The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Terry McAuliffe’s 2010 personal trade mission to Cuba to promote the sale of apples and wine produced in Virginia was the sort of unplanned disaster–heavy on personal bluster, low on preparation and planning–that is
On Wednesday at a House hearing on the malfunctioning Healthcare.gov website, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) invoked The Wizard of Oz when he told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that she was not in Kansas anymore. “There is a
While the House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ feet to the fire on Wednesday over the initial failure of the Obamacare rollout, Barack Obama will speak at a healthcare event in Boston
During an October 30 Senate hearing on “Stand Your Ground” laws, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said such “laws go too far in encouraging confrontations” and need to be revised. “Stand Your Ground” laws recognize the natural right of an armed
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Virginians on Monday that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is buying $1.1 million worth of TV commercials for Democrat Terry McAuliffe so that he can take away guns and Big Gulps from Virginians. Paul and
Sunday the White House released a new promotional “whiteboard” video for Obamacare. The video features the four different ways to sign up, but according to a report by Politico all of those methods are ultimately dependent on the malfunctioning website.
Curious consumers headed over to healthcare.gov on Sunday found themselves out of luck, as the fragile website was out of service. A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman said the website’s outage was the fault of a private contractor.
Bill Clinton, campaigning for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, ripped into the GOP for blasting the inept rollout of ObamaCare. Clinton claimed, “The computer deal will get fixed up. Don’t worry about that,” and then cited the cooperation of
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), a Republican member of the House who supports comprehensive immigration reform, said on Sunday’s Univision Al Punto show that House Speaker John Boehner promised him there would be immigration votes in the House of Representatives soon.
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum bashed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), saying that Cruz’s crusade against Obamacare had ben counterproductive. “I would say in the end, he did more harm. I
Politico reports that 300 K Street lobbyists met with the conservative Republican Study Committee, a group within the House GOP caucus last week–and were irritated that the conservatives did not express guilt for the recent government shutdown. Anna Palmer and
On Monday night, ABC News and Univison are launching a new cable network called Fusion. The target audience is young Latinos, and the first interview shown will be with Barack Obama. Just minutes after the network starts broadcasting, viewers will
A poll of “800 likely voters in [the Virginia] governor’s race” shows that 51 percent of respondents support the NRA. Reported by Politico, the poll is seen as good news for pro-gun candidate Ken Cuccinelli (R), and it comes on
House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is writing a bill that would grant legal status to America’s at least 11 million illegal immigrants, The New York Times reports. “Republican Representatives Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Mario Diaz-Balart
Friday, the left-wing Politico published a doozy of a piece that blamed our slowing economy on a lack of government largesse. According to Politico, what is hurting our economy is “the constant threat of devastating fiscal crisis, the blunt nature
Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) appeared surprised by how accommodating leadership PAC funds are to members and their personal spending habits after he saw CBS’s 60 Minutes report on Sunday covering the issue based upon Peter Schweizer’s new book Extortion. “I had
According to Sec. Sebelius, President Obama did not know about warnings within HHS that Healthcare.gov was not ready for launch. And yet in the two months prior to the go live date the White House, including the President himself, was
One of the topics of lively debate here at Breitbart News is just how formidable Hillary Clinton really is as a candidate–whether almost unstoppable, or just really strong with a few key weaknesses. On the “unstoppable” side, she has incredible
Politico accused Republicans of “heckling” witnesses at committee hearings at the House of Representatives in a lead story by David Nather on Thursday morning ahead of testimony about the failure of the Obamacare website. According to Nather, it fell to
In response to Obama Administration Will Allow HHS Officials To Brief GOP on ObamaCrash, Too: Earlier today, The Hill reported that following the Democrat meeting with the HHS official, “they downplayed the significance of the technical issues plaguing the site”,
In their non-stop push for more gun control, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have presented Congress with a letter referencing “16 more mass shootings” since the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2012.
Two stories from separate publications on the same day suggest a delay in the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate will bring relief to hurting Americans–a delay initiated by Barack Obama, not Congress. The two stories, one in New York Magazine
President George W. Bush’s presidency began to unravel in the autumn of 2005, after the Hurricane Katrina disaster seemed to affirm much of what critics had said about the administration’s cronyism and inattention to domestic affairs. Likewise, President Barack Obama’s
Immigration activist groups have declared they will launch a “week of escalation” this week to pressure lawmakers in Congress with acts of civil disobedience to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. According to Politico, pro-immigration reform groups will target House
As the final two weeks of the Virginia gubernatorial election draw near, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control super PAC is committed to spending $1.1 million on ads for Terry McAuliffe (D). It is hard to think of a clearer
