With his “stimulus” boondoggle going bust and unemployment at its highest rate in a quarter-century, in California at its highest rate since Barbara Boxer was in Kindergarten, the president is at his wits end; he doesn’t know what to do.
So, he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House and [...]
This is the question a lot of people are asking. Progressives are wondering what happened to the Barack Obama who ran for President as an enthusiastic supporter of single-payer health care. Yes, I said it, single-payer, the idea that health care should be publicly funded and privately delivered to everyone. [...]
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama’s weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House,” Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. “He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill [...]
A watchdog site led by former GOP staffers called the Frankin Center for Government and Public Integrity has been having great fun with reports on the White House’s recovery.gov site, which purports to track all the jobs “saved or created” by the $787-billion “stimulus” bill passed last January. It [...]
White House counsel Gregory Craig has resigned and he will be replaced by — are you ready? — Bob Bauer who is President Obama’s personal lawyer. The general impression you get from most of the news stories is that nobody was satisfied with the way Craig handled Guantanamo. Far [...]
Anita Dunn, who gained notoriety in recent weeks as the point person directly taking on Fox News in public, is resigning as White House Communications Director, to be replaced by her deputy, Dan Pfeiffer. She’ll still be at the White House in a capacity that from the news stories [...]
I’ve been trying to figure out why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (likely following orders handed down from the White House) was so determined to hold a vote on a bill to increase government control over one-sixth of our economy the week after her party suffered its worst shellacking at the [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,flanked by Rep. James Clyburn, left, and President Barack Obama, right.
President Barack Obama was in the White House Rose Garden a few minutes ago urging lawmakers to vote yes on health reform even [...]
In trying to spin the results of this week’s elections to fit the Democratic/media narrative that Republicans are a dying species, Administration officials dwell on the results in NY-23 as if the White House were indifferent to the races in New Jersey and Virginia. And anyway, the Democratic candidate in [...]
Focusing on the campaign in New York’s 23rd Congressional District as if it were the only election conducted last week, leading Democrats from the White House on down tell us that the GOP is a divided party, beholden to its far right extremist fringe. Well, those people peddling that partisan [...]
. . . and Rahm Emanuel and Anita Dunn and David Axelrod.
Fox News pulls huge election day ratings. Mr. President, White House aides, they couldn’t have done it without your support, er, condemnation. On election night this week,
Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern [...]
Democrats lost the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. Certainly not good news for either Democrats or the White House. It is, however, not terrible or catastrophic news. Two highly flawed Democrats lost. Deeds, of Virginia, ran a bad and stridently negative campaign, and Corzine had raised taxes and spent [...]
It’s not exactly a news flash, but it’s interesting that he came right out and said it. Bill Clinton told some group in Istanbul that if not for term limits, he would have stayed in the White House “until they carried me away in a coffin or I lost [...]
Politico has a fascinating story of the lengths to which Democrats went to secure Dede Scozzafava’s endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens in the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district tomorrow. The effort in involved the White House Chief of Staff, New York State’s senior senator, the Speaker [...]
As political pundits, White House spinmeisters and we bloggers prepare to evaluate the meaning of the coming off-off-year elections on Tuesday, Michael Barone offers some numbers to help put the various races into context:
Six days from now the voters of New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors. Voters in [...]
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet trick or treaters at the North Portico of the White House as they celebrate Halloween. The First couple welcomed more than 2,000 children from Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools and their families to celebrate Halloween.
Halloween at the [...]
Last month, I blogged that since Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks participated on a conference call with then-National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) communications director Yosi Sergant, seeking to drum up support from artists (many receiving (or hoping to receive) grants from the [...]
The next National HIV/AIDS Community Discussion will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. this Sunday, Nov. 1 in the Little Theater at Berkeley High School, 1980 Allston Way, according to the White House.
These discussions, hosted by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP), offer the [...]
President Barack Obama met yesterday afternoon at the White House with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, trying to allay their fears about the public option included in the newly revamped [...]
