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President Obama uses a cellphone to contact supporters during a surprise visit to meet volunteers at an Obama campaign office in Port St. Lucie, Fla. on Sept. 9, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

CURL: White House panics as millennials wise up, bail on President Obama

By Joseph Curl

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2013, photo, David Simas, Deputy Senior Adviser for Communications and Strategy, left, and Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff accompany President Barack Obama to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Boston to speak about the federal health care law. Obama is bringing back an internal White House political office as this year's congressional election approaches. Obama announced Jan. 24, 2014, that he's named Simas, a top adviser grappling with problems with his health care rollout, to oversee a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama brings back a White House political office

By NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2013, photo, David Simas, Deputy Senior Adviser for Communications and Strategy, left, and Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff accompany President Barack Obama to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Boston to speak about the federal health care law. Obama is bringing back an internal White House political office as this year's congressional election approaches. Obama announced Jan. 24, 2014, that he's named Simas, a top adviser grappling with problems with his health care rollout, to oversee a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama brings back a White House political office

By Nedra Pickler - Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2013, photo, David Simas, Deputy Senior Adviser for Communications and Strategy, left, and Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff accompany President Barack Obama to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Boston to speak about the federal health care law. Obama is bringing back an internal White House political office as this year's congressional election approaches. Obama announced Jan. 24, 2014, that he's named Simas, a top adviser grappling with problems with his health care rollout, to oversee a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

David Simas named to lead White House team for 2014 election cycle

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Huckabee isn’t rushing to have his name included among the crowded field of potential Republican presidential candidates. But he isn’t closing the door, either, as he meets Thursday with the GOP’s cardinals at the Republican National Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Huckabee’s comments on birth control gift for Dems

By PHILIP ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

HENDERSHOTT: White House didn’t stop ‘flagging’ Obamacare ‘misinformation’

By Anne Hendershott and Brian Simboli

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican (Associated Press)

Moody’s downgrades health insurers, citing Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. Feb. 12, 2013 file-pool photo, President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Here’s a little secret about the State of the Union address that President Barack Obama will deliver next week: He’ll give Congress a long list of requests but few likely will be approved. That’s just the reality of a politically divided government. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File-Pool)

State of the Union: High volume, low yield

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Huckabee isn’t rushing to have his name included among the crowded field of potential Republican presidential candidates. But he isn’t closing the door, either, as he meets Thursday with the GOP’s cardinals at the Republican National Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Huckabee: Democrats pitch women on birth control

By PHILIP ELLIOTT - Associated Press

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during an reception for the U.S. Conference of Mayors in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama to mayors: We can work together to help cities

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Jan. 16, 2014, file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Subway joins first lady’s healthy eating effort

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Sen. Ted Cruz is ready for the big top with the spectacle called the State of the Union scheduled next week. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: The State of the Union spectacle begins

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

**FILE** (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Hungry alligators await as the U.S. Treasury is running out of gimmicks

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Carney talked about President Barack Obama's upcoming State of the Union Address, the Ukraine and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama admin chides GOP, warns of another shutdown without debt ceiling increase

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Carney talked about President Barack Obama's upcoming State of the Union Address, the Ukraine and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House warns GOP: Raise the borrowing limit without strings

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, center, meet with, from left, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Tina Tchen, who is also the Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, to discuss the Council on Women and Girls. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama targets college sexual assault epidemic

By NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. Feb. 12, 2013 file-pool photo, President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Here’s a little secret about the State of the Union address that President Barack Obama will deliver next week: He’ll give Congress a long list of requests but few likely will be approved. That’s just the reality of a politically divided government. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File-Pool)

State of the Union: Of pledges, pleas and setbacks

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Anti-abortion demonstrators rally at the annual March for Life on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 22, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Obama pushes women’s reproductive rights amid March for Life

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times