A reporter used a word coined by "Saturday Night Live" to mock President Bush in the White House briefing Tuesday. "From the standpoint of leverage o...
Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Pushing back against criticism that the President is too busy to stop in Copenhagen to pitch Chicago as a host site for the 2016 Olympics, the White H...
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
On issues of race, Obama will forever be either the man who healed the septic wound that runs across the back of this nation, or the man who turned away from the mirror to solve more "practical" issues.
Christian Science Monitor | Patrik Jonsson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
In asserting that some Obama foes are prejudiced, the ex-president rekindles a difficult discussion. The right sees it as a way to squelch legitimate ...
David Kronke | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy
"I'm not going to be happy until I have half the jobs in America," DeGeneres declared. "If that means taking your job, then so be it."
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Cong...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
On CNN Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he didn't think the protests against the president are racially motivated. Host John Kin...
The Daily Beast | Mark McKinnon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party--and he's donating $1,00...
Jenna Staul | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs expressed some annoyance yesterday that lobbyists were clued in to the health care plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on "Fox & Friends," the Fox News morning show, to preview President Obama's speech to Congress tonig...
Mario Almonte | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Within the immense pool of 60 million who voted Republican thrives a disturbing core of religious fundamentalists, ultra conservatives, and all-purpose extremists who hates everyone and everything different from them.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Gibbs seemed to hint at a new twist in the debate over whether a government-operated health insurance program will be one of the options available in health reform legislation.
Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
Summer looked like a lot of fun if you were rolling with the Obama crowd. The president went fishing, played basketball and pitched a baseball. He cel...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
The White House on Monday accused one of the key Senate Republicans working on health care legislation of abandoning efforts at crafting a bipartisan ...
Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
As Afghanistan holds national elections for the presidency and provincial council, the HuffPost has put together this resource guide to voting day and...
POLITICO 44 | AMIE PARNES | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was $50 dollars richer Wednesday after he won a friendly wager with a reporter. ...
wsj.com | By JONATHAN WEISMAN and NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders, seeing little chance of bipartisan support for their health-care overhaul, are considering a strategy s...
Paul Helmke | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Robert Gibbs' cavalier response to protesters carrying guns to presidential events was tone-deaf. This isn't a political issue and it isn't about the Second Amendment.
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse.
Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
NEW YORK A joint letter from a group of news outlets and journalism organizations -- ranging from The New York Times to Reporters Committee for Freedo...
New York Times | CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged on Tuesday that there are only a "handful" of Republicans who seem interested in health care ref...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
What did the White House offer drugmakers to get their support for health care legislation? NBC's Chuck Todd put the question directly to Robert Gibb...
Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
In yet another in a series of evolving statements and backtracks, an official with the country's major pharmaceutical lobby said on Monday that it nev...
Posted 09.29.2009 | Media