Fox News yesterday tried their best to spin a mistake he made at a speech the other day about the proposed savings of his health care bill, where he stated it would bring down the deficit by $ 1 trillion over the next decade.
Instead they made it a point to call out that the actual [...]
It seemed among the easiest of his transparency pledges and is entirely under his control, but President Obama is finagling his promise to post bills on the White House Web site for comment for five days before he signs them.
Mr. Obama last week signed four bills, each just a day or two after Congress passed [...]
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
All that starts well doesn’t necessarily end well, it seems.
Even as it pulls back from harsh interrogations and other sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush ’s “war on terrorism,” the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor’s approach to fighting Al Qaeda.
In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Savoring his first big victory in Congress, President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus bill as a
“major milestone on our road to recovery.”
Speaking in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said,
“I will sign this legislation into law shortly, and we’ll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
The House has passed the $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy, handing President Barack Obama a big victory. It’s an imposing eight inch thick mass of tax cuts and government spendings. Obama wasn’t completely overjoyed though, as it seems he had to make some actual diplomatic compromises, and the opposition is fierce; calling it [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Obama renewed his call for direct US dialogue with Iran, saying he hoped to create the conditions to “start sitting across the table, face to face” in the coming months.
“I think there’s the possibility, at least, of a relationship of mutual respect and progress,” Obama said at the first press conference of his young presidency, [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
President Barack Obama pressed Congress Monday night to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, using the first prime-time news conference of his presidency to warn that a failure to act;
“could turn a crisis into a catastrophe.”
He took his case for an $800 billion economic recovery package to one of the most distressed places in [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
President Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, approving the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for Ms. Ledbetter, fourth from left, an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.
he said would [...]
