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White House Defends Its Response on BP Oil Spill
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAmid criticism stemming from a draft report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the White House is defending itself against claims that it initially suppressed estimates of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, Press Secretary on Robert Gibbs said, "There was never an effort to not put out the most accurate and timely information as soon as we had it," insisting that any assertion otherwise "is wrong." Specifically, the report claims that a confidential National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report drafted on April 28, 2010 ...
Robert Gibbs Says Newt Gingrich's Slam of Obama Appeals 'to the Fringe'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhite House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was "trying to appeal to the fringe" in his weekend statement that President Obama displayed "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" and conned the American people. Gingrich, who is mulling a 2012 GOP presidential bid, talked about the influence of Kenya on Obama's worldview in a story posted Saturday in the National Review Online. "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich told NRO. ...
White House, Boehner Spar Over Bush Tax Cuts
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn a sign of the increasingly contentious relationship between the Obama administration and the GOP, on Sunday House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) traded barbs with the White House over the Bush tax cuts -- a sure sign that the issue will be a major talking point in the run-up to this year's midterm elections. In an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Boehner said he would be open to extending the tax cuts for the middle class (individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making over $250,000), even if it meant ending tax breaks for wealthier Americans. Boehner, ...
Has the White House Gone Tone Deaf?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOn Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wondered aloud (and in print) whether members of the "professional left" -- critical of the Obama administration for not having done enough to advance their agenda -- might perhaps be dipping into a stash of ganja, or happy pills, or both. "I mean, it's crazy," Gibbs said. "Those people ought to be drug tested." Those kooky outraged liberal naysayers, according to Gibbs, would only be satisfied with Dennis Kucinich installed as commander in chief and Canadian-style (shhh, that's code for "socialist") health care. Personal *relaxation* ...
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson: Robert Gibbs Is 'Bozo,' Should Be Fired
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIf White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn't think he'd stir things up Tuesday when he said some left-wing critics of the Obama administration "ought to be drug tested," he does now. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, characterized Gibbs as "Bozo the spokesman" and said he ought to be fired for doing "a miserable job." In an interview earlier this week with The Hill newspaper, the press secretary complained that the "professional left" would not be happy with President Obama unless the U.S. had "Canadian health care and we've eliminated the ...
Michelle Obama to Visit Gulf Oil Spill Region
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyMichelle Obama will be heading to Panama City Beach, Fla., on Monday afternoon to see the catastrophic impact of the Gulf oil spill. Mrs. Obama will get a briefing from local officials and then speak at a community event. The first lady's travel plans usually are announced through her East Wing operation, but in a rare move, the West Wing jumped the gun when White House press secretary Robert Gibbs offered up the news at Wednesday's regular briefing when asked when President Obama would next "publicly address" the oil spill. "We have talked . . . about the next time that the president ...
Joe Sestak Refuses Questions on Alleged White House Job Offer
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyInside the opulent Mansfield room on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) received a warm ovation Tuesday from the 58 Democratic senators who could be his new colleagues in November if he wins the Pennsylvania Senate race. But walking into the formal senators-only lunch, Sestak was dogged by reporters with questions about his past, specifically about allegations that Sestak made during his heated primary battle against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) that the White House had offered him a job in the administration to drop his bid to unseat Specter. Controversy ...
Oil Spill: White House on Defense as Management Criticism Mounts
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOne month after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, as hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil continue to flood into the Gulf of Mexico, the situation just keeps getting messier. This week, the Obama administration came under fire for its handling of what some have posited may be one of the worst environmental disasters in the modern era. In congressional testimony on Wednesday, leading scientists criticized the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for "failing to conduct adequate scientific analysis of the spill and allowing BP to obscure the spill's true scope." At ...
Obama, Social Media, and Presidential Advances in Communication Technology
By Mari Fagel - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama is more in tune with technology and social media than any president before him. He's participated in Q&As with YouTube users. He has nearly four million followers on Twitter and more than eight million fans on Facebook, the site that helped get him elected in the first place. "This president is such an electronics geek," said April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network. "He's even got his own BlackBerry." Nonetheless, Obama's tenure in the White House so far has underscored a very different kind of lesson: that even sophisticated ...
Biden Drops F-Bomb at Health Care Bill Signing
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 23) -- Few Americans would argue that today's signing of health care reform legislation into law wasn't a big deal. The choice of adjectives used to describe the passage of the new law, however, is a matter of fierce dispute. Unfortunately for Joe Biden, an open mic at the White House signing ceremony captured the vice president's chosen adjective loud and clear. In an aside to President Barack Obama after introducing him to the cheering audience assembled in the East Room, Biden let fly with a characteristic, off-the-cuff assessment of the moment: "Mr. President, this is a big ...
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