The media are doing a good job covering the ObamaCare launch problems. But like their coverage of President Obama’s disastrous performance in his first presidential debate with Mitt Romney, there is a partisan motive at work here. The media want
Another damning report from the NY Times makes it clear that the health exchange which opened October 1st is weeks (possibly months) away from being fully repaired: Administration officials approached the contractors last week to see if they could perform
On Monday morning, President Barack Obama stepped into the role of pitchman as he tried to convince a skeptical public that the Affordable Care Act is a success and that Americans should keep trying to access the program despite the
Just prior to the president’s ObamaCare pep rally in the White House Rose Garden, Monday morning, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement regarding Obamacare’s failure to live up to Obama’s many promises: Today President Obama will draw
The Wall Street Journal‘s lead editorial Monday presents a good summary of what is wrong with the government’s case against J.P. Morgan: it seeks to punish a company for helping the government; it targets one of the only financial firms
President Barack Obama will address the glaring problems of the so-called “glitches” in the Obamacare websites. (Given the scale and complexity of the legislation itself, it would be more accurate to say that the problems are features, not bugs.) I
The media, specifically MSNBC, believe the White House is openly lying to them about not having the numbers on those who have enrolled for ObamaCare. Monday on Morning Joe, the AP’s Julie Pace said that on a daily basis she
“Frustrated by trying to register on HealthCare.gov?” asks Consumer Reports. “You’re hardly alone. Of the 9.47 million people who tried to register in the first week, only 271,00 were able to create an account, according to one analysis. That’s about 1 in
ABC’s White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl: “There is also the question a lot of Democrats want to hit the Republicans while they’re down, They see a chance for another wave election in 2014. That’s not really something that, you know,
The Associated Press’s White House Correspondent Julie Pace says President Obama will address the widespread problems with the Affordable Care Act’s healthcare exchange website on Monday.
Judging from the speech Obama gave following the deal to end the government shutdown, Republicans better get wise to the president’s next fiscal gambit when the three-month stop-gap budget and debt measures come due. As was the case with his
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia – Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made what could be considered her first big 2016 presidential campaign move on Saturday, endorsing former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe’s Virginia gubernatorial bid. “I’ve been in a
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — While giving a speech endorsing Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s Virginia gubernatorial bid at a small concert and theater venue just outside Washington, D.C., former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took several veiled shots at President Barack Obama
After weeks of being vilified by the national media and White House as a terrorist, racist, and radical hostage-taker out to destroy the economy, Ted Cruz (R-TX) is receiving the kind of death threats that are all-too expected after this
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) — The cost of the Affordable Care Act website has tripled in two years to $292 million, NBC News reported Friday. The website — Healthcare.gov — has crashed repeatedly since it went online Oct. 1, with
(AP) Obama nurtures his faith away from the spotlightBy JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relationship to his
Catherine Ashton, the EU’s head of foreign policy, has released a statement asserting that Iran is engaging in the “most detailed talks ever” with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (America, Russia, China, France, and Britain) plus
On Wednesday, as Congress was agreeing on a short-term resolution to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling temporarily, President Barack Obama said he believed comprehensive immigration reform can get “done” this year. “We still need to pass a
On Friday, the White House quietly announced the re-opening of White House tours, despite the fact that sequestration, which supposedly forced the closing of those tours in the first place, has not ended. The tours will still be held only three days
The bottom line with ObamaCare has nothing to do with its launch problems or even the problems the GOP are having in uniting around a tactic to kill it. The bottom line is enrollees. If enough people sign up for
(AP) Season of uncertainty for storesBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIOAP Retail WriterNEW YORKWill Washington be the Grinch who stole Christmas? After weeks of bickering between Congress and the White House, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a plan that ended
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
The mainstream media deserves credit for its coverage of the ObamaCare launch debacle. Even throughout the 16-day government shutdown, media coverage of the faulty ObamaCare website was brutally accurate. An area of media coverage, though, that has been as awful
It is remarkable that President Barack Obama should prove so inept in international negotiation after winning a tough negotiation fight with his domestic rivals. Yet domestic opposition has always focused his attention more than foreign enemies; indeed, there is enthusiasm
The White House and its press corps have come to a consensus that the recent shutdown/debt limit debate was a “manufactured crisis”–the implication being that it was manufactured by Republicans. That is untrue–first because President Barack Obama and the Democrats
