Sunday, April 10, 2011

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White House: Obama to lay out spending plan (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:48 PM PDT

In this photo released by NBC David Plouffe, White House Senior Adviser, is interviewed on NBC's 'Meet the Press' in Washington Sunday, April 10, 2011. Plouffe said President Barack Obama will lay out new plans this week to reduce the federal deficit in part by seeking cuts to government programs for seniors and the poor. 'You're going to have to look at Medicare and Medicaid and see what kind of savings you can get,' Plouffe said of health care programs for the elderly and needy. (AP Photo/NBC, William B. Plowman) NO ARCHIVES. NO SALES.AP - One budget deal down, President Barack Obama and Congress began to pivot Sunday from the painful standoff over this year's spending to a pair of defining debates over the nation's borrowing limit and the election-year budget.

2012 in sight, Obama looks back to Chicago again (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Nov. 4, 2008 in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama walks on stage with his family to speak at his election night party at Grant Park. A week after formally launching his second White House bid with an understated email and online video, Obama is returning to Chicago Thursday, April 14, 2011, to raise money. And he's setting up his campaign headquarters in a downtown high rise near Grant Park. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - President Barack Obama's relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other.

GOP presidential field sees budget wars from afar (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:18 AM PDT

In this photo taken April 5, 2011, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., touts his 2012 federal budget at the Capitol in Washington. In the absence of a Republican president or clear-cut party leader, the little-known Wisconsin congressman seized the initiative. Ryan wrote a far-reaching spending plan that right away framed the debate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Republicans are pressing ahead with one of the most ambitious and risky long-term spending agendas in memory, yet the dozen or so potential White House hopefuls are nearly invisible on the issue.

Plouffe: Obama Remains Committed to Tax Hike for Wealthy (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:38 AM PDT

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Vote count 'human error' shadows Wisconsin Supreme Court election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 01:39 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Questions are being raised in Wisconsin regarding the party ties of a local county clerk whose discovery of about 14,000 unrecorded votes is assuring a victory for the Republican incumbent in last week’s election for state Supreme Court. A federal investigation into the matter was requested late Friday night.

White House adviser calls Trump’s birther talk a ‘sideshow’ (The Ticket)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:29 AM PDT

The Ticket - The White House is finally responding to Donald Trump's flirtation with theories that President Obama may not have been born in the United States. Appearing on ABC's 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour," senior Obama adviser David Plouffe called Trump's musings a "spectacle" and predicted his potential 2012 run would easily fail. "There may be a [...]

Palin on Trump: 'More power to him!' (Politico)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:02 AM PDT

Politico - She hails the real estate mogul's claim that he has investigators in Hawaii looking into Obama's birth.

Clinton, Gore recall their matchmaker (Politico)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Politico - They spoke at a memorial for Ned McWherter, who introduced them in 1991.

Critics fault retired Justice O'Connor over ethics (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 08:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 6, 2010, file photo, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks at the New York Law School in New York. O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both.

Pentagon's second thoughts on Iraq withdrawal (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:20 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks with from soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, while visiting Camp Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, April 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool)AP - Eight months shy of its deadline for pulling the last American soldier from Iraq and closing the door on an 8-year war, the Pentagon is having second thoughts.

Royal wedding: the great and the good to gather (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 06:23 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala, head priest at London's Buddhist Vihara temple, speaks to The Associated Press in London. The guest list for the April 29 union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is still being kept secret, but details have begun to leak out. Some guests, like leading religious figures, have to be invited because of the magnitude of the event, even if they don't actually have a friendship with the royal family. Seelawimala, for example, has never met the couple, but has been invited primarily to show the royal family and the British government's respect for Buddhist tradition. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Soccer star David Beckham will be there with his pop star wife Victoria. Elton John is attending with partner David Furnish. And the Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala will be there too, probably one of the few guests at the wedding of the year wearing orange Buddhist robes.

Obama to meet Qatar ruler at White House on Thursday (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama will meet the ruler of Qatar at the White House on Thursday, holding talks with an influential Arab supporter on Libya and a key ally in a region that has been jolted by popular unrest.

Analysis: So much for change coming to Washington (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2011 09:25 PM PDT

President Barack Obama waves after visiting the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, April 9, 2011, in Washington. Obama and the Republican-run House split their spending differences late Friday night, staving off a federal shutdown, which would have closed the nation's monuments to the public. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama promised to change Washington's ways. Yet he's as caught up in them as ever.

Sessions on pending Obama speech: start over with a new budget (Daily Caller)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 02:54 PM PDT

Daily Caller - A top-ranking Republican senator on spending issues is calling on President Obama to submit an entirely new budget to Congress following news that the president plans a speech outlining changes to entitlement spending that are driving the government’s huge deficits now and into coming decades.

11 questions with ‘Road to Fatima Gate’ author Michael Totten (Daily Caller)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 07:17 AM PDT

Daily Caller - Michael Totten is the author of the recently released book, "The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel."

Sarah Palin Tacitly Supports Donald Trump's Birther Campaign (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:44 PM PDT

ContributorNetwork - In an interview on Fox News on Saturday night, former Alaska governor and potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin dipped her toe ever so gingerly into the Barack Obama birther controversy maelstrom, currently being whipped up by Donald Trump.
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