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White House Officials Contradict Themselves On Success of Stimulus (Politico)
White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act.
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus [...]
CZAR PROFILES: Obama’s Head Of Information Cass Sunstein Has Some Interesting Ideas On How To Control The Information You Hear (Salon.com)
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.” In 2008, while at [...]
Obama Concedes He Hasn’t Brought Country Together (Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration a year ago.
“That’s what’s been lost this year … that whole sense of changing how Washington works,” Obama said in an interview with People magazine.
The president [...]
Bring Us The Head Of Harry Reid: GOP On Warpath To Force Resignation of Senate Leader (Yahoo! News)
Top Republicans called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step aside Sunday — and accused the Democrats and the media of holding the GOP to a double standard on matters of race.
In an interview with POLITICO, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) said it would be “entirely appropriate” for the Nevada Democrat [...]
THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY: Mr. Obama, The Next Jimmy Carter? (Foreign Policy)
Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one have a long history at the core of the American political tradition. In the past, such ideas have served the country [...]
Obama Catches Heat Over Breaking Campaign Promise Of Openess (Yahoo! News)
Earlier this week, we told you about the way that Democratic leaders in Congress plan to use an obscure legislative tactic known as “ping-pong” to bounce the health care reform bill back and forth between the House and the Senate to reconcile their differences. Their goal is to keep the final negotiations between House and [...]
Disappointment in Obama: Where’s the Change? (ABC NEWS VIDEO)
Air America’s Ana Marie Cox says Americans don’t see the change Barack Obama promised. Video From ABC News – Click the link below
Disappointment in Obama: Where’s the Change?.
Senate Retires May Signal Tough Year For Democrats (New York Times)
President Obama awoke on Wednesday to a dispiriting reality: Less than a year after taking office on the strength of a historic Democratic sweep, his party is facing a shifting and perilous political environment that could have big implications for this year’s midterm elections and his own agenda.
The rapid swing was underscored by the sudden [...]
MAN IN THE MIDDLE OPINION: TIME FOR OBAMA TO LEAVE THE GOLF COURSE, RETURN TO WASHINTON AND HAND NAPOLITANO HER ‘WALKING PAPERS’
Regarding the attempted terrorist attack on an inbound international flight, there is enough blame to go around. As fresh intelligence information reaches us by the hour it is clear the failure stretches from Yemen to Amsterdam to London to Washington. The breakdown of procedures and information sharing will span several key agencies and a number [...]
The Joe Biden Watch: Working From Home Again Today (Andrew Malcom – Los Angeles Times)
A little change of pace today for the second most important vice president in American history this year.
After a weekend of no public appearances at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Vice President Joe Biden will spend a workday of no public appearances in the same place.
According to his official White House schedule, at precisely 1 [...]
