Barack Obama
Health Care Summit In Rearview Mirror, President Hopeful For Compromise But Expecting - And Ready For - Progress Alone
President Obama put the finishing touches on his often grueling seven-and-a-half hour health care summit on Thursday by giving Republican a challenge that he hopes will produce a bipartisan health care bill, but warning that he and congressional Democrats are prepared to move forward alone if the minority party fails to compromise on their demands. […]
Question Time Tussle: Obama Says McCain Forgets That “The Election’s Over”
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The ghosts of the 2008 presidential election were rekindled in the midst of 2010’s occasionally fractious health care reform summit as the current president and his last election foe ignited old campaign disagreements that temporarily turned Blair House into a presidential debate hall for an election decided well over one year ago.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, […]
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 […]
Health Care Summit: What To Watch
The expectations for Thursday’s televised bipartisan health care summit cannot get any lower. What was at first hailed as a breakthrough to Washington gridlock when President Obama announced the event has devolved into a seemingly contrived political exercise, with the White House already having a health care blueprint they say will be put in place […]
Participants Spar Ahead Of Thursday’s Health Care Summit
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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 […]
Obama Numbers Find Stability At 50 Percent
The latest poll numbers from Gallup have President Obama’s approval rating remaining steady at 49 percent, a continuation of a trend where the president’s approval number has stayed within two points of 50 since last December.
The latest results have Obama ticking back below 50 percent as health care returns to the forefront of political debate […]
Crist Hails Stimulus As “Right Thing To Do” While CPAC Star Rubio Builds Lead
Things could not have gone much worse than they did for Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign this week. Last week Marco Rubio, the Florida governor’s opponent in the Republican primary, delivers a knockout speech on the first day of CPAC, further burnishing his stellar conservative credentials and generating loads of excitement among the Tea Party base […]
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 […]
POTUS Stumps For Endangered Dems Out West
President Obama is using a two-state campaign swing in the West for two embattled Democratic senators to again convince Americans that the economy is the prime focus of his own administration as well as that of his Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill, and to tout his year-old stimulus plan as successful in staving off even […]
