the elderly.

Denounce Paul Ryan’s appalling budget immediately! Demand Republicans stop handing tax breaks to their billionaire financiers while the elderly suffer the consequences.

House Republicans will do anything to buy loyalty from the largest corporations and moneyed special interests. They’re even willing to throw seniors and the middle class under the bus so that their billionaire financiers can enjoy tax breaks.

Thanks for your support,

Guy Cecil
AND

Paul Ryan, in an effort to downplay the severity of the House budget he’ll be presenting next week, says not to "expect any big surprises." What a relief -- no big surprises?!?

Actually, word is we can expect a few big surprises in Ryan's budget.

Reports say that Paul Ryan will call for ending Medicare as we know it for America’s seniors.

According to sources, Ryan’s budget includes a plan to VOUCHERIZE Medicare for seniors younger than 55.

Finally, Ryan wants to squeeze 30 years of vicious cuts into only a decade. That would be brutal.

Ryan’s Tea Party budget would do more than “surprise” the millions of Americans who are counting on Medicare. We can’t let that happen.

Help us reach 200,000 strong calling out Paul Ryan and House Republicans:

http://dccc.org/Protect-Medicare

Thanks,

Kelly Ward
DCCC Executive Director

Shame on the Republicans

Victory! The House has finally passed the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act, by a vote of 286 to 138 — with all 138 votes against the bill coming from Republicans.


Now we need to make it clear to those Republicans that their continued stance against this domestic violence prevention bill — even after it was clearly going to pass — is wrong and shameful.

Healing Viet Nam--Thanks President Obama

This is why I support the President:


http://projectagentorange.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=181.msg2917#msg2917

and

http://projectagentorange.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=181.msg2918#msg2918

Why the Republicans Lost

We took down Allen West and some of his best Tea Party friends.

 Over a year ago, we decided to create CREDO SuperPAC in order to take down some of the most odious and extreme Tea Party Republicans in the House. People like Allen West who were just too crazy to serve in Congress and who set a new low for what is acceptable from Republicans in public life.

 On Tuesday we did just that. We took down Allen West. And Joe Walsh. And Chip Cravaack. And Frank Guinta. Dan Lungren is trailing his opponent as final provisional and absentee ballots are being counted. And Michele Bachmann got the biggest scare of her political career — she retained her seat by a shockingly small margin of just over 4,000 votes.

 To put in perspective just how difficult it was to pull off this feat, you need to know that 98% of incumbents win re-election. It is against those astonishing odds that we defeated five Tea Party Republicans who not only enjoyed the deep coffers of being a sitting member of Congress but who also were backed by tens of millions of dollars in rightwing super PAC ads which flooded the airwaves with negative television advertising attacking Democratic challengers.

 To defend the most extreme band of Republicans in federal office in history, outside groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars, mainly on broadcast television ads. The response of the Democratic establishment and some of the biggest liberal groups in Washington DC was to fight fire with fire, launching big money ad campaigns and millions in direct mail.

 We went a different way. We fought fire with water.

 Instead of raising and spending millions in anonymous contributions, we built our campaign with the donations of nearly 70,000 CREDO activists and customers, giving one $20 bill at a time.

 Instead of spending millions on huge ad buys in the districts, we empowered over 3,000 local volunteers to get involved and hold their extremist representatives accountable, deploying proven voter contact methods in the most cost-effective ways.

 Our campaign shaped these races, and put our progressive values squarely in the local and national conversations in this election. We hired progressive organizers and opened local storefront offices that quickly became community gathering places for activists working on our campaign. We held protests in their districts, we packed their town hall meetings, we got local and national journalists to cover the Tea Party Ten's extreme statements and actions.

 And then of course we knocked on over 120,000 doors. And made over a million phone calls. And had the volunteer-to-voter conversations which are the single most effective way to move voters. Thanks to this work, and in the wake of the defeat of Allen West and the other Tea Party Ten members, all Republicans are now on notice: If you continue your attacks on women, Medicare, minorities and the middle class there will be a high price to pay.
In the districts of the Tea Party Ten and Michele Bachmann, we were up against nearly $30 million in spending by conservative super PACs. We won five races but we didn't win them all. We fought valiant efforts to defeat Tea Party Republicans Mike Coffman (CO-6), Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8), Sean Duffy (WI-7), Jim Renacci (OH-16) and Steve King (IA-4) but Republicans prevailed.

 We didn't pick any of these races because they were easy; we picked them because they were hard, close, competitive contests. Many of them we chose at the end of last year, knowing a lot would change but wanting to get started building this campaign, because we know that volunteer-driven field campaigns cannot be built overnight.

 We're proud of the work we've done, and so thankful to the donors, volunteers and activists who got involved and worked to make it happen. We look forward to continuing the fight together as we move forward.

 We learned in 2008 that election night is not the end of our work but the beginning. And now that we've built CREDO SuperPAC we're not about to hang it up on the shelf.

 Of course, there were a few other things decided on Tuesday as well.

 We're pleased to see our friend Elizabeth Warren will represent Massachusetts in the Senate, and that Tammy Baldwin will become the first openly gay Senator in American history. We also cheered the defeat of some of the most appallingly anti-woman Senate candidates like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana.

 And of course, it's difficult to see Mitt Romney's defeat as anything other than a resounding referendum on his ideology, and a great disaster averted for our country. We will now continue to push President Obama not to deal away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits and to show at long last the real leadership we so desperately need to fight the urgent threat of climate change.

 There is much to do. But Tuesday's defeat of Allen West and his Tea Party compatriots from the House was a clear victory for grassroots activism and a clear defeat for the Tea Party ideology that has gridlocked Congress and worked to move us backwards.

We are grateful to everyone who has stood with us through this — CREDO's biggest electoral effort ever — in the past year, and for your continued efforts to fight for the progressive values we all share. Thank you so much for everything you have done.

Becky Bond and Michael Kieschnick
CREDO Action from Working Assets

Now Let's Really Change History

President Obama made a name for himself in Chicago. His first term was very much like the first term of Mayor Harold Washington. Harold Washington changed the whole fabric of Chicago during both terms, but the second term--well, he was just too great..

So, Mr. President, please live up to the legacy of Harold Washington--and do whatever has to be done.

Yes!

Yes!