Tag: Barack Obama

Max Baucus, who helped lead the passage of Obamacare, said it was time for the U.S. to move to single-payer healthcare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Key Obamacare architect Max Baucus now backs single payer

Kimberly Leonard · September 8, 2017 8:04 pm

Total funding provided for the Bay Delta project by all parties equaled approximately $257.3 million. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Energy and Environment

Obama officials gave contractors tens of millions of dollars in improper conservation funds: Watchdog

John Siciliano · September 8, 2017 7:52 pm

House Republicans criticized the Justice Department said it wouldn't reconsider the question of whether to prosecute former IRS official Lois Lerner for her role in the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

GOP outraged after Trump refuses to consider Lois Lerner prosecution

Joseph Lawler · September 8, 2017 6:38 pm

The Democrats' real position is one in which they're saying it is legitimate for Obama to have acted unilaterally to create DACA but that Trump doesn't have the same power to rescind it. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Beltway Confidential

The Democratic about-face on executive power is pathetic (but not surprising)

Jay Caruso · September 8, 2017 4:48 pm

"I did some yoga. Tried alternative nostril breathing, I highly recommend it. It kind of calms you down. And yes, I had my fair share of chardonnay," Clinton said during an appearance at New York's Riverside church. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hillary Clinton tried yoga, alternative breathing to get over election loss

Sean Langille · September 8, 2017 4:02 pm

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton waged an illegal war in Libya that created a vacuum into which all sorts of terrorists flooded. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s illegal Libya war has made the current situation in North Korea more dangerous

Timothy P. Carney · September 8, 2017 3:01 pm

Not Dead Yet

The Editors · September 8, 2017 7:30 am

Whitewash Interrupted

The Scrapbook · September 8, 2017 7:30 am

Vehicles drive on flooded streets in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday in Houston. The campaign, announced by the Office of President George H.W. Bush, will premiere Thursday night with a public service announcement titled Our Friends in Texas on NBC during the NFL's opening game of the New England Patriots hosting the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former presidents unveil fundraiser to help hurricane victims

Diana Stancy Correll · September 8, 2017 12:01 am

President Trump rolled back a decision by the Obama administration to go forward with the next phase of the vehicle rules through 2025, after automakers convinced Trump that the rules were too strict and did not take into consideration low fuel prices and changing consumer preferences. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)

Energy and Environment

Environmentalists sue Trump for delaying Obama-era fines on gas guzzling cars

John Siciliano · September 7, 2017 9:25 pm

President Trump downplayed the U.S. interest in Syria's nearly seven-year civil war Thursday, saying at a press conference with Kuwait's leader that "we have little to do with Syria other than killing ISIS." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: US has ‘little to do with Syria other than killing ISIS’

Steven Nelson · September 7, 2017 8:02 pm

An influential Obamacare opponent who was the architect of a Supreme Court challenge that threatened to unravel the law is raising questions over whether the District of Columbia's health exchange looked the other way so that employees of Congress and others could illegally enroll in a program meant to cover small businesses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New documents trigger questions about special treatment for Congress under Obamacare

Kimberly Leonard · September 7, 2017 7:24 pm