On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would testify about the Obamacare rollout before Congress. “To be clear, the House hearing is this week,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John
Democrats have been crowing all year that they can’t wait to run on ObamaCare in 2014. In fact, they believed the law was deliberately structured to use as an issue in the 2014 election. That’s what House Assistant Minority Leader
Many conservatives on Capitol Hill find themselves left out in the cold by the current leadership when it comes to receiving campaign donations from leadership PACs. CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an investigative report on Sunday by Steve Kroft who interviewed
As each day passes and the public finds just how much of a failure the Obamacare website has become, left-wing cabler MSNBC has found the culprit: The Republicans “flubbed” the launch. Yes, the website the GOP did not support for
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) strategy for defunding Obamacare that led to the government shutdown, saying it was a “tactical” error and “not a smart play.” McConnell made his comments to Politico. He
An unnamed Obama administration official claimed that the White House feared GOP subpoenas would slow their work on the Obamacare website, leading to keeping its design in-house with “trusted campaign tech experts” that seemed to have spectacularly failed at creating
From Dylan Byers: Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned. Editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, editor-at-large
Our objective-unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media are now in two modes: Openly celebrating Obama’s shutdown victory over the GOP and planting seeds of recrimination that they hope will bear fruit through the 2014 elections. Context is important… There is no question that,
Capitol Hill talk regarding the Senate deal apparently includes a provision that would take away the Congress’ power to increase the debt ceiling. According to Politico, it looks like the buzz appears to be true.: The plan includes a proposal offered
Likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is currently racking up money and awards on a speaking tour that is so secretive, it has the media grousing. Not only have the media been barred from the speeches, but “Convention officials banned
The White House attempt to turn Organizing for America into a major political force like the right-leaning Tea Party has suffered a second humiliation in just a few months. In August, not a single person showed up for a Climate
On October 30, a former Secretary of State from New York is heading out to Los Angeles to help a Virginia gubernatorial candidate. Hillary Clinton will be doing a fundraiser in Hollywood for her longtime pal at the Democratic National
This week Organizing for Action announced it would hold a rally today near the Capitol. Moments ago Reid Epstein of Politico tweeted this photo of the turnout: OFA rally on the Capitol steps pic.twitter.com/INqPs9Jknu — Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) October
With the government shutdown now entering into its third week, the frustration and rage among the media elite is manifesting itself in ways above and beyond the usual-usual hostile coverage. Just two years after launching the New Tone-era, media elites
On Monday, Politico’s chief political columnist Roger Simon wrote a column in which he suggested that Tea Partiers were racists, and that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) deserved to die. He wrote: Question:
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had three-and-a-half years to build the Obamacare exchanges. Now, GOP House members in charge of oversight want answers as to how the online system that cost taxpayers over half-a-billion dollars has failed
It has become convenient, as of late, for media talking heads and pundits to dismiss legitimate criticism of Obamacare, and other Obama-preferred policies, as simply an extension of racism. Opposition to these programs, it is claimed, must be the result
On Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronted President Barack Obama at the White House when Obama met with Republican senators to discuss the budget. Cruz reportedly insisted that Americans deserve “substantial relief” from the president’s signature law. Cruz said it
In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama rejected any short-term increase in the debt ceiling. The move was a preemptive rejection of a potential House proposal to allow a short-term increase in the debt along with reopening government, which
In a sting to third party Libertarian nominee Robert Sarvis, former Republican Texas Congressman and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul endorsed Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli on Friday night. According to Politico: The former Texas congressman, who retains
Even as the rollout of Obamacare continues to fail, President Barack Obama has rejected the Republicans’ demand for a one-year delay in the individual mandate to buy health insurance, though he earlier granted a delay to small businesses. In fact,
In the puffiest of puffy puff pieces, Politico published a profile of controversial actor Alec Baldwin without making a single mention of the fact that he is controversial. If you weren’t aware of, among other things, Baldwin’s very recent homophobic
News leaked via Politico’s Dylan Byers that five D.C.-based conservative journalists met President Barack Obama on Tuesday in an off-the-record session. No, I’m not upset that we weren’t invited–the Groucho Marx rule is relevant here, more so the fact that
The media and most pundits frame the current budget and debt showdown as a fight between President Obama and Speaker John Boehner. The question on their minds is, which one of the leaders will blink first. A closer look at
Speaking Monday morning in Washington, Obama’s top economic advisors shot down the idea that President Obama could unilaterally raise the debt ceiling if Congress fails to act. “Only Congress has the authority to borrow,” Jason Furman, Chair of Obama’s Council
