In letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems pledge to vote against bill with anti-abortion amendment

Which is good news, since today we also learned that the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs didn't have an opinion on the extreme anti-abortion provision that was added to the House health care reform bill at the least minute.
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White House admits still not "actively engaged" in health care fight

The bad news: "I have not heard of any specific calls that the President has made." The good news: The White House will get more actively engaged in the healthcare fight "in due time," press secretary Robert Gibbs said today.
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White House statement on Reid health care bill

Typo in the original: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary____________________________________________________For Immediate Release October 26, 2009 STATEMENT FROM PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS ON HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM “The President congratulates Senator Reid and Chairmen Baucus and Dodd for their hard work on health insurance reform.
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Sean Hannity smears Kevin Jennings, but suddenly HE is the victim?

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

It appears that Sean Hannity has stopped trying to get a "czar scalp" to keep up with the one Glenn Beck supposedly got when Van Jones resigned.
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Is Robert Gibbs going to ever find information to deliver to reporters on DADT?

Almost the same slop served, different day. You'd think after the President left the strong impression that he was moving on DADT repeal, and along with news that Obama and Sen Joe Lieberman were commiserating on legislation, we'd learn something new.
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Does the White House Really Not Know If a DADT Repeal Bill Exists?

Activist journalist Kerry Eleveld has never been satisfied with the stock answers Press Secretary Robert Gibbs delivers when quizzed on Don't Ask Don't Tell.
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In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
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Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Rightwingers not happy

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This is HUGE news:President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his nascent initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and replace unilateral American action with international diplomacy and cooperation.
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White House Zero For Two on DADT

Robert Gibbs declined to answer whether the Administration would set a timeline for repeal and whether they are speaking with any senators about introducing a repeal bill.
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The White House Doesn't Pay Attention to Former Presidents' Public Statements

Just because President Bill Clinton is making himself the face of flip-floppers on same-sex marriage doesn't mean 1600 Pennsylvania has to pay mind.
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SNL, Bush Infiltrate White House Press Briefing

Oh, amusement! A reporter at the White House today used a Saturday Night Live-born term while asking Robert Gibbs a question.
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WH spokesman Robert Gibbs responds to the GOP's fake "czar" controversy - Wikipedia says Bush had more czars than Obama

Republicans are concerned that President Obama's "czars" may be working in violation of the Constitution.
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Former Obama campaign staffer Hildebrand fed up with slow, feeble WH movement on LGBT rights

How about this - a crack in the facade of team Obama re: LGBT equality. While Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manager of a team that put Barack Obama in office to usher in change, is not a current staffer, the fact that someone this high-ranking is making public his disatisfaction with the politically slack performance on health care and LGBT rights is significant.
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White House getting tougher on anti-reform Republicans

This is good news, and it's exactly what the White House should be doing. From Political Wire: At his briefing earlier today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs blasted Sen.
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Easing Of DADT Still Pending

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Wednesday indicated that he did not know the status of the Defense Department's review of ways to soften the enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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White House willing to drop public option, say Sebelius and Gibbs

First, not that anyone at the White House necessarily cares about the liberal wing of the party (you know, the ones who do all the work to elect Democrats), but I think Rachel Maddow captured what many of us are thinking: If someone from the White House went on the talk shows and said something like Rachel said this morning -- criticizing Senator Grassley for pushing the "death panel" story -- we'd be happy.
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Retract It, Gibbs, And Apologize

oxfordgirl: Shame: White House called Ahmadinejad the "elected leader" of Iran when asked whether Obama recognized the Iranian 'president' AnnCurry: WH spokesman Robert Gibbs has unleashed a twitter-storm 2hamed: بخوانید: Ahmadinejad is not my elected president!: Ahmadinejad is not my.
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Sunday Talk Shows Open Thread

Health care reform is the main subject, of course. Although, I did just hear Bob Schieffer say that he has to talk about the Prof.
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Gibbs stumbles over Clintona s support of Marriage Equality (Video)

Yesterday ABC News White House reporter Jack Tapper asked Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about former President Bill Clinton recently saying that he's basically in support of same-sex marriage and if has President Obama heard these comments?

What reaction does Mr.
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FAIL-O-RAMA -- Robert Gibbs bumbles again when asked why the President opposes marriage equality

At the briefing yesterday, ABC's Jake Tapper asked, but didn't receive, a coherent answer from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about the reason for Obama's opposition to marriage equality, given former President Bill Clinton announced he had changed his mind about the issue.
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