Saturday, March 26, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Pentagon: US-led strikes help rebels retake city (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:57 PM PDT

Mariam Jamal Ismail, front right, and Randa Elzouzary, center, both from Libya, join protestors in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, March 26, 2011, condemning Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and in support for the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, approving a No-Fly Zone over Libya and authorizing all necessary measures to protect civilians. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A barrage of U.S.-led airstrikes opened the door for Libyan rebels to retake the eastern city of Ajdabiya Saturday, handing President Barack Obama a tangible example of progress as he defends the military action to war-weary Americans.

Obama: Style is more like Ike than JFK (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama is photographed by guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsExclusive to Yahoo! News - By Ronald Brownstein National Journal In 2008, many of Barack Obama's supporters thought they might be electing another John F. Kennedy. But his recent maneuvers increasingly suggest that they selected another Dwight Eisenhower. That's not a comment on President Obama's …

Analysis: GOP wins cuts without government closure (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 06:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2011, file photo House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., testifies before a Senate panel in Frankfort, Ky. Less than three months into a tea party-flavored Congress, federal budget cuts amount to $10 billion. Government shutdowns total zero. But as Congress returns this week from a break, that threat hangs over negotiations on legislation to enact tens of billions and keep the government running through the Sept. 30 end of the current budget year. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)AP - Less than three months into a tea party-flavored Congress, federal budget cuts amount to $10 billion. Government shutdowns total zero.

Analysis: Gambits abound in Wisconsin union fight (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:08 PM PDT

Protesters march around the the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, March 26, 2011. Wisconsin Republicans insist that the anti-union law that sparked weeks of protests at the state Capitol and that is being challenged in court takes effect Saturday because a state office decided to post it online. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - Wisconsin Republicans were accustomed to getting what they wanted after the election put Scott Walker in the governor's office and flipped legislative control to the GOP, even gaining some Democratic support for a series of economic measures in his first weeks in office. Then they took on unions.

Huntsman allies assemble campaign, need candidate (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 16, 2009, file photo Utah Governor Jon Huntsman speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington after President Barack Obama, left, announced his nomination to U.S. ambassador to China. In April 2011, when Huntsman returns to Washington, he'll have at his disposal a full-fledged campaign-in-waiting built by supporters who say they orchestrated it without his direction. Their theory: The wide-open Republican field has an opening for a former business executive who has adopted a series of moderate positions. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - The campaign is revved and ready, a turn-key operation if there ever was one, with high-powered political strategists and big-time fundraisers who are more than eager to make a splash in the 2012 Republican presidential race as early as mid-May.

Bachmann steals the show in Iowa (Politico)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 12:46 PM PDT

Politico - She slams Obama as a Carter retread and disses Mitch Daniels's truce call on social issues.

Geraldine Ferraro dies at 75 (Politico)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Politico - Pathbreaking Democrat was the first woman on a major party’s presidential ticket.

Obama: Ferraro blazed trail for all Americans (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT

FILE - This Friday, May 4, 2007 picture shows former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro during a news conference before a fundraising lunch hosted by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., in Chicago. The first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket has died. Geraldine Ferraro was 75. A family friend said Ferraro, who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1998, died Saturday, March 26, 2011 at Massachusetts General Hospital. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - President Barack Obama calls Geraldine Ferraro a political trailblazer who broke down barriers for women and Americans of all backgrounds.

Anti-this, pro-that, all convene at White House (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:56 AM PDT

AP - What do Yemeni violence, Bahrain's monarchy and genetically modified foods have in common?

Diplomats: New European proposal on Mideast peace (AP)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:05 PM PDT

Hamas law maker Aziz Duaik, speaks to the media after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Abbas met Saturday with his rivals in the Hamas militant group in an attempt to end nearly four-years of infighting that has complicated the quest for a Palestinian state.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - Britain, France and Germany want the United Nations and the European Union to propose the outlines of a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state, U.N. diplomats said.

GOP presidential hopefuls hammer health care (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:48 PM PDT

Former CEO of Godfather's Pizza Herman Cain speaks during the Conservative Principles Conference hosted by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, Saturday, March 26, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - Four high-profile potential Republican presidential candidates told hundreds of conservative activists Saturday that most Americans agree with their values, and several insisted that opposition to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could help the GOP make historic gains in 2012.

TheDC Exclusive: Spitzer’s former madam ‘probably’ running for New York mayor if Client 9 does (Daily Caller)

Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Ex-madam and former New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis is considering a run against former New York Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he enters the race for mayor of New York City in 2013.
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