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Small wonder.
In 2008, Barack Obama drew huge crowds everywhere he went, whether for rallies or for fundraisers. In 2012 … not so much. The Weekly Standard and the New York Times report that a Denver fundraiser yesterday afternoon ended up less than 80% of capacity: According to today’s White House pooler, the New York Times‘s Peter Baker, [...]
Money matters from Mr. Responsible.
Allahpundit already started off the fun with Barack Obama’s newest White House website, Money As You Grow, which dispenses sage advice … most of which Obama himself ignores when handling our money. AP took two of the better entries in the series in his post last night, but there are plenty more to ridicule within [...]
Demons.
Are “job destroyers” sitting on President Obama’s jobs council? There could be, if you believe the argument from Democrats and the Obama campaign that private equity executives are profit seekers who often run roughshod over workers, companies and communities. Two Obama-appointed members of the White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory committee, are [...]
The blind leading the blind.
Via the office of GOP Rep. Tim Griffin, who’s having no end of fun with this on his Twitter account, go take a peek at some of the valuable insights about thrift that the Five Trillion Dollar Man is now passing on to America’s youth. I held it together for most of the presentation but [...]
Surprise.
Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, proponents of the bill touted over and over again a provision they claimed would help millions of small businesses, by providing a tax credit to offset the cost of insuring their employees. The President repeatedly made this pitch himself and the White House web site still claims that 4 million [...]
"We're not questioning the private equity business, in general." "But you are!"
Anderson Cooper interviewed Obama super-PAC chief Ben LaBolt on the new Bain Capital attack strategy, and the only enlightenment that results from the exchange is an understanding of why LaBolt no longer works in the White House media room. LaBolt refused to even acknowledge Cooper’s repeated questions of how Barack Obama and his team can [...]
K Street bonanza.
Remember when Barack Obama pledged to keep lobbyists from dictating outcomes in his administration? Good times, good times. It only took a fortnight for Obama’s promise to become a joke when Jake Tapper asked Robert Gibbs to produce the “waivers” for lobbyist appointees to Obama’s administration, which numbered in the dozens by early March. The [...]
Awkward
Somebody should make sure that the White House staff gets the place all spruced up and sets out the good china for dinner, because the Obamas are expecting company. And who is the very special guest? None other than the president’s predecessor. George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to the [...]
Obligatory.
In case you missed this in Headlines last night, take three and a half minutes for a bit of political comedy that’s both amusing and, unusually, bipartisan. This was the highlight of New Jersey’s version of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held yesterday in Trenton; everyone will get the Christie/VP gags but if you’re confused [...]
Obligatory.
In case you missed this in Headlines last night, take three and a half minutes for a bit of political comedy that’s both amusing and, unusually, bipartisan. This was the highlight of New Jersey’s version of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner held yesterday in Trenton; everyone will get the Christie/VP gags but if you’re confused [...]
Subtle.
I can’t decide which I like better: The one of the rainbow flag flying over the White House (victory!) or the one of the omnipotent American father holding up the two male cake toppers, a beatific glow around him, the whole cultural world literally in his hands. But where’s the one of him desperately trying [...]
Insecurity much?
If you haven’t gotten enough of Barack Obama lecturing on constitutional law, just wait until you get a chance to read the White House’s take on presidential history. Rory Cooper at the Heritage Foundation was the first to notice that the Obama administration edited the official presidential histories on the White House website to include [...]
No halos from the churches.
Barney Frank told the panel on ABC’s This Week that “I don’t think anyone’s vote was changed” when Barack Obama endorsed the legalization of same-sex marriage — but that might be too optimistic an analysis. The New York Times reports that the White House went on a charm offensive with leaders of faith organizations, including [...]
Chaos.
The soap opera continued this weekend in North Carolina, where a sexual harassment complaint forced the resignation of the state Democratic Party chair just three months before the national Democratic convention in Charlotte. Or did it? David Parker tried to resign, but the party that tried to push him out immediately suddenly won’t let him [...]
Just desserts.
Heh. If I thought the White House would actually pay any heed to this, I’d almost call it poetic justice. The Hill reports: A healthcare advocacy group run by physicians is preparing to file a petition calling on President Obama to stop eating hamburgers, hot dogs and other unhealthy foods before cameras. “As role model [...]
Nothing doing.
The debate about maintaining the ceiling on some federal student loan interest rates was President Obama’s flavor-of-the-week campaign meme two weeks ago, but the Congressional kerfuffle continues. Although the interest-rate hike would actually affect relatively very few student loan recipients, the White House succeeded in generating quite the to-do over the debate — and here [...]
Nothing doing.
The debate about maintaining the ceiling on some federal student loan interest rates was President Obama’s flavor-of-the-week campaign meme two weeks ago, but the Congressional kerfuffle continues. Although the interest-rate hike would actually affect relatively very few student loan recipients, the White House succeeded in generating quite the to-do over the debate — and here [...]
Plus, incoherence is now contagious.
Is the new sensitivity on the gay-marriage issue at Team Obama really all that new? Last week, the White House scheduled a visit to North Carolina today to talk about the economy, which would have been interesting enough in a state with a jobless rate above the national average. With traditional-marriage Amendment One appearing to [...]
"It's great to watch politics in action. As we cover this story, the president is thinking."
Help me out here: can the Obama White House possibly boast of a more useful stooge than this guy? Of course, Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews has made no secret of his infatuation with the man, the myth, the legend that is Barack Obama, but at first, I thought he had his tongue in [...]
Distractions.
Gaffe or gambit? Vice President Joe Biden created a stir on Sunday when he appeared to endorse the legalization of gay marriage, and then confusion reigned as the White House tried to downplay Biden’s remarks. Biden’s penchant for making gaffes certainly would explain this as a wandering-off-the-reservation moment. In my column for The Week, however, [...]
"If there’s ever an event that separates the press from the people it’s supposed to serve, symbolically, it’s that one."
Via Mediaite, I’m second to none in my contempt for this freak show but it’s bugging me that Brokaw’s indictment has been so well received. Does anyone really believe that the vast majority of the public even knows what the WHCD is, let alone has some strong ethical objection to it? In a way, his [...]
Most transparent Administration ever!
Apparently the only connection between the TSA and transparency are all of our images as we pass through their scanners at the airport. A big hat tip to Josh Gerstein at Politico for highlighting this account late last week by Michael Grabell at ProPublica: In my first week at ProPublica in June 2008, I filed [...]
Second verse, same as the first
The patience of the folks at TransCanada Corp. may not be infinite, but it’s lasting far longer than I would have expected them to continue putting up with the nonsense coming out of the White House. On Friday, they filed yet another permit to move forward on construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, complying with [...]
Research.
We’ve criticized Barack Obama and his White House staff on many occasions for their poor research skills, but there hasn’t been any incident quite as embarrassing as the gaffe made in Obama’s proclamation on Tuesday to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month. The proclamation listed several prominent Jewish Americans, including Gertrude Stein, a well-known American artist [...]
Research.
We’ve criticized Barack Obama and his White House staff on many occasions for their poor research skills, but there hasn’t been any incident quite as embarrassing as the gaffe made in Obama’s proclamation on Tuesday to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month. The proclamation listed several prominent Jewish Americans, including Gertrude Stein, a well-known American artist [...]
Probably not who you think.
A limited series of writings from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad were declassified and released today by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. You can peruse the entire release here, but Byron York on Twitter flagged what is likely to garner the most attention in conservative media circles. With their top leadership holed up [...]
Brinksmanship.
The fight between House Republicans, the Department of Justice, and the White House over Operation Fast and Furious will escalate this morning, according to CBS News. The House Oversight Committee will take the first steps to charging Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress over continued stonewalling of demands for documentation and testimony on [...]
Weak.
Looks like the White House finally got a little good news today on the jobs front. After several weeks of escalating initial jobless claims, the level dropped to 365,000 in the report for last week: In the week ending April 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 365,000, a decrease of 27,000 [...]
It's come to this.
Why any American of goodwill, much less the political party currently occupying the White House, would want to support or be affiliated with the violent, anti-capitalist occupy movement in any way is beyond me. But this…now this has to be the last straw. A global economic crisis has brought a new Great Depression to the doorsteps [...]
Bachmann's challenge.
Last week, the Obama administration attempted to float the notion that the war on terror was over, probably in anticipation of its celebrations this week of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. National Journal got the officially unofficial leak from the White House about the nomenclature change, as well as an almost-immediate retreat: “The [...]
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