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June 27, 2015

'til death do you part.....

June 27, 2015

WOW, even the Terminator wants a piece of the rainbow!

https://twitter.com/Bipartisanism

June 27, 2015

A Year Ago - President Barack Obama On: "Going the distance"

Said Obama: “We’re on this planet a pretty short time, so that we cannot remake the world entirely during this little stretch that we have. … But I think our decisions matter. And I think America was very lucky that Abraham Lincoln was President when he was President. If he hadn’t been, the course of history would be very different. But I also think that, despite being the greatest President, in my mind, in our history, it took another hundred and fifty years before African-Americans had anything approaching formal equality, much less real equality. I think that doesn’t diminish Lincoln’s achievements, but it acknowledges that, at the end of the day, we’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/27/going-the-distance-david-remnick
http://politicalwire.com/2015/06/27/obama-wont-be-a-lame-duck/

June 27, 2015

GOP Pundit In Tears: "We're going to become relics if we don’t get to where these people are”

Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp: “It’s hard not to watch that and get emotional. Those people there are not pariahs, they’re patriots.”

She added: “And so for my party — which I deeply, deeply love — my party really has to reconcile with the fact that we are going to become relics if we don’t get to where these people are.”

http://politicalwire.com/2015/06/27/conservative-pundit-tears-up-over-gay-marriage-decision/

June 27, 2015

VOX: No longer any doubt: "Obama is one of the most consequential presidents in American history"

After Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, — and he will be a particularly towering figure in the history of American progressivism.
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...When you consider the (Affordable Care Act) law in the context of 100 years of progressive activism, and in the grand scheme of American history, it starts to look less like a moderate reform and more like an epochal achievement, on the order of FDR's passage of Social Security, or LBJ's Great Society programs. It is, to quote Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol, "a century-defining accomplishment in the last industrial democracy to resist using national government to ensure access to health coverage for most citizens." FDR failed, Truman failed, Nixon failed, Carter failed, Clinton failed — and Obama succeeded. He filled in the one big remaining gap in the American welfare state when all his forerunners couldn't.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8849925/obama-obamacare-history-presidents

June 27, 2015