Snooki is upset with President Obama, and not because of foreign policy, health care reform or even the tanning tax she whined about in the Jersey Shore premiere. (more)
President Obama Friday flew Marine One from the White House less than six miles to Northwest DC. (more)
President Obama criticized what he called “the ‘just say no’ crowd in Washington” for their opposition to his decision last March to bail out U.S. auto companies. (more)
President Obama will travel to New Jersey on Wednesday as part of an effort to refute Republican assertions that he is anti-business. (more)
The House on Tuesday approved spending an additional $37 billion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, overcoming the opposition of some Democrats who have concluded that the Afghan conflict is unwinnable. (more)
Senate Democrats backed away from an energy bill months in the works Thursday – leaving many pundits and the public alike to wonder what will come next. (more)
After weeks of intense negotiations, Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada announced Thursday that comprehensive energy reform meant to address climate change could not be passed before the August break. (more)
A new Quinnipiac poll finds President Obama’s job approval rating has dropped to 44%, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39% to 36% that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than Obama in 2012. (more)
The biggest deficit Washington faces today isn’t financial, President Obama argued Monday at the White House. It’s “a lack of faith in the American people.” (more)
Europe’s disappointment with President Barack Obama’s presidency was laid bare Thursday as the EU’s most senior figure called for a dramatic effort to revive transatlantic relations. (more)
(Reuters) – The White House moved on Tuesday to ease simmering tensions with the business community, telling corporate executives it has an “open door” and pledging to listen to their ideas. (more)
Last month, Verizon Communications Inc. Chairman Ivan Seidenberg accused the federal government of “injecting uncertainty into the marketplace.” Last week, he was named to a presidential panel on U.S. exports. (more)
President Barack Obama pushed back at criticism that his administration is anti-business on Friday, arguing White House actions have boosted the private sector. (more)
To become the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama not only won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote but also managed to trim the Democratic Party’s traditional deficit among white voters. (more)
The list of crises facing the White House today is lengthy and weighty: the Gulf oil spill, high domestic unemployment combined with an unstable economic situation in Europe, a cultural divide on the issue of immigration, and continuing efforts to stabilize Iraq and win in Afghanistan, just to name a few. Today, we are likely to get a very poor jobs report after five consecutive months of job growth. Will the jobs report be seen as the beginning of a double dip recession? (more)
Racine, Wisconsin (CNN) — President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that the federal deficit is a significant concern, but he also criticized Republicans for obstructing what he called commonsense legislation and siding with big business. (more)
Top union leader Thomas Balanoff said he was at dinner the night before the November Presidential election when he got a call that was blocked. (more)
What Barack Obama needs now more than anything else is an economic bubble to form early enough to save his presidency. Nothing spectacular about that wish since the American economy has become dependent on economic bubbles in order to generate noticeable growth. (more)
White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton on Monday defended President Obama’s frequent golf outings, telling reporters it “does us all good as American citizens.” (more)
President Barack Obama’s political response to the Gulf oil spill has exacerbated long-simmering tensions on the left over climate-change legislation and oil drilling. (more)























