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JUAN COLE

B+ for Obama Foreign Policy, F for Not Owning It

New prez is doing fine in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, but no one notices

Oct 27, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the howls of protest over President Obama's Nobel Prize and the administration’s "dithering" on Afghanistan , the fact is that the new president’s foreign endeavors deserve good marks, says Juan Cole. Cole gives Obama an A for his Iranian statesmanship, a... More »

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Iran • Bush administration • Pakistan • US foreign policy • US military • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama

 Obama Tags $3.4B 
 for Smart Energy Grid 

Plan will create tens of thousands of jobs and cheaper electricity

Oct 27, 09 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will roll out a plan to use $3.4 billion in stimulus funds to modernize the nation’s electrical grid today. The “smart grid” spending will go to private contractors, utilities, and municipal governments in grants of between $400,000 and $2 million. The administration expects $4.... More »

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Iraq • power grid • electricity • renewable energy • job creation • Obama administration • President Obama • stimulus funds

Interview

Ex-Marine: Afghan War Not Worth Fighting

Former official explains why he resigned his post in protest

Oct 27, 09 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Matthew Hoh resigned in protest last month, it sent a small tremor through the Pentagon and White House. Hoh, an ex-marine, was the US’ top civilian in Zabul province, until he reached the conclusion that the war wasn’t worth fighting. “My resignation is based not upon how... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • interview • Afghanistan war • Obama administration

DAVID BROOKS

 Get a  Clue, 
 Washington: 
 You Can't Do 
 Everything 

Effort to restructure exec pay smacks of arrogance

Oct 27, 09 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Clamping down on arrogant, risk-taking execs with an overconfident attempt to overhaul private sector pay structures shows that the arrogance has migrated to the Obama administration, writes David Brooks. The government is trying to micro-manage compensation packages at a wide variety of firms when pay regulation should be done, humbly,... More »

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executive compensation • Treasury Department • financial sector • David Brooks • Obama administration • financial crisis

health care reform

 Public Option a Go: Reid 

Senate bill will include government health plan, with opt-out

Oct 26, 09 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid will include a public insurance plan in the pending health care reform bill, with a provision allowing individual states to refuse to participate. The Senate majority leader’s bill is likely to include an “opt-out” version of the public plan, taken from the Senate health committee, as... More »

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Harry Reid • Senate Health Committee • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • US Senate • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • Health, Education, Labor & Pensions • public option • health care cooperative

Doug Kendall

Republicans Stonewall Obama's Judges

Procedural maneuvers help Senate GOP stall confirmation process

Oct 26, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the 95 yawning vacancies on the federal bench, Senate Republicans are blocking virtually all of President Obama’s nominees. Only three of Obama’s 22 nominees have been confirmed, as Republicans take the “partisan war over the courts into uncharted territory,” writes Doug Kendall for Slate. Both... More »

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Barack Obama • federal courts • Senate Republicans • judge • federal judges • judicial nominations • Obama administration • President Obama

girls allowed

 Obama's Golf Game Goes Coed 

Presidential foursome includes a woman for the first time

Oct 25, 09 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Within hours of a New York Times story spotlighting the West Wing's alleged "boys' club" atmosphere, President Obama played golf with a woman today for the first time since being sworn in. Melody Barnes, the White House chief domestic policy adviser, hit the links as part of Obama's foursome... More »

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golf • White House • domestic policy • Obama administration • President Obama • women's issues • Melody Barnes • Fort Belvoir

Clarence Page

Actually, Fox Is
a Legit News Operation

Obama must start following through on campaign promises

Oct 25, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Risking his wife's wrath, Clarence Page has to admit he agrees with Sean Hannity. The Fox News host has correctly called President Obama on the disconnect between campaign rhetoric and the attempted boycott of Hannity's employer. "It is disingenuous for right-wing pundits to accuse Obama of dividing the country,... More »

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television • media • cable TV • White House • journalism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Obama administration • President Obama

Biden on Cheney's Afghan Bluster: 'Who Cares?'

In Europe, VP calls predecessor's review of conflict 'irrelevant'

Oct 23, 09 6:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden’s in Europe, but his latest opinion of Dick Cheney’s continued attacks on President Obama isn’t getting lost in translation. Asked about Cheney’s criticism that Obama is “dithering” on Afghanistan, Biden replied: “Who cares?” Biden added that a review of the conflict late... More »

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Joe Biden • Dick Cheney • George W. Bush • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • Afghanistan exit strategy

Moderate Dems Fret Over Obama Attacks on Fox

...and worry picking fight with Chamber of Commerce will backfire

Oct 23, 09 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moderate Democrats are nervous about the Obama administration’s efforts to marginalize tough critics like Fox News. “It’s a mistake,” Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire tells Politico. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.” And... More »

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Fox News • Obama administration • Jim Moran • US Chamber of Commerce • Jason Altmire

Charles Krauthammer

 Obama Assault 
 on Fox News  
 Is 'Nixonian' 


White House needs to recognize the legitimacy of opposition

Oct 23, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is over the line in its war on Fox News, seeking not only to criticize it, but to delegitimize and marginalize it, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics,” he argues, but they do violate “... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • media bias • Obama administration • liberal media • Charles Krauthammer • conservative media

PEGGY NOONAN

 It's Not Bush's Mess Anymore 

Obama needs to stop complaining about what he inherited, start fixing it

Oct 23, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama needs to stop complaining that he inherited a mess and realize that the mess is now all his, writes Peggy Noonan. The White House is once again reminding people what dire straits the country was in when Obama's presidency began, but—as the president's free-falling poll numbers prove—... More »

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Bush administration • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama

DAVID BROOKS

 President Has Delivered
 Real Change in Education

Race to the Top program has sparked a 'quiet revolution' in education

Oct 23, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's huge success in education reform has been overlooked amid all the carping about his failure to deliver as much change as expected, writes David Brooks. The $4.3 billion Race to the Top fund Obama and Arne Duncan established has helped accelerate real reform in education and has... More »

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education • teachers' unions • Obama administration • President Obama • Arne Duncan • Race to the Top

 White House: 
 Cheney's the 
 Irresponsible One 

He helped get us into mess, Pelosi adds

Oct 23, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - What  Dick Cheney calls dithering, "President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday, rejecting Cheney's charge that the Obama adminstration is taking too long to decide its Afghanistan strategy. "... More »

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Afghanistan • Dick Cheney • US military • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs

DRUG CZAR IN TRAINING

I Snorted Coke 40 Feet From Obama at DC Dinner: Actor

David Cross, of Arrested Development fame, says he did it on a dare

Oct 22, 09 9:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - We’ve all done silly stuff on a dare, but probably not on the level of actor/author/comic/crazy guy David Cross, who says he snorted cocaine not 40 feet from President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (not, for the record, held at the White House). With cabinet secretaries, Supreme... More »

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Secret Service • cocaine • stand up comedy • Arrested Development • White House Correspondents Dinner • Obama administration • President Obama • David Cross • Amber Tamblyn

NATE SILVER

Bank Reform Shatters Usual Party Lines

Next big domestic issue will be 'fascinating' to watch

Oct 22, 09 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Once health care reform is “settled,” Nate Silver writes, the White House will be searching for a new domestic issue. Card check is too hard, immigration will have to wait for 2012’s “younger, more diverse electorate,” and gay rights is a slog. The winner, in... More »

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finance • Republican Party • domestic policy • financial sector • Obama administration • banking industry • Nate Silver • President Obama • Tea Party • bank reform

 Clinton Boosts Kerry 
 on Afghan Mission 
 
 

Old rivals appear to forge durable alliance

Oct 22, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton was instrumental in convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept a runoff election—but it was what she didn’t do that mattered most. She didn’t interfere with erstwhile rival John Kerry’s mission. In fact, sources say, Clinton facilitated the meeting between Kerry and Karzai... More »

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Afghanistan • Hillary Clinton • John Kerry • Hamid Karzai • secretary of State • runoff election • election • Senate Foreign Relations Committee • Obama administration

 50% Pay Cuts 
 for Bailout Execs 
 Due Today 

Warren confirms cuts to 25 top earners at 7 companies

Oct 22, 09 9:40 AM CDT
(AP) - The Treasury Department today is expected to order seven companies that have not paid back last year's US government bailouts to halve their top executives' average compensation. The cuts apply to the 25 highest-paid executives at banks and other companies that received the most assistance, with salaries being slashed by... More »

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Chrysler • executive compensation • Bank of America • General Motors • Citibank • AIG • Treasury Department • Obama administration • Wall Street bailout • TARP • Elizabeth Warren • Kenneth Feinberg

Stop Afghan 'Dithering' as Troops Face Danger: Cheney

'Do what it takes to win,' former VP urges Obama

Oct 21, 09 9:52 PM CDT
(AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney tonight accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to "do what it takes to win." Cheney, accepting an award from a conservative national security group, added, "Make no mistake. Signals... More »

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Afghanistan • Dick Cheney • Rahm Emanuel • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • politics as usual

 Rattner: Why I 
 Fired GM's Wagoner 

Former car czar calls deficiencies 'appalling'

Oct 21, 09 3:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's former car czar says he had no choice but to fire GM's Rick Wagoner. "Everyone knew Detroit's reputation for insular, slow-moving cultures," Steven Rattner writes in an essay for Fortune. "Even by that low standard, I was shocked by the stunningly poor management that we... More »

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bankruptcy • General Motors • restructuring • Rick Wagoner • Obama administration • Steven Rattner

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