Saturday, June 4, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Analysis: To keep his job, Obama needs more jobs (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:04 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Chrysler Group's Toledo Assembly complex in front of a Jeep Wrangler, Friday, June 3, 2011, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: Millions of voters still don't have one.

2012 Republican hopefuls court religious right (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:24 AM PDT

Possible 2012 presidential hopeful, former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, right, talks presidential hopeful former Gov. Gary Johnson of New Mexico during a cruise on the MS Mount Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee sponsored by the Belknap County Republican Committee Friday, June 3, 2011 in Laconia, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP - A gathering of religious conservatives drew nearly all the GOP presidential hopefuls to a single stage, a claim that a South Carolina debate and a well-publicized forum in New Hampshire couldn't make about their recent events.

Pitfalls abound for prosecutors in Edwards case (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Former presidential candidate John Edwards looks at his daughter Cate, right, after making a statement to the media following a court appearance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, June 3, 2011. A grand jury indicted the two-time presidential candidate on Friday, accusing him of trying to protect his political ambitions by soliciting and secretly spending more than $925,000 to hide his mistress and their baby from the public. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Two crucial witnesses are dead. Another is 100 years old. A fourth was recently held in contempt of court. The daring indictment of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards has pitfalls at every turn for federal prosecutors, adding strain to a Justice Department section still trying to recover after botching its last major political case.

Palin flubs explanation of Paul Revere’s ride (The Upshot)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT

The Upshot - Sarah Palin is a divisive figure. But no matter where you stand with the former Alaska governor's politics, this recent video of her speaking about Paul Revere's historic ride is sure to raise a few eyebrows. In the video, which was taken at Boston's Old North Church, Palin gives a bizarre version of Revere's 1775 [...]

Ambitious Weiner sees media strategy backfire (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:26 PM PDT

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are pictured after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington in this photo taken Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - "Weiner Exposed." "Weiner's Pickle." "Battle of the Bulge." Those were some of the tabloid headlines lampooning Rep. Anthony Weiner as he struggled to explain how a photo of a man's crotch had been posted to his Twitter account.

Mitt Romney Is a Lonely Global Warming Believer in the GOP Field (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 02:53 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Mitt Romney says global warming is real and caused by humans, breaking with most members of the Republican Party. "I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," Romney told a New Hampshire town hall, according to Reuters' Ros Krasny. "It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors." But Romney did take the opportunity to zing electric cars, a favorite target of conservatives because their engines don't make that sexy vroom sound, saying, "I love solar and wind (power) but they don't drive cars. And we're not all going to drive Chevy Volts."

The Upside of GOP Despair (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:46 PM PDT

The Daily Beast - Things look bleak for 2012, but Republicans have talent in the pipeline. Andrew Romano on why the party should save themselves for 2016.

Lawrence Eagleburger dies at 80 (Politico)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Politico - The diplomat's exuberant style masked a hard commitment to solving foreign policy problems.

Gates visiting troops in Afghanistan (Politico)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 04:39 AM PDT

Politico - He will visit troops and confer with leaders as part of a farewell tour ahead of his June 30 retirement.

AP Interview: Huntsman mapping out 2012 strategy (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:42 PM PDT

AP - Toeing the 2012 line, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman sounded like a full-fledged White House candidate Saturday set to join the field this month as he mapped out a campaign strategy that bypasses early-voting Iowa to focus on New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:04 PM PDT

FILE In this Nov. 13, 2006 file photo, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger leaves the White House in Washington. Friends and former colleagues say Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has died. Word of Eagleburger's death Saturday, June 4, 2011 came from representatives of former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker. Eagleburger, who was 80, was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving foreign policy problems. He held the top post at the State Department for five months when Baker resigned in the summer of 1992 to help George H.W. Bush in an unsuccessful bid for re-election. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)AP - The only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, Lawrence Eagleburger was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving tangled foreign policy problems.

AP Exclusive: Boy in Mladic video looks back (AP)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT

**CORRECTS REFERENCE TO IZUDIN ALIC AS A BOSNIAN MUSLIM, NOT A BOSNIAN SERB** FILE - This image from file video shows Bosnian Muslim boy Izudin Alic, center foreground, standing in front of Ratko Mladic, partially obscured at left, in 1995 as Mladic assures him and other young Bosnian Muslims standing around that everyone in Srebrenica, Bosnia, would be safe, just hours before overseeing the murder of some 8,000 men and boys. But Izudin Alic escaped with his life to bear witness to the incident. Sitting in his home in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Tuesday May 31, 2011, 24-year-old Alic recalls the sunny day in 1995 when he met with the Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic, who gave him chocolate, even as soldiers were killing his father in the nearby woods. The fugitive Mladic has been arrested on charges relating to alleged war crimes during the Bosnian 1992-95 war. (AP Photo, File)AP - The video horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe — just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

U.S. tries to reduce more homeowners' mortgages (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:44 PM PDT

A sign advertising new homes starting at the price of $100,000 is displayed in Chandler Heights, Arizona June 2, 2011. Consumers turned more pessimistic in May, while home prices fell back below crisis-era lows in March, pointing to an economy that continues to struggle. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)Reuters - The Obama administration wants to help more struggling Americans stay in their homes by reducing the amount they owe on their troubled mortgages, a top Treasury official said on Saturday.

Playing With Default (Joe Conason)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Joe Conason - The current puppet play in Congress — where Republicans sponsored a bill to raise the nation's debt ceiling only because they wanted to vote it down — would be funny, if only they weren't risking economic disaster. Unfortunately they're not joking, as they push the country closer and closer to a potentially ruinous default.

Cain: ‘We’ve got to beat Mitt Romney’s money, not Mitt Romney’ (Daily Caller)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:09 PM PDT

Daily Caller - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told The Daily Caller that the biggest threat he expects from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the most recent entrant into the Republican primary field, is his loads of campaign cash. “We’ve got to beat Mitt Romney’s money, not Mitt Romney,” Cain said.

Washington an ‘intellectual meat market,’ tough dating hub for women (Daily Caller)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:59 PM PDT

Daily Caller - As if dating isn't enough of a struggle for high achieving females, Bloomberg reports that Washington has slim pickings for single women.

Palin's Mystery Tour Was Her Love-Letter to the Media (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - "It's not about me," Sarah Palin famously said about her mystery bus tour, to the confusion of many who wondered what, exactly, her ride through key campaign stops was about. But the one thing that her tour did reveal, with certitude, was this: Sarah Palin loves the media. And maybe this is just her way of showing it how much she cares. How else could one explain her photo-op on a Harley at the Rolling Thunder rally? It certainly wasn't for the benefit of the other riders, who resented the press. Or her date with the media's other favorite quasi-political figure Donald Trump, at a pizza restaurant in Times Square, no less? It was practically a gift.

Five Best Saturday Columns (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:50 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Dana Milbank on the Tour We Should Be Watching. While Sarah Palin rides a bus "emblazoned with her name in three-foot letters," Dana Milbank writes that "there is a tour underway that highlights the great things about America, but it isn’t Palin’s." Robert Gates, defense secretary to presidents George W. Bush and Obama, whose work over the past four years "has dramatically improved the state of the U.S. military," is on a tour of Asia and Europe where he "is receiving the gratitude of soldiers and the acclaim of allies." Compare Gates and Palin. "Gates... took on sacred weapons programs at the Pentagon, fired ineffective generals, won the surge in Iraq, revived a crumbling war effort in Afghanistan and got Osama bin Laden. During that same time, Palin quit midway through her term as Alaska governor, then went on to a life of $100,000 speaking fees, reality TV shows and incendiary political speech." While both call themselves Republican, the "dueling tours of Gates and Palin show the best and worst in American public life... It says something about the infirmity of our politics that Gates can’t wait to go home while Palin is again being taken seriously as a prospective presidential candidate."
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