That grand slam of Benghazi emails, IRS head-rolling and a reporter’s shield law batted by the White House this week was a sure signal that the Obama administration plans to power through the controversies at hand. So says Jennifer Palmieri,...
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Ousted IRS chief Steve Miller, right, and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, are sworn in on Capitol Hill, on May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings.
White House: We’ll ‘Manage Through’
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Big Bird of Sesame Street in New York City.
Big Bird, Live, at the White House — Dancing with the First Lady
Big Bird is back. After suffering the debating slings and arrows of Republican Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election campaign, the iconic feathered star of Sesame Street is taking a big new role for President Barack Obama’s White House....
Read more »Steve Wynn: What Plays on Sesame Street Stays on PBS
Big Bird has found a new advocate in a place far from Sesame Street: Las Vegas. Casino mogul Steve Wynn promised today to protect the Public Broadcasting Service in a statement in which he supported both PBS programming and one...
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Big Bird from "Follow That Bird," presented by Sesame Street.
Obama’s Big Bird Trap: That Debate
Has President Barack Obama walked into a Big Bird trap? The president has had no shortage of fun over the past week with Republican Mitt Romney’s evocation of the Sesame Street favorite in their first debate. The president has played...
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A person dressed up as Big Bird holds a sign against Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney outside the Romney headquarters, on Oct. 8, 2012 in Derry, N.H.
Sesame Street: Free Big Bird
Updated at 1:38 pm EDT The folks who bring us Big Bird, Elmo and friends aren’t happy about the big yellow bird appearing in President Barack Obama’s campaign ad. “Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not...
Read more »Big Bird vs. Bernie Madoff: Sesame Street vs. Wall Street
Updated at 11:20 am and 12:05 pm EDT At a fundraising concert in San Francisco last night, President Barack Obama was still having fun with Republican Mitt Romney’s call in last week’s televised debate to cut funding for the Public...
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Big Bird on the run in a scene from the movie "Follow That Bird."
Big Bird’s Budget: Obama’s Buddy
President Barack Obama might as well appoint Big Bird as a campaign surrogate. For a second day on the campaign trail, Obama mocked Republican rival Mitt Romney’s threat in this week’s presidential debate to pull funding from PBS, and by...
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Big Bird and other Sesame Street characters in New York.
Big Bird: Out with `Obama-care’ — Axelrod: all Romney’s Got
Big Bird may make for a good political punching bag. Yet there’s more to Mitt Romney’s threat to Sesame Street and other federal susbsidies than meets the eyes of debate spinners. David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama,...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama during the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012 in Colorado.
Obama-Romney: Lasting Impressions
Updated at midnight EDT For all the anticipation of the first presidential debate, the lasting impressions may be few. Republican Mitt Romney scored with a forceful debating stance, but left the stage without a memorable line. President Barack Obama reeled...
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President Barack Obama listens to Mitt Romney during the first presidential.
Obama-Romney Debate: Debt
“I think it’s not just an economic issue. I think it’s a moral issue,” Republican Mitt Romney said of the growing federal debt. “The amount of debt we’re adding, at a trillion a year, is simply not moral.” “I want...
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