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Barack Obama is everywhere. There's no escape... Tonight he will appear on that show's 1,000th episode to tell you and host John Walsh what a great job he and his administration are doing fighting crime in America... Obama's appearance tonight on "America's Most Wanted." It really is funny in a perverse kind of way

The verbose Senator from New York has no comment.  Now that's a change we can all get behind. Feel free to revel with me in the sweet irony of this. From the Mid-Hudson News Network: "In the meantime, Senator Charles Schumer, who is hardly ever at a loss for words, refused to discuss the situation in Albany or the Rep. Charles Rangel controversy in Washington when questioned Thursday. "I'm not going to talk about politics today." Priceless.  This has got to be the quintessential case of that classic adage "silence is golden," whether or not it is artificially inflated due to...

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would generate bigger deficits than advertised each year for the next decade, with the 10-year shortfall totaling $1.2 trillion more than the administration estimated, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan CBO, in an annual analysis of the White House budget proposal, said today that under Obama’s plan deficits would never shrink below 4 percent of the economy between now and 2020. The cumulative deficits would total $9.76 trillion, and debt held by the public would amount to 90 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product by 2020, the CBO said. By 2020, the...

Democrats plan "pain" for Republicans who seek to slow or block passage of healthcare legislation, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Wednesday night. Brown said that if Republicans try to offer amendments and use parliamentary maneuvers to grind out the legislative process, Democrats would retaliate with all-night sessions and other methods of fighting back. "I think they're going to try to do amendments, as many as they can get away with," Brown said Wednesday evening during an appearance on MSNBC. "I think we keep them here all night -- tonight, the next night, the next night, the next night." "If they're...

With an inane flourish of rhetoric, Washington is split between Friends of Rahm and Friends of Barack. “Arguably,” The Post’s Dana Milbank wrote two weeks ago, “Emanuel is the only person keeping Obama from becoming Jimmy Carter.” Judging from the maelstrom of columns, criticism, and comments Milbank unleashed (and from The Post’s front-page story Tuesday that heralded Emanuel as the White House’s “voice of reason”), the operative word in Milbank’s Carter comparison is “arguably.” Anointing Emanuel as the man who’s keeping Obama from driving the country straight into 1978, though, is a bit far-fetched. Doing so ignores the fact that...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster. "I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system. The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote...

Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel now says he will step down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, NBC News has learned. He may make the move as early as tonight and Michigan Democratic Rep Sander Levin will temporarily take over the committee. Some details still need to be ironed out, but sources said Rangel has been pushed to step down before the House voted on a bill to forcefully strip him of the coveted chairmanship. Rangel has been under fire ever since an ethics committee released a report Thursday that found that he violated House rules by...

Surprise! Surprise! It turns out that the "grassroots" organizer of the "progressive alternative" to the Tea Parties, the Coffee Party, has been exposed as an Obama political operative. If you had read the profiles of the Coffee Party founder Annabel Park (photo) in the Washington Post or New York Times you wouldn't have had a hint as to her extensive political activity in the 2008 Obama campaign. So how did William A. Jacobson of Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion discover this "deep secret" that the two major newspapers with their vast resources were unable to find? Well, it required the "tremendous effort" of...

Barack Obama plans 'dramatic reductions' in US nuclear weapons stockpile. Headline only.