If I am following this correctly, Obama is going to pretend to take a tough line with GM before opening the taxpayers checkbook. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday will reject requests for almost $22 billion in new taxpayer...

Here are the line-ups for the Sunday talk shows this weekend: • ABC, This Week : Sec. of the Treasury Tim Geithner. • CBS, Face The Nation : President Obama. • CNN, State Of The Union : Gen. Davis Petraeus; Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative to the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. ...

After being hammered by Democrats for not releasing a budget alternative of their own, House Republicans today released their " Road to Recovery " budget document today. At 19 pages (Obama's was 142), it reads more like a manifesto than a line-by-line refutation of Obama. Its goals: lower ...

Thursday's White House's 'Open for Questions' summit was the latest in a line of innovative mediums by which the president has communicated to and with the public. It also was one of the most personal. At two points during the roughly hour-long session, Barack Obama offered rather intimate ...

Thursday's White House's 'Open for Questions' summit was the latest in a line of innovative mediums by which the president has communicated to and with the public. It also was one of the most personal. At two points during the roughly hour-long session, Barack Obama offered rather intimate ...

"Carlos has a better product to sell," Obama says, giving a hypothetical scenario in a response to a question about procurement reform. Following just minutes on his marijuana answer, the line drew laughs from the audience.

by Frank James 11:32 am -- The live-stream from the White House has started. We're looking at the White House medallion logo which is best known as the backdrop in the White House press briefing room. ------------------- We'll be live blogging President Barack Obama's on-line town hall ...

This morning I've seen various media reports and liberal blogs cooing over how Obama supposedly put Ed Henry in his place last night with his "I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak" line. Ed Morrissey does a pretty good job throwing cold water on that mistaken assumption, noting ...

Pres. Obama’s answer to a follow-up question from CNN’s Ed Henry about why it took Obama two days to respond to the AIG bonus controversy was my favorite line of the night. What a refreshing novelty, to have a president who wants to know what he’s talking about before he ...

So today we've seen Republicans try out their new line of attack: that Obama is throwing out "too many ideas" on the economy, with little cohesion. A DNC spokesman fires back : I guess when you have no new ideas, anything more than zero must seem overwhelming.

Obama endorses rail projects; Scranton-NYC line may find support…

by Mark Silva The author, as the Op-Ed notes in the credit line, is the president of the United States. "We are living through a time of global economic challenges that cannot be met by half measures or the isolated efforts of any nation,'' President Barack Obama writes in an essay ...