Monday, February 22, 2010



FOXNews
Republicans Can Show Off Ideas at White House Summit, but Will They?
FOXNews
Republicans will have a chance to show off their ideas on health care next week at a White House summit. (AP) Next week's televised political showdown in ...
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White House Hints of New Health Bill
New York Times (blog)
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG With the House and the Senate still at loggerheads over their health care bills, the White House hinted on Tuesday that President ...
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New York Times
Excise Tax Loses Support Amid White House Push
New York Times
By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — An agreement to tax high-cost, employer-sponsored health insurance plans, announced with fanfare by the White House and labor ...
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Washington Post
White House crafts jobs bill, a year into stimulus effort
Washington Post
The Obama administration is acknowledging that its program of spending cuts and tax breaks has yet to ease joblessness, and White House officials are ...
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White House to issue progress report on anniversary of economic stimulus
Washington Post
By Alec MacGillis The White House is releasing its first annual report on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Wednesday, summarizing its progress ...
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Dalai Lama's visit to White House gives activists hope
USA Today
By Vincent Yu, AP By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY BEIJING — Activists say they are hopeful that a visit to the White House today by Tibet's spiritual leader ...
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FOXNews
GOP Headed to White House Hopeful But Hesitant
FOXNews
It was expected that the White House proposal would scale back the Senate bill's tax on high-cost insurance plans. It would also strip out special Medicaid ...
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China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Voice of America
Within hours of the White House talks between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman issued a statement saying ...
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Washington Post
Obamas to host governors at White House ball
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- The first family will welcome some out-of-town guests to the White House on Sunday: a gathering of the nation's governors. ...
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Reid will back public option if GOP barrier fails
Washington Post
It's in the House bill, but not the Senate version. The White House is trying to reconcile the two bills before Thursday's bipartisan summit. ...
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Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 2/16/10 ...
By The White House
Q Does the White House accept any responsibility for the environment that Evan Bayh was complaining about in his retirement speech, in that, you know, he feels like a lot of the system is broken, the Senate is broken -- does the White ...
White House.gov Press Office Feed - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/14/president-wall-street-we-want-our-money-back-and-were-going-get-it
Podesta Says Obama White House 'Lost The Narrative' On Health Bill ...
In an interview with the Financial Times, former chief of state to Bill Clinton says voters are discouraged by seeing "no spirit in which people were having a reasonable conversation" about health care and by the Senate deals to secure ...
All Kaiser Health News - http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/
Sestak: White House Offered Me Job To Get Me Out Of Senate Race ...
By Zachary Roth
Did the White House offer Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) a top administration job in a bid to get him out of the US Senate race? That's what Sestak claimed in a TV interview yesterday -- but the White House denies it.
TPM Election Central - http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Sestak: White House Offered Job To Keep Me Out Of Race. White ...
By Susie Madrak
So Joe Sestak says the White House offered him a job to keep him from running against Specter. That part doesn't surprise me; I imagine the White House did try to keep him out of the race. The part that's fascinating is that Sestak went ...
Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Indiana Dem: White House is conspiring to ...
By Ed Morrissey
Indiana Dem: White House is conspiring to put Baron Hill in Bayh's spot.
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White House: Dems near accord on health care bill - Yahoo! News
The White House and congressional leaders are preparing a detailed health care proposal designed to win passage without Republican support if GOP lawmakers ...
White House defends year-old stimulus - Yahoo! News
President Barack Obama, defending his economic stimulus plan on its first anniversary, is dispatching his Cabinet across the country to try to calm an ...
Nuclear power aids White House climate push | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is working hard to advance climate change legislation in Congress and hopes an announcement to jumpstart the nuclear ...
Obama stimulus plan halted economic freefall: White House | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus prevented another Great Depression while creating or preserving 2 million jobs, ...
FOXNews.com - White House: Stimulus Had 'Undeniable' Impact on Economy
The White House stood its ground on the impact of the economic stimulus package Wednesday, arguing that the bill has given an "undeniable" boost to the ...

Monday, February 15, 2010

How Barack Obama is Bankrupting the U.S. Economy (Encounter Broadsides)


White House formally invites Republicans to health-care summit
Washington Post
By Michael D. Shear The White House formally invited Republicans on Friday to attend a health-care summit Feb. 25, calling it "the next step" in the process ...
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White House revamps communications strategy
Washington Post
By Michael D. Shear White House officials are retooling the administration's communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries, ...
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Washington Post
White House report forecasts tepid job growth this year
Washington Post
By Neil Irwin The economy is projected to add jobs this year at a pace too sluggish to make much of a dent in unemployment, according to a new White House ...
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Legendary singer perform at the White House to honor the civil rights movement
Washington Post
By Chris Richards The White House has played host to scores of musicians since President Obama took office last year, but the talent assembled at snowy 1600 ...
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Washington Post
White House press corps feels bypassed by Obama in favor of TV shows, YouTube
Washington Post
THE MAN AND HIS MEDIUMS: President Obama has not limited his media engagements to the White House press corps. (You Tube Via Associated Press) By Howard ...
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Barack Obama: Our 44th President
 
White House Moves to Clear Up Comments on Bankers
New York Times (blog)
It seems the White House was none too pleased with the fallout from an article in which President Obama appeared to take a more conciliatory stance toward ...
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Week two in the Bond-White House Christmas bomber flap
Kansas City Star
Kit Bond and the White House over the interrogation of the Christmas day bomber. President Obama's top counterterrorism advisor raised the mercury Sunday by ...
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White House campaigns against childhood obesity
Chicago Tribune
"This isn't about politics,'' Obama said in a speech in the State Dining Room of the White House. "I'm talking about commonsense steps we can take in our ...
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Obama names White House lawyer as US emissary to Muslim world
Los Angeles Times
By Katherine Skiba Reporting from Washington - President Obama on Saturday named White House lawyer Rashad Hussain a special envoy to the Muslim world. ...
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Mayor at White House forum to explain healthy Somerville
Boston Globe
As a keynote speaker at the White House for the launch of Obama's nationwide Let's Move program, Curtatone outlined measures taken in Somerville to combat ...
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Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 2/12/10 ...
By The White House
GIBBS: I think the hiring tax credit was -- is a proposal that the President offered -- I'm not sure you would consider Senator Hatch to be somehow overly sympathetic to the White House's view on these issues. I think it demonstrates -- ...
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White House releases economic report as e-book -- Engadget
By Donald Melanson
Looking for a bit of light reading this weekend? Then look no further than the 400+ pages of the Economic Report of the President (the.
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...
By CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
Washington (CNN) - While the federal government is officially closed Wednesday, the White House never really shuts down. But because of unprecedented snow and an early morning blizzard warning, even this weather is keeping many West ...
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Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
By The Huffington Post News Editors
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- communications that ...
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KSM Trial: White House 'Increasingly Unsure' How To Proceed
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration appears increasingly unsure what to do with professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after officials indicated they are reconsidering not just where he should go on trial, but whether he ...
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White House to post health bill before Feb 25 meeting - Yahoo! News
The Obama administration on Friday invited 12 Democratic members of Congress and nine Republicans to a February 25 conference on healthcare and said it ...
White House pokes fun at Sarah Palin - Politics- msnbc.com
Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking ...
White House Moves Swiftly To Stem Fallout Of Obama Interview
The White House is moving swiftly to stem the fallout from a potentially damaging interview President Obama gave on Tuesday, in which, it was reported, ...
FOXNews.com - White House Issues Jobs Report, Blames Bush for Weak ...
The White House issued a new report Thursday that shows the United States is likely to average 95000 more jobs each month this year but won't lower the ...
Can Judd Gregg help White House save health bill? - David Rogers ...
He could prove to be a useful partner — if the administration is ready to trust him.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

David Plouffe advising White House on 2010 midterm elections
Washington Post
The Democratic defeat, which meant the loss of a filibuster-proof 60-seat Senate majority, served as something of a wake-up call for the White House ...
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White House Budget Proposal Gives Ax to Fossil Fuel Tax Breaks, Some Interior ...
New York Times
The $3.8 trillion budget includes "tough choices" to cut some federal programs, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said yesterday. ...
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White House Clears Rules on Indirect GHG Emissions From Biofuels
New York Times
By ALLISON WINTER of Greenwire The White House has completed its review of controversial US EPA regulations aimed at curbing renewable fuels' greenhouse gas ...
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In Wake of Venue Dispute, White House Defends Use of Civilian Courts for ...
FOXNews (blog)
"We've all seen cases that have gone through that system and ended in the conviction of those that committed terrorism," Gibbs said at the White House ...
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Obama to meet governors at White House
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is meeting at the White House on Wednesday with a bipartisan group of governors from across the country to discuss ...
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White House rues insensitive language
Los Angeles Times
Sometimes in the world of politics, speaking off-the-cuff can get you smacked, as the White House learned Wednesday, much to its chagrin. ...
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Obama plans bipartisan congressional meeting at the White House
Washington Post (blog)
By Michael A. Fletcher President Obama has invited a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to a White House meeting to discuss ways to cooperate to ...
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Obama to hold bipartisan White House meeting
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will meet with bipartisan congressional leaders at the White House next week as he follows up on a State of the ...
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White House demands apology from GOP senator over national security briefing
Washington Post (blog)
By Michael A. Fletcher White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) owes the nation's intelligence community ...
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White House launches 'text4baby' campaign
Los Angeles Times (blog)
The White House on Thursday unveiled a new "text4baby" campaign that will send text messages to help expectant mothers and mothers of infants. ...
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White House Privately Signaling Support For House Passing Senate ...
By Greg Sargent
White House aides have privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports the House passing the Senate health reform bill with a.
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Hello, White House. Is Anyone Home? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
By By PAUL KRUGMAN
Somebody really has to get the troops in line -- and that someone really has to be Obama.
Paul Krugman - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Psst! White House Backs Using Reconciliation For Health-Care ...
By Susie Madrak
What is this, the Mafia? What's the big frickin' secret? Via Greg Sargent at the Plumline: White House aides have privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports the House passing the Senate health reform bill with ...
Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/
White House: Kit Bond Owes WH, Law Enforcement an Apology ...
By ABCNews.com
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Thursday afternoon said that the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., owes people in the White House and in law enforcement an apology for alleging in a ...
Political Punch - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
White House Blasts Shelby Hold on Nominees - The Caucus Blog ...
By By KATE PHILLIPS and JEFF ZELENY
The administration takes issue with a move by the Alabama Republican senator to hold up nominations for government posts over some home-state projects.
The Caucus - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/

Sunday, February 7, 2010



Washington Post
First President Bush visits Obama at White House
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- Former President George HW Bush and his son Jeb paid a social call on President Barack Obama at the White House Saturday. ...
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White House Considers Moving 9/11 Trial Out of New York City
FOXNews
The White House denied a New York Daily News report that it ordered the Department of Justice to find a new location for the trials, which are sure to ...
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CNN International
White House: Medical evacuations of Haitians to resume
CNN International
Washington (CNN) -- Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday ...
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Change comes to embattled White House
Washington Post (blog)
By Ben Pershing A president that got elected promising change is making good on that pledge a year into his term, as the weekend brought a new White House ...
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Axelrod: No White House shake-up in the works
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top political aide says there's no White House shake-up in the works even as Obama's campaign manager is given a ...
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GOP narrows request for White House documents
Washington Post
Republicans initially wanted a far broader range of documents, including e-mails between White House aides and industry officials. ...
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Lakers visit White House, meet President Obama
Los Angeles Times (blog)
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Lakers came in first to a standing ovation in the East Room of the White House today, all of them wearing suits for their visit to ...
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White House Proposes Budget Freeze »
New York Daily News (blog)
A spokesman for House GOP leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) shrugged off the move by Obama. “Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, ...
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ABC News
White House to Dole out $8 Billion in Rail Grants
ABC News
The White House, which supplied a list of the grants to reporters late Wednesday, billed the program as "high-speed rail," but only the California project ...
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Los Angeles Times
Ron Artest feels bad about missing White House visit
Los Angeles Times
Artest, who started despite missing the team's visit to the White House on Monday with flu symptoms, finished with five points, one rebound and two assists. ...
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President Obama and Vice President Biden Preview Initiatives for ...
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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Wow: White House opposes funding health ...
By Allahpundit
Wow: White House opposes funding health bill for 9/11 victims.
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Khloe Kardashian Penetrates White House | TMZ.com
By TMZ Staff
Khloe Kardashian has something in common with Monica Lewinsky -- they both roam the White House. TMZ has learned Khloe -- along with Vanessa Bryant and ...
Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment... - http://www.tmz.com/
Michelle Malkin » Retreat: White House plays jihadi musical chairs
By Michelle Malkin
After pushing hard to try Gitmo detainees in New York City, the White House has now ordered the Justice Department to try and find other venues. They are still insisting on shipping suspected jihadis to federal courts on U.S. soil. ...
Michelle Malkin - http://michellemalkin.com/
White House v. the Supreme Court - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
By By DAVID KIRKPATRICK
The Obama administration defends the president's take on a new high-court ruling that he asserted would open the floodgates to foreign influence in American political campaigns.
The Caucus - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/


White House asks Justice Department to look for other places to ...
White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, ...
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address | The White ...
WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
White House insiders say Obama budget axes Constellation program ...
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his ...
White House brass split on stimulus stats - Politico Staff ...
White House advisers offer three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to the package.
White House to paint grim fiscal picture: source | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will predict a record budget deficit in the current fiscal year and more big shortfalls for the next decade in its ...


Now it's the boys' turn to get White House mentors
Washington Post
By NANCY BENAC AP First lady Michelle Obama started a yearlong White House mentoring program last fall for young women, pairing about 16 girls from the ...
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Washington Post
White House gate crashers invoke Fifth Amendment
Washington Post
The so-called White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have invoked their US constitutional right and refused to testify in an appearance before ...
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Now it's the boys' turn to get White House mentors
Washington Post
Obama urged them to take advantage of their potential and the access to senior White House officials. "It doesn't take much to make a big difference," Obama ...
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White House Party Crashers Take the 5th
New York Times (blog)
It was the third time the homeland security panel met to address the security breach at the White House dinner, which honored the Prime Minister of India. ...
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White House Advisers Promise Sharper Focus on Jobs
New York Times
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A politically shaken White House promised Sunday a sharper focus on jobs and the economy, but key advisers were less sure-footed on ...
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White House sets State of the Union for Jan. 27
Washington Post (blog)
27, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. This will be Obama's first official State of the Union address since coming to office. ...
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Report: 2008 Campaign Manager Plouffe to Join White House in Adviser Role
FOXNews
White House reportedly recruits David Plouffe to take on an expanded role as an outside adviser just days after Brown election. ...
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With Tougher Stance, Obama Takes On Banks
New York Times (blog)
In announcing his proposals Thursday at the White House, Mr. Obama said if the financial industry wanted a fight over new restrictions, it was a fight he ...
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White House preparing fiscal task force
Washington Post
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and congressional Democrats have reached a tentative deal to set up a task force that could make it ...
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New York Times (blog)
Obama, White House Gauge Election Fallout
New York Times (blog)
The White House says Mr. Obama will talk about the election results in an interview later on Wednesday, with George Stephanopoulos of ABC. ...
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White House releases official app for free
By Mike Schramm
The White House (as in, the home of the American President Barack Obama) has introduced a brand new iPhone app, according to White House blogger Dave Cole. The app is a one-stop shop for everything there is to know about what the ...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - http://www.tuaw.com/
White House intros official iPhone app in lieu of universal health ...
By Chris Ziegler
White House intros official iPhone app in lieu of universal health care. By Chris Ziegler posted Jan 20th 2010 4:29PM. White House, Engadget. Price, Free (tax revenue notwithstanding), Free. Customized blog reader, Yes, Yes ...
Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/
White House Promotes Rescue Video - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
By By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
In a rare move, the administration e-mails out a YouTube video touting American involvement in Haiti relief and recovery operations.
The Caucus - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/
Reacting to Mass. Rebellion, White House Beefs Up Outside ...
By ABCNews.com
Still reeling from the upset victory of Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., earlier this week, President Obama is augmenting the political operation at the White House by bringing several key 2008 campaign aides back into the fold.
Political Punch - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
ABC Empathizes with White House: Coakley Loss 'Shakespearean ...
By Brent Baker
ABC on Monday night again empathized with the Obama White House's disbelief that they could lose “Ted Kennedy's Senate seat” -- and thus ObamaCare -- if Republican Scott Brown beats Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special election ...
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White House caught in Democrats' crossfire - Glenn Thrush and Jake ...
If caucus members' frustration with Obama isn't quite heads-must-roll, it's getting there.
FOXNews.com - White House Reduces Expectation of Passing Health ...
Shell-shocked by the victory of Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate special election, the White House is offering mixed messages on ...
White House gate crashers invoke Fifth Amendment - Yahoo! News
White House gate crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday, refusing to answer a House ...
FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy - White House nightmare ...
Barack Obama at the White House. Tough going: Barack Obama at the White House. Speculation is rife about his Treasury secretary ...
Haiti Earthquake Relief | The White House
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