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This Oct. 21, 2013, file photo shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough listening to President Barack Obama speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

WH chief of staff: Mission in Iraq and Syria is clear, despite reliance on others

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Inside the Beltway: The White House itch to fundraise continues - no matter what

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Chris Christie scandal is a reflection on the New Jersey governor even though some of his aides were at the center of it. "It seems to me that this whole bridge thing reinforces a narrative that's troublesome about the guy. He's kind of a bully," the South Carolina Republican says. (Associated Press)

Republicans unconvinced Obama taking Islamic State threat seriously enough

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton, listen to speakers in Washington in this Jan. 14, 2011, file photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Bill Clinton touts Hillary’s credentials at White House event

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 10, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington. As a U.S. senator from Illinois running for the White House in 2007, Obama sponsored a resolution to prohibit President George W. Bush’s administration from taking military action against Iran unless it was explicitly authorized by Congress. His idea died in committee. Obama said Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, along with expanded strikes in Iraq, as part of &quot;a steady, relentless effort&quot; to root out Islamic State extremists. He did not say how long he expected the fighting to last. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Can Obama wage war without consent of Congress?

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers a question on the administration strategy to combat the Islamic State group during the daily press briefing, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WH spokesman Josh Earnest asked what ‘destroy’ means: ‘I didn’t bring my Webster’s’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

This Oct. 21, 2013, file photo shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough listening to President Barack Obama speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama chief of staff pledges action on immigration

By ERICA WERNER - Associated Press

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney has predicted the 2014 midterm elections will be unpleasant for Democrats. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Former Obama spokesman Jay Carney hired by CNN

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the militants or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria. That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches airstrikes against the group in Syria, the U.S. runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of President Bashar Assad, whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State, which has seized swaths of territory in both Syria and Iraq, would potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Obama to reveal Islamic State strategy in prime-time address

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE- This Aug. 8, 2014, file photo shows Kentucky Democratic senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes as she speaks to a group of supporters during a political rally at the Hal Rogers Center in Hazard, Ky. The first midterm elections since both parties embraced a historic change in campaign finance, and with it a sea of campaign cash, will mean for most voters an avalanche of television ads trying to reach the few able to be swayed and willing to vote. In the nation's closest races for U.S. Senate, that translates into "price per vote" that could easily double what was spent in the 2012 presidential election. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Alison Grimes shuns Obama on trail, but her parents visit the White House

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks about the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia, during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Earnest also spoke about reports that a video on the internet that purports to show beheading of US reporter Steven Sotloff by Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama invites Congress in for Islamic State talks

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Setting it aside: President Obama's delay of executive action on immigration likely will help a few Senate Democrats running for re-election but will hurt tens of thousands who face deportation. (Associated Press)

Obama decision to delay deportations infuriates immigrants rights groups

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

CURL: Obama: I’ll ignore the Constitution — but only after the election

By Joseph Curl

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Mitt Romney: ‘No question’ I’d make a better president than Hillary Clinton

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 30, 2014, file photo President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while making an announcement about immigration reform in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Then the president said he was done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration, and that he planned to act on his own via executive action. According to White House officials Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections. The two officials said Obama decided Friday as he returned to Washington from a NATO summit in Wales that circumventing Congress with executive actions on immigration during the midterm campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul of the immigration system. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama to delay immigration action until after November elections

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 1, 2014. (Associated Press)

Obama shelves immigration action; Hispanic activists enraged

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

HUMPHRIES: The Liberal Bully of the Week —- Josh Earnest

By Rusty Humphries

Illustration by Mark Herron

Liberal Bully of the Week: Josh Earnest and the White House spin

By Rusty Humphries

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures while speaking during his and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves's news conference at the Bank of Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Wednesday's statement came as U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Estonia in a show of solidarity with NATO allies who fear they could be the next target of Russia's aggression. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

ISTOOK: Washington’s power players: Out of touch AND out of voters’ reach?

By Ernest Istook