Obama’s latest offer isn’t good enough for the House GOP. Yesterday, President Obama offered a slightly lower tax hike, raising rates on those making more than $400,000, and modest spending cuts along with a 2-year lift in the debt ceiling
Conservatives and taxpayer watchdog groups have examined the Senate’s $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill and have discovered it funds things completely unrelated to Hurricane relief. The bill appropriates money to fund Amtrak, Head Start centers, fix museum roofs and
(Reuters) – Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could take action to improve background checks on gun buyers, ban certain gun imports and bolster oversight of dealers. Prospects for gun
(AP) Classes resuming in Newtown, minus Sandy HookBy DAVID KLEPPER and MICHAEL MELIAAssociated PressNEWTOWN, Conn.With security stepped up and families still on edge in Newtown, schools are opening for the first time since last week’s massacre, bringing a return of
Today, President Obama met with Speaker of the House John Boehner yet again … and yet again, favored White House media outlet Politico had the inside track. According to Politico, Obama made a new offer on tax rates, proposing that
NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd feels that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut should give rise to a new “middle ground with the National Rifle Association,” meaning that more gun control is somehow in the
Under-Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers, considered to be one of the Obama White House’s top choices for the CIA Director’s position, leaked restricted information to the makers of the Osama bin Laden feature “Zero Dark Thirty.” The news, revealed by
The subject of why Mitt Romney lost is so interesting that I will divide my analysis into two parts: first, on Romney the candidate, and second, on Romney the campaign CEO. Sorry, Mitt, whether you want to admit it or
Now we get Jamie Foxx fully unleashed, since he is making millions as a movie star, and his “Lord and Savior” has been safely reinstalled in the White House. Foxx is claiming that he is the victim of lifelong racism, which,
ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney on the President’s past rhetoric and his past actions. Tapper asked if the White House could provide “one act” that the President has done to support his multiple statements that
In a refreshing show of journalism, ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed the White House on their commitment to improving mental health care in the wake of the tragic shooting in a Connecticut elementary school that left 18 kindergardeners dead. While most
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney could not confirm that the President was actively overseeing the FBI’s investigation into the security failures of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Carney also could not give any timeline that
House Speaker John Boehner reportedly had another secret meeting with President Barack Obama on fiscal cliff negotiations on Monday. This is the latest in a series of behind-closed-doors talks between the two. On Friday and over the weekend, Boehner caved
I am now embarrassed for the House Republicans. This weekend, we learned first that Speaker Boehner had ceded a foundational principle of the Republican Party and offered up higher tax rates as part of a deal to avoid the “fiscal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Making a sadly familiar journey, President Barack Obama will attend an evening vigil in Newtown, Conn., to mourn with a town still seeking to comprehend the unimaginable massacre of its children and teachers. His visit Sunday to
Andrew McLaughlin, a former member of President Obama’s senior White House staff, who served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, mocked Nancy Lanza, the murdered mother of the Newtown, CT massacre killer Adam Lanza, on Twitter Saturday evening: The
Late Saturday evening, a source from the White House said the Speaker of the House John Boehner had put tax rate hikes on the table in fiscal cliff negotiations. The White House promptly rejected the offer, since Boehner also wanted
(AP) Conn. police: Gunman forced his way into schoolBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and JIM FITZGERALDAssociated PressNEWTOWN, Conn.Connecticut State Police say a gunman who massacred 26 children and adults at an elementary school before committing suicide forced his way into the building.
Dem. Rep. Jerrold Nadler is at least being honest about how he, and no doubt many Leftists, would like to feast off an unthinkable tragedy and exploit it in order to pursue a nonsensical agenda that would ensure only bad
Today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an ardent gun control advocate, moved to politicize the monstrous school shooting in Connecticut, issuing the following statement: With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to
Several progressive commentators did not wait for the full story to be reported before using Friday’s shooting at a Connecticut elementary school to score political points. CNN talk show host Piers Morgan immediately took to his Twitter account to inject
(AP) Official: 27 dead in Conn. school shootingBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSENAssociated PressNEWTOWN, Conn.A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was
On Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney accused House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) plans to avert the fiscal cliff of being “fantasy economics.” Even though President Barack Obama’s initial offer, which included $1.6 trillion in new taxes an unprecedented
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-ranking Democratic leader in the Senate, said President Barack Obama has taken raising the Medicare eligibility age “off the table” in the fiscal cliff negotiations. “I was told that it is not on the table
Make no mistake about it, it’s not just the Obama White House breathing a sigh of relief over Susan Rice’s “decision” to take her name out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The media’s just
