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Why Obama Should Cut, Not Freeze, Federal Wages
Why Obama Should Cut, Not Freeze, Federal Wages
OPINION
Nov 30, 2010 1:56 PM CST

Why Obama Should Cut, Not Freeze, Federal Wages

We need to hire more people for less money

(Newser) - President Obama introduced a proposal to freeze federal salaries yesterday—or, as Annie Lowrey of Slate calls it, a “wishy-washy plan to hurt some workers without helping others.” Obama’s plan just underscores how much the conversation has shifted from our short-term employment crisis to our long-term deficit...

Obama to (Sort of) Meet With GOP Leaders

Sides will have just enough time to talk at each other

(Newser) - After weeks of delays, Barack Obama will finally sit down with Republican leadership this morning, but it won’t be the relaxed beer-summit-esque session he’d hoped for. Instead, Obama, accompanied by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and others will meet with Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and others for somewhere between...

Obama Back on Court With Busted Lip

Injury doesn't keep prez from playing with his daughters

(Newser) - President Obama was back on the basketball court yesterday despite his injured lip , but his opponents this time around were a bit less likely to elbow him. Obama played an early morning game at an Interior Department gym with daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, the New York Daily News...

Veteran Arrested for Threatening President

Michael Bowden would 'put Obama against the wall and shoot him'

(Newser) - A 78-year-old South Carolina veteran has been arrested after threatening to shoot the president. Michael Stephen Bowden, also a former New York City police officer and fire captain, told a nurse at a Veteran Affairs clinic he "would like to shoot the president then myself." He was arrested...

Obama: Let's Be Thankful... and Start Cooperating

President uses Thanksgiving address as a call for unity

(Newser) - President Obama gave his weekly address a few days early in order to wish the country Happy Thanksgiving—and call for bipartisan cooperation, CNN reports. Today, the first family will give thanks for “the God-given bounty of America and the blessings of one another,” he said, adding that...

Obama Spares Turkeys 'Shellacking'

Birds will head to George Washington's estate

(Newser) - It's official: President Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons today to a gobbler named "Apple" and its alternate, “Cider.” The two 21-week-old, 45-pound turkeys were raised on a California farm. Obama said it “feels pretty good...

Fed's Employment Forecast Should Scare Obama

It won't fall fast enough for him to look good in 2012

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve issued a dour new economic outlook yesterday, predicting that the unemployment rate, currently at 9.6%, will fall to only 9% by 2011 and 8% by late 2012. That's bad news for everyone, but especially for President Obama; Daily Intel notes that incumbents lost in four of...

Bushes Heart Bill Clinton
 Bushes Really Love Bill Clinton 
Nov 23, 2010 7:25 AM CST

Bushes Really Love Bill Clinton

He's 'impossible to dislike,' she tells Larry King

(Newser) - No one can stay mad at Bill Clinton—not even the guy he kicked out of the White House. Poppy and Barbara Bush sang his praises on Larry King last night, Mediaite observes, with George touting their “really good personal relationship.” Barbara Bush admitted that it took her...

Obama Goes Head-to-Head With GOP on Arms Treaty
Obama Goes Head-to-Head With GOP on Arms Treaty
analysis
Nov 19, 2010 6:23 AM CST

Obama Goes Head-to-Head With GOP on Arms Treaty

Pushes for lame-duck vote ... with big political implications

(Newser) - By urging a lame-duck vote on a new arms-control treaty with Russia, President Obama is setting up a face-off with Senate Republicans that could set the political tone for the next two years, writes Peter Baker in the New York Times . If the treaty is ratified, Obama will prove his...

Palin Rips Michelle Obama Over 'Rants Against Whites'

But she loves Simon Cowell

(Newser) - The presidential election is two years away, but Sarah Palin is already taking off the white gloves. She slams First Lady Michelle Obama in her new book for attending controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church for years and "listening to his rants against America and white people." Barack and...

Obama's Kids Book Hits Shelves, Fox News Grumbles

Network is not happy about inclusion of Sitting Bull

(Newser) - President Obama's children's book hits shelves today—what could possibly go wrong? Well, Of Thee I Sing includes a tribute to Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull—or, as Fox News puts it, "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed US General." The book is framed as a letter to...

Axelrod: I'll Leave Next Year to Work on Obama 2012

Top adviser appears to confirm a reelection bid

(Newser) - Despite some people advising him not to , it appears President Obama is officially running for reelection in 2012. David Axelrod told Fox News Sunday he will leave the White House next year to begin work on the campaign, USA Today reports. “Sometime in the spring, late winter, early spring,...

Obama Relives Childhood Memories as Asia Trip Ends

Trip offered opportunities for personal moments

(Newser) - President Obama finished off his 10-day Asia trip on a personal note, visiting the Great Buddha statue in Japan that he last saw as a 6-year-old boy. “It is wonderful to return to this great treasure of Japanese culture,” he wrote in the guest book. "Its beauty...

Quit Waffling, Obama, and Stand Up to Bazillionaires

The mega-rich are sucking America dry, pay less taxes than ever

(Newser) - The electorate may have little love for wealthy, would-be politicians like Meg Whitman, John Raese, and Linda McMahon, writes Frank Rich for the New York Times . But maybe they should: Whitman and Co. were at least trying to give back, unlike most obscenely wealthy folk. The top 1% of American...

Obama: I'm Not Caving on Tax Cuts

Says it would be 'irresponsible' to keep them for the rich

(Newser) - Barack Obama says he’s not giving in to Republican demands to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, sharply refuting comments from David Axelrod indicating that he would. (Axelrod, incidentally, has also walked back the comments.) “That is the wrong interpretation, because I haven’t had...

US-South Korea Trade Deal Hits the Rocks

But broader G20 pact near

(Newser) - After days of furious negotiating, the US has failed to strike a free trade deal with South Korea. President Obama still hopes that the deal can be reached within a few weeks, but probably not before Obama leaves Seoul, the LA Times reports—a Korean official said that Lee Myung-bak...

Obama Blasts North Korea in G20 Speech

Warns that the US 'will never waver' in defense of South

(Newser) - Barack Obama sent some pointed remarks North Korea’s way in his speech in Seoul today, saying that the difference between it and its less-oppressed Southern counterpart is “a contrast so stark you can see it from space, as the brilliant lights of Seoul give way to the utter...

Deficit Panel Considers Raising Retirement Age

It also wants to curb Social Security benefits

(Newser) - The leaders of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits today, proposing reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, gradually raising the retirement age to 69, and taking aim at popular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction. They also call for cuts...

China Drops US Credit Rating Ahead of G20

Obama faces a world divided, peeved by Fed moves

(Newser) - China’s top state-endorsed rating agency dropped the United States’ credit rating yesterday, warning that recent Fed moves, along with “serious defects in the United States' economic development and management model” were “fundamentally lowering the national solvency.” The report probably won’t have much impact on our...

Bush: I Woulda Endorsed Obama

Reportedly told a group of Brits he wouldn't vote for McCain, too

(Newser) - George Bush's stop-the-presses revelations just won't stop , though the latest comes by way of a dusty anecdote that's finally seeing the light of day. Alex Barker, writing for the Financial Times reveals that in an Oval Office meeting with Gordon Brown and other British dignitaries during the 2008 campaign season,...

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