Bloomberg writes, “Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51% of the national popular vote twice, according to a revised vote count in New York eight weeks after the Nov. 6 election,” “The president nationally won 65.9 million votes -- or 51.1%...
As President Obama prepares to announce his cabinet; we began thinking about the upcoming confirmation process. In 2002, the Oxford English Dictionary added the verb "to bork" -- to systematically defame or vilify a person, especially in the mass media -- to their lexicon. You may remember that Robert Bork's...
The ducks, they teeter/ Off the long-awaited cliff / Lame! it's just a hill. #FiscalCliffHaikus
With time running short to work out a deal to avert a year-end fiscal crisis, President Obama called Speaker John A. Boehner to the White House on Thursday evening to try to move talks forward even as pessimism mounted that a broad deal could be struck that bridges the substantial...
Democrats look at the political landscape and see a win whether a deal gets cut now or after the country goes over the fiscal cliff. In the worst-case scenario, they say, the House will approve legislation the Senate passed in July extending Bush-era tax cuts for everyone but the rich,...
According to the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 55% of adults say President Obama is making a serious effort to work with Republicans on a budget and tax deal, while 32% say Republicans are serious, Other national polls have found similar...
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