Tag: Presidents

President Obama pauses while making an announcement about immigration reform, Monday in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Move over, Jimmy Carter: Survey finds Obama is the worst president since World War II

Becket Adams · July 2, 2014 1:00 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest pauses during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Wednesday the Republican-controlled House will file an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama of failing to carry out the laws passed by Congress. In response, Earnest accused congressional Republicans of obstruction and said they had left Obama with little option but to make greater use of his executive authority. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

VIDEO: President Obama will do ‘as much as he can’ on immigration

Ed Sykes · July 1, 2014 6:45 pm

President Obama said, "The misconduct that (the inspector general's report) uncovered is inexcusable." "It's inexcusable," he repeated, "and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency Ã¢â¬" but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives." (AP Photo)

How can anyone trust President Obama?

David Limbaugh · July 1, 2014 2:29 pm

President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to take executive actions on immigration reform

Brian Hughes · June 30, 2014 7:47 pm

Illegals united: Most crossing border to be with their undocumented parents

Paul Bedard · June 30, 2014 2:58 pm

"Members of Congress are likely resigned to the fact that they are the most distrusted institution of government, but there should be concern that now fewer than one in 10 Americans have confidence in their legislative body," Justin McCarthy notes on Gallup. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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How long can America endure plunging public confidence in all three branches of government?

Mark Tapscott · June 30, 2014 8:20 am

President Obama wasn't just bluffing when he smugly declared, "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone." He was expressing his frustration with his political opponents' sometimes refusal to roll over to his dictates and his resolve to circumvent them every time he gets a chance. (AP Photo)

President Obama is not finished

David Limbaugh · June 27, 2014 3:08 pm

In Noel Canning, Another Unanimous Defeat For Claims Of Unchecked Power

Adam J. White · June 27, 2014 1:05 pm

A new Politico poll suggests that Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign may be over before it's officially announced because she is the political equivalent of being famous for being famous. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Hillary Clinton a shoo-in for POTUS? Not so fast

David Limbaugh · June 24, 2014 2:53 pm

In December 2011, President Obama said: "We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making." (AP Photo)

Questions for President Obama

Mona Charen · June 20, 2014 4:54 pm

Gesturing as he talks, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, leader of Allied forces organizing in Britain for the second front, watches maneuvers on a miniature tank range somewhere in Britain on March 13, 1944. (AP Photo/Pool)

Being a real leader means accepting responsibility for failures and crediting others in victories

Melanie Sturm · June 16, 2014 6:26 pm

Josh Earnest has spent the last half-decade jotting notes during each White House press briefing, deconstructing what went right and what went wrong, just outside the glare of the TV cameras. (AP Image)

Meet the new face of the Obama administration

Brian Hughes · June 13, 2014 9:00 am