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• Obama reframes economic debate for this year, and 2012 (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Republicans urge Obama to join in cutting spending (AP)
• Bachmann’s response marred by technical problems (The Cutline)
• CBO: Social Security to run permanent deficits (AP)
• Illinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Rahm Can Run for Mayor (The Atlantic Wire)
• House takes aim at public funding of elections (Reuters)
• House Republicans attack regulations; Dems defend (AP)
• Rep. Kucinich sues over olive pit in sandwich (AP)
• Palin starts year with $1.3M (Politico)
• House votes to end public financing (Politico)
• Bachmann speech raises her conservative profile (AP)
• African Union to lead recognition of S. Sudan (AP)
• Obama caught in Washington's wintry weather (AP)
• Obama's 'Sputnik Moment':Is That Really a Good Analogy? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Down in the polls, Sen. Nelson says the Senate should ‘get rid of this aisle!’ (Daily Caller)
• Mitt Romney and Chris Christie have dinner together (Daily Caller)
• Speech Fuels Speculation of Bachmann Presidential Bid (ContributorNetwork)
• Michele Bachmann Is Talking to the Internet--Not You (The Atlantic Wire)

Obama reframes economic debate for this year, and 2012 (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 25 Jan 2011 11:55 PM PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - "We do big things." It's also a pretty good summary of what the president himself was up to as he spoke to the nation on Tuesday night.

Republicans urge Obama to join in cutting spending (AP) Posted: 25 Jan 2011 08:35 PM PST AP - The nation faces a crushing burden of debt and is on course for an economic disaster without dramatic action to wrestle the budget deficit under control, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Tuesday in the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.

Bachmann’s response marred by technical problems (The Cutline) Posted: 25 Jan 2011 08:56 PM PST The Cutline - CNN was the only network that agreed to air Rep. Michele Bachmann's tea party response to President Obama's State of the Union address tonight, following the official Republican response. But if cable news viewers turned to CNN to take a look at Bachmann's response, the Minnesota congresswoman wasn't exactly looking back. Instead, Bachmann faced slightly [...]

CBO: Social Security to run permanent deficits (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 12:33 PM PST AP - New congressional projections show Social Security running permanent annual deficits unless lawmakers act to shore up the massive retirement and disability program.

Illinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Rahm Can Run for Mayor (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:21 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Let's check in with Rahm Emanuel, onetime White House Chief of Staff and current mayoral hopeful in Chicago. When last we saw Rahm, he'd just been thrown off the city ballot by an appellate court. The reason? If you want to run for mayor in Chicago, you have to live there for at least a year before the election. Because Emanuel spent most of 2010 in Washington, D.C., he was ruled ineligible to appear on the ballot, despite enjoying stronger numbers than any other candidate.

House takes aim at public funding of elections (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:06 PM PST Reuters - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to eliminate public financing of presidential campaigns, calling the four-decade-old program obsolete and wasteful.

House Republicans attack regulations; Dems defend (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:07 PM PST AP - House Republicans launched a tirade Wednesday at Obama administration regulations, reversing what had been an unusual display of unity hours earlier at the president's State of the Union speech.

Rep. Kucinich sues over olive pit in sandwich (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:21 PM PST AP - Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is suing a congressional cafeteria for dental damage he says he suffered after biting into an olive pit in a sandwich wrap he bought there.

Palin starts year with $1.3M (Politico) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 12:44 PM PST Politico - The filing shows no indication that she is gearing up for a potential presidential run in 2012.

House votes to end public financing (Politico) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:46 AM PST Politico - Ten Democrats join Republicans in a vote to suspend public funds for presidential races.

Bachmann speech raises her conservative profile (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:20 PM PST AP - Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann took another leap in her remarkable climb to national attention and tea party prominence with her freelance response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.

African Union to lead recognition of S. Sudan (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:01 AM PST AP - The African Union chief says the organization intends to be the first to recognize Southern Sudan as a new state should the result of its referendum be secession.

Obama caught in Washington's wintry weather (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 03:20 PM PST AP - Heavy snow and icy roads created hazardous conditions for President Barack Obama as he returned to the White House after a trip to Wisconsin.

Obama's 'Sputnik Moment':Is That Really a Good Analogy? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 12:09 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - Barack Obama summoned the ghosts of Communist enemies past last night when he used the term "Sputnik moment" to describe the United States' current standing on the world stage, presumably with a particular comparison to China's rising status as a dominant force in the global economy. The original launching of Sputnik I by the dreaded Soviets in 1957--a satellite about the size of a beach ball--was enough to send the United States into paroxysm of science-fiction induced fantasies and paranoid delusions. "It really doesn't matter whether the satellite has any military value," wrote an aide to Senate Majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson in a memo to him at the time, "the important thing is that the Russians have left the earth and the race for control of the universe has started." Emphasis not added. But the original "Sputnik moment"-- be it from legitimate fear, or paranoia, or an uncomfortable hit to inborn American pride--did serve as a catalyst for all sorts of technological and scientific research and development in the United States, leading to the invention of things like the pocket calculator, the microchip and computers that kept getting smaller. And the rest, as they say...you can find on Wikipedia.

Down in the polls, Sen. Nelson says the Senate should ‘get rid of this aisle!’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 02:04 PM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerDown in the polls, Sen. Nelson says the Senate should 'get rid of this aisle!''Celebrity journalist' Mike Evans: I never spoke to Abercrombie about Obama birth certificateRoger Ailes says that he met with Bill Clinton about a FOX News showBarbie doll or Voodoo doll?Whoopi Goldberg defends Michele Bachmann on 'The View'

Mitt Romney and Chris Christie have dinner together (Daily Caller) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 01:59 PM PST Daily Caller - Read more stories from The Daily CallerDown in the polls, Sen. Nelson says the Senate should 'get rid of this aisle!''Celebrity journalist' Mike Evans: I never spoke to Abercrombie about Obama birth certificateRoger Ailes says that he met with Bill Clinton about a FOX News showBarbie doll or Voodoo doll?Whoopi Goldberg defends Michele Bachmann on 'The View'

Speech Fuels Speculation of Bachmann Presidential Bid (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 12:30 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., spurred further speculation she might become a contender for the Republican Party's presidential nomination by appearing as the Tea Party Express spokeswoman after President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union address. Bachmann delivered a six-minute speech to an audience of tea party activists, but the speech was also televised. The congresswoman's response to the State of the Union address was widely considered much tougher than the mainstream Republican response, given by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Michele Bachmann Is Talking to the Internet--Not You (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:30 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Bachmann gazed rightward into the distance as she delivered the Tea Party's response to President Obama's State of the Union Tuesday night--an event that had already angered some Republicans, as her fellow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was giving the official response from their party. What was she looking at? Did she want to make sure she was being filmed from her best side, like Mariah Carey? Was it a visual clue that she's only speaking to the right wing of America? No, she was just looking at a different camera, apparently. But the little goof only underscored the GOP's difficulty in getting its tea-oriented members of Congress to toe the party line.

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