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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The midterm elections are still 2½ weeks away, but one set of 2010 winners can now be declared: monied interests that want to shape the government to their liking. If you've paid attention to the political back-and-forth of the past week, you know that the Obama White House and the Democratic National Committee have been tussling with Republican operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, over whether Rove and Gillespie's political groups and the chamber have been funneling foreign money into House and Senate campaigns to benefit GOP candidates. But foreign ...
President Obama used the glitzy White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night to take a few shots at himself, his staff, the press and, of course, the Republicans. In turn, many of the 2,700 guests from the increasingly overlapping worlds of media, politics and celebrity used the annual black-tie dinner to anchor more than a dozen other weekend parties with heavy groupie overtones. Obama, who by many accounts upstaged the headliner, Jay Leno, spoke first. "There are few thing in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love," he deadpanned. "Well, love ...
As Patricia Murphy noted earlier, President Obama dropped in on the Five Guys Restaurant today for some rapid nourishment (video here). He was accompanied by an NBC News film crew.The subject of the President's trip came up at today's White House Press Briefing, where CBS' Mark Knoller cast a suspicious eye at the "day in the life" burger run, prompting a quick rejoinder from NBC's Chuck Todd:Here's the video of the President's visit to Five Guys: ...
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