Senate Republicans are promoting legislation that would temporarily suspend the sequester for a week and give President Obama the authority to direct where specific spending cuts should be made. Rather than each Agency or program bearing an equal share of
In response to JournoList’s curious blind spot for White House thuggery: Beyond the strict facts of the case, which you lay out, I’m struck by how very primitive the Acolytes reveal themselves to be. My coblogger @laurww remarked: This
Over the past weeks, President Obama has been running around the country like Chicken Little spreading falsehoods about sequester, all in the hopes of blaming a 2% budget cut (which he proposed and signed into law) for an anemic economy
In response to Ron Fourier: Yeah, I Got the Abusive Treatment From the WH and the Same “You Will Regret This” Threat: This sort of story has been bubbling around the Beltway for years. I gather every White House can
Some genius said this last night: I think there is a push to kill this story before other reporters realize they have a story if they report their own experiences. — DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 28, 2013 Now National Journal reporter
UPDATE: Democrat Lanny Davis agrees that Sperling’s email threatend Woodward: Did Gene Sperling effectively handle his interactions with Bob Woodward? Hardly, says friend and former colleague Lanny Davis. “He should know better,” Davis told POLITICO. “Did Bob Woodward get a single fact
NOTE: This post will be continually updated… Also, I’m not including open partisans in this list, like Josh Marshal of Talking Points Memo. Those listed below pose as “objective” journalists. The media stands by its own, at least until one
Lanny Davis, who served under President Bill Clinton as special counsel to the White House, told Washington, D.C.’s WMAL this morning that the Obama White House had threatened the Washington Times over his column, warning that the Times would suffer limited access
(Reuters) – The Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday postponed until next week a vote on the confirmation of White House aide John Brennan to be CIA director, dashing hopes of Democratic leaders who had hoped to have a vote on
As hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from detention centers into a “supervised monitoring program” this week, the White House on Wednesday denied it had anything to do with the budget-cutting move. White House spokesman Jay Carney and a Department
(AP) Obama nears deadline on gay marriage decisionBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONThe next phase of President Barack Obama’s evolution on gay marriage may come with the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case
(AP) Congress set to OK bill renewing anti-violence lawBy JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONCalling a truce in the partisan battles, Congress appears ready to send to President Barack Obama a bill that renews and expands the nation’s primary law on protecting women
Wednesday night on CNN, legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward stated that a “very senior person” in the Obama administration had told him in an email that Woodward would “regret” it if he continued to press the point that President
Wednesday night, in the aftermath of the blow-up regarding the White House’s email to Bob Woodward suggesting he would “regret” his reporting of sequestration, White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe took to twitter to bash Woodward as a past-his-prime hack:
In response to Woodward: WH Aide ‘Yelled at Me’ for Half Hour: Bob Woodward said a “very senior person” at the White House had threatened him about his sequester reporting via email, which John Sexton reports happened after that person
On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke with Breitbart News exclusively regarding the upcoming sequestration, slated to hit this Friday. He spoke about the controversial new proposal from Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) to give
By MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONThe Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob Lew to be Treasury secretary, affirming President Barack Obama’s choice of a budget expert at a time when Congress and the White House are at odds over sharp government spending
In response to White House to Woodward: You’ll ‘Regret’ Challenging Us: Here’s the interview Bob Woodward gave to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, earlier today. He said “a very senior person” at the White House had warned him that he would
After reviewing new information released by the White House on Feb. 26–information intended to put some distance between CIA Director nominee John Brennan and the Benghazi attacks–many Republican Senators are now persuaded that Brennan may have had a role in crafting
Secretary Duncan’s statement about sequester on Sunday’s Face the Nation is about as accurate as Susan Rice’s explanation of the cause of the 9/11 attack on our Benghazi consulate. In both cases, their superiors at the White House, who sent
With the White House fully engaged in scaring the bejeezus out of Americans over sequestration, it comes as no surprise today to see the White House tweeting pictures of American soldiers, with this caption: “THIS IS ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN
The White House evidently took the temperature of the American public over Obama’s sequestration reign of terror, and decided that mass release of illegal aliens was a bit too much. Furious backpedaling has ensued, and a fall guy has evidently
The White House has made their most adamant denial yet of the charge made by the New York Times that Organizing for Action was planning to reward $500,000 donors with access to President Obama for quarterly meetings. Over the weekend
By ANGELA K. BROWNAssociated PressFORT WORTH, TexasVan Cliburn, the internationally celebrated pianist whose triumph at a 1958 Moscow competition helped thaw the Cold War and launched a spectacular career that made him the rare classical musician to enjoy rock-star status,
Over at White House Dossier this morning, Keith Koffler points out an inconvenient fact that completely undermines the Narrative Propaganda currently emanating from the White House and its media about the dire, world-ending, economy-crashing, dangerous sequester cuts. Uhm, yeah, except
