The List!!! Obama 2012

[ProSense]

The List!!! With A Twist: Republicans are pissed!

Throughout the Obama presidency, one of the most vocal and demanding factions in the Democratic Party base has been activists for gay and lesbian equality. They repeatedly protested at Obama events and even at the White House, complained loudly about Obama’s broken promises, and even threatened to boycott Obama’s re-election campaign by withholding donations. In light of that ongoing confrontationalism, as well as the importance of gay voters (and especially gay donors) to the Democratic Party, it’s no surprise that their agenda has been repeatedly attended to by Obama, as he engineered the successful repeal of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, ordered his DOJ to stop defending the constitutionality of DOMA, and then finally “evolved” to an Election-Year endorsement of same-sex marriage.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=821242

16 million: number of Americans who become eligible for Medicaid under the health care law
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002531684

NCPSSM: Healthcare Reform, Seniors and the Supreme Court
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002485990

Consumer Federation of America Applauds Obama Administration’s Defense of Country-of-Origin Labeling
http://www.consumerfed.org/news/476

Obama launches trade case against China over raw materials
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002419556

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, the President signed into law:

H.R. 4105, which clarifies that the countervailing duty law can be applied to subsidized goods from nonmarket economy countries; and the Department of Commerce can adjust antidumping duties applied to goods from nonmarket economy countries when countervailing duties are applied to the same goods.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/13/statement-press-secretary-hr-4105

WTO Upholds Obama’s Tire Industry Relief Decision
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/09/06/wto-upholds-obamas-tire-industry-relief-decision/

President Obama's rescue of the auto industry is a big problem for Republicans
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002622822

Republicans outraged Obama usurped their 'Daddy party' throne
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002627474

The mercury rules announced today are a bona fide Big Deal..."history is being made"
http://www.grist.org/fossil-fuels/2011-12-21-the-mercury-rules-announced-today-are-a-bona-fide-big-deal

(Re: Broad Scientific Consensus in support for Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/Mercury%20scientists%20in%20support%20of%20the%20MATS.pdf)

Making consumer complaints available to the public
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/blog/making-consumer-complaints-available-to-the-public/

Former Corporate Chairman of Consulting Firm and Board Director Rajat Gupta Found Guilty of Insider Trading in Manhattan Federal Court
http://www.stopfraud.gov/iso/opa/stopfraud/NYS-120615.html
http://www.stopfraud.gov/news-index.html

Obama 2012!

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

[BlueCaliDem]

2. K&R! This post should be K&R'd to high heaven. So . . . why the silence? eom

[freshwest]

3. Absolutely.

[randome]

10. Maybe because most of us already agree.

I appreciate the information. I really do. But I think a lot of DUers, like me, don't join in a conversation when it's full of agreeable people!

But thanks, ProSense!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. K&R

Great list that benefits many.

[Mokito]

5. k & r

nt

[steve2470]

6. k&r nt

[SidDithers]

7. DU rec...nt

Sid

[JDPriestly]

8. Obama's record on human rights other than GLBT rights and his drones

and failure to prosecute the big criminals on Wall Street notwithstanding, this is really important:

The mercury rules announced today are a bona fide Big Deal..."history is being made"
http://www.grist.org/fossil-fuels/2011-12-21-the-mercury-rules-announced-today-are-a-bona-fide-big-deal

(Re: Broad Scientific Consensus in support for Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/Mercury%20scientists%20in%20support%20of%20the%20MATS.pdf)

The Republicans argue against "regulations." They want to do away with all of them, and if you talk to serious Republican, they really think they mean it.

They have no idea what doing away with environmental regulations would mean for their children and grandchildren and many future generations of not just children but life of all kinds.

For me Obama's biggest appeal is that, in spite of the free reign given to Monsanto and his failure to definitively say absolutely not to the Keystone pipeline, he has maintained some regulation of the environment -- at least some. The Republicans would not do that.

[ProSense]

9. Kick! n/t

[Scurrilous]

11. Kick

[MineralMan]

12. Kick.

We need more of this and less of the other, IMO.