Bad poll numbers on the scandals that have wracked the capital are adding up to bad news for President Obama, national polling expert Scott Rasmussen says. In a column published Friday, Rasmussen acknowledges Obama’s job-approval rating remains at 47 percent, but says the administration is getting poor reviews in important areas that could belie that. [...]
Letters bearing a senior IRS official’s signature were made public Thursday afternoon that directly contradict her statements and congressional testimony that she had no personal, direct involvement in the IRS scandal and that she had “not done anything wrong.” The American Center for Law and Justice chief counsel Jay Sekulow revealed that Lois Lerner, now [...]
President Obama, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, broke with the tradition of returning the salute of the U.S. Marine outside Marine One Friday morning. Perhaps Obama suddenly realized, or perhaps someone onboard the helicopter said something to him, because Obama promptly walked back down the steps to go shake hands with the Marine. The president is not [...]
Doing all he can to change the subject amid a number of swirling controversies, President Obama plans to return to New Jersey on Tuesday to survey recovery efforts still underway in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In response to the planned visit, Republican Gov. Chris Christie said he will gladly welcome Obama back to his [...]
President Obama’s counterterror speech Thursday night had the intended effect of distracting attention from the IRS scandal that’s dominated the news for the past week. And it drew the predictably warm welcome of his New York Times PR branch. “The United States is not at war with Islam,” the president declared. True enough. But some [...]
Though only in the early stages of the investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s mistreatment of conservative groups, House Republicans are already divided on the eventual need for a special prosecutor. Some rightfully worry that special counsel would be appointed by none other than controversial Attorney General Eric Holder, others say the IRS investigation will [...]
TALLAHASSEE — When it comes to red-light cameras in Florida, the focus is on the money. “Red-light cameras are all about generating revenue, period,” said John Bowman, communications director of the National Motorists Association, a nonprofit advocacy group. Claims of safety, he said, often are “wishful thinking on the part of red-light camera companies and [...]
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is helping GOP state politics on a national scale. Bondi, who is now first in line to succeed Gov. Rick Scott until Scott names a new lieutenant governor, is one of four co-chairwomen of a national Republican initiative aimed at electing more Republican women to state offices. The initiative, called [...]
Fox News chief Roger Ailes has sent a memo to employees in response to the federal investigation of one of its own, reporter James Rosen, allegedly related to possible leaks of classified information. Rosen was shamefully identified as a “flight risk” and criminal “co-conspirator” in a search warrant application authorized by U.S. Attorny General Eric [...]
President Barack Obama announced Thursday his nomination of State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland as the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, a substantial promotion. If her name sounds familiar, it should. She was the person primarily responsible for sanitizing the infamous Benghazi talking points of all traces of al-Qaida or al-Qaida-linked [...]
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