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TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Mar 8, 2009 12:16 PM CDT

McCain to Obama: Veto Stimulus Bill

Rush isn't GOP's leader: Gingrich; Stem-cell reversals a 'distraction:' Cantor

(Newser) - Now that the battle over the stimulus bill is over, John McCain has one request for President Obama: Veto it. “We fought a good fight,” the Arizona senator conceded on Fox News Sunday, saying the $410 billion bill would likely pass the Senate despite those efforts. McCain also...

Obama Looks
to Curb Mexican Drug Violence

Mar 8, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

Obama Looks to Curb Mexican Drug Violence

President powwows with envoy, may offer US military support

(Newser) - President Obama met yesterday with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen, recently returned from Mexico City, with an eye toward offering US military and intelligence support to Mexican forces as they battle a tidal wave in drug-related violence, CNN reports. The meeting followed reports of new bloodshed: A US...

Why Obama Is Like Bush

OPINION

Mar 7, 2009 12:00 PM CST

Why Obama Is Like Bush

Apart from being ideological opposites, Bush and Obama are identical!

(Newser) - Barack Obama is often compared to FDR or Ronald Reagan. But what about the last guy? Obama has taken office in the midst of a crisis and has lofty approval ratings—much like the 80% Bush had after 9/11. And both have taken a fairly similar political approach to their...

Obama Vows to
End Cycle of
Job Losses

Mar 6, 2009 11:36 AM CST

Obama Vows to End Cycle of Job Losses

(Newser) - President Barack Obama promised today to end the cycle of US job losses. Addressing a graduating class of police officers in Ohio, Obama called today’s unemployment report “astounding,” noting that, were it not for his stimulus package, the recruits would be among the 8.1% of Americans...

Obama 'Dithering' on Bank Rescue: Krugman

OPINION

Mar 6, 2009 9:23 AM CST

Obama 'Dithering' on Bank Rescue: Krugman

Toxic asset plans just aren't going to work

(Newser) - Barack Obama has repeatedly said that bold action is needed to save the financial system, and he’s probably right, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. So it’s a shame he isn’t taking any. “The reality is that when it comes to dealing with the...

White House Responds,
With Civility

OPINION

Mar 6, 2009 7:21 AM CST

White House Responds, With Civility

Brooks still hates the budget, but he applauds new tone

(Newser) - In the Bush years, publishing a New York Times op-ed criticizing the White House could get your wife outed as an undercover CIA agent. But when David Brooks wrote earlier this week that the 2010 budget was too liberal, the Obama administration was much gentler—he got calls from four...

Lawmaker: Obama Era
Looks Like Atlas Shrugged

Mar 5, 2009 4:07 PM CST

Lawmaker: Obama Era Looks Like Atlas Shrugged

(Newser) - A California congressman thinks President Obama’s economic policies are leading the country down the path described in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the Washington Independent reports. “The achievers, the people who create all the things that benefit rest of us, are going on strike,” Republican John Campbell...

Obama Makes
GOP Miss Clinton

OPINION

Mar 5, 2009 2:23 PM CST

Obama Makes GOP Miss Clinton

(Newser) - Back in the '90s you wouldn’t hear many Republicans waxing poetic about Bill Clinton, but these days, that’s exactly what Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune is doing. “Clinton, for all his appetites and excesses, was a cautious, centrist sort of Democrat” who “proclaimed—or conceded—...

First Daughters
Soaring Over
New Swing Set

Mar 5, 2009 12:12 PM CST

First Daughters Soaring Over New Swing Set

Obamas' purchase a suprise for Malia, Sasha

(Newser) - When Malia and Sasha Obama came home from school Wednesday, there was a surprise waiting for them: a swing set from their folks, the Chicago Tribune reports. The excited girls played on the set, complete with four swings, a fort, and a picnic table with the names of all the...

Obama Has Too Many Czars, Critics Complain

Mar 5, 2009 10:05 AM CST

Obama Has Too Many Czars, Critics Complain

Sen. Byrd says Obama's 'super aide' craze is a power grab

(Newser) - Barack Obama loves czars. He’s got an energy czar, an urban affairs czar, an economic czar, and, most recently, a health reform czar, making him the most czar-happy president ever, scholars say. But lawmakers worry they’re losing ground in the "super aide" craze, the LA Times reports....

Boehner: Rush Is a Democrat Diversion

OPINION

Mar 5, 2009 8:18 AM CST

Boehner: Rush Is a Democrat Diversion

Obama wants to change the subject from spending

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s desperate attempt to throw the spotlight on Rush Limbaugh “is the oldest trick in Washington’s book,” writes House Minority Leader John Boehner in the Washington Post. Obama and congressional Democrats have already spent more than the combined costs of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq...

White House
Health Forum
Convenes Today

Mar 5, 2009 8:17 AM CST

White House Health Forum Convenes Today

Forum will give the floor to ranging viewpoints

(Newser) - President Barack Obama has invited to the White House more than 120 people with wide-ranging views on how to fix the US health-care system, one that still leaves millions uninsured despite being the world's costliest. The group of doctors, patients, business owners, and insurers is to gather for a forum...

GOP Shifts Focus of Attacks Onto Obama

Mar 5, 2009 7:50 AM CST

GOP Shifts Focus of Attacks Onto Obama

After targeting Pelosi, Reid, party aims at president on spending

(Newser) - For 6 weeks the Republicans have steered clear of criticizing Barack Obama, attacking the House and Senate leadership, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, while giving the popular president a free pass. But now, reports CQPolitics, the GOP is changing direction with a new campaign linking Obama with federal spending that...

Sen. Crotchety Routine Is Old

OPINION

Mar 5, 2009 7:31 AM CST

Sen. Crotchety Routine Is Old

Senator's attacks on federal spending starting to seem like sour grapes

(Newser) - John McCain's complaining about the omnibus spending bill is starting to sound more like he's trying to fight the election again instead of fighting pork-barrel spending, Mike Madden writes in Salon. The senator appears to be going out of his way to remind people how much he disagrees with President...

Office Quickly
Graying Obama

Mar 5, 2009 5:53 AM CST

Office Quickly Graying Obama

President's locks lightening after just 44 days in the White House

(Newser) - The toll of doing America's top job is showing on Barack Obama's head just 44 days into his presidency, reports the New York Times. Like George Bush and Bill Clinton before him, Obama is rapidly going gray. Obama-watchers say the graying started at the close of the campaign, and they...

Obama Targets Gov't
Contract Fraud, Waste

Mar 4, 2009 1:46 PM CST

Obama Targets Gov't Contract Fraud, Waste

Vows to save money

(Newser) - Barack Obama today announced a plan to clean up waste in federal contracts, a set of reforms he believes will save taxpayers up to $40 billion a year, the Washington Post reports. Flanked by spending hawks John McCain and Carl Levin, Obama said his budget manager is drafting “dramatic”...

Obama's FCC Pick Brings Reformer Label

Mar 4, 2009 1:37 PM CST

Obama's FCC Pick Brings Reformer Label

Tech adviser Genachowski lauded to lead troubled agency

(Newser) - President Obama has officially named Harvard pal and technical adviser Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission, NPR reports. It’s Genachowski’s second tour—he worked at the FCC during the Clinton administration—and he’s being applauded on both sides of the aisle. Most are hoping the...

Brown Tells US
to 'Seize the Moment'

Mar 4, 2009 1:21 PM CST

Brown Tells US to 'Seize the Moment'

Now more than ever the rest of the world wants to work with you

(Newser) - Gordon Brown inspired applause breaks and a standing ovation in Congress today, urging America to team up with England in battling the financial crisis, the BBC reports. Brown urged lawmakers not to indulge impulses toward protectionism—which “protects no one,” the prime minister quipped—and called for new...

Calm Down, Government Debt Won't Kill Us

OPINION

Mar 4, 2009 12:11 PM CST

Calm Down, Government Debt Won't Kill Us

(Newser) - Republicans have become born-again deficit hawks, decrying the debt President Obama is handing America’s grandkids. “What’s missing,” writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post, “is any sense of perspective.” The added $2 trillion pales before the $66 trillion spent annually on Social Security and...

Prez Loves to
Work the Phone

Mar 4, 2009 10:51 AM CST

Prez Loves to Work the Phone

Obama loves to get info and connect with people, voice-to-voice

(Newser) - President Obama might love his Blackberry for the email, but the new commander-in-chief also spends a sizable amount of time working the phones with people ranging from close advisers to world leaders, reports the New York Times. Obama often makes more than two dozen calls a day in order to...

Barack Obama

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Rush isn't GOP's leader: Gingrich; Stem-cell reversals a 'distraction:' Cantor

President powwows with envoy, may offer US military support

Apart from being ideological opposites, Bush and Obama are identical!

Toxic asset plans just aren't going to work

Brooks still hates the budget, but he applauds new tone

Obamas' purchase a suprise for Malia, Sasha

Sen. Byrd says Obama's 'super aide' craze is a power grab

Obama wants to change the subject from spending

Forum will give the floor to ranging viewpoints

After targeting Pelosi, Reid, party aims at president on spending

Senator's attacks on federal spending starting to seem like sour grapes

President's locks lightening after just 44 days in the White House

Vows to save money

Tech adviser Genachowski lauded to lead troubled agency

Now more than ever the rest of the world wants to work with you

Obama loves to get info and connect with people, voice-to-voice