I won't be watching.
"Obama to focus on cybersecurity issues" by Darlene Superville, Associated Press January 11, 2015
WASHINGTON — Obama will use a Monday event at the Federal Trade Commission to lay out the next steps of a plan to tackle identity theft and improve consumer and student privacy. It follows a plan Obama announced last October to tighten security for the debit cards that transmit federal benefits to millions of Americans.
After holding his first meeting of the new year with the top leaders in Congress on Tuesday, Obama will discuss cybersecurity, including ways of getting the private sector and federal government to voluntarily share more cybersecurity information.
This when they were fighting tyranny to some degree.
He will do so at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, a part of the Department of Homeland Security that shares information among the public and private sectors.
The State of the Union address is set for Jan. 20.
Obama’s focus on cybersecurity follows the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. The president and other senior administration officials blame North Korea for the crippling attack, which disclosed confidential company e-mails and business files.
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The attack included threats of terror attacks against US movie theaters until Sony agreed to cancel the Christmas release of its film “The Interview.” The comedy depicts an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Sony eventually released the film online and in a small number of theaters.
You know, that was SO LAST WEEK!
On Wednesday, Obama will be in Iowa to talk about making affordable, high-speed Internet more available nationwide.
Traditionally, the White House closely guards the details of plans to be offered in the State of the Union until just before the president delivers the nationally televised address.
But in a bid to generate excitement for the speech as he begins the next-to-last year of his presidency, Obama began previewing new initiatives last week, including programs to boost homeownership by reducing mortgage insurance premiums and increase access to higher education by paying for the first two years of community college for Americans who meet certain criteria.
PFFFFFFFFTTT!
Related:
Obama proposes free community college plan
President proposes way to lower mortgage premiums, attract home buyers
Seriously, who gets excited about overdue and over late bull$hit?
“I didn’t want to wait for the State of the Union to talk about all the things that make this country great and how we can make it better, so I thought I’d get started this week,” Obama said Wednesday in Michigan, where he discussed a rebounding US auto industry. “I figured, why wait? It’s like opening your Christmas presents a little early.”
OMG!
The horrible Chri$tmas season just ended and he's talking about next year!
"In Detroit, Obama cited statistics that he said were evidence of the US comeback. The president has frequently returned to Detroit to brag about the success of his early — and controversial — use of taxpayer money to rescue two of the three American car companies.
He let the city go bankrupt, but....
But on Wednesday, Obama went further, saying that, like the auto industry, the US economy is booming again. “America’s resurgence is real. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise,” he said, to kick off a three-day, three-state presidential trip intended to steal the political spotlight from the newly empowered Republicans."
That's really pouring the $alt all over you, and THANKS FOR HELPING OUT with the CARBON FOOTPRINT to make a POLITICAL SHOW POINT, a$$hole!
Related: Look Who $aved Detroit
And Virginia, too.
Wasn't Obummer.
The proposals include steps Obama can take unilaterally using his executive authority, a practice he used frequently last year that irritated Republicans. Other proposals will require collaboration with Congress, which Republicans now control. They reacted coolly to Obama’s announcements.
Vice President Joe Biden also is pitching in with the previews. He travels to Norfolk, Va., on Thursday to announce new funding to help train people to work in the cybersecurity industry, the White House said.
That is what is at the bottom of the home of hackers in AmeriKa.
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You would think there would be some give and take:
"Democrats step up efforts to block Obama trade bill" by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, New York Times January 09, 2015
WASHINGTON — President Obama is facing opposition from fellow Democrats to one of his top priorities: winning the power to negotiate international trade agreements and speed them through Congress.
As the president’s team works privately to line up support for the so-called trade promotion authority, a coalition of Democratic lawmakers and activists from organized labor, environmental, religious, and civil rights groups is stepping up efforts to stop him.
“Fast track would be yet another insult to the American worker,” Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, said at a Thursday news conference on Capitol Hill, where she predicted the effort’s defeat. “It will not happen. We are not going to do it.”
I expect a filibuster then.
Winning the authority would allow Obama to finish and gain swift approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sprawling pact that his administration has been painstakingly negotiating.
But DeLauro and other Democratic lawmakers argue the president is asking for carte blanche to secretly negotiate a trade deal that would cost the country jobs and undermine environmental and labor standards.
The dispute pits Obama against his own party over what the president has identified as one of the few patches of common ground between him and Republicans that could yield an accomplishment during his final two years in office. Its outcome could determine the fate of the partnership, a complicated 12-nation agreement that would encompass 40 percent of the world economy and serve as a crucial element in Obama’s pivoting to Asia. It is also animating an intraparty policy fight among Democrats that could shape the 2016 presidential campaign.
It's been gummed up for a while now.
Obama has dispatched top officials, led by his chief envoy, Michael B. Froman, to Congress to quietly make the case for the agreement and build support for winning the trade authority.
“The president has directed us to be responsive to the very important questions that are being asked by members of Congress,” said Thomas E. Perez, the labor secretary.
“What’s going on now, I think, is part of the healthy give-and-take that should take place when we’re contemplating an important piece of legislation.”
Why doesn't he just issue an order? Isn't ALL LEGISLATION IMPORTANT?
At the same time, Obama’s advisers see a ripe opportunity to win approval of his trade agenda, given that Congress is fully under the control of Republicans who back trade liberalization.
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Is that really what the American people voted for?
Or this?
"Pressure grows on Obama to make oil pipeline decision" by Coral Davenport and Mitch Smith, New York Times January 10, 2015
WASHINGTON — President Obama came under new pressure Friday to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, as the Nebraska Supreme Court cleared the way for its construction through the state, and the House passed a bill forcing approval of the project.
The House vote of 266 to 153 in favor of the pipeline sends the measure to the Senate, which is likely to pass the bill in the coming weeks.
The Nebraska ruling eliminates Obama’s chief reason for delaying his decision on whether the pipeline should be built, since he had said repeatedly that he would wait for the state court to weigh in before he determined the project’s fate.
The ruling also strengthens demands from Republicans and some Democrats that Obama approve the pipeline, which would carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from the oil sands of western Canada to ports and refineries of the Gulf Coast.
“He’s out of time and excuses,” said Brigham McCown, an administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration during the George W. Bush administration. “It puts the ball fully in his court.”
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Environmental groups called on Obama to react to the Nebraska ruling by denying the pipeline.
“The only decision that will bring peace of mind to landowners is watching the president use the power of the pen to stop this risky pipeline once and for all,” said Jane Kleeb, the head of the group Bold Nebraska, which has led the fight in the state against Keystone.
I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Obama has vowed to veto a bill from Congress approving the pipeline, and a White House spokesman said Friday that the veto threat stands. But White House officials have said Obama will veto the bill not out of opposition to the pipeline itself, but because the president’s authority to make the decision would be transfered to Congress.
Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, said, “Regardless of the Nebraska ruling today, the House bill still conflicts with longstanding executive branch procedures regarding the authority of the president and prevents the thorough consideration of complex issues that could bear on US national interests, and if presented to the president, he will veto the bill.”
The Nebraska decision puts more pressure on the president to use that authority. The Keystone pipeline has been under review since 2008.
Officially, the State Department has the authority to permit the project, since it would cross an international border. But as the project has grown into a political fight between Republicans who support it and environmentalists and some Democrats who oppose it, it has become clear that the final decision rests with Obama....
He's the DECIDER!
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Related: State of the Union Set the Tone For 2014 Elections
You can take a look back at the crap if you want.
