President Obama’s opening statement at today’s White House press conference set a combative tone that carried through the rest of the hour and seven minute session. Obama began his remarks by listing listed a number of bills that could help lower the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate but were still “pending before Congress right now.” He also insisted that job creation must be part of any package passed to raise the debt limit.
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President Obama, in his first solo news conference at the White House in more than three months, used his bully pulpit Wednesday to press Congress "to seize this moment" and broker a deficit deal about a month before the U.S. faces default on its loans to global partners.
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According to The Hill, former-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York today that the War Powers Act “does not apply” to the current U.S. military operation in Libya. This appears to be the same position President Obama took on the issue.
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President Obama, continuing his heightened role in stalled deficit talks, will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Wednesday.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Republicans aren't yet on the docket for another meeting, the White House said.
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Crossroads GPS, the conservative group co-founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove, launched a $20 million campaign Monday to flood Virginia and a handful of other battleground states with television ads hammering President Obama's handling of the economy.
The "Shovel Ready" ad will play in 10 states, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri and other areas crucial to Obama's re-election bid.
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What's likely to be the basic debate issue of the 2012 presidential campaign? If you said, "jobs" or "the economy," you're right, but there are several different ways to talk about those issues.
Crossroads GPS is mounting a two-month, $20 million advertising campaign aimed at framing the economic issues for the 2012 contest.
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The House on Friday rejected a resolution authorizing President Obama to continue military intervention in Libya as part of a NATO operation aiding anti-government rebels.
The House voted 295-123 against the continuation of the mission. All but eight Republicans voted against it, along with 70 Democrats.
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Soon after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, with raw crude pumping out of the seabed into the Gulf of Mexico in the worst oil spill in American history, foreign nations began offering help with the clean up.
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Bloomberg released a poll yesterday under the header Americans Worse Than When Obama Inaugurated by 44%-34% Margin.
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For the first time this year, the Associated Press-GfK poll has President Obama’s re-elect number below 50%. But by a one point margin, 48-47, the poll has a plurality of Americans still sending him back to Washington.
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