And the union people crawled away.by Phyllis Schlafly
Another kooky Barack Obama appointee became publicly known this month and quickly was thrown or voluntarily threw herself under the bus. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director (who led Obama's war on Fox News), said that Mao Tse-tung was one of her two favorite "political philosophers" [...]
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
President Barack Obama's public approval stood at 69 percent in the days after his inauguration in January, shown above, and reached a new low of 49 percent this week in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking surveys.
by Mark Silva
Public approval of the job that President Barack Obama is [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, returned from a weeklong tour of Asia where he is promoting "a new era of American engagement," says the continent holds promise for Americn exports that can spur new jobs at home.
"Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and" [...]
Let's recap what recent campaign reforms have brought us:
In 2007, the politicians in the Illinois General Assembly moved the Illinois primary to February in order to help one of it's own (Barack Obama) in the Presidential Primary. No coincidentally, the move had the added benefit of making any challenges [...]Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama (see below) requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received a [...]
Below, release from six Illinois GOP House members.....
All: Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to
President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received [...]
Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich), who nominally represents me in the United States Senate, at best got a hand-slap from the Senate Ethics Committee for giving evasive and dishonest answers when he explained how he ended up getting appointed to Barack Obama's former seat.WASHINGTON-- Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was admonished today by the U.S. Senate ethics committee over his testimony in Springfield concerning how he got appointed to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
But his actions following his appointment by then Gov.-Rod Blagojevich did not rise to level of pursuing ethics charges against [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama is home.
Home, where the hard work is.
With stops in 20 nations behind him, said to be the most ambitious international itinerary of any first-year president, Obama faces the closing innings of a domestic policy year in which he insisted upon a sweeping health-care reform [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin was box office on FOX News this week - handing Sean Hannity one of his highest-rated shows.
Someone else drew a crowd at FOX this week, too: President Barack Obama.
While Hannity's audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at [...]
Below, release and detailed poll data....
AMERICAN VOTERS LIKE OBAMA, BUT NOT HIS POLICIES,
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY NATIONAL POLL FINDS;
SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC OPTION, BUT NOT OVERALL HEALTH PLAN
Three-quarters of American voters - 74 percent - like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like [...]
by Mark Rhoads
Say what you will about Barack Obama, he's got chutzpah when it comes to reversing himself in public. According to Reuters, he told Fox News of all news groups (Yup, they're speaking to each other again) yesterday that "It is important though to recognize if we keep on" [...]
Wisdom from China as reported by the AP:
“American Foreign Policy in Asia”by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, with 20 nations in his passport this year, stepped on to the Great Wall of China this week.
"It gives you a perspective on a lot of day to day things that don't amount to much...It's majestic,'' the president said. "It reminds you of' [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, who made closing of the U.S. military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within one year a priority on Day One of his presidency, allows that January's deadline for closure of the controversial facility will come and go.
"We are on a path and a process" [...]
by John Brown's Ghost
President Barack Obama was in China this week and had the following quote:
"It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in'" [...]
by Mark Silva
As people line up around the block in Grand Rapids for the debut of Sarah Palin's national book tour, the popular author will probably have to count one reader out:
President Barack Obama.
"Obviously, Sarah Palin has attracted a lot of attention,'' Obama said of the" [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, "very close'' to a decision about deploying troops in Afghanistan - a strategy that must provide for an "endgame'' as well as a way forward - maintains that he is "absolutely confident'' about getting a health-care bill, calls the planned trial of 9/11 plotters" [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin, embarking on a natonal book tour with her Going Rogue memoirs, has one word for the way that President Barack Obama is handling the economy:
"Backassward.''
That's how the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice" [...]
by Mark Silva
FOX News had to go to China to get President Barack Obama.
When the traveling president sits for a round robin of television news interviews in Beijing, FOX's Major Garrett says he'll be in the loop of five that get 10 minutes apiece with the president.
Garrett "tweeted'' this'" [...]
In many ways, Alexi Giannoulias is channeling Barack Obama as he runs for the US Senate. He mentioned Obama five times during his when he declared his intention to run for the president's old seat, one of his earliest supporters was Obama's favorite union, SEIU, he even [...]
