White House staff lose weight, credit first lady
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 2nd, 2011 4:35 am by HL
White House staff lose weight, credit first lady
WASHINGTON — Surrounded all day and most nights by delicious cakes, cookies, pies and more, Susie Morrison gave in to temptation too often during long hours at work in the White House pastry kitchen.
But no more.
Never a runner, the assistant pastry chef has finished her first 5K run. When the weather cooperates, she pedals her bicycle 26 miles roundtrip to work. She’s eating more vegetables, limiting coffee and drinking up to a gallon of water every day — dietary changes that Morrison says helped her drop 30 pounds from her 5-foot-5 frame in about 18 months.
DNC fundraising site kicks…er, posterior
Democrats are finding that emulating Chuck Norris takes some effort.
Visit www.kickingass.org, and you’ll see that the colorful domain name is owned by the tough-talking Democratic National Committee. But there’s little on the page besides the phrase “The Democratic Party” and a picture of President Obama surrounded by a cheering crowd. A disclaimer explains the lack of content. “We’re doing some work. We’ll be back in a little while,” reads a message in the lower-left corner.
Fact Checker biography: Romney’s problematic claims of reducing health care subsidies
“The state was giving over $1 billion away in free health care, much of it to people who could’ve paid something but were just gaming the system. You won’t be surprised that a lot of Democrats thought we should give them even more. I took on this problem and hammered out a solution that took a bad a situation and made it better — not perfect, but it was a state solution to our state’s problem.”
Supercommittee’s secrecy disappoints Republican House freshmen
A number of Republican House freshmen who came to Washington promising to slash government spending are increasingly worried that the congressional supercommittee, to which that task has now fallen, is operating too much in secret and that the lack of transparency could doom the enterprise.
Despite a few open sessions, including one on Tuesday, they worry that the panel’s mostly private negotiations will produce a result that does not represent the kind of revolutionary change they had hoped to bring to the Capitol.
Herman Cain’s accuser wants to tell her side of story, lawyer says
A woman who accused Herman Cain of sexual harassment in the 1990s is ready for her story to come out, her attorney said Tuesday, even as the Republican presidential hopeful spent a second day trying to quell the mounting controversy and explain his conflicting recollections of the matter.
Joel P. Bennett, a lawyer representing one of two women who made the claims against Cain, said Tuesday that his client is barred from publicly relating her side because of a non-disclosure agreement she signed upon leaving the National Restaurant Association, where Cain served as president from 1996 through 1999.
