Tag: Barack Obama

Obama's departure, and subsequent arrival of an administration not as interested in the law's success, leaves open the question of whether Obamacare can succeed without a massive lift from the White House.

Can Obamacare survive without Obama there to prop it up?

Robert King, Kimberly Leonard · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

Conservative radio host Mark Levin advanced the controversy over President Trump's claim his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones, by saying Obama must have known about the alleged surveillance. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington Secrets

Book: Obama plot to ‘destroy Trump’ over Russia hatched at Christmas

Paul Bedard · October 29, 2017 6:45 pm

A report on federal assistance for addiction medications was released two days after President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, but did not add any new money to combatting the epidemic that kills 91 Americans a day. (iStock)

Federal money to fight opioid crisis may be going to wrong places, new report says

Robert King · October 28, 2017 4:00 pm

Cook County officials said on Friday that former President Barack Obama has to report for jury duty in November. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Barack Obama to report for jury duty in Chicago next month

Kyle Feldscher · October 28, 2017 3:31 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent letters to the White House counsel, the president's personal lawyer, Twitter, Facebook, and the Trump campaign's data analytics firm seeking information related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dianne Feinstein demands answers from White House, Trump, Facebook, Twitter on Russia

Melissa Quinn · October 27, 2017 9:55 pm

After former President George W. Bush's strong rebuke of President Trump, Democrats seem to have forgotten about the human, economic, and environmental costs that Bush thrusted onto the country, the wars, the Hurricane Katrina response, and so much else. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Beltway Confidential

Democratic love for George W. Bush proves politics is America’s most popular sport

Siraj Hashmi · October 27, 2017 9:26 pm

Nathan Michael Smith, a former Army intelligence analyst, filed a suit last year claiming President Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without congressional authorization. His case is being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 8:34 pm

It certainly looks like former President Barack Obama was tougher on the IRS than President Trump. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Beltway Confidential

Obama showed more leadership than Trump did at the IRS (He told the IRS commissioner ‘you’re fired’)

Philip Wegmann · October 27, 2017 4:19 pm

If the Bergdahl trade was indeed staged as a distraction from the VA scandal, what a scandal that would be. ( (Andrew Craft/The Fayetteville Observer via AP)

The Bowe Bergdahl ordeal has stunk from day one

Becket Adams · October 27, 2017 3:42 pm

Power tweeted out a graph of the number of people who died in Syria between 2011 and 2017 with the caption reading, "The human toll of Russia's complicity." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Congratulations, Samantha Power: You played yourself on Syria

Siraj Hashmi · October 27, 2017 2:34 pm

First They Came for Elmo…

The Scrapbook · October 27, 2017 5:00 am

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., tweeted Thursday night that he was disturbed by the possibility President Trump pursued lifting a gag order on an undercover FBI informant so he could testify to Congress about the so-called "Uranium One" deal involving the Obama administration and the Clintons. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Rep. Adam Schiff floats new probe over Trump’s involvement in lifting FBI informant’s gag order

Diana Stancy Correll · October 27, 2017 4:38 am