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It’s obvious to nearly everyone that an apology would have been the fastest way to end the controversy last week over a head-snapping leaked comment from White House staffer Kelly Sadler, who said
hearing would have helped clarify the debate over whether Haspel should be permanently barred from a major promotion to CIA director because of her activities in Thailand and elsewhere in the panicked years
We are, of course, talking about the violently differing opinions and never-ending hot takes about Michelle Wolf’s comedy act at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
So said Terry Hood, a young, African-American, Clinton voter in a recent Reuters interview about why millennials are moving away from Democrats. Music to Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan’s ears.
It was the other Bill Clinton scandal — the half-forgotten one that didn’t involve sex.
Harry Reid was running into roadblocks in the Senate and President Barack Obama wasn’t exactly signaling confidence from the White House. But Pelosi insisted health care reform was happening.
House staff.
Yet, Bill Clinton aside, addressing a joint session of Congress does not lend itself to improvisational jazz riffs.
The Democrats under Obama lost 63 House seats. And Hillary Clinton and her crazy health care plan cost the Democrats the House in 1994.
Many early sexual charges swirling around Bill Clinton were spread by Republicans irate that the GOP had lost control of the White House to a parvenu from Arkansas.
decided not to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
Congressional records over the years have included some outrageous examples.
Two years ago, Republicans like Paul Ryan were under pressure to repudiate prior campaign contributions from Denny Hastert, the prison-bound former House speaker.
Democrats since then are not immune: See Bill Clinton’s support of sentencing guidelines that led to mass incarceration, and the “superpredator” quote that came back to haunt Hillary Clinton and
He had voted to remove Clinton from office.
But in the modern annals of the White House (including the Bill and Hillary Clinton 1994 health care debacle), nothing can top Trump’s uncanny ability to sabotage GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare
What should scare Congress, the American public and White House officials, is that Trump shows no signs of remorse — of having committed an error by behaving in a way that was tolerable in the private
‘Not a liar’ Responding to the Comey testimony, White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared, “I can definitely say that the president is not a liar.”
But with a special counsel and two congressional panels investigating President Donald Trump — and with not too much time having passed since President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House or
Southern Democrats pursuing a centrist path to the presidency — think Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter — have occasionally broken through.