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Kamala Harris is bothered, a Saturday report revealed, as she continues to live out of suitcases awaiting completion of renovations on the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory. Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff are living temporarily across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House at Blair House, the president's official guest quarters known for its luxury. 'She is getting frustrated,' an administration official told CNN, noting that every day her desire to move into her designated house grows more intense. The vice president, however, could be contributing to the delays despite her complaints. According to two administration...

Video of Blair House

On Jan. 20, 1981, Michael Deaver, a political aide, peered into a bedroom in Blair House, across from the White House, and said to the man still abed, “It’s 8 o’clock. You’re going to be inaugurated as president in a few hours.” From beneath the blankets, Ronald Reagan said, “Do I have to?” Some are so eager to be inaugurated in 2017 that the 2016 campaign has begun 28 months before the 1.4 percent of Americans who live in Iowa and New Hampshire express themselves. It is, therefore, not too soon to get a head start on being dismayed. Consider two...

Scion of Prominent 19th Century Political Family Announces Write-In Candidacy for President of the United States and Files Quo Warranto suit challenging Obama's "natural born Citizen" Status Washington D.C. (MMD Newswire) January 6, 2012 -- Montgomery Blair Sibley, scion of the Blair Family whose ancestors first called the anti-slavery Republican Party to order at its preliminary convention at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in February 1856, represented Dred Scott and from whence the Blair House gets its name, has announced the commencement of his campaign as a Write-In Candidate for President of the United States. Given the vagrancies of the Electoral College system,...

Here is a live feed for those on FR who want to watch this political theater. From Radioviceonline. I’m hearing this is supposed to be a six hour event. Beneath the fold we are running the live feed from the Health Care Summit starting at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 25 at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

Merriam-Webster defines the word "blockhead" as simply a stupid person. However I expand on the meaning to define it as someone whose brain matter has turned to cement, encased in a dense three dimensional square representing a head that is incapable of rational thought. How else can you describe the leadership coming out of Congress and the White House. Obama, Pelosi and Reid fit the description perfectly. Before the supposed bipartisan "Health Care Summit" at the Blair House takes place next week, the President will have already drafted a proposal that Pelosi and Reid will then push through Congress under...

Here is video of President-elect Barack Obama and wife, Michelle, leaving Blair House this morning to go to St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. for a morning prayer service. Every President since 1815 has gone to this church on inauguration morning for a prayer service. . . . . . . . (watch video)

President-elect Barack Obama and his family move into Blair House today, across the street from the White House at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue. Blair House is essentially the Presidential Guest House, comprised actually of four connected townhouses. Here is a video report about Blair House, with some fascinating information. Blair House is actually larger that the White House, the report says, with 14 guest rooms and 35 bathrooms (?), and a rich in history. It is traditional for the President-elect to move into Blair House on January 15 in advance of the inauguration on January 20. . . . . (watch...

BARACK Obama and his family have been forced to move into a hotel because John Howard is staying at their place. The former prime minister and his wife Janette are booked to stay at Washington’s Blair House on January 12 as he will receive the US Medal of Freedom from outgoing President George W. Bush the following day. Blair House, a 119-room mansion, is the official state guest house of the US president and traditionally where incoming US presidents stay before their inauguration. The Obamas will take up residence there on January 15 but had asked to move in on...

*UPDATE BELOW THE FOLD MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow complained yesterday that the Obama family was stiffed by the Bush administration, because the next leader of the free world and his family, who are moving into the White House in two weeks, could not stay at Blair House due to lack of vacancies. Instead, the Obama family will stay at a fancy Washington hotel. MADDOW: The next leader of the free world and his family arrived in DC over the weekend, and they are living in a hotel room. The Obama kids, Sasha and Malia started school today at their new...

Here is a video report about the Obamas moving to Washington this weekend. Michelle Obama and their daughters are heading there today, and Barack Obama will follow tomorrow. They will live in the historic Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington until the Blair House becomes available on January 15. . . . (see video)

Barack Obama is to move to Washington this weekend but will be forced to stay in a hotel after President George W. Bush said an official residence was "not available". The Obama family are bidding farewell to Chicago and moving to the American capital shortly after their Hawaii holiday ends on Thursday because daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven, are due to start school. Mr Obama had requested to stay at Blair House, opposite the White House, but was told by the Bush administration it was booked up for farewell "receptions and gatherings" and was "not available" until January 15,...

On Friday's "Good Morning America," anchors and reporters fretted about there being no room in Washington D.C. for Barack Obama. It seems that the President-elect's children start school on January 5 and Blair House, the presidential guest quarters, will not be available until the 15th of that month. News anchor Chris Cuomo worriedly insisted, "I mean, you know, he has got enough on his mind. He is worried about getting his kids situated, which is testament to the Obamas as parents." Co-host Robin Roberts sympathetically wondered of Obama, "You know, he can't check in early?" An ABC graphic hyperbolically asked,...

An interesting speculation for those few who have been handicapping the chances the powers-that-be will figure out before the planned January 20th inaugural what a small minority of internet bloggers have already discovered– that widely presumed President-elect Barack Obama is not constitutionally eligible to serve as President of the United States. (NOTE: Senator Obama’s ineligibility is on account of the conflict between the requirement the president be a “natural born citizen” and a) the fact Mr. Obama’s natural father was a British citizen at the time of the senator’s birth and b) the less probable fact that the public record...

One highlight of the Bush Administration has been that the first lady, Laura Bush has made literacy a pivotal part of her work with the American people. There are a lot of areas of interest that a first lady can use her power and influence to draw attention to but will Michelle Obama also make literacy an important part of her agenda? With literacy rates on the decline, and educational facilities being last on the list of priorities for many government agencies, Michelle Obama has unique opportunity to use her influence to turn the state of literacy around in the...

The Bush administration has denied President-elect Barack Obama's request to move early into an official guesthouse across from the White House, citing previously scheduled but unannounced commitments, a transition official said yesterday. The Obamas wanted to move into Blair House before Jan. 5 so their daughters, Malia and Sasha, could start classes on time at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. "But there were previously scheduled events and guests that couldn't be displaced," said a transition spokesperson, who agreed to be quoted only on the condition of anonymity. Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said in a statement...

The Obamas have decided to send their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, to Sidwell Friends School in Washington.

ABC News has learned that the future First Family has been denied a request to move in early to the Blair House –- the traditional temporary housing of President-elects in Washington, DC. Sources tell ABC News that the Obama Transition Team "explored the idea" of moving President-elect Obama and his family to the nation's capital earlier than normal for an incoming president because of the start of the school year for daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Students at Washington’s Sidwell Friends are slated to return to school after Winter break on Monday, January 5. Since the Bushes aren't leaving...

An Obama rejection ... President-elect Barack Obama just got nixed! Sneed hears the White House has rejected a recent request by Obama to occupy Blair House, the president-elect's Washington residence, at an earlier date. • • To wit: Sneed hears Obama wanted to move his family and his transition team to Blair House, which is across from the White House, nearly two weeks before the president-elect historically moves there on Jan. 15 -- five days before the inaugural. • • The backshot: A source tells Sneed: "There were reportedly two reasons for the request: Obama's children start school in early...

President-elect Barack Obama just got nixed! Sneed hears the White House has rejected a recent request by Obama to occupy Blair House, the president-elect's Washington residence, at an earlier date. • • To wit: Sneed hears Obama wanted to move his family and his transition team to Blair House, which is across from the White House, nearly two weeks before the president-elect historically moves there on Jan. 15 -- five days before the inaugural. • • The backshot: A source tells Sneed: "There were reportedly two reasons for the request: Obama's children start school in early January -- and the...