The Weekly Standard - President Obama’s plan for taxes and spending has been hailed by the media as “populist.” A more accurate word to describe his agenda is “reactionary.” It won’t, to use Obama’s catchphrase, “win the future.” It probably won’t even win the past.

Daily Caller - Administration officials today touted $500 million in grants for community colleges, using the occasion to push for President Barack Obama’s now-stalled proposed stimulus.

Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard
President Obama’s plan for taxes and spending has been hailed by the media as “populist.” A more accurate word to describe his agenda is “reactionary.” It won’t, to use Obama’s catchphrase, “win the future.” It probably won’t even win the past.The Obama administration has adopted the fiscal strategy of the Greek government. The Greeks favor raising taxes on the wealthy and massive borrowing to freeze in place the present size, scope, and spending of the government. So does Obama, thus the...

AP - A top White House adviser is laying out the theme of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, saying the Republicans running for president would "take dead aim" at middle class Americans.

Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
A small secret. In writing about the White House or Congress, I always feel completely free to attempt to see things clearly, to consider the evidence, to sift it through experience and knowledge, and then to make a judgment. It may be highly critical, or caustic, even damning. But deep down I always hope I'm wrong—that it isn't as bad as I say it is, that there is information unknown to me that would explain such and such an act, that there were factors I didn't know of that make bad decisions suddenly explicable. Or even justifiable.I note this to make clear the...

Reuters - The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that would block broad regulations to reduce unhealthy air emissions such as mercury from coal-fired power plants, a measure the White House has said President Barack Obama would veto.

Some candidates run for the White House over and over again, usually with little effect on the race itself. What do they get out of it? Why do they bother? "My ultimate goal is actually ... to win," says fourth-time hopeful Joe Schriner. "Seriously."

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AP - The White House is calling on Yemen's president to transfer power and hold presidential elections by the end of the year.

The White House is announcing Friday that it will grant waivers to states that cannot meet the testing standards of the No Child Left Behind education law. But states will face strict scrutiny from Washington before they get these waivers.

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Reuters - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner urged on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to quickly submit three long-delayed trade deals so the House can vote on them at the same time a worker retraining program demanded by the White House.

Daily Caller - The Obama White House unveiled its new public-petition website “We The People” on thursday, as a way to “take action on a range of important issues facing our country.” And in the project’s first 30 lackluster minutes, pro-cannabis and animal rights petitions attracted the most support

Time.com - Coverage in the Washington Post and a new book by Ron Suskind has focused attention on the frustration of Obama's female advisers. But the problem has been obvious almost since Obama took office

A number of U.S. mayors have been in Washington this week for meetings at the White House and on Capitol Hill. Their message: We need help. Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett was in the group from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Cornett talks to David Greene about the needs of cities amid the debate over federal budget cuts.

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Time.com - Coverage in the Washington Post and a new book by Ron Suskind has focused attention on the frustration of Obama's female advisers. But the problem has been obvious almost since Obama took office

AP - The White House threatened on Wednesday to veto the latest attempt by House Republicans to thwart pollution regulations, saying the GOP-backed bill would delay and undermine critical health protections.

Daily Caller - Citing concerns over alleged White House influence in dispersing loans, California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa announced that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would begin an investigation into the wireless startup LightSquared.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday addressed his opposition to Palestinian statehood and blasted the White House's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not all of the GOP presidential hopefuls agreed. And some in the administration say Obama's support of Israel has been "unshakable."

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind talks about his unflattering picture of rivalries and dysfunction within President Obama's first economic team in his book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. Some of officials quoted in the book say they were misquoted or that their comments were taken out of context.

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Politico - She's leaving to head the public affairs and research firm Global Strategy Group.

AP - A half-century-old program that helps workers who lose their jobs to foreign trade holds the key to whether Congress may finally approve three long-delayed free trade agreements viewed by both the Obama White House and congressional Republicans as a way to invigorate the economy and create jobs.

Daily Caller - While the unfolding Solyndra scandal is untearthing ties between the White House and the bankrupt solar panel manufacturing company, Republican lawmakers are calling for investigations into yet another high-tech company.

Politico - Text of the White House's fact sheet on the president's plan to cut the deficit.

Reuters - The "robo-signing" of foreclosure documents in the past year underscores the need for a streamlined effort by policymakers, regulators and the banking industry to implement new mortgage servicing standards, a White House adviser said on Monday.

Mike Allen, Politico
The White House launched an aggressive response to a forthcoming book that chronicles internal dissent and second-guessing of President Barack Obama by his own staff and presents Obama as a conflicted, sometimes wavering leader.