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• GOP presses Obama on spending Medicare (AP)
• What Bachmann can learn from Palin’s 2008 VP run (Daily Caller)
• Rep. Anthony Weiner won’t deny lewd photo is of himself (The Ticket)
• Gingrich: Assessing the damage done (Washington Post)
• Huntsman Now Haunted by Ghosts of Health Care Past (Time.com)
• Christie tells Iowa donors he's still not running (AP)
• What we’ve learned about Sarah Palin’s presidential aspirations from her bus tour (Daily Caller)
• Hoopla, hype hover over unsettled GOP field (AP)
• Ind. warned on Planned Parenthood (Politico)
• Ryan confronts Obama on Medicare (Politico)
• House speaker suggests higher-level deficit talks (AP)
• APNewsBreak: HHS rejects Indiana Medicaid changes (AP)
• Gen. Dempsey chosen to head Joint Chiefs of Staff (AP)
• Global leaders call for a major shift to decriminalize drugs (The Lookout)
• Blagojevich explains comments on Senate seat (Reuters)
• Sarah Palin's mysterious bus tour: 5 explanations (The Week)
• Wolf bites Weiner in interview: ‘You would know if this is your underpants, for example?’ (Daily Caller)
• Plurality of Republicans unenthusiastic about GOP primary field (Daily Caller)
• LAST TICKET: Huckabee won’t rule out VP bid; Palin’s gubernatorial emails will be released (The Ticket)
• Palin to Visit Iowa, South Carolina Using New Political Model (ContributorNetwork)

GOP presses Obama on spending Medicare (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:48 PM PDT AP - Face to face at the White House, GOP leaders complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday that he had not produced a detailed plan of spending cuts and accused him of playing politics over Medicare as the nation careens toward a debt crisis.

What Bachmann can learn from Palin’s 2008 VP run (Daily Caller) Posted: 31 May 2011 09:16 PM PDT Daily Caller - Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann will announce in June her plans for 2012. Many speculate that Bachmann’s announcement, which she says she will make in Waterloo, Iowa, the city of her birth, will kick off a bid for the presidency.

Rep. Anthony Weiner won’t deny lewd photo is of himself (The Ticket) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 12:26 PM PDT The Ticket - After spending days trying to brush aside reporter inquiries about a lewd photo that was sent Friday from his Twitter account, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday prompted further speculation about the incident by failing to deny that the photo was of himself. "I didn't send the picture out," Weiner told MSNBC's Luke Russert in [...]

Gingrich: Assessing the damage done (Washington Post) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 04:17 AM PDT Washington Post - In a new Gallup poll, Gingrich’s favorable ratings among Republican voters have fallen to just 61 percent, down from a high of 75 percent in early April.

Huntsman Now Haunted by Ghosts of Health Care Past (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:35 AM PDT Time.com - Tim Miller, Jon Huntsman's spokesman, said Huntsman considered a range of insurance proposals as government and ultimately backed a version that looks nothing like President Obama's signature piece of legislation

Christie tells Iowa donors he's still not running (AP) Posted: 31 May 2011 08:23 PM PDT AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is still not running for president.

What we’ve learned about Sarah Palin’s presidential aspirations from her bus tour (Daily Caller) Posted: 31 May 2011 09:15 PM PDT Daily Caller - Reporters chasing Sarah Palin across the country as she tours historic sites by bus keep asking her the same question: “Are you running for president?”

Hoopla, hype hover over unsettled GOP field (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 03:30 AM PDT AP - Sarah Palin draws crowds with her hide-and-seek bus tour. Michele Bachmann says Palin's plans won't dissuade her from her likely presidential bid. Iowa GOP activists travel to New Jersey to implore Gov. Chris Christie to run, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry weighs a campaign.

Ind. warned on Planned Parenthood (Politico) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:09 PM PDT Politico - Indiana's plan to bar the agency from contracting with abortion providers is illegal, the admin says.

Ryan confronts Obama on Medicare (Politico) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:45 AM PDT Politico - GOP leaders accuse Obama of "demagoguery."

House speaker suggests higher-level deficit talks (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:52 PM PDT AP - House Speaker John Boehner says it's time for him and President Barack Obama to take a personal role in deficit-reduction talks that are linked to the administration's request for an increase in the nation's debt limit.

APNewsBreak: HHS rejects Indiana Medicaid changes (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:33 PM PDT AP - The Health and Human Services Department rejected changes in Indiana's Medicaid plan Wednesday, saying it illegally bans funding for Planned Parenthood, and sought to make clear that a similar fate awaits other states that pass legislation barring any qualified health care provider.

Gen. Dempsey chosen to head Joint Chiefs of Staff (AP) Posted: 30 May 2011 06:48 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama moved Monday to seal an overhaul of his national security team, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid protracted battle in Afghanistan, U.S. involvement in the NATO-led effort against Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and a winding down of the war in Iraq.

Global leaders call for a major shift to decriminalize drugs (The Lookout) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 11:49 AM PDT The Lookout - A slew of big-name former politicians are endorsing a report that says the war on drugs is not working and that drug enforcement policy needs to fundamentally change. The Global Commission on Drug Policy will urge a "paradigm shift" that emphasizes public health over criminalization tomorrow at a meeting in New York City, The Guardian [...]

Blagojevich explains comments on Senate seat (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:58 PM PDT Reuters - Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said on Wednesday that he was just discussing ideas when he described his power to name a Senator to replace President Barack Obama as "f***in' golden" and not something he would "give up ... for f***in' nothing."

Sarah Palin's mysterious bus tour: 5 explanations (The Week) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:19 AM PDT The Week - Sarah Palin is zipping around the Northeast in what looks like a campaign bus — though she insists this is no campaign. What exactly is she after?

Wolf bites Weiner in interview: ‘You would know if this is your underpants, for example?’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:42 PM PDT Daily Caller - CNN’s Wolf Blitzer ripped into New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner’s in a Wednesday afternoon interview when the congressman continued to refuse to answer whether or not it was his penis in the photo his official verified Twitter account posted Friday night.

Plurality of Republicans unenthusiastic about GOP primary field (Daily Caller) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:30 PM PDT Daily Caller - Republicans appear to be unenthused by the Republican presidential candidates in the race for the White House or considering a run, according to a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll.

LAST TICKET: Huckabee won’t rule out VP bid; Palin’s gubernatorial emails will be released (The Ticket) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 02:34 PM PDT The Ticket - Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment: • Mike Huckabee won't rule out a vice presidential bid. (Arkansas Democrat Gazette) • Sarah Palin's emails from her time as Alaska governor will finally be released. (The Cutline) • Anthony Weiner's Twitter scandal might kill his expected bid [...]

Palin to Visit Iowa, South Carolina Using New Political Model (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to Real Clear Politics, Sarah Palin has found her history tour of the American northeast so successful that she will soon take similar bus trips to the Midwest and American south.

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