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Money Matters

Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 28th, 2014

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Good morning!

These are the details to what I blogged last Friday.

From PoliticusUSA:

House Republicans Behave Like Criminals While Advancing Obama Lawsuit

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Republicans on the House Rules Committee behaved like common criminals as they advanced the lawsuit against President Obama while voting down every amendment related to disclosing the cost of the lawsuit.

By a party line vote of 7-4, the House Rules Committee voted to move forward with John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama, but the committee voted down 11 Democratic amendments that would have required them to be transparent about the lawsuit.

Here is a list of all of the Democratic amendments that were voted down by the Republicans on the Rules Committee:

1. Every week, require the House’s General Counsel to disclose how much has been spent on the lawsuit.

2a. Prohibit the hiring of any law firms or consultants who lobby Congress, because if they lobby Congress for a living, Congress should not also be paying them.

2b. Prohibit the hiring of any law firm or consultants who lobby on Affordable Care Act implementation or who have any financial stake in implementation of the Affordable Care Act, because it would be a conflict of interest.

3. Require disclosure of all contracts with lawyers and consultants 10 days before they are approved.

4. Require disclosure of where the taxpayer money paying for the lawsuit is coming from, and which programs and offices’ budgets are being reduced to pay for it.

5. Require that the House’s lawyers explain to Members of the House the likelihood of success in this lawsuit, and how they think they will overcome the legal obstacles presented by Supreme Court precedent that says these sorts of cases can’t even be considered.

6. Ensure that this lawsuit does not seek to prevent implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s provisions relating to: (1) young adult coverage; (2) benefits for women; (3) protections for pre-existing conditions; (4) small business tax credits; or (5) prescription discounts for seniors that close the “donut hole” in Medicare.

7. Ensure that this lawsuit does not target people in the military, veterans, or civil servants, any one of whom would experience significant burdens and likely rack up large legal bills defending themselves in court.

9. Require the Speaker to pay for this lawsuit using money from the budget of the Benghazi Select Committee.

11. Require the House to bring up, debate, and vote on bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform

12. Delete the language allowing the suit to be about “any other provision of law” related to the Affordable Care Act, which was added at the last minute and makes the lawsuit authority much broader.

Ranking Member of the Rules Committee, Rep. Louise Slaughter said, “We’re trying to stop this political stunt. There is nothing to be gained here. Money will be spent. All we are trying to do – we know that you have the votes to pass this, and you’re going to go on with the dance – but what we’re trying to do is at least amend it so that we can give some modicum of belief to the people of the United States that we’re trying to protect their interests, that we are not up here playing a game.

House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi said in a statement, “It is clear that Republicans will do anything to distract attention from their special-interest agenda of obstruction and dysfunction. While Democrats work to jumpstart the middle class, Republicans are wasting time and taxpayer dollars on another hypocritical, partisan and preposterous lawsuit against the President. This lawsuit is only the latest proof of House Republicans’ contempt and disregard for the priorities of the American people – an effort to pander to the most extreme, rightwing voters at taxpayer expense, the same as when they spent $2.3 million defending the unconstitutional and discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act in the courts.”

DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel said, “Today couldn’t provide a more vivid contrast of priorities. While House Republicans are focused on suing the President in a partisan stunt to strengthen their base, House Democrats are fighting for solutions to strengthen the middle class. Instead of focusing on taxpayer-funded witch-hunts and lawsuits we should be passing the Middle Class Jumpstart agenda.”

The question is why are Republicans not being honest with taxpayers? Why are they hiding the cost of this lawsuit from the people who will be paying for it? House Republicans are acting like common criminals on the transparency issue as it relates to this lawsuit, because they are afraid of the political backlash that will come after taxpayers find out that millions of dollars are being wasted on this lawsuit.

This is the House Republican way. They voted to move forward with a lawsuit against President Obama while rejecting any attempt to keep taxpayers informed about the cost. The Boehner lawsuit is already turning into an anchor around the necks of House Republicans. What began as a cheap gimmick to get out the Republican vote has turned into a Democratic agenda setting multi-million dollar boondoggle for taxpayers.

House Republicans continue to set themselves up for major problems down the road. This lawsuit isn’t going to be forgotten by Democrats, and Republicans can expect the questions about how much all of this is costing to dog them through the fall. The best way to stop the pseudo criminal behavior of House Republicans is to vote them out this November.

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Readers: Typical repubs. Let’s spend the taxpayers money (millions!) suing Obama, but let’s not be transparent about the costs of this lawsuit to the people who are going to be paying for it: We, the tax payers.

If this doesn’t inspire you to vote out the repubs this November, what will?

Blog me. 

Tom: Racist remark. You wouldn’t be asking about the fondness I have for the president if he was a white man.

Prism Princess: My pleasure. :) I HOPE you enjoyed the weekend too.

Lucy: I couldn’t resist commenting since I enjoyed your story, and you and my beloved dog share the same name. :)

Howie: I agree with you but it’s got to start somewhere.

Peace out. 

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Just Noticing: “Observations of a Blogger”

Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 27th, 2014

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Good morning!

So…what has everyone been up to this weekend? Having fun I HOPE. Since the weekend is HOPEfully all about relaxing and enjoying yourself – you know, giving yourself time to have a little fun after working all week, what did you do for fun this weekend?

Just noticing…

…”For those living on minimum wage, it is challenging enough to make ends meet, weekend activities of fun, are few and far between.”

From Think Progress:

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Weekend On The Wage

Things Many Of Us Take For Granted Are Not Feasible For Those On A Minimum Wage Budget

Happy Friday! For most of us, the weekend means taking some time to relax and do something fun after a full week of work. Maybe it’s going out to dinner, seeing a movie, watching a child’s soccer game, or traveling to visit friends or family. But for full-time minimum wage workers, there’s little if any room to afford such activities. After housing and tax expenses, full-time workers earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour have just $77 per week on average left for other expenses. Take a look at some of the graphics below to see how many of the things we take for granted are simply not feasible on that budget. And ask yourself, where would you cut?

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CAP-fair-Budget
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Workers who make the minimum wage have little, if any, leeway in how they spend their money each week. $7.25 an hour is not enough to live on—much less enough to invest back into the community. In solidarity with these workers, leaders and activists around the country are taking the #LiveTheWage challenge, attempting to live on $77 for one week in an effort to highlight the critical need to raise the federal minimum wage. Check out Governor Ted Strickland talking and tweeting about his experience so far.

BOTTOM LINE: It’s been over five years since the last increase to the federal minimum wage. If we raise the wage to $10.10, it would lift 4.6 million Americans out of poverty and would raise the wages of 28 million Americans by a total of $35 billion dollars. That means more than just a long-awaited paycheck increase — it means more people able to go to the state fair, watch their kid’s soccer game, or see a movie every once in a while.

*****

Readers: I can relate to this article. I have been there.

Most of us have been in the situation where we were making minimum wage or slightly more than minimum wage, sometime in our working lives. When you’re younger and just starting to work, it may not be that big of a deal. But when you are older, have more responsibilities, add rent/mortgage and children into your life, it is much more of a struggle making ends meet let alone having some cash just to spend on a few fun things, if you’re still only making minimum wage.  Unfortunately many are still in this position.

But by voicing your opinion to raise the minimum wage, and voting in those who are in favor of raising the minimum wage, we can make a difference. Let’s get on it.

Happy Sunday everyone. I wish for all of you to be making oodles of money so that you can have loads of fun with your family and friends.

Blog me.

xox

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Wonderful Women Of The World

Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 26th, 2014


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Good afternoon!

Gotta love this girl. This has been out for awhile. I haven’t seen it (until now), maybe you haven’t either.

A Message About Miss America

Happy Saturday everyone!

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Flap Your Lips Friday

Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 25th, 2014


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Good morning!

From CNN:

Republican Party goes round the bend

Editor’s note: Sally Kohn is a progressive activist, columnist and television commentator. Follow her on Twitter @sallykohn. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) – In the beginning, one might have considered it bold — even inventive — to oppose every single thing President Obama supported.

But it quickly became tiresome and predictable over the last five years. And now, as House Republicans weigh a resolution to sue President Obama for not quickly enough implementing a law the same Republicans voted more than 50 times to repeal or stall, all hell has broken loose.

Republicans are just being obnoxious now. And dangerous. And nuts.

On Wednesday, the House Rules Committee will debate a draft resolution to file a lawsuit against President Obama, wasting taxpayer dollars in what is plainly a political stunt.

Their complaint? That President Obama did not implement the employer mandate in Obamacare quickly enough. That’s right, that same employer mandate Republicans have berated Obama for, the one in the health care reform law they’vevoted 54 (failed) times to try to repeal or delay or stall – the law, incidentally, that’s working – House Republicans are now using taxpayer money to sue President Obama for not implementing it quickly enough. Yeah.

Readers: I’m going to interrupt here. Did you catch that? Let me repeat: House Republicans are now using taxpayer money to sue President Obama for not implementing it quickly enough.

Meanwhile, at least Republicans aren’t going full-political-stunt and impeaching President Obama … yet. Sarah Palin has thrown her constitutional-scholar-like support behind the idea. Though as Attorney General Eric Holder said of Palin this weekend: “She wasn’t a particularly good vice presidential candidate. She’s an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why.”

Republicans bash President Obama for issuing executive orders. But why should facts like the Constitution or how every president in history has used executive orders, and in most cases more than President Obama, stand in the way of a good partisan line of attack, let alone a political stunt? Facts and proportionality certainly haven’t been a barrier for Republicans so far.

For instance, also within the last week, conservative talk radio host Ben Shapiro said on Fox News that the Obama White House is a “borderline Jew-hating administration.”

Republicans had long criticized the President as anti-Israel. For instance, the Romney campaign ran a commercial criticizing Obama for not visiting Israel during the first three-and-a-half years of his presidency, and conservative pundit Mark Levin accused President Obama of “hating Israel.”

But suggesting the White House and by, er, obvious implication President Obama, hates Jews is a whole new level of accusation. It’s also a whole new level of crazy neglect of basic facts.

President Obama has increased security assistance to Israel every single year since taking office and Obama personally championed providing an additional $275 million over its standard foreign military financing aid in order to fund the construction of the so-called “Iron Dome” defense system.”

But facts, schmacts. Republican smears against Obama are even more impervious than the Iron Dome. No logic or reason can pierce their facade of BS.

Witness Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who last week calledPresident Obama “tone deaf” for not visiting the border during his trip to Texas. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also dinged the President along these lines: “The President needs to come to the border, to see it himself.” For his part, President Obama said, “I’m not interested in photo ops, I’m interested in solving a problem.” Which sounds almost like Obama is quoting Cornyn and Perry … back in 2011.

Then, when pressing Congress to pass immigration reform, President Obama went to the border and … Republicans criticized him for doing so.

“What Sen. Cornyn is looking for, President Obama cannot deliver with another speech or photo op, and that’s presidential leadership. Words matter little when there is no action,” a Cornyn spokesperson said at the time. Similarly, in 2011, Perry criticized Obama’s trip to the border, “I was very disheartened when the President came into El Paso a couple of weeks ago (and) had a photo-op.”

In case you’re not good at math, that’s Republicans criticizing President Obama for doing something and then — just three years later — criticizing him for not doing the same thing. Try as you might, there’s just no way to rationalize the difference. Republicans damn President Obama he does it and damned if he doesn’t.

But if you still believe in facts, here’s something for you: Republicans crashed our nation’s economy with their astronomical tax cuts, lax oversight of business and unfunded wars.

But instead of facing the truth and re-examining how their policies systematically harm our nation, Republicans just attack and blame President Obama. They simply don’t know what else to do.

That’s not so say President Obama never does anything wrong or doesn’t sometimes deserve blame. Of course he does and we should have political checks and balances.

But while blaming and condemning President Obama has been Republicans’ sole strategy since the moment he was elected, they’ve taken that crazy irresponsibility to the next level — including suing the President of the United States of America for doing his job and carefully implementing laws, even the ones Republicans hate. That’s what all presidents do.

Meanwhile, Congress is supposed to work with the President and pass laws. Republicans are the ones who aren’t doing their jobs. They’re too busy spending our money on their partisan revenge stunts and inventing new outlandish attacks against Obama to distract the American people from the giant mess the Republican Party has caused — and not only are they not doing anything to fix it, they have no solutions.

The more irrational and hypocritical the Republican attacks get, the more they’re desperately trying to hide this simple truth.

 *****

Readers: Hypocritical repubs doing business as usual.

After watching the Rachel Maddow Show, it seems the Dems are a tickled pink or should I say tickled “blue,” that the repubs are suing Obama.  And they’re trying their best to make sure that everyone knows that the repubs are using taxpayer dollars to sue the president. Alert the media.

And guess what? You’re not going to find out how much it is costing weekly to sue the president because the repubs voted “no” to amendments that would inform you. Alert the media.

Oh…and there’s more. Each amendment the Dems addressed, each got a “no” vote from the repubs. No surprise. Alert the media.

So…Just why is this good news and bringing smiles to the Dem’s faces?

Watch the video.

Thoughts? Blog me.

Peace Baby. 

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michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Israel Finds Hamas Are No Longer Amateur Fighters

Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 22nd, 2014

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The latest from CNN.

Israel finds Hamas are no longer amateur fighters

Gaza City (CNN) – Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza, which it says is intended to destroy Palestinian militants’ tunnels and stop rocket fire into Gaza, has entered its fifth day with the death toll mounting on both sides and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arriving in Egypt. CNN’s Ben Wedeman, a veteran Middle East correspondent, puts the incursion into perspective.

How does this incursion compare to previous ones by Israel into Gaza, in terms of military force?

Unlike 2008/09, this incursion seems to be focused on areas with high concentrations of people, initially focusing on the Gaza City neighborhood of Shaja’ia. In ’08/09 the focus was on areas where rockets were being fired, which were typically away from highly populated communities.

And of course at this stage, it’s unclear how many Palestinian casualties there have been in these locations. The people have been warned by the Israelis to leave these areas with phone messages, but while many have left, a significant proportion has stayed behind.

My impression is that Israel has mobilized a much larger military force than in 2008/09 and in 2012. This is part of the picture of the Israelis going into heavily populated areas — which is a much more dangerous operation, as can be seen by the deaths of at least 13 Israeli soldiers on Sunday.

Is Israel likely to achieve its objective of destroying the tunnels, and stopping the rocket strikes?

So far, Israel hasn’t been wildly successful in its stated mission. Since this started, Hamas has been using tunnels in an attempt to ambush and capture soldiers and continues to fire rockets at Israel, although the number fired has gone down. What we see is that as Israel’s capabilities have changed, so have Hamas’. Whenever Israel comes up with new tactics, Hamas and other factions seem to find new ways to counter them, such as by using longer-range rockets to fire at Israel, for example.

What is significant now is that Hamas fighters appear to be better trained, with a new set of skills that I don’t think Israel anticipated. One Israeli soldier who came out of Shaja’ia was quoted in an Israeli publication that Hamas is fighting like Hezbollah, which waged a successful guerrilla war against Israel’s occupation in the 1980s and 1990s, and inflicted high casualties on Israeli forces during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel in Lebanon.

The last serious street fighting I saw in Gaza was in early 2008, and it was almost like it was “amateur hour,” with fighters in Gaza parading around with their weapons but not really able to stop the Israeli forces. Now it appears they’ve learned they must keep a much lower profile. They’ve developed what could be called commando tactics, and are taking full advantage of their knowledge of their turf.

How long do you believe this incursion will last? How soon before it realistically is better described as a war?

This is now a war, in my modest opinion — it’s gone beyond a mere incursion. Hamas shows no sign of backing down, and didn’t jump at Egypt’s cease-fire proposal. They want to show that they’re a military force to be reckoned with, and are in it for the long run.

Israel’s defense minister said it would take two or three days to destroy the tunnels. If this crisis is to end soon, Israel will have to pull back and Hamas needs to stop firing rockets. In Hamas’ opinion, they have achieved one of their objectives, which is to give Israel a bloody nose.

They claim to have captured an Israeli soldier — as yet this is unconfirmed — but if true, it would be a huge feather in their cap, in their own terms. When Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas in a June 2006 raid near the Israel-Gaza border, it took five years before he was freed, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners — so, if true, this will be a huge bargaining chip for Hamas.

Will the death toll already suffered by Israel have a serious impact on public opinion in Israel?

Israelis are used to this sort of death toll from Hezbollah, but not from Hamas. I was on the streets of Gaza on Sunday night, when Palestinians celebrated the claims that an Israeli soldier had been captured.

Shortly afterwards, the guns on Israeli navy boats opened up. The immediate conclusion of everyone in the street was that this was Israel’s response to the capture of one of its soldiers.

How much effect will the pressure/condemnation from the United Nations (and in the off-mic remarks from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry) have?

I believe the U.N. remarks will have no effect in Gaza. There is a perception there that the U.N. “talks but doesn’t walk” — it’s toothless in other words. Hamas realizes it has few friends in the outside world.

The remarks of the White House last week though will not go down well in Israel, I believe. And the comments of John Kerry on Sunday — which left some wondering whether he was criticizing Israeli assurances that its ground offensive in Gaza would be limited — indicate American patience may be wearing thin. After one of his deputies mentioned the latest number of Palestinian casualties, Kerry was heard to say, “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation.”

It is estimated that 70% of the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israel’s assault have been civilians. Washington has tied itself to Israel, and that country’s right to self-defense, therefore the U.S. is going to feel some responsibility. Americans support Israel rhetorically, but this high Palestinian death toll is very problematic for the U.S. This is why Kerry may be feeling uncomfortable — he spent almost a year trying to forge a Mideast peace deal, and what’s he got to show for it now?

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Darrel: I suppose you are correct. I’m just frustrated and angry that this is happening so much and not much is being done about it. And the thugs that act this way know that, so they basically get away with it. What about the recent where the man was killed after the cop held him in a chokehold (an illegal maneuver)? The man being choked repeatedly said, “Can’t breathe.” When does it stop? Thanks for commenting.

Steve: I was wondering how long it would be before I was called a man hater again. I’m not surprised when the tiny-dicked men get riled up and say that I am a man hater, because they can’t deal with their own inadequacies.

Let me say it again and perhaps it will seep into your thick head..I don’t hate men, I only hate the things that men do. It is the men that are abusive, raping and murdering women for doing nothing…for just being women…it is the men that hate women not because of anything we do, but just because we are women. If men didn’t do the horrific things they do to women, I wouldn’t have any reason to hate…Period.

PS With respect to your silly comment, about why women make less, read Trish’s comment…I think she’s onto something that probably applies to you.

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