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President Obama on Wednesday named Susan Rice his next national security adviser, calling her the consummate public servant, even as Republicans continue to criticize Rice for the way she publicly responded for the administration to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Rice, who currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will replace outgoing national security adviser Tom Donilon when he steps down next month. She does not need Senate confirmation to serve in her new capacity.From the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Obama noted that Rice was a trusted adviser during his first campaign for president. I am absolutely thrilled she ll be back at my side leading my national security team, he said, calling her fearless and tough. Tom Donilon stepping down as Obama s natio stanley france nal security adviserIn depth: U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi Rice has been the subject of Republican scrutiny since she appea stanley spain red on political talk shows in the days following the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. Members of the GOP seized on her remarks to suggest the administration was misleading the public about th stanley cup quencher e nature of the attack. Guided by CIA-drafted talking points, Rice said the attacks stemmed from spontaneous protests, which was wrong. Mr. Obama has come to the fierce defense of Rice, and the White House today reiterated that she was simply following the talking points. What we learned from the revival of this story Yrnp Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Sequestration taking a meat ax to our budget
The New Yorker In one of its less subtler moments, this week s New Yorker depicts conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as a fussy baby. And not just one screaming, tantrum-throwing infant, but eight of them.Hmm. What s the message Limbaugh, as readers here surely know, has emerged as the chief voice of opposition during the first weeks of Barack Obama s presidency. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs picked up on a statement made by Limbaugh days before the inauguration when Limbaugh said hoped Mr. Obama failed because he didn t believe in the incoming president s policies.Limbaugh later clarified that position to say I want the country to succe stanley cup ed and the stated policies of the administration will not achieve that objective hellip; I support the president but I opposed his policies, just as the left claimed to support the troops but opposed their mission of victory. I thus am confident that all conservatives want the country to succeed. He was in the headlines for weeks after that, at one point challenging Mr. Obama to a debate. Meanwhile, the designated head of the GOP, Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele has had a bumpy few months since being named to the job in Janua stanley website ry. His latest misstep involved an interview with GQ in which Steele suggested abortion should be an individual choice. This prompted a lot of angry reaction from the conservative base and stanley becher ended with some I m pro-life backpedaling from Steele.
President Obama on Wednesday named Susan Rice his next national security adviser, calling her the consummate public servant, even as Republicans continue to criticize Rice for the way she publicly responded for the administration to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Rice, who currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will replace outgoing national security adviser Tom Donilon when he steps down next month. She does not need Senate confirmation to serve in her new capacity.From the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Obama noted that Rice was a trusted adviser during his first campaign for president. I am absolutely thrilled she ll be back at my side leading my national security team, he said, calling her fearless and tough. Tom Donilon stepping down as Obama s natio stanley france nal security adviserIn depth: U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi Rice has been the subject of Republican scrutiny since she appea stanley spain red on political talk shows in the days following the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. Members of the GOP seized on her remarks to suggest the administration was misleading the public about th stanley cup quencher e nature of the attack. Guided by CIA-drafted talking points, Rice said the attacks stemmed from spontaneous protests, which was wrong. Mr. Obama has come to the fierce defense of Rice, and the White House today reiterated that she was simply following the talking points. What we learned from the revival of this story Yrnp Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Sequestration taking a meat ax to our budget
The New Yorker In one of its less subtler moments, this week s New Yorker depicts conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as a fussy baby. And not just one screaming, tantrum-throwing infant, but eight of them.Hmm. What s the message Limbaugh, as readers here surely know, has emerged as the chief voice of opposition during the first weeks of Barack Obama s presidency. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs picked up on a statement made by Limbaugh days before the inauguration when Limbaugh said hoped Mr. Obama failed because he didn t believe in the incoming president s policies.Limbaugh later clarified that position to say I want the country to succe stanley cup ed and the stated policies of the administration will not achieve that objective hellip; I support the president but I opposed his policies, just as the left claimed to support the troops but opposed their mission of victory. I thus am confident that all conservatives want the country to succeed. He was in the headlines for weeks after that, at one point challenging Mr. Obama to a debate. Meanwhile, the designated head of the GOP, Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele has had a bumpy few months since being named to the job in Janua stanley website ry. His latest misstep involved an interview with GQ in which Steele suggested abortion should be an individual choice. This prompted a lot of angry reaction from the conservative base and stanley becher ended with some I m pro-life backpedaling from Steele.
