stfuconservatives:

fromonesurvivortoanother:

wtfwhiteprivilege:

stfuconservatives:

I think we receive the ask “My family member is a Conservative and says Obama hasn’t done anything, can you provide links to stuff he’s done.” We used to just send them the old standby of whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com, however the above link is much more comprehensive, less antagonistic, and with much better citations.

Enjoy!

-Joe

For any of my white followers who encounter this with their families as well.

i’d like to see promises he hasn’t kept also. but this is a pretty good list.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/promise-broken/

Most of them are just impossibilities with the current political climate. There are some legit disappointments though.

(Source: stfuconservatives, via stfuconservatives)

liberalsarecool:

A Bloomberg survey of economists concludes President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan “would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year.”

The last thing Republicans want is for Obama to be able to take credit…

(Source: politicalwire.com)

wannabechomsky:

“Republicans on Sunday decried the notion of a new minimum tax rate for millionaires as “class warfare,” saying the proposal by President Obama may be intended to portray Congressional Republicans who resist it as being callously indifferent to the hardships facing many Americans.”

Okay, GOP, let’s clear up what qualifies as “class warfare,” shall we?

• when extreme budget cuts lead to the deterioration of benefit programs for the public, forcing thousands if not millions to the brink of poverty
• when trillions of the dollars of American tax-payers are given to banks and firms that lined their pockets at the expense of said Americans
• when compensation for CEOs soars as wages for ordinary workers plummet
• when corporations are allowed to spend unlimited amounts endorsing politicians, effectively ensuring that anyone who makes it to the national stage is a hand puppet of big business
• when the highest court in the land is occupied by people with obvious, unchecked conflicts of interest in favor of corporations
• when the megarich actively conspire to keep the “populations/the political process [from] demanding a more ‘equitable’ share of the wealth”

These are just a few examples of the class warfare being waged today. President Obama’s tax proposal? That’s more like deploying one infantry unit against a fleet of drones. And of course Republicans aren’t callous, don’t be ridiculous. Both they and Democrats keep themselves soft and smooth - just the way CEOs like their bedmates.

(via geekvariety)

climateadaptation:

Bittman nails the Obama administration today in this surprising (to me) piece on the current trend of profits over environment. He connects a lot of dots, but brings it together in the end. (I’d counter by saying that Obama was in a fix - he has had to choose jobs and stimulus over the environment).

I think this section is worth quoting in full: 

Sacrificing the environment for profits didn’t stop with Bush, and it doesn’t stop with genetically modified organisms. Take, for example, the Keystone XL pipeline extension. XL is right: the 36-inch-wide pipeline, which will stretch from the Alberta tar sands across the Great Plains to the Gulf Coast, will cost $7 billion and run for 1,711 miles — more than twice as long as the Alaska pipeline. It will cross nearly 2,000 rivers, the huge wetlands ecosystem called the Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala aquifer, the country’s biggest underground freshwater supply.

If Keystone is built, we’ll see rising greenhouse gas emissions right away (tar sands production creates three times as many greenhouse gases as does conventional oil), and our increased dependence on fossil fuels will further the likelihood of climate-change disaster. Then there is the disastrous potential of leaks of the non-Wiki-variety. (It’s happened before.)

Proponents say the pipeline will ease gas prices and oil “insecurity.” But domestic drilling has raised, not lowered, oil prices, and as for the insecurity — what we need is to develop wiser ways to use the oil we have.

They say, too, that the pipeline could create 100,000 new jobs. But even the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Transport Workers Union oppose the pipeline, saying, “We need jobs, but not ones based on increasing our reliance on Tar Sands oil.”

Sounds as if union officials have been reading the writer and activist Bill McKibben, who calls the pipeline “a fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent,” and NASA scientist Jim Hansen, who says the oil Keystone will deliver “is essentially game over” for the planet.

Game over? No problem, says the State Department (read the rest below:

Source: NYTimes

interesting.  definitely something worth researching into to decide what i think

logicallypositive:

I understand Ron Paul has a lot of controversial stances, and that there is plenty of room for the left to disagree with the Doctor on. Abortion and gay marriage immediately come to mind. I will make a separate post concerning the Doctors stance on abortion and gay…

(Source: rigatonideology)