Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times, “The Republicans’ Scandal Machine,” attempts to dismiss two out of the three major scandals that have hit the Obama administration over the past week. Never has the so-called “paper of record” even been
While Friday’s Congressional hearings on the IRS were blowing that scandal up, the great Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News was putting another log on the Benghazi fire. In her Friday report, Attkisson was able to get a number of Obama
(AP) – The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency’s tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to handle
Friday’s IRS Congressional hearings have made three things abundantly clear. First, Democrats and the IRS believe they can convince the American people that the singling out of conservative groups for audits, leaks, and Kafka-esque like “questionnaires” was just a wild
On May 14 after news broke that President Obama had once again attacked talk radio host Rush Limbaugh by name, El Rusbo joked that he was “living rent-free in Obama’s head.” It’s hard to fault Limbaugh’s logic on this. After
Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steven Miller, who only took over in November and resigned this week at President Barack Obama’s behest, will testify before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday on his role in targeting Tea
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in a letter to Senator McCain that they did release 622 criminal immigrants, including 32 with multiple felony convictions, earlier this year. White House Press Secretary denied the media reports at the time, “the
Piers Morgan told Jay Carney on Thursday night that there wasn’t an “air of authority or leadership” around the administration concerning their response to the recent scandals. “It doesn’t lend a great air of authority or leadership to any of
WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: So when the president says he only heard about the IRS scandal when he heard about it from the news media, the White House council never told him about the I.G.’s report? DAN PFEIFFER, SENIOR ADVISOR
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the Obama administration’s denial of asylum granted to the Romeike family, who fled Germany over its strict anti-homeschooling laws. In a press release Tuesday, Michael Farris, founder and chairman of the Home
Heritage Action president Michael Needham wrote to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Thursday, urging them not to divert attention from President Barack Obama’s multiple scandals by trying to rush big government legislation through the House.
DAVID LETTERMAN: Have you folks been paying attention to what’s going on in Washington? Neither have I. It’s crazy. In a matter of, like, six weeks, three big scandals, and it looks like President Obama and all his buddies in
(AP) – A second top Internal Revenue Service official has announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over the targeting of tea party groups. An internal IRS memo says Joseph Grant, commissioner of the agency’s tax exempt and
Comedian Jay Pharoah won’t go down as one of Saturday Night Live’s best presidential mimics. How could he? The talented comic never lays a satirical glove on the president thanks to a writing team which refuses to take tough but
On Thursday’s “Morning Rundown” on MSNBC, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted President Obama’s “culture of intimidation” as a motivating factor behind the scandal involving the IRS hassling grassroots conservative groups seeking non-profit status. Rubio specifically cited the National Labor Relations
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) unloaded on Attorney General Eric Holder, offering up the possibility that the nation’s top law enforcement official may turn on President Barack Obama and shed light on one or
President Obama used his opening statement in a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Turkey on Thursday to address concerns of embassy security. The President called on Congress to fund the latest request by the White House to
On Thursday, President Barack Obama held a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and answered one reporter’s questions about the widening scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of nearly 500 conservative groups over the
Ari Fleischer knows what it’s like to take the podium in the White House briefing room, especially with a hostile press corps. As the spokesman for the White House during the George W. Bush Administration, he had to deal with
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew asked for and accepted the resignation of the acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steven T. Miller. However, Miller’s term as acting IRS Commissioner was up in a couple of
The denizens of the oddly-shaped table discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” delved into the broader political ramifications of the IRS scandal Thursday morning, and panelist Donny Deutsch took issue with the assumption that the issue would be a net positive
Wednesday night, the White House dumped 94 emails that only in part help to explain how top administration officials in the White House, FBI, and State helped to shape the CIA talking points that would serve to set up a
Leave it to NBC News cable outlet MSNBC to somehow inject race into the discussion of the IRS scandal gripping Washington. As they awaited President Obama’s remarks on the brewing debacle at Treasury, Chris Matthews and his colleague, Al Sharpton, discussed
