Stand And Deliver

Big Guy decided to pull all of his economic advisers into a photo op to announce the Chrysler decision. Timmy Terrific was front and center,...

Killer B

Big Guy called Bruno and Biden into the Oval about 15 minutes ago and he was pretty annoyed.  There are rumors that Biden's comments on ...

Another Huge Success

Well, that just went exceedingly well. Has anyone seen my quart of Black Label?

Big Guy's Church Of a New Foundation

You're going to be hearing a lot about Big Guy's "New Foundation" theme, which he is trotting out tonight in his opening r...

What's In My Hard Drive

Just a taste of the glory that will be tonight: "We are continuing to closely monitor the emerging cases of the H1N1 flu virus througho...

Looking Ahead to Tonight.

We're winging our way back from the Show Me State on Scare Force One for the big TV show tonight, and I think it's safe to say we ha...

Today's Agenda

Big Guy and I are off to Missouri, where we'll be doing a "town hall" in a suburban high school outside of St. Louis. You migh...

My Thoughts on 100 Days Served

I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly, you mean I've got to put up with 1360 more days of this?

New Name, Same Sickening Feeling

Bruno, our DHS secretary, just stuck his head into the Oval to say that he had solved the Swine Flu epidemic. In fact, Swine Flu no longer ...

Swoon Time

Instead of having the sun light glint off my screens at the Rose Garden event, drawing more attention to myself (not that I mind), I made th...

Scare Force One

As with any story Big Guy and Gibbsy had no control over, the use of Air Force One for propaganda purposes is becoming a full blown scandal....

Flight Plan

Last night, Big Guy and I met with Toes and Gibbsy and we all agreed that yesterday didn't happen. Judging by the media coverage, we wer...

About That Speech

Okay, I'm back in the White House after one of my more embarrassing moments . These kinds of gaffes have been happening all too frequent...

My Response

I cannot believe the level of incompetence I have to deal with on a daily basis.  If it isn't the cold hand of my operator, it's Big...

Grading Out

Everyone around here is giving themselves grades for the First 100 Days. Of course, Big Guy gave himself an A. Gibbsy and Toes fell all ov...

Breakfast with Bruno

Big Guy's got a lot on his plate this week, what with the celebration of his phenomenal First 100 Days, the publication of his book docu...

Our Golden Girl

For some reason, Toes seems more into this kind of thing, but the passing of Bea Arthur yesterday got us thinking ...

Credit Where Credit is Due

I really find it outrageous that Big Guy does what no other President in the last half-century has been able to accomplish, and not a single...

Sense of Humor

Big Guy and I did the national radio address earlier today. Some of you might think that Big O just reads off a piece of paper, but he likes...

Plugging the Leak

Everone knows that there were a lot of loyal, career, Democratic operatives working for the Bush Administration, who routinely leaked to und...

Toes Knows

Earlier today, Rahm told reporters that Big Guy has 100% faith and support for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. As even I, a humble computer, und...

About the Other Night

So we had a little cocktail reception over here the other night.  It was pretty fun. I'm told the Bushes didn't do these kinds of th...

How We Roll

The meeting Big Guy had today with the executives from the credit card companies did not go very well. They felt like they were being used ...

Timmy Steps Up

So Big Guy and I were up on Capitol Hill this morning for a speech on the Holocaust.  It was a moving ceremony, and Big O did a simply pheno...

Our Earth Day Agenda

Big Guy is getting a lot of criticism for not doing enough on the environment for Earth Day.  These people don't know what they are talk...

We're Going to Meet Big Fans

We'll we're heading off to Iowa this morning. This will be fun; Iowa, as you know is where Big Guy and I started our quest for worl...

About Abdullah's Knives

We've not even gone through our first 100 days, and already, we've got a "long knife" victim. Ellen Moran, who was White ...

More Stuff

King Abdullah of Jordan is here visiting, and in between serving as a foil to Joey B's upcoming "60 Minutes" profile, he met w...

About Those Abs

Boy, does Big Guy look hot ; May is National Physical Fitness Month, after all. But those abs Big O is flashing on that Washingtonian cover...

Big Signing Ceremony Today

Later today, Big Guy is going to a sign a bill called the Kennedy Serve America Act. It's groundbreaking legislation that will allow ...

Swing and a Miss

One of the reasons we rushed out of the CIA was because Big Guy got a call from Axelrod telling him that the Chicago White Sox were on the W...

Shhh. Can You Keep a Secret?

So Big Guy and I went out to Langley to talk to the troops at CIA headquarters.  This was a big to-do, especially since many of the senior f...

Wew!

When we heard in the Oval that a guy wearing a clown wig was escorted out of Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN racism conference, after ye...

Unhealthy Messaging

There's a lot of tension at the White House today over all the comments people here made on the Sunday talk show circuit. You had Axelr...

No Credit

So yesterday, Larry Summers let the cat out of the bag and told everyone about Big Guy's next war ... on credit cards. This is kind of i...

No Big Deal

None of us understands why everyone is making such a big deal about Chavez giving Big Guy  a copy of "Open Veins of Latin America: Five...

If It's Sunday ... It's Time to Sleep In

Given that some of you may be church-going folk, I thought Sunday might be a good time to address the controversy from last week at Georgeto...

Small World

Actually, the summit down here in Trinidad and Tobago is going swimingly. And not just because Gibbsy is getting in a lot of time down by th...

Tough Choices

Big Guy announced today that his government would be making "tough decisions" when he gets back from Trinidad and Tobago. I think...

Down Trinidad and Tobago Way

Sorry about lack of posting's last couple of days, obviously my broadband connections have gone a bit wobbly south of the border. Big G...

Once Upon a Time in Latin America

Big Guy is getting ready to fly down Mexico way and then to Trinidad and Tobago for the Organization of American States. Oh, sure, he’ll apo...

A Simpler Tax Code for a Simpler People

Big Guy wants to create a simpler tax code for all of us. First, he gave 95% of us a tax cut that shows up every two weeks in our pay check...

Our Smart Friends in The Media

There has been a lot of talk in the White House today about these Tax Day Tea Parties around the country. They apparently started when a CNB...

The Nerve ...

So there was an emergency meeting at the White House last night led by Big Guy and Timmy Terrific.  Apparently a big bank, which will go nam...

Right to Piracy?

So Bo's been chewing on my electrical cord and making me go all wobbly.  Similar to my time in Iowa when I went on the "fritz"...

Tax Freedom Day

It's Tax Holiday Day here at the White House. A little known fact, all Presidentially appointed Executive employees do not have to pay f...

Pillar Fight

Some of you may have noticed that during today's speech at Georgetown University, Big Guy talked a lot about pillars. He loves pillars....

About That Georgetown Speech

Let me let you in on a secret: Big Guy loves American Catholics, which his why he speaks so often at Catholic places, like he did at Georget...

Bo Knows Rahm

The dynamic between Bo and Toes is going to be fascinating to watch. I say this having spent most of yesterday following Bo around watching ...

Yo, Ho, Ho

Now that we have the pirate in custody, there has been a lot of talk about what to do with him here at the White House. Some of Big Guy...

Bo Speaks

Given that we're bunking together for a while, I thought I'd give Bo a chance to introduce himself. I want to thank TOTUS for giving...

Bo Know the Kennedys Alright

Well, my first night with Bo was a bit of an adventure.  When he wasn't whining about wanting to be with the girls or his "master,...

Storytime With Uncle Joe

Last night I couldn't sleep, so I went down to the White House residence kitchen, and there was Joey B.  It's not clear why he was d...

Ahoy, There

Big Gug has entered into direct negotiations with the Somali pirates. It's been tense. Given that our national security and CIA analys...

Silence is Golden

Sorry that I went silent between noon and 3 pm today. It's not because of Good Friday. None of us in the White House do anything betwee...

Good Friday, Indeed

It's true that Big Guy and the family are still trying to figure out where they will go for Sunday services, not only for Easter, but f...

Uh, Oh, Joe's On the Guest List

Part of the reason that my new ward, Bill, got in so much trouble for his press office faux pas , was because we were trying to hide tonight...

In Which I Save a Life ...

It's not that dramatic a story, really. But a young staffer, whom I will call Bill to protect his privacy, made a fairly serious screw-...

Joe vs. The President

Joey B., as some of you may know, has a way of, how do you say it, well, exaggerating every now and again. Some people toss it up to his w...

A Little Too Close To Home

Earlier today, some of us who have been around Big Guy for more than four years - that means about four of us - were pulled into an emergenc...

No Bow, No Way

Sometimes these White House communications guys really just don't know when to stop. Some of you may recall that during Big Guy's tr...

Rebalancing the Scales of Justice

Big Guy just came out of a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder about the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens. The Big O was pretty mad ab...

Rahm's Evil Plan, Cont'd.

As some of you may know, Big Guy has been having issues with a group of moderate Democrats in both the House and the Senate.  It's made ...

On The Money

Big Guy returned from his eight-day trip and was none too pleased with what he found here at the White House. Beer stains on the ceiling of ...

Pinstripes In The Oval

The New York Yankees passed through the White House earlier today I'm told. Apparently they were in Baltimore to play the Orioles and c...

Back Home

Well, we're almost settled back home. I got good news on the way into town, which is that I'm back in the residence.  The bad news, ...

In And Out of Iraq

Big Guy got a huge thrill out of being in Iraq. The men and women of our military were just great and welcoming. It almost makes me think w...

A Good Idea

Given some of the rough treatment Big Guy has received over the past few days from the U.S. media, I'm surprised that Toes and Gibbsy st...

And By The Way ...

The Austrian translation for "wheeling and dealing" is "wheeling and dealing." It's the same in German, too, or so ...

Toes' Evil Idea

This may not seem like a particularly evil or mean-spirited idea, but boy, Toes sure is insidious.  He was reading the news clips earlier to...

Boston Bailout

Big Guy was very excited during the morning briefing, when TATUS chimed in and announced that we might have an opportunity to have American ...

The Axe Man

Yesterday, everyone on Air Force One was jacked about senior adviser David Axelrod's appearance on "Fox News Sunday." Big Guy...

About This Turkey Trip

So, we're here in Turkey today, and this may be the most contentious part of the trip. All of us are a bit on edge, because we know the...

Czeching Out Lady M's Wardrobe

Michelle is back in the White House this morning. There is no truth to the rumor that she left the junket early because of her dissatisfact...

Sleepy Head

Big Guy was none too pleased when Gibbsy and I showed up at his door at about 4:30 on Sunday morning to tell him that the North Koreans had ...

Kim Jong-il On Line 2

Big Guy got a surprise call from North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-il, while we were on our way to the Czech Republic. Kim has told Big O that h...

So Much For Partnerships

Well, we are all definitely coming down to earth from the high of giving the Queen an i-Pod. Yesterday Bug Guy sat down with his fellow lead...

Rahm Arrives

Rahm showed up today - isn't it just like him to arrive in the country where the food is good - and seemed in a prickly mood. Seems he ...

What A Peach

There was a lot of grumbling during the townhall session earlier today in Strasbourg . There were a ton of people there, I'd say in tho...

About Those European Relations

Today was amazing.  Big Guy won everyone over.  He spoke to the French and the Germans in a frank manner.  He didn't adhere to our ...

Problems Solved

Good news from across the pond, everyone. You may think this "listen and lead" thing is a bunch of emptiness, but every day Big Gu...

Fraud!

Campaign Spot hack reporter Jim Geraghty has highlighted an outrageous video, which you can see here . It's outrageous not because this ...

Down Mexico Way

Some of you may have noticed that before Big Guy left for Europe, he sent a high-ranking delegation to Mexico. See, Mexico is very mad becau...

Everyone Is Making a Buck But Me

This is getting really annoying. I just learned that Big Guy's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives in Hawaii, has signed a book deal. The...

Please Move On ... Nothing To See Here ...

Joey B is going to speak later today at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network ponzi, er, national convention. The White House thinks he...

Today ...

Big O meets with French President Nicholas Sarkozy. I don't care much for him; I'm looking forward to meeting the missus. My guess i...

Capitalism Rules

By popular demand, I've opened a store. You can visit it here . Or click on the "Visit My Store" link to the right. I'll...

Huh ...

I haven't seen Big Guy this happy since he figured out that the Federal Election Commission didn't know what it was doing after his ...

About that Press Conference ...

Uh, um ... sorry, I got nothin'.

Really Unnecessary Leak

This cartoon is incredibly unfair and inaccurate. First, that's not the angle I would ever put myself in under any circumstance. Thera...

A Good Guy Wins

I am thrilled that my good friend Ed Schultz got a TV show on MSNBC . You might remember Ed was the radio host who got to ask Big Guy a ques...

New Friends

This morning, Big Guy was really excited when he saw that his campaign slogan was resonating with young people over here in London. Having t...

Like A Rocket

So we're already well into the day here, and the Big Guy will be doing a press conference in a couple of hours, so please watch! This mo...

About Those German Relations ...

Big Guy sat down briefly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier today to discuss holding bilateral talks later this year. It was a bit...

Tomorrow Is Today

Today is your tomorrow, but for me today is going to be another big day. We aren't giving away anymore i-Pods, but we will be doing a lo...

About Those Gifts

I don't know why everyone is getting so annoyed about Big Guy's use of "England" instead of "Great Britain" duri...