Blog Campaign http://www.blogcampaign.com Politics and Elections - Who Will Be King (or Queen) of the Mountain? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 en Dodd seeks difficult consensus on financial rules (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:48:39 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009, file photo Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., announces a financial reform package during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dodd is expected to unveil a new sweeping regulatory proposal Monday, March 15, 2010, that will abandon his initial plan for a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and for a single powerful regulator to oversee all of the nation's banks. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Combining Obama administration and Republican priorities, the leading Senate author of a sweeping rewrite of the nation's financial regulations is looking for consensus with a proposal that neither side of the political spectrum is ready to embrace.


]]> FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009, file photo Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., announces a financial reform package during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dodd is expected to unveil a new sweeping regulatory proposal Monday, March 15, 2010, that will abandon his initial plan for a stand-alone consumer financial protection agency and for a single powerful regulator to oversee all of the nation's banks. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - Combining Obama administration and Republican priorities, the leading Senate author of a sweeping rewrite of the nation's financial regulations is looking for consensus with a proposal that neither side of the political spectrum is ready to embrace.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul/feed/ Obama heads to Ohio looking for health care votes (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:41:18 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing/FilesAP - Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days.


]]> U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing/FilesAP - Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul/feed/ US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ot/us_census_let_the_count_begin http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ot/us_census_let_the_count_begin#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:41:13 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ot/us_census_let_the_count_begin FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves arrives in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska in a dogsled driven by Noorvik resident Brian Coffin, 11, to formally launch the nation's 2010 count. More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday, March 15, 2010, in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - Let the count begin.


]]> FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010 file photo, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves arrives in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik, Alaska in a dogsled driven by Noorvik resident Brian Coffin, 11, to formally launch the nation's 2010 count. More than 120 million U.S. census forms begin arriving Monday, March 15, 2010, in mailboxes around the country, in the government's once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up congressional seats and more than $400 billion in federal aid. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - Let the count begin.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ot/us_census_let_the_count_begin/feed/ US lawmakers attack China ahead of Nov. elections (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_china http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_china#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:40:51 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_china Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., speaks with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, March 8, 20201, after accompanying President Barack Obama on Air Force One to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., where he spoke about health care reform. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - China is once again the country Congress loves to hate.


]]> Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., speaks with reporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, March 8, 20201, after accompanying President Barack Obama on Air Force One to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa., where he spoke about health care reform. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - China is once again the country Congress loves to hate.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_us_china/feed/ Thai PM rejects rally’s election ultimatum (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/thailandpoliticsprotest http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/thailandpoliticsprotest#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/thailandpoliticsprotest Supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra ride motorcycles during a protest in Bangkok. Thailand's prime minister has rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters who had besieged the army barracks where he was holed up to demand immediate elections.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - Thailand's prime minister on Monday rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters who had besieged the army barracks where he was holed up to demand immediate elections.


]]> Supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra ride motorcycles during a protest in Bangkok. Thailand's prime minister has rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters who had besieged the army barracks where he was holed up to demand immediate elections.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - Thailand's prime minister on Monday rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters who had besieged the army barracks where he was holed up to demand immediate elections.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/thailandpoliticsprotest/feed/ Gov’t says it cannot explain runaway Prius (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_runaway_prius http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_runaway_prius#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:15:17 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_runaway_prius FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego, Calif., freeway last week.


]]> FILE - In this Tuesday, March 9, 2010 file photo, driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon in El Cajon, Calif. A law firm for the driver who says his Toyota Prius sped out of control in California doesn't plan to sue the Japanese automaker. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)AP - The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego, Calif., freeway last week.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_runaway_prius/feed/ Iraq PM bolsters chances of retaining post (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/iraqvote http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/iraqvote#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:20:11 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/iraqvote A man looks up at a poster picturing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on March 12 following Iraq's second general elections since the US-led invasion of 2003. Maliki's bloc looked poised on Monday to be the biggest single group in parliament, as poll results from key provinces gave him a strong lead eight days after the vote.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc looked poised on Monday to be the biggest single group in parliament, as poll results from key provinces gave him a strong lead eight days after the vote.


]]> A man looks up at a poster picturing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on March 12 following Iraq's second general elections since the US-led invasion of 2003. Maliki's bloc looked poised on Monday to be the biggest single group in parliament, as poll results from key provinces gave him a strong lead eight days after the vote.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc looked poised on Monday to be the biggest single group in parliament, as poll results from key provinces gave him a strong lead eight days after the vote.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/ts_afp/iraqvote/feed/ Obama travels to Ohio to rally health plan support (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_preview http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_preview#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:02:49 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_preview http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_preview/feed/ AP Exclusive: Pentagon gun was from Tenn. police (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pentagon_metro_shooting_guns http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pentagon_metro_shooting_guns#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:37:03 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pentagon_metro_shooting_guns A police officer gets out of his car at a roadblock around the Pentagon in Washington, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri GripasAP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.


]]> A police officer gets out of his car at a roadblock around the Pentagon in Washington, March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Yuri GripasAP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pentagon_metro_shooting_guns/feed/ US cautious on removing nuclear arms from Europe (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nuclear_weapons_europe http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nuclear_weapons_europe#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:35:53 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nuclear_weapons_europe FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2009, file photo U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Singapore. Obama said the U.S. and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end. The Obama administration is taking a go-slow approach to one of the touchiest and least-discussed national security issues: whether to withdraw the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, administration officials say. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, File)AP - The U.S. is taking a go-slow approach on one of the touchiest and least discussed national security issues: whether to remove the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.


]]> FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2009, file photo U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Singapore. Obama said the U.S. and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end. The Obama administration is taking a go-slow approach to one of the touchiest and least-discussed national security issues: whether to withdraw the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, administration officials say. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, File)AP - The U.S. is taking a go-slow approach on one of the touchiest and least discussed national security issues: whether to remove the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nuclear_weapons_europe/feed/ Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam’s IOUs (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security_ious http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security_ious#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:43 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security_ious FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2005 file photo, Susan Chapman, director of the Division of Federal Investments, sorts through paper securities pulled from a safe at the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt offices in Parkersburg, W.Va. The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It's time to start cashing them in. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, FILE)AP - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.


]]> FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2005 file photo, Susan Chapman, director of the Division of Federal Investments, sorts through paper securities pulled from a safe at the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt offices in Parkersburg, W.Va. The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It's time to start cashing them in. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, FILE)AP - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security_ious/feed/ Agencies lag in following Obama’s openness order (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_sunshine_obama_foia http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_sunshine_obama_foia#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:16:10 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_sunshine_obama_foia President Barack Obama addresses the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungAP - President Barack Obama is having difficulty getting all federal agencies to follow his order to deliver "a new era of open government," according to a study of how they administer the Freedom of Information Act.


]]> President Barack Obama addresses the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungAP - President Barack Obama is having difficulty getting all federal agencies to follow his order to deliver "a new era of open government," according to a study of how they administer the Freedom of Information Act.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_sunshine_obama_foia/feed/ Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100315/ts_nm/us_obama_mexico_murders http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100315/ts_nm/us_obama_mexico_murders#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:34:16 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100315/ts_nm/us_obama_mexico_murders View of the US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico on March 2. Suspected drug cartel Reuters - Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate and President Barack Obama expressed outrage at the attack.


]]> View of the US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico on March 2. Suspected drug cartel Reuters - Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate and President Barack Obama expressed outrage at the attack.


]]> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100315/ts_nm/us_obama_mexico_murders/feed/ Yemen launches airstrike on al-Qaida hideout (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_go_ot/us_yemen_al_qaida http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_go_ot/us_yemen_al_qaida#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:54:20 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_go_ot/us_yemen_al_qaida http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_go_ot/us_yemen_al_qaida/feed/ Dem House vote-counter lacks health care votes now (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:19:59 +0000 Yahoo! News: Elections Uncategorized http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/elections/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul A doctor administers a shot to a patient at a hospital ER unit. The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)AP - The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.


]]> A doctor administers a shot to a patient at a hospital ER unit. The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21.(AFP/File/Martin Bureau)AP - The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.


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