On October 3, President Obama’s Acting Director of Digital Strategy, Nathaniel Lubin, posted the following question on the White House blog: “How has the government shutdown affected you?” Below this, the White House blog fleshes the question out: Congress has
During the October 3 airing of The Wilkow Majority, Breitbart News’ AWR Hawkins joined Andrew Wilkow to discuss the way America’s World War II veterans continue to prove the greatness of their generation. Wilkow opened by talking about the barricades placed
The House on Friday passed two more narrow appropriations bills to fund parts of the government during the government shutdown. The Senate, which Democrats lead, has rejected five previous bills that were similar. According to The Hill, the House “passed
While our president still enjoys his essential employees and locations: the White House chefs, Camp David, and a military golf course, there doesn’t seem to be any question that in mercenary pursuit of a political win, this White House is
(AP) Prospect for quick end to shutdown is remoteBy DAVID ESPOAP Special CorrespondentWASHINGTONProspects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a
(AP) Government doors closed, but workers may get paidBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONTheir government has failed to keep the doors open and has told federal workers to stay off the job as the political parties fight over spending and health care
Reasonable and thoughtful people can argue and disagree about the pros and cons of the current federal government shut down. This is not the first, nor will this will not be the first or last shutdown we will see in
On Friday, House Republicans held a meeting to discuss their strategy on the government shutdown. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) reported exclusively to Breitbart News, “This was one of the best conferences we’ve had.” She said that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
In a stunning admission to the Wall Street Journal, a senior administration official admitted that while veterans wait for services and children wait for cancer treatments, the White House doesn’t care how long the shutdown lasts because, “We are winning.”
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The name Huma Abedin might be best known to you as the wife of disgraced former Congressman and former New York Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. But it is her relationship with Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department that is
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) became a national liberal heart throb thanks to her much publicized filibuster of an abortion bill. But you wouldn’t know it given her recent announcement for Texas Governor, one perhaps more interesting for what
Fear not the shutdown, Republicans in Congress! You are the supposedly conservative alternative in politics, and we are currently $16 trillion in the hole. The least you can do is stop spending so much money everyday to keep the vile
Emails authored by Mike Sommers, House Speaker John Boehner’s Chief of Staff, indicate possible coordination between House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) in the exemption of Congress from Obamacare. The leak occurred Tuesday when Reid’s Chief of
In the days before and since the government shutdown, the media have suspended their usual practice of making politicians pay a price for using rhetoric laced with violent images. The reason for this suspension, obviously, is because it is Democrats
Alhurra Television caught the beginning of a high-speed chase on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon that reportedly had deadly consequences. One officer is injured after a reported female driver allegedly tried to charge the White House barricades and then sped to
According to CNN, the photo below (this is a screen grab from their broadcast) is the child who was in the car with the woman suspected of crashing through the barricades at Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. Reports are
(AP) Capitol Hill incident began at White HouseBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONA law enforcement official says a shooting at the United States Capitol is related to a vehicle that tried to ram a security barricade at the White House.
WASHINGTON — A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where police shot and killed her, witnesses and officials
The partial shutdown of the federal government is on its third day, but the political fight is effectively over. The GOP has fought to a draw–and, as predicted, the shutdown is now part of a bigger, and more consequential, debt
Greg Sargent of the Washington Post reports that President Obama and unnamed White House advisers are worried that the GOP does not understand how serious the President is about not giving anything to the GOP for a debt limit increase.
The media and the left are agitated that Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell were caught on a “hot mic” discussing the utter lack of a White House strategy to navigate the government shutdown fight. Paul notes, in his conversation
In response to Service Academy Football Games Cancelled For The ‘Optics’: The “optics” of this little donnybrook have been astonishing. The Democrats will stoop to any depth to make people hurt, and they’re not doing a very good job of
Three funding measures failed to pass because of Democrat opposition in the House on Tuesday night that would have maintained veterans’ benefits, kept national monuments and other historic sites opened, and continued local funding for the District of Columbia. As
“One man gathers what another man spills.” The Grateful Dead The government shutdown is generating a lot of comment in the press about how the Republicans are somehow responsible for this latest fiscal crisis. Nicholas Kristof of The New York
