Video: Sparks Fly at White House Over Berwick

John Gizzi Human Events 7/12/2010

Things have been getting a bit testy of late between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and the press corps he deals with.

That testiness reached the boiling point yesterday, when I asked Gibbs about the controversial recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid services and how […]

Why reporters are down on President Obama

Josh Gerstein and Patrick Gavin Politico.com 4/28/2010

One of the enduring story lines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him.

“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

But […]

Issa accuses White House of ‘Nixonian’ cover-up

Eric Zimmermann The Hill 3/15/2010

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is intensifying his rhetoric against the White House, accusing them of a “Nixonian” cover-up of a possibly illegal job offer.

For weeks, Issa has been suggesting the White House may have broken a law by allegedly offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) an administration job in exchange […]

Obama’s health-care plan to live or die with a handful of House Dems

by Jon Ward The Daily Caller 3/15/2010

In Washington, the House Budget Committee will hold a mark-up session with the “reconciliation” legislation that Democrats released late Sunday. The expected result is that the committee will pass the bill forward to the House Rules Committee, where the real changes to the bill will be added on […]

Health care quote of the day by ‘Baghdad Bob’ Gibbs

via Michelle Malkin: Not without a fight, Bobby Gibbs

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend.

“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday […]

Gibbs Not Ready to Deny White House Offered Sestak Job to Get Him Out of Race

CNSNews.com 3/1/2010

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs is not ready to deny White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak a tax-funded job not to run against Sen. Arlen Specter.

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