White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told George Stephanopoulos Sunday that President Obama will try and make the case for a public option to be included in healthcare reform legislation, but he won’t threaten to veto a bill that doesn’t include one. Gibbs also told Stephanopolous, host of ABC News’ “This Week,” that the White [...]
My Fellow Americans. I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two mistakes really. I thought that Congress could do its job and through the deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win broad support across the aisle and among all of you. But I’m afraid that I was wrong.
It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it.
The way I see it, President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around. The war in Afghanistan is going south, and within a couple of weeks, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s version of Lyndon Johnson’s General William Westmoreland, will be coming to him asking for more troops. Things are getting hairier in Iraq too.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius simply cannot get off the wheel he spins for the Central Intelligence Agency. Only two days after the release of the 2004 CIA study of the detention and interrogation program, which provides sordid and sadistic details of an illegal and immoral program, Ignatius still opposes any criminal review of the [...]
For the past two decades, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s most active apologist for the transgressions of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ignatius reached a new low last month, when he used two oped columns to trivialize the CIA’s use of torture and abuse against detainees
George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC News’ “This Week,” interviewed former Republican presidential candidate John McCain Sunday. Stephanopoulos reports: In his first comments on Sarah Palin’s “death panel” claims, John McCain is standing by his former running mate. Sort of… He doesn’t like the phrase “death panels,” but he defended the substance of Palin’s charge, saying [...]
A federal court this week ruled for the first time that the U.S. government cannot freeze an organization’s assets under a terror financing law without a warrant based upon probable cause and without telling the organization the basis for its action and a meaningful opportunity to defend itself. If the decision of U.S. District Judge [...]
In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed yesterday that the government had failed to disclose 11 more deaths in immigration detention facilities. In April, DHS officials released what they called a comprehensive list of all deaths in detention. That list included [...]
