WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS: But my point would be, Matt, that I don't think that -- we didn't have a mindset that this problem didn't exist prior to December 25th. The President spends, as you know, each day getting a daily intelligence update --

HELEN THOMAS: Nobody is saying that. They're saying you blew it. There was no coordination.

GIBBS: Helen, let me just answer -- let me just answer Matt's question and then we'll get to your question. VISIT OUR HO... Read More

So how about that promise made on the campaign trail by then-Senator Barack Obama when he pledged to hold health care reform "negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are”?

Well, it seems that that is a promise that can now officially be ruled broken after Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, basically said today that the American people had received enough information on the negotiations. "The health care debate a... Read More

The C-SPAN television network is calling on President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders to open talks on the health care reform bill to it's cameras.

As a presidential candidate, then Senator Barack Obama pledged during a presidential debate in January 2008 that he would be "bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are."

Critics have been hitting President Obama on his thus far bro... Read More

GLENN BECK: This is a well thought out plan to collapse the economy as we know it ... They have to collapse it with a new framework underneath. You have ACORN involved in this strategy. Even TARP, which started with George W. Bush, TARP, the stimulus package which was helped designed by the Apollo Alliance, which is Van Jones etc, etc. All of these things that are happening where we're spending so much money and creating jobs for what is it? $200,000 per job? It doesn't make any sense...
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A dating site that guarantees that "your dates will always be beautiful" and markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a "strict ban on ugly people" claims it has rid its site of over 5,000 members because they put on too much weight over the holiday period.



The company says they took these "drastic measures" after members had posted Christmas and New Year photos – "revealing that they have let themselves go."

"Newly chubby members" are sent bac... Read More