Category: Presidency

Psaki: I Don’t Know if Anything We Do in the White House Is Boring
If you're one of those who say that President Biden and his White House are, well, a bit boring -- press secretary Jen Psaki would beg to differ.

The First Guilty Pleas In The Insurrection: The Good, The The Still To Be Known, And The Flat-out Crazy
So the first felony guilty pleas are in, in connection with the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. And, granted, they're just two such pleas. But here's what we know and what these first felony convictions tell us what we might reasonably expect for future prosecutions.

Schumer: ‘Biden Legally Has the Authority to Cancel up to $50K in Student Debt Through Executive Action’
President Biden has it within his executive power to erase up to $50,000 per borrower in student loan debt, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), addressing the racial wealth gap during a virtual roundtable.

‘I Am So Sick of Prayers and Thoughts’
After another in the long march of deadly mass shootings across the nation -- this one claiming 10 lives at a Colorado supermarket -- some are willing to settle for more of the usual bromides. Others -- very definitely -- are not.

President Biden Tells Potential Immigrants: ‘Don’t Come,’ US ‘Still Getting Set Up’
Addressing what could be becoming his young administration's biggest headache and potential liability thus far, President Biden used a national TV appearance to tell potential immigrants to the United States, "Don't come."

Al Gore: Biden Is Off to Strongest Start in His First 50 Days For a President Since FDR
Joe Biden's off to the strongest start of any American president in nearly a century.

COVID Relief Bill Is Practically FDR Level Type of Reform
With congressional Democrats having finally gotten President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package across the legislative finish line, they've handed Biden a political win even larger than what it looks like on the surface, according to observers across the political spectrum.

Administration, Allies Continue Fight For Embattled Nominee Tanden
The Biden administration and its allies continue to fight against worsening odds to keep alive Neera Tanden's nearly moribund nomination to head up the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Rush Limbaugh ‘Laid Groundwork For Donald Trump’
Rush Limbaugh, the nationally syndicated right-wing radio broadcaster who died Wednesday of advanced lung cancer, was eulogized also for paving the way for the political environment which allowed for Donald Trump's ascension to the White House, according to a variety of political commentators.

Biden ‘Didn’t Run on a Promise to Unite the Democratic and Republican Party into One Party in Washington’
Joe Biden's drive for national unity reached what might be realistic limits this week in the US Senate, where the legislative framework for President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package made it into law by the slimmest margin possible -- and with no Republican support.