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Obama Presser: It's the Budget, Buster

The White House Office of the Press Secretary Transcript: President Obama Press Conference East Room 8: 03 p.m. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good evening. I have a brief statement, and then I’ll take a question . . . uh, excuse me.

Obama War Room: Health Snare

OBAMA: Serendipity. Egypt couldn’t have blown up at a better time. Judge Vinson’s ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act got just a paragraph on A18. ROBERT GIBBS: Damn the Times! It was supposed to be two sentences

Ferlinghetti Isn't the Only One Waiting

I am waiting for Ezra Klein to eat a copy of the Constitution and tell us if it’s binding and I am waiting for 60 Minutes to wind down and I am waiting for a presidential debate moderator to crack

Obama War Room: Grapes of Roth

JOE BIDEN: Man, the wingnuts smoked us in midterms. OBAMA: Yeah, they kicked our butts all right. Hey, I’m craving a cigarette. Anybody got one? BIDEN: A cryin’ shame, Boss. Like you said last week, Boehner’ll drive the budget bus

Obama War Room: Grapes of Roth

JOE BIDEN: Man, the wingnuts smoked us in midterms. OBAMA: Yeah, they kicked our butts all right. Hey, I’m craving a cigarette. Anybody got one? BIDEN: A cryin’ shame, Boss. Like you said last week, Boehner’ll drive the budget bus

New WikiLeaks Document Dump Targets Liberal Media – Part 1

**Link Fixed** Washington Times – Off-the-record exchanges and thousands of confidential e-mails dating back almost four years reveal that high-profile journalists have been aiding and advising President Obama since he announced his candidacy in early 2007. Provided by WikiLeaks to

EBS, Or, The Executive Broadcast System

Live, from the Situation Room, the Executive Broadcasting System Presents The EBS Evening News with Robert Gibbs GIBBS: Good evening. On our broadcast tonight: When the bow breaks–Saudi King Abdullah issues obeisance dispensation to President Obama for upcoming audience. Tell

In an Alternate Universe: Anchors Away

KATIE COURIC: We’ve never been used this way before. The White House called the other day and gave me a list of 2012 election night analysts acceptable to them. I don’t like it. BRIAN WILLIAMS: Remember when it was collaborative?

Bunker Mode: Pelosi Under Siege

[klaxon sounds] NANCY PELOSI: Red Alert! Damn! Get to your stations, people. Moving to DEFCON 1–imminent loss of the House. Steny–what’s happening? HOYER: [points to computer screen] Look here, Commander: concession rumors, rising in the blogosphere. We’re shooting them down

Charge: Whitman, Fiorina Torched California Forest for Sport

Sacramento (AP) – In the current edition of The Nation magazine, California Democratic Party chairman John Burton charges Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and senate hopeful Carly Fiorina behaved badly during the Tehachapi wildfire emergency last summer which destroyed forty

The Raving, By Robert Gibbs

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men Who persist to query me on matters that they know I must ignore. As I parry, neatly jinking, Tapper stares at me, unblinking; No doubt he

Inside the Obama War Room: Senior Moments

OBAMA: The party’s hemorrhaging elderly voters over ObamaCare despite Andy Griffith‘s help. And even the Times says the plan’s numbers don’t add up. What now? David? AXELROD: Two tracks, sir. Short term, lure seniors back. We need their votes in

From Our Spy Inside the DNC, This Just In

Democratic National Committee Minutes, Oval Office Meeting Sept 1, 2010 MEMBERS PRESENT Tim Kaine, Chairman Howard Dean, Chairman Emeritus Idiotis Rep. Dennis Kucinich, DNC mascot Nancy Pelosi, Speaker pro tempore Harry Reid, Majority Leader Senator Charles Schumer Katie Couric, Network

A Mole At Foggy Bottom? The NewsHour Investigates

JIM LEHRER: Good evening. President Obama returned to the Gulf Coast for an hour this afternoon to comfort a pelican that lost its mate during the recent unimaginable ecological catastrophe selfishly caused by private enterprise. He also quaffed a quart

Inside the Obama War Room: Pres Tidigitator

DAVID AXELROD: The labor picture threatens our control of Congress, sir. That means key initiatives like gutting Defense, forcing the richest 50% to pay their fair share, and passing an immigration bill with an amnesia rider are on the block

Inside the Obama War Room: Doin' the Casa Blanca Shuffle

ROBERT GIBBS: The MSM are still holding the line, Mr. President, but the whole MSNBC crew has revolted. DAVID AXELROD: Schultz, Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews–tonight they begin their on-air nude marathon hunger strike, sir. They’ll nibble on Brie and drink nothing