DY-NO-MITE! TNT: Top Nine Tuesday – Canvassing, CBO, and RISK

Because Monday is too early to start off the workweek…

Here are the top things on my mind as I start off the week purposely late:

1) Organizing for America’s Pledge Project Canvass:

I hosted a canvass on Saturday sponsored by Organizing for America in order to gain pledges of support for the three main initiatives outlined in President Obama’s budget proposal: Engery, Healthcare, and Education.

I was somewhat disappointed in the amount of time they left for volunteers to assemble – they wanted to have the canvass within a 10 days or so of the announcement. Combine a short period of prep time, with the fact that the canvass would be on a weekend, AND the fact that we are asking people to campaign for someone that is already going to be in office for the next 4 years…let’s just say it was a little tough to get the type of numbers that we had all hoped for – and that is understandable.

That being said, I was very happy with how receptive everyone was to our message. I didn’t get any angry looks and I didn’t have any names shouted at me. In fact, I had a lot of people come up willingly to sign without having to try very hard to persuade them. The Washington Post has a front page article regarding the numbers that turned up around that area, so that was all very positive.
In fact, the campaign is urging people that are willing to pledge their support to go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledgeproject and sign the pledge themselves.

2) CBO Report shows larger deficits than White House Predictions

So whatdoyaknow…The day before the President enlists his grassroots organization to gain public support of his budget, the Congressional Budget Office puts out a lovely report that predicts larger deficits than the Obama Administration predicts. This news leads Republican lawmakers to decry the budget proposal, saying that we will all go bankrupt because of it.

Now, the Obama administration has stated that they are willing to give a little wiggle room as long as it doesn’t affect the three initiatives…but we all know what the real motive is behind telling everyone that the US will go bankrupt if the budget is passed – Tell us Sen. Gregg!



Wow – the first thing you would cut is the Healthcare initiative??? Spoken like a true Republican…

3) President Obama is back and having a press conference on national television again. Let’s bet on the top story coming out of it – Obama’s “cool and calm” rhetoric, or a progressive media member being called to answer a question/being allowed to sit in the front row?

4) The market goes up 500 points, and so far today hasn’t lost too much of it…but I really want to know why Jim Cramer has seemed much more calm than in the recent past.

5) Speaking of CNBC, is anyone else watching that channel as much as I have lately? I know absolutely nothing about stock trading, and watching this channel isn’t helping me learn anything other than to stare at the Dow Jones ticker in the corner.

6) Ed Shultz has been hosting “1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” a lot lately. So MSNBC obviously likes him, and that is fine, because so do I, and if FOX thinks that hiring Glenn Beck and getting rid of Alan Colmes is a great solution to staying Fair and Balanced, then I think MSNBC should do him one better by hiring Ed Shultz and ditching Joe Scarsforbrains.

7) I have a love/hate relationship with “Morning” Joe – I hate him right now because of his Twitter updates – he is complaining about Obama’s budget proposal and calling Democrats blind to spending, and that’s fine because he is entitled to his opinion, but then he sends out tweets asking people why it was okay for him to rip the GOP when they spent too much, but not okay to rip Obama for the same.

It’s because your audience is mainly a bunch of Democrats you goof! We like when GOPers rip on their own – that is why your ratings went up! You keep this up and we’ll start campaigning for Mika to go solo!

8) Mike never says too much on that radio show she has with Joe…she is like Colmes to Joe’s “Hannity”.

9) I finally tuned in to the “World Domination” (aka RISK) application on Facebook and I am pumped. Anyone that wants to play – just find me! I will take you DOWN!