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• Obama's task: Maintaining support for Afghan war (Washington Post)
• CBO: Debt crisis looms absent major policy changes (AP)
• The Fast Fix: What’s next for Gabby Giffords? (The Fast Fix)
• GOPers wait to see if Palin, Perry will shake-up 2012 race (Daily Caller)
• Bachmann to launch election campaign Monday: source (Reuters)
• The GOP Primary's Mysteriously Missing George W. Bush (The Atlantic Wire)
• Huntsman: 'Healthy dose of nation-building' needed (AP)
• Boehner says Obama lacks House support for Libya (AP)
• Google denies Senate panel request (Politico)
• GOP Rep.: Gore could help Obama (Politico)
• AP-GfK poll: Slow recovery weakens Obama support (AP)
• Obama address: Surge troops home by summer 2012 (AP)
• Gates says NATO alliance in danger of breaking (AP)
• U.N. says 73,000 flee Sudan border state fighting (Reuters)
• In SC, Huntsman says Obama needed in union fight (AP)
• Analysis: Troop cuts herald shift in US approach (AP)
• Republican senators seek to cut funding to czars (Daily Caller)
• Barney Frank and Ron Paul unite — over weed (Daily Caller)
• Christine O’Donnell pushes memoir, vies for role in politics (The Ticket)
• Haley Opens Dangerous Can of Worms Over GOP Primary Funding Refusal (ContributorNetwork)

Obama's task: Maintaining support for Afghan war (Washington Post) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:56 AM PDT Washington Post - President Obama will face a stiff political challenge Wednesday in presenting his plan for a gradual end to the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. His prime-time address must remind a skeptical electorate and a concerned Congress that the country's longest war remains worth fighting--and funding--for several more years.

CBO: Debt crisis looms absent major policy changes (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:25 AM PDT AP - A new report says that the national debt is on pace to equal the annual size of the economy within a decade, levels that could provoke a European-style debt crisis unless policymakers in Washington can slam the brakes on spiraling deficits.

The Fast Fix: What’s next for Gabby Giffords? (The Fast Fix) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 08:30 AM PDT The Fast Fix - Five months after being shot in the head, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords recently returned to the public eye with a trip to Tucson.  Her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, is retiring from NASA to support her continued recovery. One question remains: Will she return to politics? It's been five months since Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was [...]

GOPers wait to see if Palin, Perry will shake-up 2012 race (Daily Caller) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 01:05 PM PDT Daily Caller - The Republican field for the White House is starting to solidify, but there are still two conservative rock stars with the ability to shake up the race if they get in.

Bachmann to launch election campaign Monday: source (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - Conservative Republican Michele Bachmann will officially launch her presidential bid in Iowa on Monday, a source close to her campaign said on Tuesday.

The GOP Primary's Mysteriously Missing George W. Bush (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 05:33 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Related: Cheri Daniels Speech Earns Raves, Advice from Laura Bush

Huntsman: 'Healthy dose of nation-building' needed (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 06:08 AM PDT AP - Newly declared Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman says the Obama administration's pace of troop drawdown in Afghanistan is too slow.

Boehner says Obama lacks House support for Libya (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:48 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama lacks the support of the House for authorizing the U.S. military operation in Libya, Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday, as Congress sent conflicting messages about America's role in the NATO-led mission against Moammar Gadhafi.

Google denies Senate panel request (Politico) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT Politico - The company rebuffs a request for one of their executives to appear before a Senate panel.

GOP Rep.: Gore could help Obama (Politico) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 12:48 PM PDT Politico - Dana Rohrabacher calls the ex-vice president "Looney Tunes on the issue of global warming."

AP-GfK poll: Slow recovery weakens Obama support (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:49 PM PDT AP - Mired in economic worry, Americans are growing gloomier about where the country is headed and how President Barack Obama is leading it. Opinions of the economy are at the lowest of the year as high gas prices, anemic hiring and financial turmoil abroad shake a nation's confidence.

Obama address: Surge troops home by summer 2012 (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:58 PM PDT AP - Pulling home the Americans he sent to war, President Barack Obama plans to announce Wednesday night the withdrawal of more than 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next summer, hastening the end of the long conflict that has been more costly than ever envisioned when launched in response to the 2001 attacks on America.

Gates says NATO alliance in danger of breaking (AP) Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:45 AM PDT AP - Robert Gates calls it "aging out." He's not referring to his imminent retirement as defense secretary. He's talking about a generational expiration date on the American embrace of Europe as a pillar of U.S. defense strategy.

U.N. says 73,000 flee Sudan border state fighting (Reuters) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 10:20 AM PDT Reuters - The United Nations said on Wednesday 73,000 people had fled violence in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state after more than two weeks of fighting between the northern army and southern-aligned troops.

In SC, Huntsman says Obama needed in union fight (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:34 PM PDT AP - In his first trip to early-voting South Carolina since launching his presidential campaign, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman did the governor's bidding and demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama end a lawsuit by a federal labor agency in a dispute over a Boeing plant being built in South Carolina.

Analysis: Troop cuts herald shift in US approach (AP) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:52 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's withdrawal plan for Afghanistan marks the beginning of the end of a troop-intensive approach to countering a Taliban insurgency that until recent months had fought the U.S. and its NATO allies to a standstill.

Republican senators seek to cut funding to czars (Daily Caller) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:04 PM PDT Daily Caller - Four Republican senators seek to cut off money to czars in the Obama administration and force current and future czars to undergo a Senate confirmation.

Barney Frank and Ron Paul unite — over weed (Daily Caller) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:56 PM PDT Daily Caller - The “strange bedfellows of the week” award might just land at the feet of Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank and Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul.

Christine O’Donnell pushes memoir, vies for role in politics (The Ticket) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 01:28 PM PDT The Ticket - She's still not a witch, but she's back. Christine O'Donnell--the surprise GOP tea party candidate from Delaware who is perhaps best-known for her "I'm not a witch" campaign ad released last year-- is trying to re-ingratiate herself to the political world via her new memoir, "Troublemaker." Yesterday, O'Donnell encouraged supporters to pre-order signed copies of "Troublemaker: [...]

Haley Opens Dangerous Can of Worms Over GOP Primary Funding Refusal (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:46 AM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has decided there is no room in the state budget to help with the funding of the Republican primary. Even though the Haley is a Republican, she does not believe it should be the responsibility of the state to come up with funding for the primary.

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