She tosses it to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (safe play) and frustrates network anchors across the spectrum. Well, CNN and MsNBC aren’t covering the press conference, so frustrates some of the anchors. Leader Hoyer says he hasn’t seen a more productive five months in Congress in his 30 years on Capitol Hill. If by ‘productive’ he means spending away our future, quadrupling our national debt, ignoring the deficit, and passing so many spending bills that nobody read any of them before passage. Then yes…productive.
Tonight, President Obama held his third prime time press conference of his young presidency to mark his 100th day in office. This press conference was similar in tone and agenda to his previous pressers, down to the mammoth teleprompter hovering over the back of the room. It also continued a theme of government intervention in the lives of American taxpayers and of course, more government spending. He started off by asking Congress for $1.5 billion in additional emergency funding to combat the ‘swine flu’, which is a noble cause but …
Tonight, we will be liveblogging President Barack Obama’s second primetime news conference. In his first news conference, President Obama fielded a small amount of questions ranging from the economy to Alex Rodriguez and gave ten minute answers to each one. We’re hoping for shorter answers tonight so reporters will have more opportunities to hold the President accountable for his massive tax and spend budget, his continued embrace of government bailouts and intervention in our lives and businesses and to ensure that the President, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid slow …
