This might be looked back on as the week President Obama officially stopped trying to charm the Congressional Republicans. Obama made two big moves that he knows will cause the Republicans’ blood to boil. The first was nominating three individuals to the DC Circuit, arguably the second most important court in the United States, on [...]

President Obama’s top pick for Secretary of State was Susan Rice. Many Republicans have been throwing a hissy fit about what she said on a Sunday talk show and now Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration. It is possible these two things are unrelated, but it definitely appears to many that Obama again folded [...]

The White House has grown quite mum over the recent revelation by the NRDC that Rice owns between $300,000 and $600,000 of TransCanada stock, the company that is currently using strongarm tactics against activists as they construct the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline.