When key House chairman and moderate House Democrats on Tuesday agreed to a White House-backed proposal that would give an outside panel the power to make cuts to government-financed health care programs, Politico reports, White House budget director Peter Orszag declared the plan “probably the most important piece that can be added” to Obama’s health care reform plans.

Sadly for Orszag, Congressional Democrats and the American people in general, the Congressional Budget Office now says that the cuts would save the U.S… virtually nothing.| MORE ›

The end of a love affair?

As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings” with oil executives at the White House.| MORE ›

Politico reports that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and President Obama have declared war on each other. The subject? Bipartisanship.

I know, it is so ironic you’d think I’m joking. I’m not:

But headed for a meeting with the president at the White House Thursday, Cantor and other House Republican leaders couldn’t resist picking at the scab.| MORE ›

Glenn Thrush wrote down some jokes President Obama made during the White House correspondent’s dinner:

Looking out on the crowd of 3,000, Obama declared:| MORE ›