Tim Geithner has “a wonderful giggle.”

We’ve noticed America hasn’t really warmed to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, and we’re wondering if that’s because people don’t really know him that well.  A “Wall Street Journal” poll points out that while 68 percent of Americans feel positively about President Obama, just 18 percent feel the same way about Sec. Geithner…51% say they don’t know him [...]

White House creates “Council on Women and Girls.”

Today President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls.  The group will be headed by White House senior advisor (and Obama BFF), Valerie Jarrett, and is tasked with making sure that “women and girls are treated fairly” by all policies agencies of the federal government.  
CJP thinks that’s an idea whose time has [...]

Taking A Look at the New Budget

This morning the White House released the Obama administration’s ambitious new budget blueprint for fiscal year 2010, which aims to halve the deep federal deficit by the end of Obama’s first term. The entire budget is 146 pages long, so since we know you’re busy women, we’ll give you the Cliffs Notes version. Unless you [...]

Modification, Modification, Modification

If your neighborhood looks less like Wisteria Lane and more like Under Water World, you are just the homeowner President Obama will be talking to later today when he unveils his plan to tow the underwater real estate market back to dry land.
Will it work?  Who knows.  But here’s what it is, and what [...]

100 Days in 100 Minutes- Day 20

President Obama gathered no moss on his 20th day in office- hitting the road and the airwaves to sell his stimulus package as the Senate voted on cloture for the bill (you know what that means, right?).  Let’s see what he was up to:

President Obama started the day, as always, with an economic and national [...]

100 Days in 100 Minutes: Day 15

Tuesday should have been a high note for President Obama, as he appointed the third Republican to his cabinet.  But as they say, conditions began to deteriorate.  On his 15th day in office, Barack Obama:

Nominated Republican Senator Judd Gregg as his Secretary of Commerce.  Gregg will be replaced by Bonnie Newman, a former Gregg staffer [...]

100 Days in 100 Minutes: Day 10

Was President Obama’s tenth day in office a “perfect 10?”  If you are a union member, a Steelers fan or a member of a “middle class working family,” you probably thought it was an 11.  Everyone else, including card-carrying Janes, judge for yourselves…
On Friday, January 30, President Obama:

Created the “Task Force on Middle Class Working [...]

100 Days in 100 Minutes: Day 9

It’s the ninth day of President Obama’s new job, and if you were wondering what he was up to, you’ve come to the right place.  Like every day so far, he focused on the economy and defense, and like CJP, talked on the phone and topped it off with a night cap.  Here’s what Day [...]