The White House has released the results of Barack Obama’s first routine physical as President. Some vital stats: The doctor also recommends that Obama “continue smoking cessation efforts.” No word on whether he’s been sneaking any smokes.
On ABC’s This Week Sunday morning, the House speaker lays out a process. Well, let me say I have this in three — just so you know, how we sequence this. First, we zero in on what the policy will be, and that is what we’ll be doing following the president’s summit yesterday. Secondly, we’ll [...]
Back when Gatecrashgate hit in November, Desiree Rogers, the White House Social Secretary, held her ground. She avoided calls from the press, refused an opportunity to testify before Congress, and then appeared smiling and attentive at each of the subsequent White House holiday parties, gleefully greeting journalists, staff and members of Congress, as if there [...]
From the White House flickr stream:
There has been much musing around town (and on Swampland) about the tricky logistics of pushing a comprehensive health care reform bill through Congress at this point. The process will require at least three big votes: The House has to pass the Senate bill. The Senate has to pass amendments to its own plan through [...]
Shame on me. I was elsewhere yesterday and missed the health care summit. I’m catching up now, and the tea leaves seem to indicate that Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans. How do I know that? From Matt Drudge, of course. I mean, Drudge’s takeaway from the summit is that the President talked [...]
The group of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 could rival Yahweh for most names. Various cross sections are called the iGeneration, Generation Y, the (Inter)Net Generation, Echo Boomers, Generation Next — or, as at the Pew Research Center’s youth culture panels on Wednesday, the Millennials. Social gurus had convened to discuss the [...]
New York Governor David Paterson will not seek election to a full term in office. Dogged by low approval ratings and allegations he intervened in the assault case of a close aide, Paterson still faces calls to resign. Democrats in Washington, including the president, had opposed the governor’s campaign plans.
To follow up on my West Bank column, we have two brilliant examples today of Israeli efforts to illegally extend its control into Palestinian areas under the guise of high-mindedness. First, there’s Ethan Bronner’s report about the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem’s plans to clear a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The intent sounds benign: the [...]
