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Karl Rove ‘offended’ by Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A Chrysler ad aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night has inspired ire among some Republicans and admiration among some Democrats — with both sides seeing a political message that boosts President Obama.

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Obama: Recess appointment is his "obligation"

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

USA Today - By Aamer Madhani - Jan. 04 (News Report) - In a speech in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Obama made it official that he would install the former Ohio general as the head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through recess appointment and hammered Republicans for blocking Cordray's appointment.

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Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Greg Miller - Dec. 28 (Special Report) - The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential. In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents. ...

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Wary Hispanic voters favor Obama over GOP rivals

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Wallsten - Dec. 28 (News Report) - President Obama holds a wide lead among Hispanic voters when matched against potential Republican challengers, even as Hispanics grow wary of his administration’s stepped-up deportation policies and less supportive of his overall job performance, according to a new poll.

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EPA issues strong limits on mercury emissions from smokestacks

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Neela Banerjee - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Obama administration on Wednesday announced a tough new rule to limit emissions of mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances from sources such as power plants, a landmark measure that could prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech on GOP Turf

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By A. G. Sulzberger - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax and regulation to level the economic playing field.

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Obama orders U.S. diplomats to increase efforts to fight LGBT discrimination abroad

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Dec. 06 (News Report) - President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.

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Panel Fails to Reach Deal on Plan for Deficit Reduction

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jennifer Steinhauer, Robert Pear, Helene Cooper - Nov. 22 (News Report) - After one last bout of fitful but futile talks, Congressional negotiators conceded the obvious: that the joint Congressional committee charged with drafting a deficit reduction package would miss its deadline this week. But they did not quite give up the ghost of a chance that a solution might be found later.

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Obama administration quietly bracing for debt supercommittee failure

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anne E. Kornblut - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - White House officials are quietly bracing for “supercommittee” failure, with advisers privately saying they are pessimistic that the 12-member Congressional panel will find a way to cut $1.2 trillion from the deficit as required. In public, however, the official administration stance is that failure is not an option. ...

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Leaders: Free Trade In Asia-Pacific Vital To Recovery

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 13 (News Analysis) - The plan to forge a Pacific free trade area got a big boost Sunday when leaders of Canada and Mexico joined Japan in expressing support for a deal that has received a cool reception from rising power China.

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Obama's jobs bill needs changes, says Harry Reid

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Scott Wong - Oct. 05 (News Report) - Pressured to take up President Barack Obama’s jobs plan, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that the Senate could move forward this week on a modified version that changes the funding for the $447 billion package. The Nevada Democrat has proposed replacing the legislation’s current “pay-fors” with a 5 percent surtax on those who earn more than $1 million a year. The tax increase, backed by the White House, would raise about $445 billion over 10 years, nearly the entire cost of the package.

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44 - Politics and policy in Obama's Washington.

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Matt DeLong - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Speaking at an event hosted by a prominent gay advocacy group, President Obama on Saturday night chastised the his GOP presidential rivals for failing to speak up when some members of the audience at a debate last month booed a gay soldier.

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Awlaki death rekindles legal debate on targeting Americans

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Oct. 01 (News Analysis) - The slaying of two Americans renews questions about whether killing U.S. citizens is legal under rules of war or constitutes an extrajudicial execution in violation of U.S. and international law. The killing of two Americans by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen has reignited a debate about whether targeting U.S. citizens — even terrorists — is legal under the rules of war or constitutes an extrajudicial execution that ignores their rights.

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Buffett's words twisted on taxes

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Charles Riley - Sep. 29 (News Report) - Warren Buffett's words were used Friday by lawmakers to score petty political points -- exactly the kind of rhetoric he is asking Congress to put aside. At issue: Whether or not Buffett likes a White House tax proposal that the billionaire investor himself came up with and lent his name to.

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20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing from Libya

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - Sep. 27 (News) - Politisite brought you a story six months ago, that Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) from Libya had fallen into the hands of al Qaeda. Those reports were ignored by the Obama Administration. The Report said that the U.S. Backed rebels were former al Qaeda members who had fought United States Soldiers in the Battlefield. So not only can the NYPD bring down an Aircraft, seems now, so can a terrorist in North Africa or the Middle East

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Pelosi and Reid at odds with Obama over trade

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Vicki Needham - Sep. 26 (News Analysis) - "I think if you asked people in Nevada: Boy, hasn't NAFTA helped us a lot, they would just sneer and walk away," he said in his floor speech. "We keep talking about free-trade agreements, but where is the fair part of those trade agreements?

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Fact checking the GOP debate in Orlando

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Sep. 23 (Fact Check) - Another lengthy presidential debate, and more bogus claims and counterclaims to check. Let’s see what the candidates got wrong this time at last night’s debate in Orlando, Fla., hosted by Fox News, Google and the Republican Party of Florida.

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Candidates in Debate Trip Over Foreign Policy

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Landler, Trip Gabriel - Sep. 23 (Fact Check) - During Thursday night’s Republican debate, Mitt Romney repeated the familiar Republican charge that President Obama has apologized for the United States around the world. It is true that early in his term, Mr. Obama promised to abandon policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush, on issues like the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and a foreign policy in Iraq and elsewhere that Mr. Obama described as unilateral.

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Obama, taxes and the ‘Buffett Rule’

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Sep. 21 (Fact Check) - We have to admit we had overlooked this part of President Obama’s Rose Garden speech until we read David Brooks’s column in The New York Times Tuesday accusing the president of being misleading on the issue of taxes. “He repeated the old half-truth about millionaires not paying as much in taxes as their secretaries,” Brooks wrote. We’re not going to get into an argument between Brooks and Obama. We understood Obama’s comments to be specific to the situation that investor Warren Buffett outlined in his famous opinion article in The New York Times, in which he noted that he paid a lower tax rate than other people in his office. But, looking at Obama’s words again, we can see why Brooks thought Obama was saying that in general middle-class families were paying more in taxes than millionaires. (For the record, the White House says that was not Obama’s intent.)

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Obama Calls for New Taxes on Wealthy

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By John D. McKinnon, Jared Favole, Damian Paletta - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes to help lower the nation's deficit, saying tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires in the last decade helped add to the country's massive debts.

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Obama turns fire on Republicans

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Balz - Sep. 19 (News Report) - The deficit-reduction speech President Obama delivered from the Rose Garden on Monday underscores the sharp strategic pivot he and his administration have made in the wake of the debt ceiling negotiations. Call it lessons learned the hard way, or the necessary readjustment by a politician, but the Obama who spoke on Monday was in a far different place politically and stylistically from the president who tried to pull off a grand bargain with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in July and August.

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Global stocks fall as Obama plan fails to spark rally

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Richard Leong - Sep. 09 (News Report) - European stock index futures fell on Friday, following Asian markets lower, as a $447 billion jobs package from President Barack Obama failed to entice investors back

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Obama's Bid to Spur Growth

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Carol E. Lee, Naftali Bendavid - Sep. 09 (News Report) - The president called on Congress to pass a $447 billion package of spending initiatives and tax cuts to boost growth, in what might be the White House's last chance to change its political fortunes before the 2012 campaign kicks into high gear.

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Barack Obama unveils $447bn jobs plan

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ewen MacAskill - Sep. 09 (News Report) - President uses televised address to urge Republicans to end 'political circus' and approve American Jobs Act to bring down unemployment Barack Obama used a televised address to the nation to unveil a $447bn package aimed at bringing down the country's high jobless total, the issue that could determine whether he wins re-election next year. In a rare joint session of Congress on Thursday night, the president challenged the Republicans to end the "political circus" in Washington by approving legislation he is to send them next week, the American Jobs Act. But the Republicans, even before Obama spoke, signalled opposition to a package they dispute will produce significant numbers of new jobs and dismissed it as an election gimmick. Washington could be facing its third major Congress-White House standoff this year. All the pomp and ceremony attached to such events could not disguise the extent of the polarisation in Washington. Many Republican members of Congress boycotted Obama's speech, ...

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Reports: Obama To Propose $300 Billion Package Aimed At Boosting Jobs

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Mark Memmott - Sep. 07 (News Report) - President Obama will propose "$300 billion in federal spending and tax cuts" when he addresses the nation Thursday night during a joint session of Congress, The Associated Press and other news outlets are reporting.

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