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VIDEO– Jay Carney to Fox host: “If you did a little reporting…”

so there

Carney:

Well actually, Jenna, again, if you did a little reporting, you’d know that the Easter egg roll is open for a lot of military families. It’s paid for by the sale of those eggs that come out as well as from donations on the outside. It’s a totally different budget. These are apples and oranges.”

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had a Moment of Masochism and decided to appear on Fox News [sic]. “Happening Now” host Jenna Lee asked why the White House will still hold its annual “Easter egg roll” event but ended White House tours for “regular families.”

Yes, the geniuses at Fox are still fixated on the tours instead of how the sequester will affect millions of Americans all over the country. HuffPo posted a few examples:

More than 400 civilian contractors are going to be laid of at Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania because of sequestration and the end of the Iraq War.

An audit agency that helped save the government $4.2 billion last year will be weakened by the sequester.

An Iowa school board is considering firing 17 teachers because of sequestration and budget woes.

Roughly 1,000 military technicians in Indiana are going to lose a day of pay every week for the next five months because of the sequester.

Yet this is what the “liberal media” has been obsessing on:

media coverage White House tours sequester

bias liberal media my ass smaller

VIDEO- Soledad O’Brien to GOP Senator: “Why are you trying to balance budget on people making under $23,000 a year?”

Soledad O’Brien does it again. She’s previously grilled GOP Rep. Joe Heck on his bizarre quasi-defense of Susan Rice, argued with a Romney adviser about Romney’s position on Israel, had a heated exchange with Rudy Giuliani when he refused to answer a question about Benghazi, sparred with Sununu over that “act of terror” in Libya, went after Bay Buchanan on Romney’s 47% comments, and on and on.

Her latest In Your Face was with Republican Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions pointing out his hypocrisy about cutting food stamps at the expense of his lower-income constituents.

Via Think Progress:

O’Brien:

You voted in fact in 2002 and 2008 to grow the program yourself. I think first under President Bush in 2002, and when it comes to fraud, this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says SNAP has ‘the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program in recent years, it’s received its lowest error rates on record.’”

Most people who are on it aren’t working the system, they are just hungry people.”

“Twenty percent of your constituents are on food stamps and they look at the people who are actually eligible? It’s something like under 70 percent who are eligible who sign up.”

“…When you’re thinking of things to cut, people basically say, why are you trying to balance the budget on people who are making under $23,000 a year. I think that range roughly, is the national average for what a family of four would get on food stamps. So why not cut something else? There are other things that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation’s poor children.

“Two of those times you voted for it, sir. 2002 and 2008 you voted for it. Right? You voted for it. Some people would say it’s growing because people are hurting.”

Russ Feingold: Ryan “delivered the least honest of all the Republican convention speeches.”

Former US Senator Russ Feingold is quoted as saying he and Paul Ryan have always worked well together, got along, and never had a bad word between them. They go way back, and Feingold said he even “felt the pride of my hometown” when Ryan was nominated.

That was then. This is now. He was none to thrilled with all the lies Paul Ryan spewed in his convention speech.

Via JSOnline:

“The most embarrassing thing of the whole convention is the national response to Paul Ryan’s fabrications and deceptions before the American people,” said Feingold, who is one of many co-chairs of the Obama re-election campaign. “There has been wall to wall condemnation, you can’t turn on the television without seeing it.”  

Feingold told delegates that Ryan “delivered the least honest of all the Republican convention speeches.” Among the items Feingold pointed to was Ryan’s criticism of Obama related to the shuttering of the Janesville GM plant, whose closing was announced under GOP President George W. Bush.

Feingold insists the two of them will remain civil, but “when somebody is on the national ticket and intentionally says things that you know isn’t right, you got to call him on it.”

It’s about time. This is the first time in a long time that the Dems are hitting back fast and hard before the lies can take hold. Keep it up, Russ and Co.

Oh snap! Sen. Sherrod Brown’s wife, columnist Connie Schultz, bursts conservative blogger’s self-righteous balloon

Connie Schultz is the Pulitzer prize-winning columnist who is married to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. You may have seen her on The Rachel Maddow Show:

She’s sharp as a tack and shouldn’t be messed with, especially by right wing ignorami:

I bet they’ve even engaged in mad sex… while using contraceptives.

by Dokuro

She still hasn’t heard back from Mr. Name Deleted.

Link to the Facebook page.

Source.

H/t: Greg Ostravich

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Team Obama serves the press cookies that Mitt Romney said, “came from the local 7-eleven, bakery, or whatever.“

Via chocolatecoveredkatie.com

I’m sure most of you will remember this moment of Willard’s War on Cookies, aka CookieGate:

Yes, back in April, Just Like Us Mitt proved that he couldn’t recognize a specially baked cookie if he tripped over one in the kitchen of one of his mansions.

He actually thought he was relating to Pennsylvania voters in that video, comparing a batch of cookies from a mom-and-pop store to those mass-produced for 7-Eleven stores:

“I’m not sure about these cookies. They don’t look like you made them,” Romney said to the woman sitting next to him “No, no. They came from the local 7-eleven, bakery, or whatever.

The comments quickly spread on Twitter, with some pointing to the remarks as an example of Romney being out of touch to the point of confusing 7-11 with a bakery.

At least he didn’t call them “chocolate goodies.”

Today, TPM caught this tweet:

Oh, snap.

I love TPM’s line, “It’s not exactly the same as driving a campaign bus around a rival’s event and honking the horn.” No, it’s also not as infantile, unprofessional, annoying, loud, and pointless.

VIDEO- Vice Pres. Joe Biden: Mitt Romney is “a job creator – in Singapore, China, India.”

 

Standing O, Veep Joe!

Waterloo, Iowa (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden took Mitt Romney’s central weapon in his White House bid – his time as a businessman – and used it as political ammunition against Romney on Tuesday.

You got to give Romney credit,” Biden said. “He’s a job creator – in Singapore, China, India. He’s been very good at creating jobs, overseas.

“How’s that nimble, profitable thing workin’ for those 8 million Americans who are out of work?”

VIDEO: Scott Brown blasted for his repeated royal “secret meetings” with “kings and queens” remarks

Via . Su. Perb.

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