In the history of mankind, many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state. TR
10:30 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 12:30 pm || Lunch with Biden 4:00 pm || Meets with Secretary of State Kerry All times Eastern Live stream of Carney briefing at 12:30 pm
President Obama is excoriating Republicans for threatening to allow the sequester – the one Obama insisted on – to kick in, claiming all sorts of intolerable spending cuts will occur and calamitous things will happen if something isn’t done to avert it. But White House Dossier has discovered the true reason for Obama’s concern. Some of these cuts hit the White House, and they’re going
“We need a balanced approach that raises both taxes and spending.” – Barack Obama A note from our attorneys: This is not a real quote
In a startling claim, President Obama today said the sequester he agreed to was never designed to happen. “The whole design of these arbitrary cuts was to make them so unattractive and unappealing that Democrats and Republicans would actually get together and find a good compromise of sensible cuts as well as closing tax loopholes and so forth,” he said. “And so this was all
The briefing has concluded.
No doubt invoking presidential prerogative, President Obama teamed with Tiger Woods during Sunday’s round at the Floridian golf resort to defeat the hapless pair of U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Floridian owner Jim Crane, a Houston businessman. According to Golf Digest, Woods birdied the first hole and it was probably downhill from there for Kirk and Crane, who were forced to part with $15 after
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