CNN’s John King, Bloomberg’s Margaret Talev and the Washington Post’s Dan Balz argued in a panel discuss on Wednesday’s episode of “New Day” that the VA scandal could become a major political problem. King said that many Democrats saw the
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of VA facilities under investigation after complaints about falsified records and treatment delays has more than doubled in recent days, the Office of Inspector General at the Veterans Affairs Department said late Tuesday. A spokeswoman
The White House announced Wednesday morning that President Obama will meet with embattled Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki in the Oval Office Wednesday to receive an update on the growing controversy at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The sudden
In response to Jay Carney Distorts The American Legion’s Response To Petzel Resignation: Appearing On The Record with Greta Van Susteren, Tuesday evening, the legislative director for the American Legion expressed shock and confusion at White House Press Secretary Jay
Clay Aiken, the American Idol runner-up and Democrat who is running for Congress in North Carolina, has not been paying attention to the wait-list scandal at the Veterans Administration even though Fort Bragg is in his district. On Tuesday, NBC’s
A senior official in the Obama administration announced Tuesday that the United States is ready to engage the newly unified Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government. The senior White House official told the Haaretz newspaper that the US is ready to embrace Hamas as part
Once-enthusiastic Obama donors, disappointed by Obama’s lack of leadership, have stopped writing checks. Instead, they are casting their eyes beyond the midterm elections and focusing on a potential 2016 presidential bid by Hillary Clinton. According to The Hill, the beleaguered
Fox News Channel’s chief White House correspondent Ed Henry grilled Press Secretary Jay Carney Tuesday at the daily press briefing by alluding to Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-IL) criticism that President Barack Obama lacked personal involvement in the VA scandal. Follow
Ret. Col. Rob Maness, who is the conservative GOP Senate candidate in Louisiana, said there should be criminal charges for anyone in President Barack Obama’s Veterans Administration (VA) found to have broken laws in the scandal involving secret waiting lists.
The CIA ended “the use of vaccine programs in its spying operations” as concerns “for the safety health workers” took center stage. According to BBC News, “the CIA used a fake vaccine program to try to find Osama bin Laden
The mainstream media are all agog and aghast in feigned outrage at Porterville, California mayor Cameron Hamilton’s advice to victims of bullying: that they should “grow a pair and stick up for them damn selves.” This is timeless and eminently sensible
At yesterday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, tried to mitigate the VA controversy which is increasingly getting traction in the media, with what can only be seen as desperate and ludicrous spin. In an attempt to credit
On MSNBC Monday night, Rachel Maddow highlighted the phony resignation of Undersecretary of Health Robert Petzel in response to the Veterans Affairs scandal. Petzel was already scheduled to retire in 2014, and President Obama had already nominated a replacement. Maddow
Leo Hindery Jr. is a Democrat-fundraiser and donor whose private equity firm owns InterMedia Outdoors, which publishes Guns & Ammo magazine and the Sportsman Channel. His equity firm also publishes Rifle Shooter, Shooting Times, and Handguns. According to Politico, Hindery
WASHINGTON–Until House Republicans have confidence that President Obama will implement an immigration reform law as Congress passes it, there is not much to discuss House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday. “We’ve talked about this literally every week for the last
On Monday, a Pentagon official declared that the Obama administration may issue a directive to allow DREAMers who have received temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action program to enlist in the military by this summer. Testifying at a
Once again, the Obama administration is claiming that it has “just learned” from television about a scandal engulfing his administration: the Veterans Administration scandal. On the same day that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed that President Obama and
After assailing Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital for much of the 2012 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama golfed last Saturday with a Bain lobbyist. According to Politico, Obama golfed with Joe O’Neill, described as “a veteran Democratic lobbyist” who
That lover of the ladies, Vice President Joe Biden, now has a high school senior in Connecticut on his list. Talia Maselli was so impressed with Biden’s sense of humor that last fall she invited him to her prom in
Monday at the daily press briefing, NBC’s chief White House corespondent Chuck Todd quizzed White House press secretary Jay Carney over the White House’s “window dressing” response to the growing VA waiting list scandal. A frustrated Todd added it felt
Monday at the White House daily press briefing, ABC News chief White House correspondent Jon Karl asked White House press secretary Jay Carney how the resignation of Dr. Robert Petzel, undersecretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs is
The revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more than 36,000 criminal immigrants last year is more proof that President Obama’s policies are bad for the American people, according to Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks. “It’s another example of President
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney indicated that President Obama was still standing by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki despite the scandal surrounding the department. Reports of systemic enrollment fraud at VA hospitals have raised questions about the department, leading
On Monday, CNN’s Drew Griffin said that statements from White House chief of staff Denis McDonough that President Barack Obama is “madder than hell” are “hollow.” Griffin added that if the president is truly “mad as hell” over the VA
In response to Obama “Madder than Hell” Over VA, But Who Actually Has The Scars?: As odd as McDonough’s choice of words were – “I’ve got the scars to prove it” – in Sunday’s interview with CBS News’ Major Garrett,
