Obama Administration
White House, Dems Demand “Up-Or-Down” As Health Care Talks Go Up, Down
The weekend after last Thursday’s landmark presidential health care summit saw the White House and congressional Democrats seeking to rapidly move ahead with a plan to pass health care legislation as Republican silence on a challenge to find compromise made it clear that the finished product will not be bipartisan in nature.
President Obama, White House […]
White House, Speaker Pelosi Do Summit Pre-Game
The White House stressed that today’s bipartisan health care summit is important and not a “six-hour photo op” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released remarks she will deliver at the meeting that sets a high bar for any potential compromise on health care legislation with Republicans.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of […]
Participants Spar Ahead Of Thursday’s Health Care Summit
(CBS)
If the beginning is a shadow of what is to come for President Obama’s hotly anticipated health care summit in Washington on Thursday, there is little chance that anything constructive or bipartisan comes out of the cross-party chat.
A day before the event kicks off at 10 AM sharp, both sides of the health care debate […]
CBO Says Stimulus Saved Millions Of Jobs
The case against the economic impact of President Obama’s stimulus package continues to fray as Democrats feel emboldened to hit back against Republican criticism that the president’s plan was a failure that did not create a “single job” in the year since it was signed into law.
The Congressional Budget Office released analysis on Tuesday indicating […]
White House Pressures Republicans For Health Plan As GOP Swats At President’s “Non-Starter”
An intense fight to jockey for position is under way following Monday’s release of President Obama’s own blueprint for health care legislation and ahead of Thursday’s televised bipartisan meeting at the White House. Both sides of the debate are staking out the most politically advantageous positions on an issue that presents dangers for all involved.
After […]
My Turn: POTUS Pens Own Blueprint For “ObamaCare” Prior To Bipartisan Sit-Down
UPDATE: House GOP leader John Boehner slammed President Obama’s health care proposal in a statement on Monday, saying the “credibility of this week’s summit” has been “crippled,” and that Thursday’s scheduled meeting ” has all the makings of a Democratic infomercial.”
Boehner called the outline a “massive government takeover of health care based on a partisan […]
White House Readies Health Care Bill For Bipartisan Summit
The New York Times is reporting that the White House is crafting their own health care bill that President Obama will be ready to introduce at his bipartisan health care summit later this month. The prospective bill is intended to revive talks between the House and Senate over health care reform legislation and get a […]
President Says Deficit Commission Will “Rise Above Partisanship” And Enforce “Responsibility”
President Obama signed an Executive Order on Thursday creating a commission charged with studying proposals aimed at reducing the growing federal budget deficit and trimming government spending, a new priority for the White House in the face of widespread voter frustration with a deficit that now tops $1.5 billion.
The two chairs of the commission are […]
Happy Birthday, Stimulus! A Flop, A Failure…Or A Stunning Success?
Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the American Recovery and Investment Act, President Obama’s signature program to boost the struggling economy, and the White House is marking the occasion with an aggressive campaign to rebut critics of the plan and convince Americans that the stimulus has worked mostly as intended, saving ir creating millions of […]
White House, Dems Launch Aggressive PR Blitz On Stimulus Anniversary
The one-year anniversary of the stimulus package is being used by Democrats and the White House to launch a major PR campaign to shore up a mixed bag of public support for President Obama’s signature initiative and to target Republican lawmakers who condemned the proposal even as they were lobbying the government for stimulus funds […]
