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News From Tuesday, February 02, 2010
11:53:49 PM Fairly arcane but very interesting stuff about congressional rules
Guardian - UK

The Tom DeLay led GOP were masters of this. The obvious examples were when the House took votes -- always in election years -- on massively important things ... [more]

11:19:03 PM FACTBOX-Political roadblocks to Obama's budget
Reuters - NY,USA

Obama proposed and Congress ignored many of the same policies last year, though expiration of individual tax cuts enacted by former President George W. Bush ... [more]

11:06:54 PM The White House's Shame Strategy
Atlantic Online

This is something that the White House has come to realize fairly recently. There are also few arrows in the presidential quiver. ... [more]

10:37:09 PM Some Honesty on Immigration
Texas GOP Vote (blog)

By Scott Braddock The issue of illegal immigration was front and center for a few moments during Friday night's debate for the GOP nomination for governor. ... [more]

10:16:49 PM Dallas Rep. Jeb (Jim?) Hensarling has a “D” next to his name – d'oh!
Pegasus News - Dallas,TX,USA

The good old days of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, the Sugarland, Texas, pit bull who never seemed to care how his heavy-handedness was perceived ... [more]

10:09:42 PM Sarah Palin Squashes Rahm Emanuel; Using Alinsky's Rule 4
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)

... every word that they deem politically incorrect. Remember George Allen and that whole “Macaca” deal? Dude, he was vilified for a word that no one even knew! [more]

9:46:14 PM Kerry calls for amendment to restrict corporate campaign spending
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

... Senator John Kerry joined calls for Congress and the states to amend the Constitution for only the 28th time in its history, a dramatic step he said was ... [more]

9:42:48 PM McConnell's top staffer departs
Politico - Washington,DC,USA

Trent Lott of Mississippi and Bill Frist of Tennessee when they served as Senate Republican leader. Simmons's departure comes soon after McConnell's House ... [more]

9:21:41 PM Who Will Pay for President Obama's $3.8T Budget?
FOX News - USA

At what point do politics stop and we start doing the right thing? ANDREWS: You know, I think it has an awful lot to do with the way we pay for campaigns, ... [more]

8:58:14 PM Meek Senate campaign to sponsor NASCAR's Wallace
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

He is seeking the seat Republican Mel Martinez left early. Republicans seeking the seat include Gov. Charlie Crist and former House Speaker Marco Rubio. ... [more]

8:27:18 PM NASA, White House still working details of space plan
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

BY STEPHEN CLARK NASA and senior White House officials are still tweaking the new US space policy unveiled Monday, and it could be months before the agency ... [more]

8:23:00 PM "The Decade Of Profligacy"
Atlantic Online (blog)

Keith Hennessey, who worked on economic policy in George W. Bush's White House, defends his former boss's legacy: It is true that President Bush proposed, ... [more]

7:25:36 PM U.S. citizen held at immigration center sues feds
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA

... 2010 SEATTLE — A naturalized American citizen and Army veteran who was detained for more than seven months by immigration authorities is suing the ... [more]

7:16:08 PM President of Toyota USA on Sticking Accelerator Repair Efforts
FOX News - USA

He is Toyota's top guy here in the US JAMES LENTZ, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, TOYOTA USA: Thank you. CAVUTO: Where does this stand right now? ... [more]

6:48:47 PM Sarah Palin: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel should be fired
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News BY Neil Nagraj Sarah Palin has slammed remarks Rahm Emanuel made in a strategy session between White House aides and progressive groups. ... [more]

6:48:13 PM Repeal In Sight, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Opponents Seek Redress, Apology
California Progress Report - Oakland,California,USA

California Progress Report Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) offered prophetic opposition to DADT. “We know that gays and lesbians have served in the military with distinction,” stated ... [more]

5:53:53 PM John Kerry: Amend The Constitution In Response To Citizens United Decision
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

John Kerry (D-Mass.) wants to amend the Constitution to restrict the free speech rights of corporations after last week's landmark Supreme Court campaign ... [more]

5:23:50 PM Weekly Audit: Don't let Citizens United wreck our economy
Rabble.ca

Most of us would consider the key lawmakers ensnared in the Jack Abramoff scandal as fundamentally corrupt—Abramoff flew former Republican Whip Tom DeLay of ... [more]

4:35:10 PM Sen. Bill Nelson: I'll hold White House's 'feet to the fire' for NASA
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

2, 2010 into Water Cooler Government funds that would help return America to the moon were eliminated in the White House's proposed 2011 budget. ... [more]

4:25:57 PM Brennan: All Transferred Detainees Who Returned to Terrorism Were Released
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

ABC News (blog) ... argued that President Obama had made "significant improvements to the detainee review process" under President Bush and pointed out that all the former ... [more]

4:24:49 PM Letter: Don't voters count anymore?
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer's Washington, DC, office an intern may answer. She or he may ask your name, reason for your call and name of any organization you represent. ... [more]

4:08:08 PM The President's Priorities
Wall Street Journal - USA

Even if you choose to believe such a political prediction, that still means Mr. Obama is proposing a new and more or less permanently higher plateau of .... [more]

3:43:16 PM Immigration Reform is Necessary for America's Economic Recovery
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama committed his Administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform. There are those who claim that this ... [more]

3:30:31 PM Kerry to '29' year-old Shaheen: Happy Birthday
The Hill

John Kerry (D-Mass.) welcomed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (DN.H.) to a Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week on what happened to be her 63rd birthday. ... [more]

2:44:01 PM Poll: Rubio leads Crist by 12 points in Senate race
ABC Action News - Tampa,FL,USA

.... approve of the job Crist is doing as governor. 37% regard Crist unfavorably. The two candidates are vying for the seat vacated by Senator Mel Martinez. [more]

1:32:10 PM Changes face No Child Left Behind; details still murky
Minnesota Public Radio

This year, the Obama administration will revamp No Child Left Behind, President Bush's blueprint for education policy, but Minnesota is still waiting to see ... [more]

1:13:07 PM Inspired by Scott Brown, GOP Candidates Emerge From Woodwork
FOX News - USA

One of the most prominent examples is the Arkansas race for incumbent Democrat Sen. Blanche Lincoln's seat. Republican Rep. John Boozman of Arkansas says ... [more]

12:31:55 PM Texas Targets Immigration Scams
Family Badge - USA

This not only harms law-abiding immigrants, but it also undermines immigration laws by sending the wrong message to those who attempt to play by the rules. ... [more]

12:06:57 PM President Obama to announce new small business lending fund
FOXNews

President Obama will announce new legislation Tuesday in Nashua, NH that will transfer 30 billion dollars out of the TARP funds for a small business lending ... [more]

11:27:00 AM John Edwards affair and love child scandal had a major Texas connection
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

When John Kerry won the Democratic nomination, Baron lobbied and influenced Kerry to name Edwards as his vice presidential running mate. ... [more]

11:18:47 AM Senate Money Chase Reflects Anti-Incumbent Fervor
CQPolitics.com - Washington,DC,USA

Barbara Boxer (D- Calif.) dropped almost $1 million to boost her re-election campaign. While Reid may well be the most vulnerable incumbent of the cycle, ... [more]

10:54:22 AM Shanahan officially named Redskins coach
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

.... idea that he will have total control, saying he will work with newly-hired general manager Bruce Allen, son of legendary Redskins coach George Allen. ... [more]

10:39:45 AM Dollars and Nonsense
FOX News - USA

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, this bill -- I mean, if this -- I assume that this is much like the one that President Bush would send up to the Capitol Hill. ... [more]

8:59:22 AM WHITE HOUSE BUDGET: Sky may be falling over Yucca
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

The new White House budget eliminates funding for a nuclear waste repository at the site. Laura Rauch/the associated press The Department of Energy filed ... [more]

8:53:27 AM On the attack
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA

Just as lies about John Kerry's Swift boat service in Vietnam derailed his presidential campaign in 2004, lies about "death panels" and distortions about ... [more]

8:41:08 AM Latinos seek more support for immigration reform
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Teresa Watanabe A leading Latino lawmaker asserted Monday that Latinos, angered at President Obama for his failure to push immigration reform legislation ... [more]

7:58:43 AM The Budget Deficit: How Did We Get Here?
ABC News - United States

And President Bush enacted his first round of tax cuts. By 2004, the deficit had more than doubled, to nearly $413 billion. The US had invaded Iraq, and, ... [more]

7:54:20 AM White House Budget Offers Backup Plans for Health Overhaul
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

But in other ways, the budget suggests the White House did not assume fast passage of the health bill, which is now stalled in Congress after Democrats lost ... [more]

7:05:15 AM Political virus
New York Post - New York,NY,USA

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in the 2010 election. But Fiorina apparently burned her bridges more completely than she thought. She was booted as the company's ... [more]

6:53:44 AM Appeals court candidates tout experience
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA

Recent cases involving the investigation of associates of former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, in which the Republican lawmaker was accused of .... [more]

6:51:53 AM Bush is Saints' Most Versatile Player
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

As a student of the game, New Orleans running back Reggie Bush has mastered the Three R's of football. Running (390 yards, a 5.6-yard average and five .... [more]

6:45:16 AM Grant to fund purchase of four defibrillators
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

.... of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program, Senators John Kerry and Paul Kirk and Congressman John Tierney announced recently. ... [more]

5:49:40 AM Skewed "Fox Fact": Fox claims Obama raising taxes by allowing Bush tax cuts
to ...

Media Matters for America In fact, President Obama's budget actually proposes to allow some of the Bush tax cuts to expire on the schedule enacted by former President Bush and a ... [more]

4:48:13 AM LAPD, US officials investigate suspected immigrant drop house in Reseda
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Fourteen illegal immigrants were being held against their will in the home, immigration officials say. Two other migrants were found hiding nearby Monday. ... [more]

3:40:55 AM Why Obama Is an Even Bigger Spender Than Bush
American Spectator

By Philip Klein on 2.1.10 @ 5:27PM In June 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama declared that President Bush had run “the most fiscally irresponsible ... [more]

3:19:01 AM Political consultants are the big winners in race between Whitman and
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times According to reports filed Monday with the Secretary of State's office, Republican candidate Meg Whitman has spent more than $5.2 million on campaign ... [more]

3:00:46 AM What Obama's budget plan may mean for California
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said a bipartisan group of senators would be working to increase that funding. Still, the White House's inclusion of the money is ... [more]

2:48:15 AM Bears get a state of the Martz offense
ChicagoNow - Chicago,IL,USA

George Allen, Buddy Ryan, Lovie Smith. But never a guy on offense. Ok, whoever it was who "thrilled the nation, with the T-formation," as the Bears song go, ... [more]

2:32:05 AM Congress' jobs bill vs. the White House plan
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Obama has allocated $100 billion in his budget to create jobs. A bill passed by the House in December would cost 50% more. Can the Senate meet the leaner ... [more]

2:20:57 AM Immigration, Detroit police net $1.3M in heroin in drug bust
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA

Detroit -- A drug bust by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Detroit Police Department task force netted some $1.3 million worth of heroin, ... [more]

1:55:56 AM MILLER: National Enquirer deserves a Pulitzer
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

Emily Miller is the former press secretary to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay and is a consultant in Washington. [more]

1:18:26 AM Elected Leaders Sound off on Mayport Carrier Decision
WJXX - Jacksonville,FL,USA

Corrine Brown (D-FL) and senators Mel Martinez and George LeMieux (both republicans; LeMieux is completing Martinez's term) is that having all carriers in ... [more]

1:05:46 AM President Obama Wants to Extend President Bush's Tax Cuts
WGRZ-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA

By BRIAN TUMULTY WASHINGTON, DC - The tax proposals released by the Obama administration Monday as part of its proposed 2011 budget would provide tax cuts ... [more]

12:37:15 AM A lonely road for a political novice
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Anh 'Joseph' Cao, a Republican whose district is mostly Democrats, says his goal is to serve rather than to play politics. But can that win him reelection ... [more]



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