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It's Time For The Military To Deal With Its Horrifying Sexual Assault Problem
President Barack Obama will convene top military brass at the White House this afternoon to discuss the rampant sexual assault problems in the military. The meeting, which will include Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Chuck...Show More Summary
Obama vows IRS fix as Tea Party rallies on Capitol Hill
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would install new leadership at the Internal Revenue Service and vowed to ensure that the tax-collection agency will not single out any more groups based on their political beliefs.
Second appeals court invalidates Obama’s NLRB recess appointments
By Tal Kopan, Politico A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid.
Obama names acting IRS chief, denies knowledge of IRS report
President Barack Obama will appoint a White House budget officer to the be the new acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, an announcement made following his declaration that he knew nothing about the inspector general’s report detailing IRS actions to target conserva …
Statement: Obama Names Werfel as Acting IRS Chief
Here is the statement from President Barack Obama announcing Daniel Werfel as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as released by the White House.
Obama to name budget official as acting IRS chief
(CNN) – President Barack Obama will name Danny Werfel, an official in his budget office, as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official and a Democratic source familiar with the decision said Thursday. The previous acting commissioner resigned Wednesday after revelations the tax agency was applying extra scrutiny to conservative […]
Obama appoints OMB official Danny Werfel to head up IRS
President Barack Obama on Thursday appointed Danny Werfel, an official with the Office of Management and Budget, as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to replace the acting commissioner who was forced to resign Wednesday amid scandal. Werfel, whose appointment will be effective May 22, "will lead efforts to ensure the IRS implements new [...]
Obama vows to fix IRS as Tea Party rallies on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would install new leadership at the Internal Revenue Service and vowed to ensure that the tax-collection agency will not single out any more groups based on their political beliefs....
AP Source: Obama to Tap Werfel as Acting IRS Head
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official says. Werfel will replace Steven Miller, ousted Wednesday amid revelations that the IRS improperly singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny. Show More Summary
Congressman to Holder: 'Throw the President under the Bus'
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) unloaded on Attorney General Eric Holder, offering up the possibility that the nation’s top law enforcement official may turn on President Barack Obama and shed light on one or several of the many scandals facing the White House. Show More Summary
Bachmann: IRS Head's Resignation Merely Damage Control by White House
At Thursday morning’s Tea Party press conference addressing the IRS targeting scandal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said President Barack Obama’s and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision to ask for acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller’s resignation was not presented honestly to the American people. Show More Summary
Cryin' wolf
The oh so serious Lindsey Graham myyesnetwork.com
This has been a wretched stretch of brutal press for Barack Obama lately. Battered over and over by revelations of IRS malfeasance, aggressive assaults on press freedom at the AP andShow More Summary
Watch CNN White House Reporter Jessica Yellin Say Dumb Rain Metaphors
Barack Obama's press conference today wasn't just about a couple of scandals and whatever's happening in Syria or Turkey. It was actually a metaphor, or a series of metaphors. Jessica Yellin knows this, because she was there, and she saw God punish Obama's lies with His rain. Read more...
Obama nominees move forward, but two face uncertain future on Senate floor
Four of President Barack Obama's nominees moved forward Thursday with one, MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz, being unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be secretary of energy. Another nominee -- Sri Srinivasan to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbi …
Look at this tweet by Obama
Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. Read more: OFA.BO/gJsdFp — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 16, 2013
Obama on IRS Scandal: 'I Certainly Did Not Know Anything'
On Thursday, President Barack Obama held a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and answered one reporter’s questions about the widening scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of nearly 500 conservative groups over the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. Show More Summary
Rumor: Holder Looking to Resign; Obama Eyes Deval Patrick for AG
From Michael Sneed at the Chicago Sun-Times: Sneed is told that Attorney General Eric ?Fast and Furious? Holder?s days are numbered. Sneed hears President Barack Obama, who is this/close to Holder, has set his sights on Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick...
Obama pushes Congress for more funding for embassy security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on U.S. lawmakers on Thursday to provide extra funding to boost security for American embassies following the attack last year on the a U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Nice. Barack Obama Loves the Marines… To Hold His Umbrella
Barack Obama loves the troops… To hold his umbrella. POTUS deploys Marines for rain in Rose Garden with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. (Major Garrett)
Damon Root: Federal Court Slams Obama’s Use of Recess Appointment Power
It’s been a bad week for Barack Obama, and things
just got worse. On top of the growing scandals over the I.R.S.
argeting conservative groups and the Justice Department snooping
on journalists, the president has now received a constitutional
reprimand from the federal courts over his dubious exercise of
executive power. Show More Summary