President Obama says "we've been waiting for you"

His tweet to the students:

"Young people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it should be. We've been waiting for you. And we've got your backs."

Wow. Now, that's a real president.

Senator Brian Schatz from Hawaii tweeted:

"I am normally interested in compromise. Not this time. I cannot imagine a bill that would make a difference that the NRA supports. We don't need to cut a deal with them, we need to beat them!"

I agree with him. The NRA has drawn a line and there is no compromise anywhere, so evident at CPAC

"You are such a psychopath!"

"You are such a psychopath that you have to make even the death of 17 children about you. America will regret the day you were ever born."
Arizona representative Ruben Gallego says this to trump and more...

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/you-are-such-a-psychopath-1164577347680
(This is from a few days ago, not sure how I missed it)

Watching local noon news here in South Florida

Very sad, all these funerals and memorials today across the county for the MSD students in Parkland. The campus is closed for classes today but there are so many people there along the fence with flowers...

The local news interviewed a rep from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence (Robert Bowers Disney) who said "Every group of victims handle it differently and I am just so proud of what these kids are doing, I mean they are picking up and leading where our generation has failed, so for the first time in a very long time, I feel like we might actually get somewhere."

I hope with everything in my heart, that he is right - that this time we might actually get somewhere.

Please donate blood today.

It is always a good idea to donate blood, but after yesterday's tragedy here in Broward County, we really really need folks to give. It's easy, the red buses are just everywhere today - and while thoughts and prayers are "nice" we really need more, like blood. And better laws!

Proud to be a Floridian

We Floridians are known for, well, you know - crazy stuff. But we did good today. We flipped another seat blue!

Washington (CNN)Democrats picked off another Republican-held state legislative seat in a special election Tuesday -- this time a suburban, Sarasota-area district in Florida.

Margaret Good's win over James Buchanan -- the Republican whose father is US Rep. Vern Buchanan -- is another worrying sign for national Republicans headed into next fall's midterm elections.
Good won by 7 percentage points in a district that President Donald Trump carried by 5 points in the 2016 election.
That swing in Democrats' direction made the Florida contest the 36th GOP-held state legislative seat to change parties since Trump took office. And in a district where Republicans held a voter registration advantage of nearly 13,000, the Democratic Party sees it as evidence it can win in Republican strongholds. (Read more)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/democrats-flip-florida-house-seat/index.html

OMG thank you so much!

I don't know who sent me the anonymous hearts but I thank you so much! I'm still kind of new to DU so, it was so unexpected and so appreciated!

Fox News is Driving us Toward a Constitutional Crisis

Fox News and Sean Hannity have, through their own brand of propaganda, successfully manipulated the president of the United States into taking action that the FBI has “grave concerns” about and that his own Justice Department described as “extraordinarily reckless.”

The Nunes memo is a Hail Mary pass. A desperate, last-ditch effort by Trump and his Fox News enablers to stop the Mueller investigation before it goes any further and inflicts any more damage.

Most concerning of all, he is doing all of this at the behest of Hannity and Fox News.

I used to think that Fox was following Trump’s lead. Now, it appears as if Trump is following Fox and Hannity’s lead ― and in the process, effectively surrendering the powers of the presidency to his own propagandists.( Read more)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-bardella-fox-news_us_5a7498e9e4b0905433b3d0a7?section=us_opinion

Trey Gowdy & his hairstyles are leaving politics

Why oh why is that idiot still on tv???

I thought he would be done by now - I am sitting here with the mute button on trying not to look up that ugly orange face, just waiting for Joe Kennedy.....

(Sorry, had to vent)