my frustration, it looked like the McCain campaign did not want to investigate Obama’s past. McCain, in fact, piously asserted that paying attention to something as outrageous as Rev. Wright’s anti-white hostility was a non-issue for the President
The White House is usually quite good at keeping a muzzle on the media after one of its off-the-record sessions with President Obama and senior members of his administration.
"...getting on the nearest highway and commuting with the 80-mph flow of traffic-basically the worst-case scenario-yielded 26 miles; a fairly spirited back-road loop netted 31; and a carefully modulated cruise below 60 mph pushed MPG to 38...
"I'm not sure about a national moratorium because there are, in fact, valid foreclosures that probably should go forward and where the documentation and paperwork is proper," Axelrod said on CBS' Face the Nation.
Even in President Barack Obama's hometown, they had hoped for more.
Obama will be stumping for Senate candidate and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias on Thursday in Chicago
More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison. The payments, which were part of last year's massive economic recovery package, were meant to increase consumer spending to help stimulate the economy.
"I had dinner last night with a deep political insider who told me that Michael Bloomberg is the next Treasury secretary. I heard that. All I'll say is this is a serious insider who said the deal has been done and that Bloomberg is the next Treasury
At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.
Apparently, there is no misdeed so big that it can keep guns-for-hire from working for the government. And this is despite a 2008 campaign pledge from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ban the company from federal contracts.
Slowly, but surely, the Obama administration is keeping one of the President’s more ominous campaign promises – that he would invade Pakistan, if necessary, to "win" the war in Afghanistan. Even John McCain found this a scary prospect...
Few people outside Washington, and not many inside, have heard the name Pete Rouse. The man President Obama will name as his interim White House chief of staff on Friday is a quiet political player who avoids the spotlight. He does not suit up for th
The FDIC, broke as ever, with an Insurance Fund that was well south of zero at last check, announced, with delightful irony, that it was expanding its insurance on non-interest bearing checking accounts from the current $250,000 to, well, infinity.
Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking Web sites and BlackBerries...
By Aamer Madhani, National Journal - The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith.
The White House on Saturday invoked the state secrets privilege to toss a lawsuit brought by civil liberties groups against an assassination plan against terrorists that would also target a U.S. citizen.
"I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now."
"We can absorb a terrorist attack," Obama told Woodward, according to an authorized excerpt published by the Washington Post. "We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever ... we absorbed it and we are s
It’s all more cynicism, power horny middle aged men dropping their pants to moon the American people. leaning out of the windows of their limos, humming along to MC Hammer’s “Can’t touch this".
Obama’s collectivist mindset was on display at his town hall last Monday as he claimed we can’t “afford” tax cuts. Mr. President, it ain’t your money. John Hayward continues the discussion in his latest Impertinent Questions: Who Owns Our Money?
The White House said Lawrence Summers, the chief architect of President Obama’s economic policy, would leave at the end of the year, continuing an exodus of top-level advisers at a time when voters are expressing deep dissatisfaction with the preside
The lying skill, so perfected by our president many years ago, seemed to have lost some of its magic. Well, what do you expect? Undoubtedly our poor president hasn’t slept in weeks.
President Obama announced legal scholar Elizabeth Warren will lead the efforts to found the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the new financial reform law. The move has raised eyebrows around Washington, since Obama has
It will give Holdren the excuse to introduce all the draconian measures he has long believed necessary if “global climate disruption” is to be averted: viz, state-enforced population control...
The Department of Water And Power has received $70.65 million and created or retained 45.46 jobs, though they are expected to create 238 jobs overall (the fraction of a job created or retained correlates to the number of actual hours works)