Obama Optimistic Despite ‘Shortage of Common Sense’ in DC
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(ATLANTA) — President Obama said on Sunday he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a “shortage of common sense” in the nation’s capital.“We’v…
Obama Optimistic Despite ‘Shortage of Common Sense’ in DC
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(ATLANTA) — President Obama said on Sunday he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a “shortage of common sense” in the nation’s capital.“We’v…
Obama Optimistic Despite ‘Shortage of Common Sense’ in DC
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(ATLANTA) — President Obama said on Sunday he remains optimistic about the prospects for his second term agenda despite what he called a “shortage of common sense” in the nation’s capital.“We’v…
Obama Strikes Personal Tone in Commencement Speech on Race, Manhood
Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post(ATLANTA) — President Obama said Sunday that he is motivated by the knowledge that “but for the grace of God … I might have been in prison,” in a commencement address at historically black Morehouse Co…
Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior ‘Inexcusable’ Whether or Not Illegal
Comstock Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue s…
Michelle Obama Makes Light of President’s Failures in Graduation Speech
iStockphoto(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school se…
Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year
The Office of Congressman Darrell Issa(WASHINTON) — Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s …
Bachmann: Scandals Facing White House ‘Far Worse Than Watergate’
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Congressman Michele Bachmann Thursday called the various scandals facing the White House “far worse than Watergate,” blaming the Obama administration for “direct actions taken again…
President Obama Golfing with Cabinet Secretaries
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — After a week of hearings in Washington and despite cloudy skies, President Obama is spending his Saturday afternoon on the golf course.Obama’s foursome included Health and Human Services Secretary…
President Obama’s Weekly Address: Building a Thriving Middle Class
Patrick Smith/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Obama says he believes “the true engine of economic growth” is a “rising, thriving middle class.” But in order to build on progress made over the last four years, he says in his weekly address, …
GOP Weekly Address: Rep. Andy Harris Argues for Obamacare Repeal
US House of Representatives(WASHINGTON) — Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland delivers this week’s Republican address, joined by Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Red Tape Tower, a seven-foot tall collection of “all the regulations already associated with …
Top Air Force General Apologizes for ‘Hook-up’ Comments
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh apologized Friday for comments he made last week that a “hook-up mentality” among America’s youth might be responsible for some sexual assaults in the mili…
IRS Planted Question About Tax Exempt Groups
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections. But members o…
Treasury Secretary Told of IRS Probe in March, Learned Details Last Week
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was first informed in March that there was an investigation into the IRS’ screening of nonprofit groups, but did not learn the details of that probe until last week, he said today….
IRS Scandal: Steven Miller Grilled at House Hearing
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Irate lawmakers Friday accused the acting IRS commissioner of misleading them about the agency’s selective scrutiny of tea party-affiliated groups, demanding to know who was responsible and why no one told Congress about it. “Wh…
Obama Talks Jobs, Says He Isn’t ‘Distracted’
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(BALTIMORE) — Trying to change the subject after a week of political scandals, President Obama on Friday said the nation’s “focus cannot drift” from rebuilding the economy and that lawmakers should focus the…
IRS Defends Agency ‘Obamacare’ Official
Comstock Images/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Despite her congressional testimony, the Internal Revenue Service on Friday denied that the former commissioner of tax exempt and government entities — now running the agency’s health care office — was …
Members of Congress Want Answers from Google
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — While some members of Congress might have been excited to try on Google’s Glass this week, others are concerned about their privacy implications. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and seven other members of the Congressional …
Watergate Hearings Televised 40 Years Ago
David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Richard Milhous Nixon was “not a crook,” or so the 37th U.S. president would have us believe. But such denials at a Nov. 17, 1973, news conference meant little or nothing by then, six mo…
Leader of Targeted Tea Party Group ‘Pissed Off’ by IRS Questioning
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Susan McLaughlin knows first-hand what it’s like to be targeted by the IRS. Her Tea Party group in Liberty Township, Ohio was among those subjected to intense questioning after applying for tax-exempt status.McLaughl…