Obama: 'The law I passed is here to stay'

THU JUL 05, 2012 AT 10:15 AM PDT
Obama: 'The law I passed is here to stay'
by Jed Lewison
for Daily Kos

I will work with anybody who wants to work with me to continue to improve our health care system and our health care laws, but the law I passed is here to stay. ...

We will not go back to the days when insurance companies could descriminate against people just because they were sick. We're not going to tell six million young people who are now on their parents health insurance plans that suddenly they don't have health insurance. We're not going to allow Medicare to be turned into a voucher system.

Now is not the time to spend four more years refighting battles we fought two years ago. Now is the time to move forward and make sure that every American has affordable health insurance and that insurance companies are treating them fairly. That's what we fought for, that's what we're going to keep. We are moving forward.

MORE plus video:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/05/1106456/-Obama-The-law-I-passed-is-here-to-stay

WALL ST JOURNAL: Romney "Is Letting Them (Conservatives) Down"

If Mitt Romney loses his run for the White House, a turning point will have been his decision Monday to absolve President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class. He is managing to turn the only possible silver lining in Chief Justice John Roberts's ObamaCare salvage operation—that the mandate to buy insurance or pay a penalty is really a tax—into a second political defeat.

Perhaps Mr. Romney is slowly figuring this out, because in a July 4 interview he stated himself that the penalty now is a "tax" after all. But he offered no elaboration, and so the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.

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The biography that voters care about is their own, and they want to know how a candidate is going to improve their future. That means offering a larger economic narrative and vision than Mr. Romney has so far provided. It means pointing out the differences with specificity on higher taxes, government-run health care, punitive regulation, and the waste of politically-driven government spending.

Mr. Romney promised Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom they desperately want to defeat. So far Mr. Romney is letting them down.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304141204577506652734793044.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

My Favorite Krohn Pics (How you going to pitch this one Mitt?)

Here:
http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/jonathan-krohn

Axelrod re Mitt: If he were in WH, parsley would be official veg: Twister, national pasttime.

David Axelrod on Twitter yesterday, talking about Mitt Romney's latest flip-flop over whether the individual mandate is a tax or a penalty administered through the tax code:

Eighth Grader Gets Seventeen To Stop Photoshopping The Girls In Its Magazine

Eighth Grader Gets Seventeen To Stop Photoshopping The Girls In Its Magazine
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jul 3, 2012 at 2:13 pm

Eighth grader Julia Bluhm was tired of hearing her friends in ballet class complain about being fat, and knew that they were basing their self-conscious opinions on altered magazine images of themselves. So she started a petition asking Seventeen magazine to stop photoshopping the women in their pages. Julia asked for one unaltered image of a “regular girl” in every issue.

“For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think these fake images are what they should be, I’m stepping up,” Julia wrote. “I know how hurtful these photoshopped images can be. I’m a teenage girl, and I don’t like what I see. None of us do.”

Today, with the petition at more than 81,000 signatures, Seventeen responded — and went even further than what Julia had requested. The magazine committed to Julia and organizers at SPARK a Movement to represent a range of women of all shapes and sizes in its magazine — every month, every model — without any photoshopping of their bodies (they will still be using photoshop to take wrinkles out of clothes and hide flyaway hairs):

China to face accusation of unfair trade (Obama admin. to file WTO complaint)

Source: Toledo Blade

China to face accusation of unfair trade

Demonstrating a tough line on trade with China, the Obama Administration will file an unfair trade complaint today against China's new duties on some American-made cars and sport utility vehicles, including the Toledo-made Jeep Wrangler.

A senior administration official told The Blade Wednesday the United States will file the case with the World Trade Organization in Geneva, accusing China of putting illegal duties on $3.3 billion worth of U.S.-made auto imports

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The enforcement action aims to force China to rescind the duties it placed disproportionately on General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC imports because of the 2009 taxpayer rescue of the auto industry...China in December imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties on certain SUVs, claiming that U.S. taxpayer support of the two automakers amounted to a government subsidy that was illegal under WTO rules. The Obama Administration disputes that claim.

The duties cover more than 80 percent of U.S. auto exports to China, or about 92,000 vehicles. They add 15 percent to the price of an imported Jeep Wrangler or Detroit-made Jeep Grand Cherokee, 21.8 percent to a Buick Enclave and Cadillac CTS produced in Lansing, and 4.1 percent to an Acura TL sedan made by Honda of America Manufacturing Co. at Marysville, Ohio.

Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2012/07/05/China-to-face-accusation-of-unfair-trade.html

Two positive reports released on jobs

Source: The Hill

Two positive reports released on jobs
By Vicki Needham - 07/05/12 08:48 AM ET

Two new reports on Thursday provided some optimism the jobs market is improving.

First-time claims for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level since May, the first positive sign in weeks that layoffs may be slowing.

Separately, payroll provider ADP says private-sector businesses added 176,000 jobs to their payrolls in June, better than the revised total of 136,000 jobs for May.

The two reports come a day ahead of the closely watched monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be watching that report closely for signs of how the U.S. economy is doing. In May, the monthly report found the economy added only 68,000 jobs, a devastating blow for Obama's campaign.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/236261-first-time-jobless-claims-drop-to-six-week-low

Romney's Education Plan: "get as much education as you can afford"

William K. Wolfrum Chronicles distills Mitt Romney's "get as much education as you can afford" down to its essence.




Mitt Romney’s theory that kids should “get as much education”as they can afford” is highly unoriginal. Many nations have that philosophy. Like here in Brazil where kids will quit school in the third grade so they can get a job begging.

http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2012/07/02/this-is-all-the-education-some-can-afford/
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/mitt-romney-wants-americans-get-all-educati

Judge Scalia's - "Robed Rage"

Romney Charisma