Keith Koffler over at the invaluable White House Dossier writes: The massive spending cuts and tax increases set to kick in January 2 will cause a second recession, from which we may not emerge for many months. The economy may
Safely re-elected and with the media in his back pocket, it looks as though Obama’s preparing to bring terrorists to American shores. Via The Mighty Michelle Malkin: If you thought President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had given up
As controversy rages over U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, her messaging in the wake of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11, and her potential nomination as the next Secretary of State, President Obama continues to laud the embattled official. President Obama
While members of Congress continue to wrangle over whether the nation can avoid the “fiscal cliff,” taxpayer funds are still being spent on what many might consider to be the less important details, like the official portraits of White House
Vice President Joe Biden visited Washington’s first Costco store, where he bought several items in a pre-Christmas shopping spree on Thursday. He said he was at the store to demonstrate the need to extend tax cuts for the middle class.
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner had supposedly offered a plan in secret that would solve the fiscal cliff impasse. The details of the plan itself were not released; as per the usual
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, attempting to rule Egypt with an iron Islamist hand, lavishly praised his benefactor, Barack Obama, in an interview with Time Magazine. Morsi cooed: “President Obama has been very helpful, very helpful.” Morsi continued, “And I can say really that
The media is reprising its role as a modern-day Diogenes, searching for “honest” GOP legislators who will save Democrats from their own policies. While Democrats are never pressed on the need to go against their own constituencies and advocate spending
WASHINGTON, November 29–Sen. Sessions delivered remarks on the Senate floor today about the secret, year-end fiscal negotiations. “Over the last two years, Congress and the President have held an endless series of secret negotiations. There have been gangs of six
Whatever the CEOs of various Wall Street companies discussed with Barack Obama Wednesday night was off limits to reporters trying to ascertain the facts. When the CEOs left the White House, reporters tried to shout questions about the impending fiscal
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to answer questions about a possible conflict with Ambassador Susan Rice and her husband’s investment in Canadian oil companies, including the company that was responsible for the Keystone pipeline that was blocked by
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney refused to answer questions about a possible conflict with Ambassador Susan Rice and her husband’s investment in Canadian oil companies, including the company that was responsible for the Keystone pipeline that was blocked by
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney read a portion of a New York Times article from the podium today stating that the real questions on the Benghazi attack had gotten lost because of the focus on Ambassador Susan Rice and
The Hill published a report Wednesday that ought to warm the hearts of all fiscally responsible Republicans and, perhaps, give hope that GOP Speaker John Boehner will hold to his pledges on taxes during these fiscal cliff talks with the White
Hurricane Sandy may cost taxpayers at least $80 billion. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — along with Northeastern lawmakers such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
Talks between the White House and GOP leaders in the House of Representatives are on everyone’s mind, and solutions and ideas are coming fast and thick from many corners of Washington. But CNN thinks it has the way to fix
From whitehouse.gov: President Obama calls on Americans to speak out to keep taxes from going up on middle class families.
In an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, liberal political analyst Juan Williams observed that Republicans have lost more power in the Senate and decides that the GOP has only itself to blame for its defeat because, as in 2010,
Reuters: President Barack Obama gave a show of moral support to his embattled ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday, calling Susan Rice “extraordinary” and prompting applause from his Cabinet during a meeting at the White House. Rice, who is
President Barack Obama will host his former political rival Mitt Romney for a private lunch at the White House Thursday, their first meeting since the election.
After Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) emerged from yesterday’s meeting with Ambassador Rice with greater concern about the cover-up of Benghazi, White House spokesman Jay Carney slammed Republicans’ “obsession” with Rice’s Benghazi explanation. Carney
Some of the country’s most prominent business leaders regretted watching the debt ceiling negotiations from the sidelines in 2011, and they are making amends during the fiscal cliff negotiations by going to Washington to urge the White House and Congress
If you want a sign of how the GOP Leadership have cornered themselves in the fiscal cliff negotiations, look no further than an e-mail the Obama White House sent today to its supporters. In the message, Obama rallies the public
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is calling in the big public relations guns: former co-chairman of Obama debt commission Erskine Bowles. Bowles has long been an advocate of entitlement reform, recognizing that Americans entitlement programs are unsustainable in the mid-
As she did with Fast and Furious, Sharyl Attkisson over at CBS News continues the unheralded work of digging into the Obama Administration’s scandals — this time being the non-stop flow of misinformation and double-talk surrounding Libya. Apparently, we’re now
