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The 10 Most-Read Stories on Washington Whispers This Year
Tweet Share on Facebook December 28, 2012 CommentFor nearly eight decades, Washington Whispers has sought to both inform and amuse its readers with a fun, insider's view of politics and Washington. This year was no different. Here are the 10 stories you liked, commented on, and shared the most.
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The White House Still Hasn't Responded to Any of the Secession (or Other Strange) Petitions
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2012 CommentThe White House's "We the People" website just got its most popular petition to date: a request to officially designate the Westboro Baptist church as a hate group. The petition was started on Dec. 14, the same day a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., left 27 people dead, 20 of them children, and the day the fringe church announced it would picket the victims' funerals.
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Boehner Gets More Than 2,000 Lumps of Coal for Christmas
Tweet Share on Facebook December 26, 2012 CommentHouse Speaker John Boehner will be greeted by more than 2,000 pieces of coal when he returns to Washington after what was unlikely to have been a relaxing vacation in Ohio amid the standoff over the fiscal cliff.
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On 40th Anniversary of Truman's Death, Remembering His Red Scare 'Loyalty Program'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 26, 2012 CommentWhile most famous for ending World War II, helping establish the United Nations and launching the Marshall Plan, president Harry S. Truman also put in place the first government-sponsored program to ferret out so-called "communist infiltrators" within the U.S. government.
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House Office Takes Yuletide Mirth to a Whole New Level
Tweet Share on Facebook December 24, 2012 CommentIt's a holly, jolly Christmas in the basement of the Capitol building this year.
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Video Compares Avoiding Fiscal Cliff to Scoring With a Girl or Guy
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2012 CommentFrom the campaign that gave us former Sen. Alan Simpson going "Gangnam Style" comes another video on avoiding the fiscal cliff. Only this time, The Can Kicks Back has likened the prolonged negotiations in Washington to scoring with a girl or guy at a college party.
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Study Of Pre-Primary Fundraising Suggests No GOP Candidate Could Have Beaten Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2012 CommentOn Thursday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Huffington Post he "would have probably done better" against President Barack Obama than GOP nominee Mitt Romney. But a new study from the University of Arkansas suggests no matter who the GOP nominee was, the outcome would have been the same.
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CodePink Says It Went to NRA Press Conference to Protest Gun Rights 'Propaganda'
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2012 CommentTwo CodePink protesters were removed from the National Rifle Association press conference Friday after holding up signs and shouting that the NRA was "killing our kids." The anti-war activists slipped in to the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington despite tight security and credentials for media members.
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Obama Issues Last Minute Executive Order to Save Christmas for Federal Employees
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2012 CommentWho stole Christmas?
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The 10 Wackiest Political Quotes Of 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook December 21, 2012 CommentThere were gaffes. There were zingers. And then there were statements so outlandish or funny we couldn't possibly forget them. From our politicians and the people that surround them, we give you the 10 wackiest political quotes of 2012:
