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Scrutiny.
The investigation began on Friday, was completed within 72 hours, and Carney won’t get into details. Sounds legit: “There have been no specific credible allegations of misconduct by anyone on the White House advance team or the White House staff. Nevertheless, out of due diligence, the White House counsel’s office has conducted a review of [...]
Where President Obama stayed.
Why did Senator Joe Lieberman call for an investigation of White House staffers in the probe in the scandal hitting the Secret Service and the Pentagon over activity in Cartagena, Colombia prior to President Obama’s arrival at the Summit of the Americas? A CBS update yesterday shows that at least one agent brought a prostitute [...]
Scrubbing the bricks.
The White House puts out a weekly video report called “West Wing Week,” which provides all the highlights of Barack Obama’s events and accomplishments. Two weeks ago, the video included a shot of Obama sinking a three-pointer at the Easter Egg roll (1:50): Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed notes that the White House managed to scrub [...]
Scrubbing the bricks.
The White House puts out a weekly video report called “West Wing Week,” which provides all the highlights of Barack Obama’s events and accomplishments. Two weeks ago, the video included a shot of Obama sinking a three-pointer at the Easter Egg roll (1:50): Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed notes that the White House managed to scrub [...]
Scrubbing the bricks.
The White House puts out a weekly video report called “West Wing Week,” which provides all the highlights of Barack Obama’s events and accomplishments. Two weeks ago, the video included a shot of Obama sinking a three-pointer at the Easter Egg roll (1:50): Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed notes that the White House managed to scrub [...]
Scrubbing the bricks.
The White House puts out a weekly video report called “West Wing Week,” which provides all the highlights of Barack Obama’s events and accomplishments. Two weeks ago, the video included a shot of Obama sinking a three-pointer at the Easter Egg roll (1:50): Zeke Miller of BuzzFeed notes that the White House managed to scrub [...]
"It's a reasonable question."
Could the sex scandal in Colombia spread to the White House? Joe Lieberman is worried enough to suggest that the White House start an investigation of its own staff’s behavior in Cartagena: In the midst of an investigation into alleged misconduct by Secret Service agents and U.S. military members in Colombia, the head of the [...]
"It's a diversion."
See, I thought the dog-eating thing was a surreal goof on the left’s moronic preoccupation with Romney’s dog, but here’s the author of “Revival 2.0: How the Obama White House Is Making Its Political Comeback” to set me straight. The good news? This actually isn’t the dumbest example of “dog whistle” detection (no pun intended) [...]
Standards.
Skip to 4:39 below for a little Friday evening fake outrage, White House style. The gist: Asked by CBS News’ Bill Plante whether, considering also the General Services Administration investigation, there’s been a “breakdown” in the White House’s oversight of federal agencies — as Palin, Sen. Jeff Sessions, and others have suggested — Carney replied, [...]
Standards.
Skip to 4:39 below for a little Friday evening fake outrage, White House style. The gist: Asked by CBS News’ Bill Plante whether, considering also the General Services Administration investigation, there’s been a “breakdown” in the White House’s oversight of federal agencies — as Palin, Sen. Jeff Sessions, and others have suggested — Carney replied, [...]
Inclusion and progressivity.
The White House offered a white-board presentation on the need for the Buffett Rule, the surtax on the uber-rich — a term actually used by the White House in its presentation — that claimed that the effective federal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans falls slightly below that paid by teachers and cops. As Douglas [...]
Privilege.
Perhaps no one has been so steadfast in support of Mitt Romney as Ann Coulter. Now that the former Massachusetts governor is the all-but-Republican-nominee, Coulter has an even more important role — helping her candidate win the actual White House. She’s already hard at work, lobbing Obama’s attacks right back at him. In an interview [...]
The first rule of Vacation Club is ...
The first rule of Vacation Club is … you don’t talk about Vacation Club. And the second rule of Vacation Club at the White House is that you don’t ask about it, either. Barack Obama got a little annoyed with KMOV reporter Larry Conners when he challenged Obama on how many vacations the First Family [...]
Romney won't be it.
Maybe Mitt Romney really will be able to ride anti-Barack-Obama sentiment all the way to the White House. His general election specialty has quickly become converting the president’s arrows into boomerangs. Attacks on Ann and Seamus have quickly backfired on those who made them. Romney today deflected Obama’s not-so-subtle “silver spoon” comment, as well. In [...]
Trophies.
The LA Times published the photos this morning and the obligatory Obama briefing and denunciations by the White House and Pentagon duly occurred this afternoon. I remember a college friend of mine whose brother was in the military at the time telling me how he and his buddies posed for photos with the bodies of [...]
The president gets an "F" for effort?
In a pre-recorded interview for CBS’ “This Morning,” House Speaker John Boehner called out the president for his incessant campaigning and confirmed that the chief occupant of the White House has lately made no effort whatsoever to work with Congress on any of the key issues that face the country. Boehner particularly noted the peculiarity [...]
3 pm ET!
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), my Townhall colleague and good friend Guy Benson returns to discuss the top political stories of the day, including the polling that has kicked off the 2012 general election fight for the White House, and the continuation of the Senate’s (yellow) streak on budgeting. In the [...]
Smart power.
The big news last week from the Summit of the Americas was the Secret Service sex scandal, which had some in the Obama administration lamenting that no one paid much attention to Barack Obama’s efforts in Cartagena, Colombia to improve relations between the US and its allies. Today, the White House might be hoping for [...]
More power to the IRS?
Time for another showdown over energy policy. House Republicans included a provision in the new highway bill extension (five months) that would force the Obama administration to approve the complete construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The White House reacted about as well as one would imagine: The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto [...]
Negativity.
“If the White House gets its political way, ‘trust’ will be a word President Obama and his surrogates use in the next few weeks as often as Obama has talked about ‘fairness,’ and Mitt Romney, once dubbed as hollow to the core, will increasingly be ID’d as a card-carrying ultra-conservative who bobbles into Etch A [...]
While the White House flings open its doors to donors.
The Mitt Romney campaign will offer special access to the former Massachusetts governor to anyone who contributes $50,000 or more to a new joint fundraising committee, “Romney Victory,” according to a report by BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith. That access will include a space at a June retreat in California with Romney, “preferred status at the first [...]
This weekend's Friday Night News Dump.
Lost in the blizzard of tax returns, Buffett Rule arguments, and Axelrod endorsements this weekend was a story from The Hill on yet another unilateral White House move to burden energy exploration and extraction. Barack Obama issued an executive order on Friday that launches a task force with the mission of expanding federal intervention into [...]
Plus, the Lobbyist Buddy Program!
The New York Times runs an exposé of sorts on the Obama White House and its empty promises of changing “business as usual” in Washington DC that is remarkable in a number of respects. As Daniel Halper of The Weekly Standard writes, though, the most remarkable might be the remarkable honesty of former Rep. Patrick [...]
Why didn't Director get fired after White House party-crashing fiasco?
Did the Secret Service scandal in Colombia leave the President less secure on his trip to the Summit of the Americas? The Secret Service says no, but reporter/author Ronald Kessler disputes that — and wonders why heads haven’t rolled yet at the agency, and not just for this incident. Kessler, who recently wrote a book [...]
"Honestly, at that point, I did not feel bravery. I felt terror."
I’m only being a little cute with the headline. Booker’s a Stanford grad and a Rhodes Scholar and nearly got himself elected mayor of Newark at the tender age of 33. (He lost narrowly and then won in 2006 when he was 37.) Obama offered him a job in the White House in 2008, which [...]
Obligatory.
And let’s not forget more inaccuracies, too. In CNN’s preview of the release, Political Ticker noted that White House spokesman Jay Carney claimed that the data would show that the Obamas would have needed to pay more had the Buffett Rule been in effect, although that’s not quite what Carney argued: In a post on [...]
"I’m going to be a mom who stays home.”
It looks like one progressive strategist has finally learned the First Rule of Holes. Earlier, NBC had announced that Hilary Rosen would square off against Rep. Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press this Sunday, which would have been “almost inexplicable,” as Jennifer Rubin wrote a short while ago. Did Democrats really want to extend this [...]
"I’m going to be a mom who stays home.”
It looks like one progressive strategist has finally learned the First Rule of Holes. Earlier, NBC had announced that Hilary Rosen would square off against Rep. Michele Bachmann on Meet the Press this Sunday, which would have been “almost inexplicable,” as Jennifer Rubin wrote a short while ago. Did Democrats really want to extend this [...]
“I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates.”
Box status: Checked. Have there been any prominent Democrats today, incidentally, who’ve ridden to Rosen’s defense, even if only to say that her point’s been misconstrued? Axelrod and Messina, shrewdly anticipating the bomb blast to come, ducked and covered last night by criticizing her right away on Twitter for what she said. I thought for [...]
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