White House news conference is scheduled for next Friday, the first since late May.
It’s a classic move by an industry player feeling the squeeze of pending regulation: Hire a lobbying firm to create the appearance of widespread opposition via a carefully stage-managed astroturf campaign. One of the latest outfits to …
Democrats led by Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Raul Grijalva will draw a line in the sand before the White House’s fiscal commission: If your report recommends cuts or other changes to Social Security, they will say, …
The Backlash goes into the deep background and the bizarre rise of Glenn Beck in a series of personal and professional vignettes mixing his failed personal life with his success as a radio personality.
WASHINGTON White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says President Barack Obama is a “committed, mainstream Christian” contrary to the claims of Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck. Beck recently claimed that Obama practices a version of …
One fascinating subplot of the Middle East peace talks in Washington this week is the role of Egyptian president/dictator Hosni Mubarak. The 82-year old Mubarak, who has long governed Egypt with an iron fist–but has served as a useful …
Say, where has Barack Obama been while polling numbers for Democrats have nosedived this summer? One member of the White House press corps asked Robert Gibbs this question, who giggled at the delivery and then insisted that Obama hasn’t …
Conn Carroll has posted the main arguments from a new paper from James Carafano and Kim Holmes on what they believe the Obama Doctrine is. The post provided me with some very satisfying laughs before I had to start lecturing this …
One explanation for Obama’s steep decline is that his presidency rests on what Gallup’s Frank Newport calls a paradox between Obama and the electorate. In 2008, Newport notes, trust in the federal government was at a historic low, …
With the recovery faltering less than two months before the November congressional elections, President Obama’s economic team is considering another big dose of stimulus in the form of tax breaks for businesses – potentially worth …
