Results for: Barack obama

Trump Unleashes CIA To Hunt Down Terrorists
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/14/trump-unleashes-cia-hunt-terrorists-n69047
– The Obama administration put the military in charge of pulling the trigger to promote transparency and accountability. … The decision on reporting is an administrative one that the Obama administration made and it may or may not make sense. … Obama in 2013 began to push for more drone operations to be conducted by the Defense Department.…
White House Official: We Bought Romney's Credibility with Frog Legs
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/03/14/white-house-official-bought-romneys-credibility-frog-legs-n69045
– After Barack Obama and his crowd, there was a yearning to get some adults in the White House, finally. Instead, we got this.…
Senate Confirms Seema Verma To Lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/14/senate-confirms-seema-verma-lead-centers-medicare-medicaid-services-n69040
– That legislation would roll back key elements of former president Barack Obama’s health care law, including its Medicaid expansion … Taken together, those changes could reverse the Obama era’s historic health insurance gains.…
BREAKING: Sean Spicer Walks Back Trump's Claims About Obama and Wiretapping
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/13/breaking-sean-spicer-walks-back-trump-claims-obama-wiretapping-n69018
– So Trump and his team were being asked to provide evidence of his claims that President Obama wiretapped his phones. … mind.”: The White House on Monday walked back key point of President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated allegation that President Barack … Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election.…
What Scandal at the DOJ?
https://redstate.com/joshkimbrell/2017/03/13/what-scandal-at-the-doj-n69017
– Attorneys that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as we can.” … The former Deputy National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, tweeted over the weekend that “In democracies … Attorneys to resign who were appointed by President Barack Obama.…
The Democrat Disconnect and the Reign of the Right
https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2017/03/13/the-democrat-disconnect-and-the-reign-of-the-right-n68984
– It wasn’t until I started looking at polling data, specifically data from the Obama-to-Trump flip states that I began to feel better … The likeability factors between Trump and Obama were almost as divergent as the outcome of the 2012 and 2016 votes. … Bush, Barack Obama and everyone in between. Raymond and I could not have been more philosophically opposed.…
Wiretapping, Secret Spy TVs, And Microwave Spy Cameras: Welcome To 2017
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/03/13/wiretapping-secret-spy-tvs-microwave-spy-cameras-welcome-2017-n68999
– Twitter claim in spite of strong assertions that it is not true from the U.S. intelligence community as well as from former president Barack … Obama himself and members of his inner circle. … If Obama was secretly wiretapping Trump Tower, as the president has claimed, or if some super-secret spy agency is using microwaves…
The Constitution Protects Us…from Government. And Only from Government
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/03/13/constitution-protects-usfrom-government-government-n68992
– Ostensibly an independent agency (Trump predecessor Barack Obama certainly didn’t treat it as such), it would be up to the Chairman … Of course, the Obama FCC executed a whole host of massive power grabs – but Net Neutrality retains the highest profile. … He was on the Obama Commission – repeatedly, vocally voting “Nay” as Obama’s FCC Chairman rammed through this cavalcade of power grabs…
McCain Calls on Trump to Put Up or Shut Up on Wiretapping
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/03/12/mccain-calls-trump-put-shut-wiretapping-n68978
– was on Jake Tapper’s show this morning calling on President Trump to put up or shut up regarding Trump’s claims last weekend about Obama … John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped … We don’t know what Obama did or didn’t do, but Trump had no secret knowledge. It was just Trump popping off the way he does.…
House Intel Has Called For The White House To Provide Evidence Of Wiretap By Monday
https://redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/03/12/house-intel-called-white-house-provide-evidence-wiretap-monday-n68975
– Trump has kept his distance from the press since last weekend, when he accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower … Trump did not provide any evidence of the claim, and a spokesperson for Obama denied that he or any White House official called for … this one, as far as those who are willing to stand by him and say he was absolutely correct in his claims that former President Obama…
Can We Stop Pretending Trump's Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys Is A Scandal?
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/12/can-stop-pretending-trumps-dismissal-us-attorneys-scandal-n68965
– I happened to a do a search for when President Obama got rid of GWB holdovers for his attorneys, and I found two very different headlines … The second says, “Obama to replace U.S. Attorneys.” … Obama merely “replaces” people.…
What Is Really Behind the Firing Of Obama Holdovers In the Department Of Justice
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/11/really-behind-firing-obama-holdovers-department-justice-n68935
– Yesterday afternoon Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the resignation of the 46 remaining US Attorneys appointed by Obama. … Trump’s allies outside the government to oust appointees from President Barack Obama’s administration. Mr. … Trump needed to “purge” Obama holdovers from the federal government. Mr.…
Jake Tapper is 100% Correct: Trump Requires More Fact-checking
https://redstate.com/absentee/2017/03/11/jake-tapper-100-correct-trump-requires-fact-checking-n68932
– “To be completely candid, I did fact checks about Barack Obama, too, not at the same rate, nor was there a need for them at the same … Both Trump and Obama lie and lied. … He spouted off on a Saturday morning on Twitter that Barack Obama bugged his residence.…
Jake Tapper At SXSW: Trump Requires More Fact Checking Than Obama Did
https://redstate.com/mickeywhite2/2017/03/11/jake-tapper-sxsw-no-need-fact-check-obama-rate-trump-n68931
– “To be completely candid, I did fact checks about Barack Obama, too, not at the same rate, nor was there a need for them at the same … Obama didn’t require the amount of fact checking that Donald Trump does. Why is that? He was the President for two terms. … If only journalists had done their jobs during the Obama years, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this situation now.…
If Obamacare Replace Fails, Trump Said He'd Blame Democrats: He Will Blame Republicans, Too
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/11/obamacare-replace…ails-trump-blame-democrats-will-blame-republicans-too-n68929
– Trump signed off on the mission but tried to pass the buck to Barack Obama for the blame.…
BREAKING. Jeff Sessions Asks For Resignations Of All Remaining US Attorneys
https://redstate.com/streiff/2017/03/10/breaking-jeff-sessions-asks-resignations-remaining-us-attorneys-n68925
– Jeff Sessions has requested the resignation of the 46 remaining Obama appointed US Attorneys: Many of the federal prosecutors who … were nominated by former President Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the…
Water Cooler 3/10/17 Open Thread; Another Term For Obama !; Survival Tips For The Trump Years; CIA's Loss Is Your Gain
https://redstate.com/joliphant/2017/03/10/water-cooler-31017…r-term-obama-survival-tips-trump-years-cias-loss-gain-n68893
– Obama Why Obama? … France gives us the Statue Of Liberty, and we give them Obama. … *Obama Movement does have a certain ring to it, perhaps he can be a pitchman for Ex-Lax.…
Stop Crediting Trump For Good Economic News Where He Had No Role
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/10/stop-crediting-trump-good-economic-news-no-role-n68898
– For eight years, Republicans said Barack Obama deserved zero credit for any good economic news released or said, “That’s not sufficient … Ask an Obama supporter to specify the policies Obama put in place to spur economic growth, and they’ll look at you like you have horns … Barack Obama did it. That’s all I have to say!”…
WELCOME TO TRUMPRAIL! Trump Signals Interest in High-Speed Rail
https://redstate.com/patterico/2017/03/09/welcome-trumprail-trump-signals-interest-high-speed-rail-n68855
– Bush, and doubled again under Barack Obama. Is it going to double again under President Dream Big?…
Now that 'Jane Roe' is dead, Hollywood Feminists Plan to Rewrite her Story for the Big Screen
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/03/08/now-jane-roe-dead-hollywood-feminists-plan-rewrite-story-big-screen-n68809
– Wade, testifying in Congress and bitterly attacking Barack Obama when he ran for president and then re-election.…
4 Ways The Obama Administration Weaponized The Government
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/08/4-ways-obama-administration-weaponized-government-n68810
– Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of tapping his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election. … The Obama administration at various levels used the powers provided to them to engage in partisan political activity. … Here are four examples of how the power of the government was weaponized under the Obama administration. 1.…
Republicans Make Big Promises, Back Off, And Wonder Why Voters Get Angry
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/08/republicans-make-big-promises-back-off-wonder-voters-get-angry-n68796
– With the possibility of defeating Barack Obama in 2012, Mitt Romney started promising that if elected, he would seek the immediate … When Romney lost, Republicans promised again they’d send a repeal bill to Barack Obama if they won the Senate in 2014. … They won, did send the repeal bill to Obama and of course, he vetoed it.  The GOP made more promises after Romney’s defeat.…
Finally, FINALLY, a Democrat Breaks Lockstep Unity Ranks with the Party
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/03/08/finally-finally-democrat-breaks-lockstep-unity-ranks-party-n68795
– Much has been made of newly ex-president Barack Obama presiding over his Party losing over  1,000 seats up and down the ballot. …
Progress? Salon Discovers the Dangers of Media Bias
https://redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/03/07/progress-salon-discovers-dangers-media-bias-n68769
– host and “street martial arts” practitioner had a fire lit underneath him upon hearing that President Donald Trump had accused Barack … Obama of ordering wiretaps at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. … That quest involved spending all of Saturday rage-tweeting variations of “What did Obama know and when did he know it” at former Obama…
Four Senators, Including Cory Gardner Get Cowardly On Obamacare Repeal Effort
https://redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/03/07/four-senators-incl…ing-cory-gardner-get-cowardly-obamacare-repeal-effort-n68772
– Since Barack Obama attached his name to the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have voted eleventy-billion times to repeal it. … President Obama was never going to sign a repeal bill because there was no danger. Now there is.…
Previous Next