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Obama Rented Illegal Hawaiian Vacation House
Adrienne LaFrance, Honolulu Civil Beat President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. Glenn Weinberg, the owner of the Kailua estate, told Civil Beat that it was legal for him to rent to the president for a short s...

Oops: Obama Rented an Illegal House During Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama's two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedo...

Oops: Obama Rented an Illegal House During Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his house to the Obamas does not have the permit that would allow a stay of fewer than 30 days. Glenn Weinberg, the owner of the Kailua estate, told Civil Beat that it was legal for him to rent to the president for a short stay because he kept the home empty for t...

A Jobs Surge?
Leonhardt notes that "ADP is forecasting a gain of 297,000 private-sector jobs in December, which would be the biggest monthly gain since early 2006." Macroeconomic Advisers says there are reasons to be skeptical of this number but also reasons for hope: [T]he weakness in November retail Payrolls (and services more generally) did seem out of place, in light of robust holiday sales and other indications that labor markets are improving (e.g., declining initial claims). If the De...

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers
On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Tuesday night, the host, notoriously at odds with Daily Caller Editor in Chief Tucker Carlson after calling him a ” big d-ck” on CNN’s Crossfire in 2004, complimented him (we think) on his reactions at the recent RNC Candidates Debate in which RNC Chairman Michael Steele made his “best of times, worst of times” War and Peace flub. “How badly does he [Carlson] want to turn to [Americans for Tax Reform Prez] Grover Norquist and...

Obama approval ratings compared to past presidents
As he begins his third year in office, President Barack Obama’s Approval Ratings continue to hover right around 48 percent according to Gallup’s daily tracking poll. That means about half of those polled think the president is doing a good job. But that number isn’t as bad as it could be when looking back over the last 30 years at other presidents as they finished their second full year in office. At the start of 1983, President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, had just a 36 percen...

ROGER SIMON: Its still just meWill Boehner Be the Anti-Obama? Like much of the world
ROGER SIMON: ‘It’s still just me’—Will Boehner Be the Anti-Obama? Like much of the world that doesn’t live Inside the Beltway, I was only marginally aware of John Boehner until some months ago when it was becoming clear he might be the next Speaker. And even then I wasn’t impressed. The man-tan look made me assume he was just another shallow pol. I was wrong. As of now, I have...

OBAMA'S APPROVAL NUMBERS UP TO 50% AGAIN!?!?
ACCORDING TO Gallup. If he stayed on Vacation longer, then his numbers would keep going up. if he resigned, then he'd get a 100% Approval Rating! ...

Fun Fact of The Day: Obama Has Spent Nearly Two Months Golfing
A true hero of the Working Class. (WHD)- President Obama has gone golfing a total of 59 times in just under two years as president, a blistering pace that puts him on the Golf Course an average of about once every two weeks, including winters. According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s activities, Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, and one this year. The 2011 outing is among the five times he...

White House Press Secretary Gibbs Announces His Departure
Some major changes are in store for the White House Briefing Room and President Obama’s innermost team. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced his departure to Staffers on Wednesday morning.  The move comes on the president’s first full day in back in the office from his Hawaii holiday Vacation. Rumors brewed for months about an impending Gibbs departure from the White House.  Observers noted the sometimes testy relationship between the press secretary and the m...

Bad news: Obamas Hawaiian vacation rental was illegal
“Illegal” is such an ugly word. Instead, let’s say that the rental wasn’t … properly documented. And before any Birthers e-mail me: Yes, yes, I know. “Neither is he.” Something for Darrell Issa to add to his list? President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals. Obama did not break the law by staying at the house, but the property owner who rented his hou...

LIKE TAXES, REAL ESTATE LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: President Barack Obamas two-week stay a
LIKE TAXES, Real Estate LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: “President Barack Obama’s two-week stay at his Hawaii Winter White House was illegal under a long-standing Honolulu ban on short-term rentals.” A dumb law, but really, Obama is the last guy who should be saying that a law’s dumbness excuses compliance . . . . ...

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United States President Barack Obama's move on December 31, bypassing the Senate while vacationing in Hawaii

Three police killed in China shootout
The gunmen, wanted for a December killing in Dezhou, began firing from behind a door when officers came to the apartment of a brother of one of them. They fled the scene and hijacked four cars before police crashed a patrol car into their vehicle and surrounded them in a road. BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- The two winning lottery tickets that will share in a Mega Millions $335 million pot were sold in Idaho and Washington State, lottery officials said Wednesday. Los Angeles, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- ...

Barack Obama Thinks Maybe Bipartisanship Might Be a Good Thing
Oh man! Get a load of this… President Obama, returning to Washington from his Christmas Vacation in Hawaii, urged House and Senate GOP leaders to put partisan politics aside in the name of working to boost The Economy… "And that our job this year is to make sure that we build on recovery," he added. "We started making good progress on that in the lame-duck, and I expect to build on that progress when I get back." Well, of course he'd urge the Senate and Hou...

President Obama spends 8% of his days on the golf course playing the game of the idle rich
It's not like there is a Recession or war to worry about at the moment. Oh, wait a minute... (WHD)- President Obama has gone golfing a total of 59 times in just under two years as president, a blistering pace that puts him on the Golf Course an average of about once every two weeks, including winters. According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s activities, Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, an...

Post-Midterm Approval Ratings Dont Predict Re-Election Chances
By Nate Silver NYT Barack Obama got some good news to start his new year: his Gallup Approval Rating ticked up to 50 percent yesterday, against 42 percent Disapproval. That’s the first time it has been at the 50 percent threshold since early June. Mr. Obama had some successes to point to in December, like the accomplishments of the lame-duck session of Congress, and some moderately encouraging economic numbers. Still, it’s unclear whether the movement is real or reflects statistical noise;...

Obama's Job Approval Reaches 50 Percent
(NewsCore) - President Barack Obama's Job Approval hit the 50 percent mark for the first time in six months, according to the results of the latest Gallup Poll released Monday. Obama's Approval Rating was in the mid-40 percent range for much of the latter half of 2010. He last recorded a 50 percent Approval Rating in a three-day period near the end of May and beginning of June. The latest results were based on Gallup daily tracking conducted Dec. 28-29 and Jan. 2. Gallup said there is often a te...

Approval Rating for the Last Congress Among Lowest in Two Decades
If the new Republican-controlled House is hoping to do improve the marks Congress gets from the public for the job it does, it has one thing going in its favor: the 111th Congress under Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats set a pretty low bar. Gallup says that its poll numbers for the 2009-2010 session showed the 111th Congress with an average 25 percent job Approval Rating for the year. That's among the lowest annual averages recorded in the past two decades. The 110th Congress of 2007-2008 beat it ...

Santorum weak on the home front
If Rick Santorum's really going to run for President he'd better hope folks in other states respond more positively to him than the ones in Pennsylvania who know him best. Just finished crunching the numbers on our first poll of 2011, which we'll start rolling out in full tomorrow. For now here's what we found on Santorum: -Only 38% of voters in the state have a favorable opinion of him to 44% with a negative one. His numbers are particularly bad with Independents whose Ratings of him break dow...

Politics live blog - Wednesday 5 January
The latest poll results do not make very good reading for David Cameron or Nick Clegg. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images 8.38am: YouGov published its first poll of 2011 last night - and the results don't make very good reading for Nick Clegg, or David Cameron. The Liberal Democrat Ratings, and the government Approval Ratings, are as low as they have been at any point since the General Election. Here are the full GB figures. Parliament is not sitting today, and we're not expecting any big announce...

Nancy Pelosi Has Presided Over Least Popular Congresses of Past Two Decades
gallupPRINCETON, NJ -- The 111th Congress received an average 25% Approval Rating from Americans over the course of 2009 and 2010. While this is similar to the 23% average Approval Rating for the 110th Congress spanning 2007 and 2008, it is among the lowest average approval Ratings for a Congress that Gallup has recorded in the past two decades ...

Pelosi's Reign: Least Popular Congresses in Decades
Not sorry to see you go! Gallup: “The 111th Congress received an average 25% Approval Rating from Americans over the course of 2009 and 2010. While this is similar to the 23% average Approval Rating for the 110th Congress spanning 2007 and 2008, it is among the lowest average approval Ratings for a Congress that Gallup has recorded in the past two decades.” The Disapproval averaged 66 percent. As recently as the 108th Congress (2003-2004), legislators had an average closer to even:...

111th Congress Averaged 25% Approval, Among Recent Lowest
The high approval of the 107th Congress, which met from 2001-2002, was partly the result of Americans' high approval of Congress in September 2001, after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. Approval of Congress doubled immediately after the attacks, from 42% in early September to 84% in early October, and it remained above 50% for the remainder of 2001 and in much of 2002. Public approval of Congress over the years was also likely influenced by various political Scandals, most notably the House bank...

The Rise Of Nightline: ABCs Late Night Show Beats Letterman And Leno
ABC’s Nightline-once considered past its prime and on the verge of cancellation-has thundered to a Ratings win for the Fourth Quarter 2010, beating both David Letterman’s Late Show and Jay Leno’s Tonight Show among total viewers. In the just-completed Fourth Quarter Ratings compiled by Nielsen, Nightline ranked No. 1 among total viewers (3.93 million) and adults 25-54 (1.61 million). This represents the first-time that Nightline outperformed its late-night rivals i...