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• Obama urges GOP to help him revive economy (Reuters)
• Respected by business: Daley emerges as possible Obama chief (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Analysis: The GOP’s Michele Bachmann problem (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Pelosi says 'no regrets' on last day as speaker (AP)
• Scalia: Constitution doesn't protect women from discrimination (The Lookout)
• Medicare Fraud: Investigators Turn to Seniors for Help (Time.com)
• Top US Republican: Military budget needs trim (AFP)
• Gibbs considering role outside W.H. (Politico)
• Wheeler last seen near lawyer's office (Politico)
• House GOP challenges Obama to join them (AP)
• US says it may evacuate Ivory Coast embassy (AP)
• Construction work starts at Lourdes shrine (AP)
• Obama foes face debt balancing act (AFP)
• Does a Single Retweet Reveal Palin's Support of Gays in the Military? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Robert Gibbs may be leaving the White House (Daily Caller)
• Santorum knocks Palin, Romney (Daily Caller)
• Palin's retweet on 'don't ask' raises questions (AP)
• How, Exactly, Will House Republicans Cut $100 Billion from the Budget? (The Atlantic Wire)

Obama urges GOP to help him revive economy (Reuters) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 12:43 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama appealed to Republican congressional leaders on Tuesday to put politics aside and work to revive the U.S. economy.

Respected by business: Daley emerges as possible Obama chief (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 08:27 AM PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Marc Ambinder National Journal William M. Daley, the former Commerce secretary and early adviser to President Obama's campaign, has emerged as a serious contender to become Obama's next chief of staff, a White House official said Monday. The official …

Analysis: The GOP’s Michele Bachmann problem (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 10:03 AM PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Noreen Malone Slate Michele Bachmann had a very good 2010, by most measures: She held on to her Minnesota congressional seat by a wide margin, raising more money than any other House Republican candidate along the way. She enjoyed …

Pelosi says 'no regrets' on last day as speaker (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:41 PM PST AP - Democrat Nancy Pelosi said she had no regrets on her last day as House speaker Tuesday, a reign that lasted four years and is ending after the November elections.

Scalia: Constitution doesn't protect women from discrimination (The Lookout) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 06:25 AM PST The Lookout - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a recently published interview that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment does not prohibit discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. "Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex," Scalia told California Lawyer. "The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It [...]

Medicare Fraud: Investigators Turn to Seniors for Help (Time.com) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 01:05 PM PST Time.com - The government turns to senior citizens themselves to ferret out a growing number of scams

Top US Republican: Military budget needs trim (AFP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:58 AM PST AFP - The US military will face budget cuts as lawmakers hunt for savings to rein in the country's deficit and national debt, senior US Republican Representative Eric Cantor said Tuesday.

Gibbs considering role outside W.H. (Politico) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 01:39 PM PST Politico - Obama's spokesman is considering leaving his post to work on the president's 2012 campaign.

Wheeler last seen near lawyer's office (Politico) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 08:50 AM PST Politico - Aide spotted the day before his body was found.

House GOP challenges Obama to join them (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 03:24 PM PST AP - On the brink of power, House Republicans challenged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to join them in a drive to cut federal spending, ban earmarks for favored projects and overhaul the nation's tax code.

US says it may evacuate Ivory Coast embassy (AP) Posted: 29 Dec 2010 07:41 PM PST AP - The United States has started planning for the possible evacuation of its embassy in Ivory Coast amid concerns that postelection violence could escalate into full-blown conflict, the State Department said Wednesday.

Construction work starts at Lourdes shrine (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 09:00 AM PST AP - Workers dangling from rock-climbing ropes on Tuesday began a monthlong construction effort to prevent stones from falling in the grotto where worshippers pray at the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes.

Obama foes face debt balancing act (AFP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 03:08 PM PST AFP - One of US President Barack Obama's top Republican critics sidestepped questions Tuesday about whether his party would endorse raising the US debt ceiling to avoid a potential financial crisis.

Does a Single Retweet Reveal Palin's Support of Gays in the Military? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:24 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - Does Real American in Chief Sarah Palin support the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? Palin retweeted Tammy Bruce, a conservative pundit, who said she was tired of Republican hostility to gays in the military. "But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already--the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed," Bruce wrote. With her retweet, Palin kicked up flurry of internet speculation on what, exactly, her position is on DADT.

Robert Gibbs may be leaving the White House (Daily Caller) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:47 PM PST Daily Caller - The Washington Post is reporting that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs may be leaving his job in the next few weeks.

Santorum knocks Palin, Romney (Daily Caller) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:41 PM PST Daily Caller - In an interview with National Journal, former Pennsylvania senator and likely GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum shared his feelings on potential rivals Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin.

Palin's retweet on 'don't ask' raises questions (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 02:24 PM PST AP - Online pundits are trying to interpret Sarah Palin's stance on "don't ask, don't tell" after she echoed an Internet post by a conservative lesbian commentator who slammed the opposition to its repeal.

How, Exactly, Will House Republicans Cut $100 Billion from the Budget? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 04 Jan 2011 11:55 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - The cuts are unlikely to actually be enacted, given Democrats' Senate majority and President Obama's veto power. "But the effort is more than symbolic: in particular it could give House Republicans increased leverage in budget negotiations with the White House this winter and spring," Calmes writes. Here's what traditional media commentators and bloggers alike are already saying about the proposal.A Good Start, The Washington Examiner's James A. Bacon Jr. writes. "That will close only one-tenth of the $1 trillion-a-year budget gap that needs addressing, but it's a start. We have to be realistic: There is only so much domestic spending that can be cut while Democrats still control the Senate, the presidency and... the mainstream media. Cutting spending by $100 billion a year is progress of a sort."Don't Underestimate House Republicans, The New Republic's Jonathan Chait warns. "As you watch Democrats lacerate Republicans for risking the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, keep in mind that they all voted against raising the debt ceiling when Republicans held the White House." But the "difference is that Democrats were merely posturing, while Republicans seem to be trying to extract substantive policy concessions. In any case, the posturing is over whether the minority gets to merely embarrass the president, as has been the case before, or actually gets to force the president to give them something tangible."GOP Now Has the Power to Fight Washington Inertia, The National Review's Rich Lowry writes. "Since the end of the Bush administration, the Democratic plaint has been that Republicans are shameless budget poseurs. They talk like fiscal hawks, but they never deliver. The Tea Party opposes government only in theory. This line of argument will soon be abandoned in favor of the charge that Republicans are waging an unprecedentedly cruel assault on the federal budget."We Could See Something Like the Tax Cut Deal, Powerline's Paul Mirengoff says, laying out what "another grand bargain" might look like:In this scenario, the Democrats would accept significant spending cuts and in exchange the Republicans would keep the government afloat and grudgingly raise the debt limit. However, such a deal won't come easily. In one important respect, the Republicans will be in a stronger negotiating position than they were in December, now that they control the House. On the other hand, the Democrats knew in December that they would bear much of the blame if taxes went up in January. This time around, they may feel (rightly or wrongly) that a government shut-down would swing public opinion against the Republicans, as it did in 1995.

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