“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law” #inaug2013
(From the White House Twitter account)
The first daughters are looking especially lovely this morning, don’t you agree?
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Photo: U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, DC January 20, 2013. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Reuters/Pool)
MSNBC sums up the modern Republican Party, “They’re against it because President Obama is for it.”
From MSNBC.com:
The man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, setting off a nationwide outpouring of anger, told police that Martin knocked him down with a single punch and slammed his head into the sidewalk several times — an account that police said witnesses have corroborated, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
There is no authenticity to the MSNBC brand.
“The hypocrisy of the Republicans who talk about the need to work together when day after day and on these job bills one after another they are sabotaging what the American people overwhelmingly want.”
Sorry, Republican Nutjobs - even uber-wealth does not create jobs.
A really, really good report from Rachel Maddow about the obscenely wealthy people in the USA…not only are they not creating jobs, but they are cutting jobs.
“I’ve always believed that this the United States of America, U-N-I-T-E-D, that we are one nation. That when there’s a problem in the West Coast or in Louisiana,the people of Vermont, the people of New Jersey are there for them. When there’s a problem in the East Coast the people in the Midwest who have suffered their tornadoes, they’re there for us. This is what makes us a nation. And the idea that anybody in the United States Congress could say, ‘I don’t care. We’re going to allow communities to be devastated’… We need, along with other states, help from the rest of the country that our part of the country has provided in the past. That’s what makes us a nation... I sometimes think, Ed, that some of these right-wing Republicans want this nation to be a second-rate country. Maybe they’re looking to China for the future, but some of us are not. We believe America’s great. We believe that we can grow and we have got to invest to do that. At the very least, at the very least, we have got to make sure that everyone in this country knows that when disaster comes help will be there for them.”
“Will the Democrats take this as a chance to go on offense? Will national Democrats take a lesson from Wisconsin Democrats?” —Rachel Maddow.
Outstanding coverage of the FAA shutdown and union rights, plus a look back at Reagan’s firing of air traffic controllers.
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