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Full title: 9 Times The Obama Administration Fought Subpoenas or Blocked Officials from Testifying Before Congress After the long and thorough, and, of course, incredibly expensive Mueller investigation, Democrats were left distraught over a lack of any crime to justify going forward with impeachment. In the wake of the Mueller report, they’ve since promised new investigations in the hopes of finding some crime to justify putting the country through a process that most don’t want us to go through just because Democrats haven’t gotten over the 2016 election. In recent weeks, stories about subpoenas being challenged and Trump officials being...

Obama’s White House political director is informally providing strategic advice to leaders at the Democratic National Committee (DNC). David Simas, who is now CEO of the Obama Foundation, is close with DNC Chairman Tom Perez and has been in regular contact with Sam Cornale, a top adviser to Perez. A source who has been involved in the transition said Simas has provided strategic advice on hiring decisions. The new chairman has asked for resignation letters from most DNC staff as he begins the process of building his own team, although so far the DNC has only unveiled its communications team....

The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political fundraising. Mentioned hundreds of times in the WikiLeaks DNC emails is a guy named David Simas. Who is he? Works for the federal government at the White House. David Simas Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/david-simas Here's a dinner he set up to raise money: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/194 Using cabs instead of a car service to not create a paper trail (knowledge he is committing a crime): https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/19527 One of hundreds of emails where he is mentioned. Here are all the emails mentioning...

How angry is the White House that Benjamin Netanyahu won the parliamentary elections? David Simas, White House Director of Political Strategy and Outreach, was a guest on CNN the morning after the elections and couldn't even bring himself to say the name "Netanyahu."

Enough, Donna Brazile told White House political director David Simas the day after the midterms. Democrats are in worse shape than when President Barack Obama came into office — the number of seats they have in Congress, the number of governors, a party approval rating that’s fallen behind Republicans for the first time in recent history, enthusiasm, energy. The White House, Brazile said when she came to meet with Simas, has got to focus for the next two years on getting the party into better shape, and Obama’s the best and most effective person to get out the message. As...

Rep. Darrell Issa isn’t ruling out the possibility of holding a senior adviser to President Barack Obama in contempt for his failure to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. The California Republican said his staff is evaluating how to respond after David Simas, the director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, claimed immunity from testifying before the panel on alleged violations of the Hatch Act at the White House. “I can’t rule it in or out, yet,” Issa said. “I can’t answer what we will do in this case, but I can tell you...

WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is picking up steam, and repealing it now would cause a huge backlash from voters, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, said today. “We’re hoping that Republicans will come to their senses and realize how valuable the Affordable Care act is to the American people,” he told reporters on a White House conference call that also included Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, Rep. Matthew Cartwright, D-Pa. and a senior Obama adviser, David Simas. “This is no longer an abstraction,” Simas said. “At the end of the day, this is a pocketbook issue for millions of Americans...

November 13, 2013, 02:39 pm House Dems about to 'go crazy' By Mike Lillis and Justin Sink House Democrats on Wednesday expressed increasing frustration at the Obama administration’s inability to improve the rollout of ObamaCare. Democrats said they’re worried about "being dragged into this non-stop cycle" of bad news about the ObamaCare rollout, rather than celebrating the successes of the law they helped to pass, a Democratic aide said. "They're voicing those frustrations with the administration," the aide said following a Democratic Caucus meeting where administration officials got an earful from exasperated lawmakers. ADVERTISEMENT With the House vote just two...

Imagine that Jeff Bezos asked his vice-president for sales IT how many people had purchased products from Amazon the day before, and the veep said he'd get back to him "in a few weeks." How many nanoseconds do you think that hapless employee would last in his job? But on today's Morning Joe, there was the Obama admin's David Simas, sporting the lofty title of Deputy Senior Advisor for Communications and Strategy, smiling insouciantly while saying that it would be a "few weeks" before the Obama admin would say how many people had signed up for Obamacare. Conclusion: either: 1....