The Swamp (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
by Peter Nicholas The White House bills it as a "listening tour," a chance for President Obama's Cabinet to get out of Washington and hear what's on the minds of rural voters around the country. En route, the White House is making sure it reaches voters in crucial swing districts. The itinerary laid out by the White House for its just-announced "Rural Tour" includes several...
Amazing Facts (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care." -- Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Just when it looked like Barrack Obama's plan for Government-Run Health Care might be dead on arrival, ABC...
The Note (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... with gays” LINK Time Magazine’s Michael Sherer: “What Happened to the Stimulus'” LINK LA Times’ Peter Nicholas: “Obama administration touring competitive rural districts” LINK LA Times’ Josh Drobnyk: “Iraq war veteran will lead effort to reverse ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’” LINK Newsweek’s Howard Fineman: “The Mind of Al Franken” LINK USA Today’s Suzanne Gamboa: “Feds begin immigration...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
by Peter Nicholas and Mark Silva The Obamas are in search of a church. Time magazine said today in an online article that the president and his family had found a new sanctuary: The Evergreen Chapel, at the Camp David presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. But apparently Time got it wrong. "The president and first family continue to look for a church home,''...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
by Peter Nicholas and Mark Silva The weather held long enough on a foreboding day in Washington, with the rain starting to fall now, for "Renegade,'' a.k.a. the president, to fit in 18 holes of golf. President Barack Obama's golf outing -- his eighth here since election -- included Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and administration aides Marvin Nicholson and Eugene Kang (wearing a...
