Michael Patrick Leahy

FEMA’s vaunted “lean forward” strategy that called for advanced staging of supplies for emergency distribution failed to live up to its billing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  In fact, the agency appears to have been completely unprepared to

The Federal Emergency Management Administration uses a curious phrase in its website’s description of the agency’s role in responding to Hurricane Sandy: The entire federal family continues to lean forward to support the states, tribes and communities in their ongoing response efforts

Two days after President Obama flew into storm-ravaged New Jersey on Wednesday for a 90 minute photo op with Governor Christie, parts of the state have descended into what one local resident calls “an apocalyptic vision.” On Friday, in an

Fresh off his “climate disruption”-driven endorsement of President Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has chosen to divert critical food supplies and power generators from desperate residents of Staten Island to Sunday’s New York City Marathon. Gothamist reports:  [T]hose

The Obama administration missed a statutory deadline to file a key report on its second-term agenda to Congress this Thursday.  For the second time this year, the White House failed to follow federal law requiring a report outlining the economic impact of its

A huge crowd greeted Mitt Romney at a Thursday morning campaign event inside a window manufacturing plant in Roanoke, Virginia. The local Roanoke Times reported the story: A fired-up Mitt Romney rallied a crowd of just under 3,000 in Roanoke County

Obama campaign chief political consultant David Axelrod told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday that if his boss loses either Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Minnesota, he’ll shave off his mustache: David Axelrod: I will come on Morning Joe and I will shave

In key swing states, the vaunted Obama ground game is being out-worked and out-organized by a loosely knit coalition of volunteer grassroots activists (both local and out-of-state), traditional conservative organizations like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, and the local and

On Monday, the White House eagerly distributed a picture taken that day of President Obama in the situation room with his top aides discussing responses to Hurricane Sandy. The Obama administration has yet to distribute the picture of the President

In an interview conducted over the weekend with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough that aired on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, President Obama announced that a key element of his second term agenda will be to establish a new cabinet

Drivers headed eastbound on I-40 can’t miss this compelling billboard at the 363 mile mark just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. Paid for by the Roane County Tea Party, the simple and clear message — America or Obama: You Can’t Have

On Monday morning, a defensive and obviously irritated President Obama took on the demeanor of the offended party when he was questioned about his handling of the Benghazi debacle on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:  Co-host Mika Brzezinski poses the Benghazi question to

A Boston Globe poll released Monday shows Scott Brown now leads Elizabeth Warren by two points, 45% to 43% in the hotly contested Massachusetts Senate race. This is a reversal from a Globe poll published earlier this month, which showed Warren in the

A Breitbart News analysis of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s recent October 15, 2012 filing with the Federal Election Commission shows that more than half of the $36.2 million Ms. Warren has raised for her campaign has come from

When Angus King finished his second term as Governor of Maine in January 2003, he left the state with a $1.2 billion deficit, according to the Maine Republican Party. But in television ads paid for by his independent campaign for

Politico reported on Thursday that President Obama recently displayed his idea of “the new civility” in an interview with historian Douglas Brinkley for Rolling Stone: FIRST LOOK – Rolling Stone cover, “Obama and the Road Ahead: The Rolling Stone Interview,”

On Wednesday, AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka boasted of his organization’s aggressive ground game in the key states of  Ohio, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Noticeably missing from Trumka’s list were the pivotal swing states of Virginia and Florida where recent polls show Mitt