IRS Hearing Gets Heated
Rocks, Guns and the Border Patrol
Budget Winners and Losers
Have Feds Gotten 25% of the Year Off?
The 'Pitiful' 1 Percent Pay Raise
Obama’s $26B ‘Wish List’ for the Pentagon
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Who Said It, Obama or Nixon?
January 27, 2014 When President Obama begins his State of the Union address Tuesday night, listen closely and you'll hear echoes of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and many of the presidents who preceded him to the podium. Listen particularly hard when he says the word "new." For when it comes to this annual ...
Obama's Travel Dropped Sharply in 2013
December 2, 2013 What a difference a year makes. It was only 11 months ago that residents of Ohio thought President Obama would never leave them alone. He was there, it seemed, almost every week, asking their deepest thoughts, sharing long bus rides, chatting at ice-cream socials, and even downing a few beers ...
Obama Snubs 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address
November 19, 2013 On Tuesday, just 65 miles from the White House, thousands will gather at the battlefield where 150 years ago the sacrifice and bloodshed and deaths of warring Americans were immortalized by the words of President Abraham Lincoln. Fifty-one thousand casualties were counted when the fighting ceased in 1863, including 8,000 ...
NSA, Watergate, Vietnam: What Should Presidents Know?
October 29, 2013 The Republican National Committee dismisses him as "the bystander president," mocking the White House's declaration that President Obama knew nothing about the NSA bugging of foreign leaders before the story hit the news. They eagerly point to previous instances over the past five years when the president publicly contended he ...
Analysis: To Avoid Bush's Fate, Obama Must Fire Someone Soon
October 23, 2013 It's good that President Obama recognizes how badly his administration botched the rollout of his signature health care law. It's even better that he let the country know how angry he is. But, as he is already learning, that is not enough. With a mess this embarrassing on something so ...
White House Has a Roach Problem
September 16, 2013 It was just a cockroach, one of millions around the world. But this one had a White House address, making it pretty special. Well, special at least to the reporters with workspace in the often-troubled basement of the press offices. Already this year, they have been treated to flooding, soaked ...
Is Obama Making it Harder to Take on Iran?
September 6, 2013 Anything a president does sets a precedent for the leaders who come after him. Except when it doesn’t. That is one constitutional reality brought home by President Obama’s unexpected decision to delay military action against Syria until Congress gives him authorization. With more than 200 examples to choose from in ...
Obama, Clinton, and Carter Represent Different Generations in Racial Struggles
August 28, 2013 The brightest spotlight Wednesday at the rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington will shine on President Obama. That is as it should be, for nothing better symbolizes the advances of a half-century than the presence of a twice-elected African-American president of the United States. But ...
Analysis: Why The Confirmation Process Is Completely Broken
July 19, 2013 President Obama returned recently from a 10-day trip to five countries in Europe and Africa, where he met with 12 world leaders. He carried into those meetings American initiatives, diplomatic proposals, and economic programs. But, more embarrassingly, he also brought with him signs of the dramatic dysfunction of Washington and ...
How NSA Surveillance Jeopardizes Obama's G-8 Trip to Europe
June 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
President Obama's task in Europe this week, already daunting as the death toll in Syria mounts and the pressure for a more assertive U.S. policy there grows, has been made even more challenging by the recent disclosures of American surveillance in allied countries. The president arrives in Northern Ireland early ...
