Does the House Bill Fulfill Obama’s Pledge to Bar Abortion Funding? Gibbs Won’t Say
During his address to the joint session of Congress, President Obama declared: “Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” Does the current House bill’s language conflict with Obama’s pledge? At today’s White House press briefing, Robert Gibbs wouldn’t say.
Obama is endorsing the House bill, which Nancy Pelosi wants to [...]
Imagine There’s No Peace Prize, It’s Easy If You Try
So at the very moment that President Barack H. Obama convenes his “war council” to decide whether to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to expand operations in Afghanistan — changing to a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and adding 40,000 additional troops to the war effort — the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that the president, who has [...]
White House Divided on Goal of Defeating Taliban
E.J. Dionne, who’s as plugged-in to the Obama White House as any columnist, writes today:
some administration officials are asking why it is that al-Qaeda has weakened even as the Taliban has grown stronger? These skeptics now question whether routing the Taliban is actually essential to Obama’s core goal of defeating al-Qaeda.
As of last week, [...]
White House Preparing to Send More Troops to Afghanistan?
At the White House press briefing today, Robert Gibbs gave the impression that there’s a good chance that Obama will send more troops to Afghanistan:
I think there’s broad agreement that for many years our effort in Afghanistan has been under-resourced politically, militarily, economically. [...]
You can’t under-resource the most important part of our war on terror, [...]
Gibbs: "Nobody’s Keeping Anybody’s Email", But Of Course "Fishy" Emails Will Be Saved by the National Archives
Earlier this week, the White House asked people to forward “fishy” emails they receive that may be spreading misinformation about health-care reform to flag@whitehouse.gov. In response, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) wrote in a letter to President Obama that it’s “inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be [...]
