POTUS Notes Archive: August 2009
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My question for Gibbs on Zeke Emanuel
Gibbs says health care decisions "shouldn't be made by the government -- by a government bureaucrat, just as they shouldn't be made by an insurance company bureaucrat." Published August 14 2009
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The irony of Palin's knocks at Zeke Emanuel
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel came into the administration with fairly conservative, market-oriented ideas about how to reform health care that were not in line with President Obama's more liberal solutions. But now, Emanuel is being pegged as the author of Sarah Palin's "death panels." Published August 14 2009
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Justices Stevens and Ginsburg attend Sotomayor reception at WH
President Obama is making remarks at East Room event also attended by first lady Michelle Obama. Published August 12 2009
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Tallying the bailouts
AIG has been the biggest winner so far, having received $154.8 billion in taxpayer dollars. Published August 11 2009
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White House doesn't close door on delaying Gitmo closure
Robert Gibbs gives a non-rebuttal clarification to a top Obama adviser's remarks made yesterday. Published August 7 2009
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White House spokesman says 'Birthers' too crazy even for Hollywood
Robert Gibbs takes on the "Birthers" once again. Published August 6 2009
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New polls show continued slide for Obama
“The good news for President Barack Obama is that American voters still see him as better able to handle the economy and health care than Republicans in Congress. The bad news is his margins are shrinking,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Published August 6 2009
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The White House effort to discredit its critics
Tracking the statements from the White House and the DNC. Published August 4 2009
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A transcript of Gibbs' 'manufactured anger' line
The conservative grass roots is not going to be happy with Robert Gibbs' characterization of their health care protests as "manufactured anger." Here is a transcript of our exchange that prompted his statement this morning. Published August 4 2009
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Getting the White House take on latest health care polling
I asked Robert Gibbs today whether the White House thinks the latest polling shows what most people think it does -- that support is eroding for the president's health care reforms -- and why they think that's happening. He sort of answered the first question and did not at all answer the second. Published August 3 2009
