Jack & Jill Politics

A judge on Long island not only voided a variable rate mortgage he gave the home to the mortgage holder. I hope everyone going through foreclosure brings this up.

this is good news...may other judges take this lead.

Michelle Obama isn't a "conventional" beauty - whatever that means - but I think she's very beautiful. It's not just looks or clothes. Its the intelligence and the confidence and self respect that make someone attractive. And the First Lady has that and then some :)

Traditional beauty would be Halle Berry or beyonce. Any black woman outside of that perimeter is probably considered nontraditional.
It's almost like, "well she doesn't look like a white woman, but for some reason she is still attractive."

Last night, the FLOTUS became Queen Michelle. I saw her glide into that room, and nobody could top her in that dress.

Wipes that Inaugural Ball gown with a home run...

You speak the truth.

You know that $300 million for Louisiana in the Senate health bill that has caused right-wing pundits to call Sen. Mary Landrieu a "prostitute" and worse -- and attempt to discredit the Democrats' health reform bill?

Yesterday Facing South broke the story that it was actually Louisiana Republicans -- including Gov. Bobby Jindal and Rep. Joseph Cao -- who had been pushing for the federal Medicaid funds that Landrieu succeeded in delivering.

So what are Jindal and Louisiana Republicans saying now about the controversy? Not much.

To recap the story so far: The $300 million Landrieu got inserted into the Senate health bill was to fill a projected $1 billion hole in Louisiana's Medicaid budget.

Gov. Jindal's administration had been lobbying Washington for more Medicaid funds since last November, saying the state was being penalized for receiving Katrina aid money.

Republican Rep. Joseph Cao also sponsored a bill in the House -- with the support of six other Republican Congressmen -- that would have delivered more Medicaid money to disaster-affected states, especially Louisiana.

Landrieu delivered the money the Louisiana Republicans wanted. So Jindal and Cao must be leading the charge to defend Landrieu, right?

Wrong.

The Washington Post's Greg Sargent followed up on our story today and reports that Gov. Jindal has been silent about whether he favors Landrieu's success in landing the money for his state:

Jindal, as best as we can determine, now won't publicly clarify one way or the other whether he views $300 million to his state as a good thing. We've also asked his spokespeople where he stands on descriptions of Landrieu as a prostitute. If we get any answers at all, we'll update you.

More media outlets need to follow Sargent's lead and ask Jindal: Are you in favor of Landrieu getting the money for Louisiana that you have been asking for?


Gov. Jindal still silent on "prostitute" money Republicans wanted for Louisiana

Jindal is a loser, plain and simple.

And this Catholic cracker was invited to the WH for a State Dinner, why?

Happy Thanksgiving JJP!

Have a wonderful day with family & friends!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and your family.

Progressives really need to STFU with this meme of a one-term presidency for Obama. It's the same meme that was spread in 2000. Tell me, how well did that work for you?

And Maureen Dowd, if I knew being a serious "pundit" consisted of critiquing the President as if he were the "mean" kid in high school, I would have applied for the job earlier. http://bit.ly/5nFAUl

dowd has had a crush on Obama since she first saw him. It pisses her off that she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting him.
It's like in junior high, girl likes popular boy, but can't get him, so she spreads rumors to hurt him like she perceives him of hurting her by not being interested.

LOL

Word.

Totally. What absolute hokum. They host real people--especially kids--all the time now, and they just got there. Doggone...they haven't been there a year yet!

Whew! Just had to vent.

Now...is it crazy that I am still SWOONING over the stunning Michelle Obama and that to-die-for gown!?!?! I let my inner 12 year old out, and she doesn't want to go back inside.

Know something? I thought it was important for my nieces to see a Michelle Obama (as another role model) and for my Mom (born into and grew up in segregation) but dammit, she's important to *me*, too. Here I am, thinking I'm perfectly evolved and detached and above needing to see a woman who looks like me as first lady. She'd probably think I was an idiot for that. I do feel a little sheepish. It's not something I have time to get caught up in feeling. But events like last night? Yes...it's exactly how I feel.

How are you an idiot? you are not. Why not be happy, proud, and just plain thrilled to have a First Lady that looks like you.

To the Obama Administration
You better get your act in gear. With states broke their AG are out for blood and they read Eliot Spitzer's book: Connecticut to Sue Rating Firms for ‘Reckless’ Work; http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...

Why don't you send it to the White House then?

I sometimes do. I hear trees falling in the forest with no one around.

25 Nov 2009 10:51 am
"We Need Palin"

A reader writes:

Word on the street, courtesy of McClatchy, is that Obama is planning on sending 34,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan. In light of this possibility, and on behalf of all Americans who want some semblance of sane government, can I respectfully request that you lay off of Sarah Palin, including withholding, for the time being, any kind of bombshell that you're putting together? If escalation in Afghanistan is a reality, I am concerned that Obama's base - which has already been battered through the health care fight, the failure to deliver on promises of homosexual rights, the failure to effectively address the financial crisis and a general sense that Obama has 'sold them out' - is going to collapse.

I think that the left can tolerate a less than ideal health care plan, the postponement (we hope) of a push for homosexual rights, and a crappy attempt at putting a band-aid over the financial giants, but the left really found its voice during the last Administration around the Iraq War. Support for that war was the litmus test that drove many to Obama over Hillary in the first place. If Obama is to truly own the Afghan War, and to do so through escalation, I can't see how he holds his base together. And without his base, without Bush, and with the worst economy any of us can remember, I don't think that Obama or vulnerable Democrats in Congress get re-elected.

This is why we need Palin. It's cynical, it's political, it is devoid of any intellectual integrity. But that's politics, you can't get to the stuff you really want to do if you don't have the power to achieve it. We need Palin to win the Republican nomination. We need the tea baggers to continue rolling. The Republicans are not in any shape to be a viable alternative, and so even though the Democrats for all their electoral success have completely and utterly refused to govern (including Obama) they are still preferable. The only thing I can think of, in the face of the complete abandonment by Democrats of the things they told the American people they were going to deliver, that brings the base home is the specter of a Palin presidency. We need the Republicans to think that she's viable. So please, lay off of Palin. Or, if you are despised by the right, continue to attack her so that she can build up much needed cred.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily...

Paul Krugman - New York Times Blog
November 24, 2009, 1:24 pm



Even as the conventional wisdom seems to have converged on the view that despite the continuing willingness of bond investors to buy US debt at low interest rates, the deficit is terrible, scary, awful — you know we’re in herd behavior mode when phrases like “time bomb” start appearing in news stories — a weird complacency has settled in on the state of the actual economy. We’re recovering, everyone says — no need to do anything more.

Yet the outlook is extremely grim — not according to DFHs like yours truly, but according to the consensus of professional forecasters. Here’s what the Philadelphia Fed survey of forecasters says about inflation and unemployment, through 2012 (inflation as measured by personal consumption prices excluding food and energy):
DESCRIPTION Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Disastrously high unemployment, persisting years into the future, combined with inflation consistently below the Fed’s 2 percent target (and I’d argue both that the prediction is too high and that the target is too low).

Why is this considered OK, as opposed to desperately requiring action? Bear in mind that the predicted unemployment rate in 2012 — 2012! — is higher than the rate that let Bill Clinton run on “it’s the economy, stupid”.


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/a-b...

love her dress and love even more how he is looking at her!

James Clyburn is on CNN talking about his time at the STATE DINNER LAST NIGHT.He had a great time.

hateration from Lynn Sweet

Obamas' First State Dinner Marked by Classy but Cautious Style

For all the hoopla surrounding the much-anticipated first state dinner of the Obama administration, the magic night for the lucky invitees was not long; a little after midnight, one of the last stragglers was looking for a cab in a nearly empty street off Pennsylvania Avenue.
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There was more than enough in the evening -- the whole day, in fact -- to stamp the Obama White House with its own signature style for entertaining: classy and, like President Obama, cautious. No outlier clothing, performance or even cuisine on the largely vegetarian menu (American food with an Indian influence), all to honor India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur.

"Aapka Swagat Hai," Obama said in greeting his guests, Hindi for "You are welcome.

For months, First Lady Michelle Obama has been dining out on upbeat stories about her White House kitchen garden, so the theme of the evening -- crafted by her East Wing, in charge of the production -- was, logically and simply, "garden." Why not stick with a good thing. The color scheme for the linen tablecloths was apple green; three walls inside the giant pavilion erected on the South Lawn were a deep shade of green; herbs and lettuce had been plucked from that garden for the supper; and the White House emphasized that the event would be "green." The magnolia, ivy and other foliage used to decorate the interior will be recycled around the White House.

The White House insisted on calling the structure for the party a tent -- though with almost a dozen chandeliers and carpeting, that's hardly the right word. The event was moved outside because the State Dining Room could squeeze in no more than 140 people and there were about 330 guests. With two wars, unemployment over 10 percent and President Obama poised to announce next Tuesday sending more troops to Afghanistan, the White House kept a tight lid on party details, not only for the element of surprise but to de-emphasize glitzy partying when so many people are struggling.

Iraq or Afghanistan war vets, or even the common people whose stories the Obama White House is so fond of collecting on its Web sites and events -- a habit from the long presidential campaign, when "real people" often introduced then candidate Barack Obama -- were not obvious (if they were tucked away on the guest list). They were encouraged, instead, to watch via livestream at www.whitehouse.gov and engage on the White House Facebook page. The guest list was heavy on White House staff, establishment Washington, congressional leaders, prominent Indian Americans, network anchors, business executives, Hollywood moguls and the inner core of the First Couple's Chicago pals. Plus, of course, some family: First Grandmother Marian Robinson and half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and her husband, Konrad Ng.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/25/obama-s...

I am very glad that Mrs Obama'smentoring project is bringing these yung ladies to see what it is to hold a State Dinner. One might think that it is limiting to be a party planner the mix of skills and moxie necessary to make it work reminds me of this "...When the Washington Sentinels left the stadium that date, there was no tickertape parade, no endorsement deals for sneakers or soda pop, or breakfast cereal. Just a locker to be cleaned out, and a ride home to catch. But what they didn't know, was that their lives had been changed forever because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man......"
Jimmy McGinty the Replacements

rikyrah,

Not sure it's hatereation, BUT I am still trying to deconstruct her thought on who wore sari last night...*American, Indian-American, Indian...* What the hay? What's American to her? White people? How about *American and Indian women* alike wore sari?

I also don't get what she means about the lack of common people. If the children were invited to the WH to learn about State Dinners, just how does that count? Regular DC folk and children could barely get in the gate for that darn Egg Roll or whatever they call that Easter thing. Now, youth from all over DC are invited to all kinds of events. What and how does that tally against her census count?

Well a lot of those kids were black so they aren't "real Americans."

Translations 4 U:

Regular folk, common people = hard working people, WHITE people

American = white designer

Indian American = a United States citizen of Indian descent who designed the clothes instead of an American (white designer)

Indian =from India

American and Indian women alike wore saris = white women married to Indian men or United States citizens of Indian descent wore saris, and Indian women (or female US citizens of Indian descent...we can't tell them apart) wore saris, too.

To sum it up:

* Michelle Obama yet again chose a non-white person to make her dress.

* Hard working Americans, WHITE Americans did not get invited to the State Dinner

TRANSLATION: I went to Washington to go to the Obama party and all I got was the press box.

and, of course, Sally Quinn had to point out on Larry King, that there were far more African-Americans at the State Dinner than ever before...

well, duh.

but, the topper was former White House Pastry Chef complaining that the Pumpkin Tart for dessert wasn't appropriate, because it wasn't an ' Indian' dish.

TRANSLATION: There were far more African Americans at the State Dinner than usual, and they weren't cleaning, serving or cooking. For shame!

Town continues to break it down.

you ain't neva lied LOL