Sunday, February 6, 2011

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Yahoo! News: Politics News

Egypt VP meets opposition, offers new concessions (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 02:54 PM PST

Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters rest next to the tracks of a tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Egypt's vice president met with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other opposition groups for the first time Sunday and offered sweeping concessions, including granting press freedom and rolling back police powers in the government's latest attempt to try to end nearly two weeks of upheaval.

Reagan: Great Communicator Inspires Democrats, Republicans (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 10:15 PM PST

Time.com - A century after his birth and 30 years after he took office, President Ronald Reagan's optimistic vision and complex conservatism inspire and haunt Republicans and Democrats alike

Bush’s Swiss visit canceled amid calls for his arrest (The Ticket)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 07:22 AM PST

The Ticket - Former President George W. Bush had been set to deliver a keynote address before a Jewish group in Switzerland this week, but the event was canceled Saturday amid threats of legal action against him over allegations he sanctioned torture of terrorism suspects. Per the Washington Post's Peter Finn, human rights groups had called for demonstrations [...]

Obama budget director offers clues to some cuts (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 09:39 AM PST

Nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew listens to his introduction by U.S. President Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, July 13, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - The White House budget director offered clues on Sunday to some cuts that President Barack Obama will offer in his fiscal 2012 budget proposal to answer Republican demands for deep spending reductions.

Obama and business community seek to ease tensions (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 02:40 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 11, 2011, Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speak to the media at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington. Once President Barack Obama named Gene Sperling as his chief economic adviser, Sperling made an early call went to Donohue, who wasted no time. Come on over, he said. The President will speak at the Chamber on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - When President Barack Obama named Gene Sperling as his chief economic adviser, two of Sperling's early calls went to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue.

Analysis: Political gamble in GOP budget-cutting (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 01:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2009, file photo Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican drive to cut spending, which begins in earnest this week of Feb. 7, 2011, marks a political gamble that the public's hunger for smaller government will trump its appetite for benefits, subsidies and other federal support. Georgia Rep. Tom Price calls it the ``$64,000 question,'' and then promptly answers it: 'People will be supportive of almost any decreases in spending as long as they believe they're done in an open, equitable and fair manner.' (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - The Republican drive to cut spending, which begins in earnest this week, marks a political gamble that the public's hunger for smaller government will trump its appetite for benefits, subsidies and other federal support.

John Kerry questions Obama’s Afghanistan strategy (The Ticket)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 07:51 AM PST

The Ticket - In what could be a major blow to President Obama's Afghanistan strategy, Sen. John Kerry tells the Boston Globe he doesn't think the president's policy is working and that it needs to be revised. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, once a major supporter of Obama's troop surge, is now calling for a  "more limited [...]

Palin & the press: Learn from Reagan's playbook (Politico)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 08:00 AM PST

Politico - Sarah Palin's praise for Ronald Regan does not extend to her mimicking his press strategy.

Reagan's debt to Tar Heel State (Politico)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 03:41 AM PST

Politico - Opinion: Obama and the DNC reject the conservative values that Reagan held dear.

Obama says Egypt not going back to way it was (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 03:22 PM PST

A map of central Cairo locating areas where tens of thousands of protesters turned out calling for President Mubarak to stand down immediately. Opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime on Sunday dismissed as insufficient an offer to include them in political reform plans, and renewed their demands that he step down.(AFP/Graphic)AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday that Egypt is not going to go back to the way it was before pro-democracy protests roiled the country, and played down prospects that the Muslim Brotherhood would take a major role in a new government.

Obama says people who hate him don't know him (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 03:11 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama (3rd R) arrives to play basketball at a gymnasium at Fort McNair in Washington, February 6, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SPORT BASKETBALL)AP - President Barack Obama says he doesn't take it personally when people say they hate him. And the thing he dislikes most about being president is the constant, intense scrutiny.

Karzai critical of aid bypassing Afghan gov't (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 04:10 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is seated at the podium during the International Conference on Security Policy in Munich, southern Germany, on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that channeling aid past his government undermines efforts to make it more effective, identifying NATO's provincial reconstruction teams as one of his concerns.

Obama says Egypt forever changed (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 02:32 PM PST

An anti-Mubarak protestors sits at a barricade near Tahrir Square in central Cairo. US President Barack Obama called Sunday for a AFP - US President Barack Obama called Sunday for a "representative government" in Egypt and said that regardless of when President Hosni Mubarak steps down the country had changed forever.

George W. Bush Decides Not to Go to Switzerland After All (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 07:14 AM PST

The Atlantic Wire - Former President George W. Bush was scheduled to go to Switzerland next week, but the trip has been called off. Bush was supposed to give an address in Geneva, on February 12, at a charity dinner in honor of the United Israel Appeal. Human rights groups were planning to protest his appearance, though, and several organizations had threatened to take legal action against Bush for allegedly approving the torture of terrorism suspects during his time in office. The official statement is that Bush canceled his trip because the Geneva demonstrations were threatening to become violent, but onlookers are wondering whether the possibility of a criminal investigation may have played a role in deterring the president.

Palin: Egypt crisis a ‘3:00 a.m. White House phone call’ that Obama didn’t handle successfully (Daily Caller)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 11:52 AM PST

Daily Caller - After delivering the keynote address at Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday celebration at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sat down with CBN's David Brody to discuss her concerns about President Barack Obama's handling of the protests in Egypt, her decision not to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, and media attacks on her.

Ron Reagan: Sarah Palin ‘a soap opera’ (Daily Caller)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 07:17 AM PST

Daily Caller - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have delivered the keynote speech at President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday tribute event Friday at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, but one of the late president's sons, Ron, doesn't hold her in particularly high esteem.

Ron Reagan Calls Sarah Palin a "Soap Opera," Says She is Nothing like His Father (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 02:21 PM PST

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin speaks at a Tea Party Express rally on Boston Commons in Boston, Massachusetts April 14, 2010. REUTERS/Brian SnyderContributorNetwork - Sarah Palin gave a speech Friday evening in Santa Barbara, Calif., at the Reagan Ranch Center for the Young America's Foundation.

Sarah Palin Clumsily Offers Advice Regarding Egypt Crisis (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 06 Feb 2011 12:46 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin keeps on talking about foreign policy issues about which she appears to have little understanding.
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