Julianna Smoot is a heavy-hitter in Obama’s political world. Chief fundraiser for Obama’s 2008 campaign, Smoot served a stint as social secretary at the White House during Obama’s first term. In 2012, she was deputy campaign manager for Obama’s successful
Eric Draper was President George W. Bush’s chief photographer and followed him nearly everywhere. CBS News’ Bill Plante talks to Draper about his new book, “Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of George W. Bush.”
Now that the weather is warming, there’s golf in the air! And for the second weekend in a row, Barack Obama took time out from his rigorous, backbreaking schedule to go golfing at Joint Base Andrews. Last weekend, the foursome
Seven hundred retired Military Special Operations professionals from the organization “Special Operations Speaks” sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging members to support H.Res 36, which will create a House Select Committee to investigate last September’s deadly terrorist
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Tennessee Williams) went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday to say he was “encouraged” by recent trial balloons from the White House over President Obama’s budget blueprint. The President’s budget plan is more than two months past
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre is locked in a no-holds-barred fight with President Barack Obama over the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Today Fox News Sunday featured top surrogates for both, former Rep. Asa Hutchinson for
Projecting madly, the White House on Sunday pushed the notion that Republican intransigence is the reason that Democrats have been unable to pass a budget during President Obama’s tenure. “Right now,” said senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer on Fox
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Face the Nation today that he hoped that the Senate would come to an agreement on immigration reform this week. “All of us have said that there will be no agreement until the eight
ABC “This Week” : Reacting to an early rejection of the expected details of the White House’s budget proposal by Speaker John Boehner, President Obama’s senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer pushed back this morning on “This Week,” saying that the president
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer on FOX News Sunday:
On Friday night in Philadelphia, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin keynoted an event designed to honor Terri Schiavo and defend life, delivering a heartfelt speech at the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network’s Award Gala in front of a packed ballroom of
On the campaign trail, President Obama likes to talk about his desire to “bring people together” to solve the nation’s challenges. While his chosen agenda makes that nearly impossible, a budget proposal he teased Friday does seemed to have united
(AP) Obama: Proposed budget not his ‘ideal plan’By JIM KUHNHENNAssociated PressWASHINGTONConfronting bipartisan criticism, President Barack Obama conceded Saturday his proposed budget is not his “ideal plan” but said it offers “tough reforms” to the nation’s benefit programs while closing loopholes
From the White House: President Obama tells the American people about the budget he is sending to Congress, which makes the tough choices required to grow our economy and shrink our deficits.
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) —Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said Saturday if Washington wants to see how to balance the budget while growing the economy, it should look to the states. Delivering the Republican weekly media address, Brownback touted his state’s
Writer/director Andrew Dominik doesn’t mince words, or politics, in his new thriller Killing Them Softly. The Brad Pitt vehicle, now out on Blu-ray and DVD, casts the actor as a world-weary hit man assigned to kill a pair of low-level
The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus
On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney explained that President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will be incredibly detailed. So detailed, in fact, that he said it would “blow your mind.” Undoubtedly, he is correct, considering his
The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama
On Friday, in just the latest indication that the White House remains frustrated at the Constitutional system of checks and balances, press secretary Jay Carney explained that President Obama would produce his budget next week – but that if he
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released the following statement regarding today’s weak jobs report: Today’s jobs report is another reminder that more than four years after financial crisis, the economy is gasping for breath. Americans may be asking why, and
The White House does not think it is hypocritical for President Barack Obama to claim that he wants to work with Republicans on bipartisan solutions while fundraising on San Francisco’s “Billionaires’ Row” to help Democrats take back the House in
The halcyon days of the Obama’s storybook marriage are over. First lady Michelle Obama, in an interview with Burlington, Vt. CBS affiliate WCAX, attempted to show single mothers how much she empathized with them because she knew their pain, but
On April 3 White House press secretary Jay Carney said news that the North Korean army had final approval for nuclear launches against the U.S. was part of “a familiar pattern.” Meanwhile, however, the Pentagon moved up the timetable for
President Barack Obama attended two fundraisers on Wednesday on San Francisco’s “Billionaires’ Row” and said it would be a “whole lot easier” to govern if House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) became House Speaker after 2014. Obama even said he
