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Romney: START Must Be Stopped

 Romney: START 
 Must Be Stopped 
OPINION
Dec 3, 2010 1:35 PM CST

Romney: START Must Be Stopped

Mitt Romney: Obama's rushing a dangerous treaty

(Newser) - President Obama is trying to rush the New START treaty through Congress—but it’s far too important not to explore thoroughly before a decision is made, writes Mitt Romney in the Boston Globe . The president has already gotten Congress to speed through his stimulus package and health care reform....

Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

He'll be thanking US troops

(Newser) - President Obama slipped unannounced into Afghanistan today, one year after widening an ever deadlier war and just days before a pivotal review about the 9-year-plus conflict. Under intense security, Obama landed in darkness after a clandestine departure from the White House yesterday. He was to personally thank US troops for...

Stimulus Gave $140M to Faith-Based Groups

It's one of the quieter aspects of the federal package

(Newser) - Conservatives slammed it as “anti-religious”—but in fact, some $140 million from President Obama’s stimulus package has gone to faith-based organizations. The money “kind of fell from the sky, and it was unbelievable,” says the head of a church-backed nonprofit. But the matter has gone...

Obama, GOP Hold Hushed Tax-Cut Talks

President calls for speedy renewal of jobless benefits

(Newser) - Could the president and GOP lawmakers be inching toward compromise ? Working against the clock, Obama and congressional Republicans have been holding behind-the-scenes talks about extending tax cuts—due to expire at year’s end—and renewing expired emergency jobless benefits, and they're making slow and steady progress on the...

Obama Saying Right Things, but Sounds Weary of Job

President looks 'frustrated', 'disengaged' in his job

(Newser) - President Obama is “saying all the right words” after the midterm elections, focusing on cooperation and consensus. But step back and “listen to the music,” writes Ben Goddard in the Hill . “Watching the body language of the president and hearing the weariness in his voice, one...

Kissenger, Powell, et al: Ratify New START
 Kissinger, 
 Powell, et Al.: 
 Ratify New START 
GOP SECRETARIES OF STATE
Dec 2, 2010 12:15 PM CST

Kissinger, Powell, et Al.: Ratify New START

Kissinger, Powell, Baker call on Senate for 'essential' vote

(Newser) - The New START treaty got some serious firepower behind it this morning, with the past five Republican secretaries of state writing a Washington Post op-ed in its support. "Although each of us had initial questions about New START," write Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker III, Lawrence Eagleburger...

AIDS Activist Slams 'Do- Nothing' Obama

Prez 'has been useless' on HIV, gay issues

(Newser) - The man who first warned of the AIDS epidemic blasted President Obama on World AIDS Day yesterday. “Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today ‘Let’s think of all the poor dead people’—or ‘let’s honor all the dead’—instead of fighting for the living,...

Primary Challenge for Obama? No Way
 Primary Challenge  
 for Obama? No Way 
OPINION
Dec 1, 2010 1:23 PM CST

Primary Challenge for Obama? No Way

There's no 'coherent bloc' against him: Ed Kilgore

(Newser) - Ever since President Obama was elected, there have been murmurs he’d see a primary challenge in 2012—but that’s farfetched, writes Ed Kilgore in the New Republic . First off, there would need to be a “coherent bloc” of primary voters against him; there isn’t. Three-quarters of...

Obama, GOP Will Keep Working on Tax-Cut Deal

They hope to reach compromise on Bush cuts by year's end

(Newser) - Reaching no quick fixes, President Obama and Republican leaders in Congress today vowed to seek a compromise on tax cuts before year's end. "The American people did not vote for gridlock," Obama said following the session. There was no consensus on whether to keep Bush-era tax cuts in...

GOP: Time for Democrats to Work With Us Now
GOP: Time for Democrats
to Work With Us Now
boehner and mcconnell
Nov 30, 2010 9:40 AM CST

GOP: Time for Democrats to Work With Us Now

John Boehner, Mitch McConnell lament 2 years of 'misplaced priorities'

(Newser) - Further evidence that today's summit-that-isn't-quite-a-summit between Republicans and Democrats won't yield many kumbayas: Mitch McConnell and John Boehner stake out their position on working with Democrats in a Washington Post op-ed and say they're happy to do so—provided President Obama and company are willing to "move away from...

Obama to Freeze Feds' Pay
 Obama to Freeze 
 Feds' Pay 
Nov 29, 2010 10:38 AM CST

Obama to Freeze Feds' Pay

Aims to cut deficit with 2-year move

(Newser) - President Obama is set to announce a 2-year pay freeze for federal employees that the White House says is necessary to put the country on sound fiscal footing. The White House said today that the freeze would apply to all civilian federal employees, including those working at the Department of...

Obama Back on Court With Busted Lip

Injury doesn't keep prez from playing with his daughters

(Newser) - President Obama was back on the basketball court yesterday despite his injured lip , but his opponents this time around were a bit less likely to elbow him. Obama played an early morning game at an Interior Department gym with daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, the New York Daily News...

Now We Know: Obama Elbower Identified

Not Reggie or Arne: It's Rey Decerega

(Newser) - For the record, the man whose elbow gave President Obama a fat lip is Rey Decerega, who works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. The White House play-by-play: Decerega "turned into POTUS, who was playing defense, to take a shot when the elbow hit the president in the mouth....

Obama Takes Elbow, Needs 12 Stitches
 Obama Takes Elbow,  
 Needs 12 Stitches 
basketball injury
Nov 26, 2010 2:14 PM CST

Obama Takes Elbow, Needs 12 Stitches

President gets a fat lip during pickup basketball game

(Newser) - Insert witty political metaphor here: President Obama needed 12 stitches today after taking an elbow to the lip during a pickup basketball game, reports MSNBC . No word on the elbow thrower, but the White House declares the president was "inadvertently hit" during the game at Fort McNair. The AP...

Psst, Obama, Russia Is No Longer an Enemy
 
 Psst, Obama, 
 Russia Is No 
 Longer an 
 Enemy 
charles krauthammer
Nov 26, 2010 1:12 PM CST

Psst, Obama, Russia Is No Longer an Enemy

Krauthammer: The START treaty is a useless diversion

(Newser) - President Obama's big priority of the moment is the New START treaty with Russia, to which Charles Krauthammer says, "Good grief." You'd think the president would have more important things to worry about than this irrelevant deal, he writes at the Washington Post . "A nuclear exchange between...

Sarah Palin: Hey, Obama Misspeaks, Too

She slams media for uneven mocking

(Newser) - Facing ridicule for her comment about “our North Korean allies,” Sarah Palin has accused the media of a double-standard: Why, she asked on Facebook , isn’t President Obama mocked for his gaffes? Remember when he said he’d been to all 57 states? Palin references that and a...

Veteran Arrested for Threatening President

Michael Bowden would 'put Obama against the wall and shoot him'

(Newser) - A 78-year-old South Carolina veteran has been arrested after threatening to shoot the president. Michael Stephen Bowden, also a former New York City police officer and fire captain, told a nurse at a Veteran Affairs clinic he "would like to shoot the president then myself." He was arrested...

Obama: Let's Be Thankful... and Start Cooperating

President uses Thanksgiving address as a call for unity

(Newser) - President Obama gave his weekly address a few days early in order to wish the country Happy Thanksgiving—and call for bipartisan cooperation, CNN reports. Today, the first family will give thanks for “the God-given bounty of America and the blessings of one another,” he said, adding that...

Obama Spares Turkeys 'Shellacking'

Birds will head to George Washington's estate

(Newser) - It's official: President Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons today to a gobbler named "Apple" and its alternate, “Cider.” The two 21-week-old, 45-pound turkeys were raised on a California farm. Obama said it “feels pretty good...

'Exhausted' Obama Defender Loses Job

Velma Hart laid off 2 months after telling prez she worried about family's future

(Newser) - The woman who became a symbol of voter dissatisfaction after telling President Obama she was "exhausted" from defending his policies has now got even more reason to be dissatisfied. Velma Hart, who told the president she was worried about her financial future, has lost her job as chief financial...

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