Obama's First 100 Days

Health Care Debate: How Many Are Actually Insured? - Associated Press

It's a central goal of the president's plan: Extending health care coverage to the millions of Americans who lack it. Question is, just how many million are uninsured?The answer co...

Stimulus Slow to Flow to Infrastructure - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Stimulus spending on infrastructure projects is moving slowly and many projects won't get started before the summer construction season ends, complicating the Obama a...

Guantanamo Ire Provokes Senate Threats - CQ Politics

If it takes shutting down the Senate to block the Obama administration from moving prisoners from Guantánamo Bay to U.S. soil, that's exactly what some Republican senators plan ...

Lifting A Burden Of Worry - Kathleen Sebelius, Washington Post

As the political debate about how to pay for and pass health reform grows louder and more contentious, we shouldn't lose sight of the reason we're even having this conversation: We...

Obama's Bait-and-Switch Agenda - Peter Berkowitz, Weekly Standard

Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleOn July 29, 1981, barely six months into his presidency and in the face of an economic crisis of historic pro...

So Far, Stimulus Doesn't Seem to Be Doing Its Job - Denver Post

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The President's Promises Are a Work in Progress - John Schoen, MSNBC

When President Barack Obama last visited Elkhart, Ind., in February, he was trying to generate popular support for a massive economic stimulus package, then facing growing oppositi...

President Obama's Blue State Agenda - Ross Douthat, New York Times

We know because he said so, in the first of many famous speeches, that Barack Obama doesn’t see Red America or Blue America — he only sees the United States of America. But as ...

'Clunkers' Rebates At Risk Unless Senate Acts - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday that unless the Senate approves $2 billion in additional funding, the Obama administration could be forced to halt as ...

The Real Lesson of Obama's Moment - Rex Murphy, Globe & Mail

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Small Beer, Big Hangover - Frank Rich, New York Times

THE comforting thing about each “national conversation on race” is that the “teachable moment” passes before any serious conversation can get going. This on...

Obama's Mistake: Wanting Too Much - Irwin Stelzer, Sunday Times

Get away from it allJenni RussellWhere am I?It started out like a song ... we knew we had a good thing going. And if I wanted too much, was that such a mistake?President Barack Oba...

Obama's Unwise Fixation on the Past - Jacob Weisberg, Newsweek

Obama's unwise fixation on the past.Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.Separate multiple addresses with commasPoliticians, like generals, suffer fro...

Lessons From the Stimulus - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard

Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleLet's stipulate that Congress may yet pass some sort of health insurance overhaul by the end of the year,...

Administration May Support Extending Jobless Aid - Politico

President Barack Obama’s top economic officials said in interviews aired Sunday that the administration may support an extension in unemployment benefits. ...

Would Ben Franklin Vote for Obamacare? - Bill O'Reilly, Boston Herald

As President Obama struggles to sell his massive reorganization of the health-care industry, it is important to understand what is driving him. This is a classic liberal vs. conser...

It's A New Bull Market - Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarkets

Let’s call this what it is: A new bull market in stocks has emerged from the ashes of the financial meltdown and the deep recession that followed. And it’s signaling the onset ...

The Rich Can't Pay for Everything - Jackie Calmes, New York Times

WASHINGTON — Behind Democrats’ struggle to pay the $1 trillion 10-year cost of President Obama’s promise to overhaul the health care system is their collision with another of...

Why Israel Is Nervous - Elliott Abrams, Wall Street Journal

The tension in U.S.-Israel relations was manifest this past week as an extraordinary troupe of Obama administration officials visited Jerusalem. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, ...

Why Does Obama Support Zelaya? - Jay Ambrose, Washington Times

By Jay Ambrose | Saturday, August 1, 2009 It has, after all, supported this law-subverting macho-style child of privilege in his insistence on being reinstated to t...

The Making of an Iran Policy - Roger Cohen, New York Times Magazine

THE JPEG REVOLUTION Images of the June uprisings in Iran, captured by amateur photographers. The protests unsettled not only the hard-liners in Tehran but also the Obama administra...

Voters Willing to Cut Obama Some Slack - Gloria Borger, CNN

The giveaway was when they started calling him "Barack."It was jarring, at first, to hear many in this group of 12 independent voters refer to their new president by his first name...

Forget Second Stimulus; We Need Economic Vision - Joel Kotkin, Politico

As the American economy slowly heals, the Obama administration will no doubt claim some credit for its $787 billion stimulus — and perhaps even suggest doubling down for a se...

'08 Was a Battle for America - Dan Balz & Haynes Johnson, Washington Post

"I think the whole election was a novel," Barack Obama said.It was mid-December 2008. The president-elect was seated in his transition headquarters in the federal building in downt...

An Ongoing Misread of Obama's Poll Numbers - David Paul Kuhn, RCP Blog

There is a need to correct some of the media misanalysis regarding Barack Obama's standing in public opinion polls.First, let's clarify where Obama stands in the public's mind. Oba...

A President in Need of a Break - Terence Samuel, The American Prospect

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President Obama's Remarks on the Economy - Barack Obama

1:23 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, I just wanted to say a few words about the economic numbers that we received this morning. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is a measure of our...

Shields and Brooks on the Economy and Iraq - The NewsHour

JIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks.First, let's talk about Iraq and Afgha...

Tough on Israel - Washington Post

ONE OF THE MORE striking results of the Obama administration's first six months is that only one country has worse relations with the United States than it did in January: Israel. ...

President Obama and His 32 Czars - Rep. Eric Cantor, Washington Post

"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And...

The Tide Recedes For Obama - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

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Panel on Health Care and the August Recess - Special Report w/Bret Baier

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)HARRY REID, (D-NV) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: I think that you folks have created the deadlines. We haven't. I'm still cautiously optimistic that we will get somethi...

Obama's Goals Could Put New Burdens on Economy - Nina Easton, Fortune

Barack Obama promised universal health care and a mass conversion to green energy when he launched his presidential campaign. On that frigid February day in 2007, the economy was g...

Dems Want Gov't to Control Health Decisions - Robert Tracinski, TIA Daily

The trademark political tactic of the Obama administration is speed: ramming legislation through Congress as fast as possible—too fast for anyone to subject the bills to scrutiny...

'Birthers' Are Truly Certifiable - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle

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Consensus Hard to Come by Without Key Players - Gerald Seib, WSJ

In big-time politics, personalities matter. If you want evidence, just look at the wrangling over health care.In this case, it's the absence on the front lines of four big personal...

Have Americans Figured Out Obama? - Ben Stein, The American Spectator

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:The American people in their ...

Senate Warns Against Concessions on Nuclear Treaty - Associated Press

The Senate is making it clear to the Obama administration that it will look askance at concessions, particularly on missile defense, that the United States might make to conclude a...

Buying a Sustainable Economy - Jeff Johnson, Chemical & Engineering News

July 27, 2009 Volume 87, Number 30 pp. 17 - 22 Buying A Sustainable Economy The record recovery act energy spending may trigger a new clean-energy industry Jeff Johnson Shutterstoc...

White House is Now Chicago's 51st Ward - Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times

Obama Truly Understands the Stakes - Paul Krugman, New York Times

The talking heads on cable TV panned President Obama’s Wednesday press conference. You see, he didn’t offer a lot of folksy anecdotes. Paul Krugman Shame on them. The health ca...

Rhetoric Meets Reality - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: mo...

Americans Concerned About Obama's Spending - Frank Newport, Gallup

Fueled by the sentiments of Republicans and independents, a new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 59% of Americans say President Obama's proposals to address the major problems faci...

States Are Getting in the Way of Recovery - James Surowiecki, New Yorker

If you came up with a list of obstacles to economic recovery in this country, it would include all the usual suspects—our still weak banking system, falling house prices, overind...

The Liberal Suicide March - David Brooks, New York Times

It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or r...

Let's Face It: Obama Is No Post-Partisan - Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal

Only last summer we were told that Barack Obama’s political appeal rested on his vision for a "post-partisan future." The post-partisan future was one of the press corps’ favor...

Obama's Strategy to Reverse Manufacturing's Fall - Louis Uchitelle, New York Times

If the Obama administration has a strategy for reviving manufacturing, Douglas Bartlett would like to know what it is....

Chu Turns to Facebook to Save Energy Bill - Keith Johnson, Wall Street Journal

The Obama administration really, really doesn’t want the fight over health care to steal attention from energy and climate legislation. Energy Secretary Steven Chu just launched ...