Intrepid Washington Post health reporter Sarah Kliff noticed it when the Health & Human Services Deptartment [HHS] in charge of implementing the Affordable Care Act put out a new graphic today: With the Web site still experiencing problems, the White
One need only compare the sense of dispatch at Federal Express with time endured to send a package via the U.S. Postal Service to recognize the federal government doesn’t do things quite as well as the private sector. It doesn’t
FOX NEWS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, and said that would be “a serious breach of trust” if confirmed, her government announced. The
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who amazingly is the number 2 Democrat in the Senate, took to his Facebook account over the weekend to make the outrageous claim that a House GOP Leader told President Obama that he “cannot stand to
(AP) White House: US not monitoring Merkel’s callsWASHINGTONThe White House says President Barack Obama has assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN’-geh-lah MEHR’-kuhl) that the U.S. isn’t listening in on her phone calls. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Obama and
(AP) Merkel calls Obama to complain about surveillanceBy GEIR MOULSON and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURGAssociated PressBERLINGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, saying that would be “a
A new video featuring John Cusack, Maggie Gyllenhaal and director Oliver Stone warns against massive overreach by the NSA’s domestic spying program. The clip features repeated images of President Richard M. Nixon, for many the face of government corruption. The
Morgan Freeman must spend so much time on movie sets he hasn’t heard anyone question his industry’s adoration of President Barack Obama. To Freeman, a grassroots movement like the Tea Party dedicated to smaller government is racist because the current White
We’ve now reached the cover up stage of the Obamacare roll out. In a CNN interview with Sanjay Gupta, Sebelius claims the President didn’t know about the problems prior to the launch. GUPTA: The president did say that he was
In response to All the President’s yes-men: It’s the “Limbaugh Theorem” in practice. Obama has positioned himself as a Washington “outsider” perpetually fighting mysterious and powerful forces that are opposing him and stopping him from creating jobs for the middle
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein now admits that weeks before the disastrous ObamaCare launch, he heard “some very ugly things about how the system was performing[.]” We also now know that a few hundred people were involved in a test
The former White House national security adviser who was recently fired for insulting administration officials from an anonymous Twitter account blasted former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her family as “white trash” and “useless garbage” that he hoped someone would
In response to HHS Sec: Obama Had No Idea of Healthcare.gov Malfunction Until After Launch: The White House (and media) are now embracing the website’s failures because it distracts from the fact that the program is also a failure. In a
In response to HHS Sec: Obama Had No Idea of Healthcare.gov Malfunction Until After Launch: I recall a few ObamaCare critics floating this theory last week – maybe Obama honestly didn’t know what was going on with his “signature achievement”
This morning’s New York Times features an article on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the administration official shouldering most of the blame for the disastrous rollout of Obamacare. It appears Ms. Sebelius gave permission to friends and allies
Ironically, an administration that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a botched healthcare website is suddenly claiming to have been careful and “precise” when it comes to drone strikes overseas said to have killed dozens of civilians. The real
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a frontrunner to be the Democrats’ 2016 presidential candidate, hosted a fundraiser for New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio on Monday night. But it was no ordinary fundraiser, Breitbart News has
In response to Days Before Launch, Obamacare Site Crashed with ‘Few Hundred People’ Using It: The ObamaCare site crashed with only a few hundred people using it? That’s odd because we were told that the overwhelming public demand for ObamaCare
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
The Labor Department reported the economy created 148,000 jobs in September after adding 193,000 the prior month–forecasters had expected a much better showing. Unemployment fell to 7.2 percent, largely because 91,000 more adults chose not to participate in the labor
Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd in the White House press briefing…
CNN host Jake Tapper grilled White House Deputy Senior Adviser for Communications and Strategy David Simas Monday about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
On Monday, White House press secretary Jay Carney implied that the Obama administration could delay the implementation of the individual mandate thanks to the massive technological glitches attendant on the launch of the Obamacare exchanges. Carney explained that anybody “without
