As part of the fiscal cliff deal reached by Congressional leaders and Vice President Joe Biden last night, the so-called CLASS Act – an integral component of Obamacare – will be repealed. CLASS Act – the Community Living Assistance Services
Yesterday, he only threw for 100 yards against the Dallas Cowboys, but it was enough to lift the Washington Redskins to an unlikely NFC East division title and a spot in the NFL playoffs. Today, all Robert Griffin III would
In the final hours before the “fiscal cliff” becomes a reality, President Barack Obama has left talks to… Vice President Joe Biden, who is reported to be negotiating directly with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The Hill reported yesterday: “McConnell
One week after NBC’s “Meet the Press” host David Gregory apparently flouted DC gun laws by waving a high capacity gun magazine on television, President Barack Obama joined Gregory for an interview. Obama made it clear he planned on “putting
The 31st annual “Christmas in Washington” concert on TNT December 21 suffered a dramatic 25 percent loss in viewers from the previous year, according to Nielsen Media Research. The 2011 cablecast of “Christmas in Washington” drew 1.5 million viewers. The
It was a mixed message from the Old Media establishment at the President’s December 19 news conference about the newest “crisis” he is pushing. As Obama appeared before America to talk about the gun “crisis” and his decision to hand
The Washington Examiner : Vice President Joe Biden is expected to lead the White House task force to examine more gun control legislation, but back in 2008 he did everything he could to convince voters that his running mate supported
Today, President Obama took to the podium to declare his unsurprising support for new, poorly-calibrated gun laws. His logic was simple: a horrific massacre occurred in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary, and we must try something. Anything. Well, not
The President announced today that he was appointing a task force to look at solutions to stop gun violence in the United States. “We need to work on making access to mental health care at least as easy as access
Had President-elect Mitt Romney posed for pictures with someone who once wished violent death upon the family members of U.S. soldiers the story would be swirling through the mainstream media for days. Maybe longer. Vice President Joe Biden did just
Speaker John Boehner said today that tax rates might be on the table in the fiscal cliff negotiations. “There are a lot of things that are possible to come from revenue, if the president seizes the opportunity,” said Boehner, asked
For the first time, the Obama administration is showing some flexibility by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to explain to the media that raising rates on top earners to Clinton rates would not be an unbreakable precondition for negotiations over
Merriam-Webster has announced its most looked-up words for 2012, reporting that “capitalism” and “socialism” tied for the top query. We can likely thank Barack Obama for this pairing of most looked-up words as people flocked to the Merriam-Webster site to
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called both the current secessionist movement and elements of the Tea Party racist during an interview late last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The award-winning filmmaker doubled down on those accusations during an interview with
(AP) Governors ask for flexibility in fiscal cliff dealWASHINGTONA bipartisan group of governors says they sought assurances from President Barack Obama that any cuts in spending to address the looming “fiscal cliff” would not shift the financial burden onto states.
Vice President Joe Biden visited Washington’s first Costco store, where he bought several items in a pre-Christmas shopping spree on Thursday. He said he was at the store to demonstrate the need to extend tax cuts for the middle class.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at the grand opening of the Washington, D.C. Costco for a photo op with the warehouse-club’s co-founder Jim Sinegal, who raised over $1.4 million for the Obama campaign. In July,
Even as the media complains that Republican House officials have installed males at the top of their committees, it ignores the fact that President Obama’s senior advisors are almost entirely white males. The only top advisor who is a female
A new chart has debuted showing the stark bias that purported “fact checker” PolitiFact commits against Republicans and conservatives. The chart demonstrates how people on the right side of the aisle have been scolded by PolitiFact far more often and
Durning a cameo on PBS’s geography based children’s program Carmen Sandiego, then Senator Biden went out of his way to call up Special Agent Greg and inform him that everyone in Congress thinks he is a mediocre detective.
Hillary Clinton is three times as popular as her most prominent challenger Joe Biden for 2016, should she choose to run. For that reason, her spokesman says she is prepared to step down from her post as Sec. of State
Amy Poehler’s character on the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” has an unusual attachment to Vice President Joe Biden. And she’s not even a gag writer for a late night talk show. The Vice President will appear on the NBC
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you. It moves
Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday struggled to draw 1,000 people at two campaign events in Colorado, one of the most important swing states this election. Republicans in Colorado have said they have not seen this much enthusiasm for the
Vice President Joe Biden on Friday told Obama campaign volunteers they had the best ground game operation in the history of presidential politics, even though Democrats are trailing Republicans by 2.6 points in early voting, which is nearly a five-point
