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Unemployment Holds Steady At 9.7%. Temp. Hirings Up March Job Figures (Politico)
President Barack Obama got the first unequivocally good news on the nation’s employment picture Friday, as new government figures showed the nation gained 162,000 jobs in the month of March.
The unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. That’s the first time the nation has gained, rather than lost, in jobs since late 2007, with the [...]
BACK TO THE TOWN HALLS: Obama Retools His Message For Ohio Town Hall Meeting (ABC News)
President Barack Obama tried to revive his battered agenda and rally despondent Democrats on Friday with a renewed emphasis on jobs. His visit to this struggling Rust Belt city capped a tough first-anniversary week for a presidency that suffered jolts at the hands of Massachusetts voters and the Supreme Court.
“I’m not going to win every [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Republican Brown Wins Massachusetts Senate Race (CNN)
Republican Scott Brown has won Tuesday’s special election for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy, CNN projects based on actual results.
Brown, a Massachusetts state senator, had 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic contender, with over 69 percent of precincts reporting [...]
Obama To Campaign In Massachusetts For Endangered Senate Candidate (AP & Yahoo!)
His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a weekend trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate candidate Martha Coakley after a poll showed an edge for Republicans in the race for a seat Democrats have held for over a half-century.
The White House said he will travel there Sunday.
“If Scott Brown wins, [...]
Union Leaders Rallying Against Obama On Health Care Tax (New York Times)
When millions of blue-collar workers were leaning toward John McCain during the 2008 campaign, labor unions moved many of them into Barack Obama’s column by repeatedly hammering one theme: Mr. McCain wanted to tax their health benefits.
But now labor leaders are fuming that President Obama has endorsed a tax on high-priced, employer-sponsored health insurance policies [...]
Dana Bash/CNN: Bipartisanship Didn’t Last Long In Obama’s First 100 Days
By Dana Bash, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent.
Editor’s note: How would you rate the new Congress in President Obama’s first 100 days? You’ll get a chance to make your opinion known on at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on the CNN National Report Card.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — There’s little debate that Democrats who run Congress mark President Obama’s [...]
Obama On Interrogation Prosecution – A Mixed Message
Until last week, President Barack Obama had made it clear he intended to “look forward,” rather than insist on punishment of Bush-era officials who approved harsh interrogation practices.
But a series of missteps by the White House threatened to undermine that decision and stoked the political tempest aides say Mr. Obama had hoped to avoid. The [...]
Opinion From Europe: Barack Obama and the CIA: Why Does President Pantywaist Hate America So Badly?
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests [...]
Gore Vs. Gingrich: Just Like Old Times? Not Really
Al Gore paused during his descent from atop the marble Capitol steps on his way to spar with an old rival, Newt Gingrich . Grinning as he glided toward a former aide he had spotted, Gore joked, “Just like old times.”
Maybe for Gore. But Democrats running the House these days made sure it wasn’t for [...]
Democrats Agree to Fast Track for Health Care Revamp
Democrats reached a tentative agreement to use a parliamentary procedure that would prevent Senate Republicans from blocking President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system, congressional aides said.
The agreement calls for the same procedure, known as reconciliation, to be used to try to pass Obama’s proposal to cut federal subsidies to [...]
