Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Yahoo! News: Politics News

Adwatch: Romney takes Obama out of context again (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 11:28 AM PST

This video frame grab provided by the Mitt Romney presidential campaign shows a scene from an ad entitled: 'Believe in America' that is running in New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Romney Presidential Campaign)AP - TITLE: "Believe in America"

Obama in NH: I'm tax -cutter, GOP should go along (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:46 PM PST

President Barack Obama shakes hands after an address where he remarked on the American Jobs Act, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, at Central High School in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - President Barack Obama dashed into politically important New Hampshire Tuesday, seeking to steal the spotlight from Republican presidential candidates and challenging GOP lawmakers back in Washington to stand by their anti-tax pledges on one big measure.

Bachmann: Obama 'AWOL' at crunch time on deficits (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 05:13 AM PST

AP - Rep. Michele Bachmann said Tuesday that America runs the risk of going the route of Greece, saying it's time to "pick up a mirror and look into it."

Networks walk a tightrope over crowded debates (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 08:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidates from left, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, businessman Herman Cain, Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum prepare before the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate in Spartanburg, S.C. The fluidity of the Republican nomination process and the increased importance of the debates raises questions about whether networks give short shrift to candidates they determine have little chance at reaching the White House. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)AP - Keeping the crowded Republican presidential debates fair, lively and topical can seem like the equivalent of juggling while walking a tightrope.

GOP presidential rivals to debate foreign policy (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:42 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks during an employee town hall event at CCA Global Partners in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)AP - With new trouble appearing in the Middle East and the Pentagon facing possible budget cuts, the Republican White House contenders are debating for the second time in as many weeks how they would do better than President Barack Obama in protecting and extending America's national security.

Congressman to refund expenses of Scotland trip (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:01 PM PST

AP - A New Jersey congressman said Tuesday that he will refund and then donate to a charity all the expenses associated with his trip to a donor's wedding in Edinburgh, Scotland, that had been paid by his re-election campaign.

Rejected Fla. funds go to Californa (Politico)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:26 PM PST

Politico - High-speed rail funding rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott officially becomes California’s gain.

The GOP's China syndrome (Politico)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST

Politico - China-bashing from the GOP flies in the face of the business interests they have traditionally represented.  

Obama on Tuesday to face NH voters now sour on him (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 07:36 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will visit a changed New Hampshire on Tuesday.

Gingrich calls for private retirement accounts (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 06:40 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, speaks at a town meeting at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP - Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Monday proposed allowing younger workers still decades away from retirement to bypass Social Security and instead choose private investment accounts that would be subject to stock market gyrations.

Former Justice Dept official Jack Keeney dies (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 04:51 PM PST

AP - Retired Justice Department official John C. Keeney, the longest-serving federal prosecutor in the history of the United States, has died.

Romanian parliament votes to euthanize stray dogs (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:28 AM PST

FILE - In this photo taken Monday Sept. 26, 2011, puppies look out from behind wire fencing in a stray dog shelter in Bucharest, Romania. Romania's parliament has voted to allow for thousands of stray dogs that roam the streets of the capital and elsewhere to be killed. Parliament voted Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011 by 168-111 to pass the controversial law which needs to be signed into law by President Traian Basescu. Local authorities will be able to choose what method is used. The move is likely to anger animal rights groups in Romania and abroad who have lobbied for months against the measure. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)AP - Romanian lawmakers voted Tuesday to make it legal to euthanize the thousands of stray dogs that roam the country's streets, angering animal rights activists who have lobbied for months to stop the measure.

Obama pushes divided Congress to extend tax cut (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:58 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama challenged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to vote next week to save an expiring payroll tax cut, a day after a high-profile effort to tackle huge U.S. deficits collapsed in acrimony.

Newt Gingrich's 'radical' plan to privatize Social Security (The Week)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST

The Week - The GOP frontrunner suggests letting young Americans opt out of Social Security, investing instead in private retirement accounts. Would that work?

Atheist group demands cross be removed from Marine base (Daily Caller)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:08 PM PST

Daily Caller - An atheist group is demanding a 13-foot cross, erected at Camp Pendleton by an independent group of Iraq War veterans and two Marine widows, be removed out of concerns that it makes non-Christians in the military feel like “second class citizens.”

Cheap date? $3 buys a shot at dinner with the president (Daily Caller)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PST

Daily Caller - In today's economy, $3 won't get you much, but it can buy an electronic raffle ticket for an unusual prize: dinner with President Obama for you and a friend.

AP Enterprise: Todd Palin repaid for hacker trial (AP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:15 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, April 23, 2010 file photo, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin leaves the Federal Courthouse with her husband Todd Palin after court recessed for lunch, in Knoxville, Tenn. the government paid more than $29,000 to fly members of the Palin family and other witnesses to Knoxville, send a prosecutor to Alaska for research and pay other travel expenses, according to the Department of Justice records obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)AP - The government paid nearly $2,500 for Sarah Palin's husband to come to the trial of a Tennessee college student who hacked into her email — even though Todd Palin never testified, court records show.

Second Michigan Democrat pleads no contest in ‘fake’ tea party scheme (The Ticket)

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 11:22 AM PST

The Ticket - Former Oakland County Democratic party official Jason Bauer pleaded no contest Monday to five felony charges related to an alleged 2010 plan to place "fake" tea party candidates on multiple election ballots in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports. Under the alleged scheme, dummy third-party tea party candidates would help siphon conservative votes away from [...]
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