It’s all about keeping up appearances, folks: More from CNN: President Barack Obama’s former top military intelligence official said Tuesday that the White House ignored reports prefacing the rise of ISIS in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit their re-election “narrative.” “I think that they did not meet a narrative the White House […]
Before jumping on CBS News’ Mark Knoller for trying to embarrass the president by reporting how many times he hit the golf course this year, keep in mind that Washington’s unofficial statistician has kept track of all sorts of White House activities. It’s amazing that the president found time to golf at all, but he […]
http://twitter.com/#!/irishspy/status/438162311035895808 The headline in the Huffington Post — “Scott Walker Caught Breaking Campaign Rules While Running For College President In 1988″ — pretty much lets you know not to waste time reading too much further. The Daily Beast has already looked into the color of Ted Cruz’s bathrobe in college, and now it’s Scott Walker’s turn […]
Read @JayCostTWS's thread on The Deep State vs. Trump https://t.co/c2qearLSXX — Ryan Fazio (@ryanfazio) March 5, 2017 Weekly Standard senior writer Jay Cost put together a very intriguing thread on the Deep State and Trump on Sunday afternoon. thread –> https://t.co/Csura4dKq6 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 5, 2017 Here it is. It's been pretty clear […]
Remember when last week, President Obama called the Umpqua Community College “something we should politicize”? And then a few days later, Josh Earnest told the White House press corps that the president’s visit to Roseburg to meet with the victims’ families wouldn’t be about politics? And then Earnest reassured us again today? Looks like Josh […]
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); It should come as no surprise that stress ages people. Politicians know that all too well. Every four years, liberals and conservatives alike flock to their polling places to cast their votes for the next president. Truth be told, no matter who wins this time around, the person who enters the […]
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the man behind “grassroots” gun-control nonprofits Everytown for Gun Safety andMoms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, visited the White House today, and if you guessed the visit had something to do with gun control, you’re correct. What’s this now about “an executive order tightening access to […]
A day before the terrorist attack in Paris, President Obama said in an interview that ISIS was “contained.” Last week, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff offered a much different assessment, which was backed up today by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who was being questioned by the Senate Armed Services Committee: Paging […]
The White House Twitter feed slightly misquoted President Obama, who was speaking in Louisiana this morning: “Impotence for a better politics”? Missed it by THAT much. Eventually a correction was made: The bottom line of what Obama was getting at remains unchanged: That’s the general theme of this presidency. Read more: http://twitchy.com/2016/01/14/think-you-mean-impetus-wh-deletes-corrects-failed-attempt-to-quote-president-blameshifter/
As we reported a couple days ago, “clock kid” Ahmed Mohamed was ‘overjoyed’ to meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir: After Mohamed was arrested and suspended last month for bringing a homemade “clock” to school that looked suspiciously like a bomb, President Obama had invited Mohamed to to the White House. In spite of being […]