2009年5月24日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


GOP senator threatens filibuster over court pick (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 03:57 PM PDT

A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama said Saturday he feels no pressure to select a woman as his first Supreme Court nominee but that over time, his high court picks would reflect the diversity of the United States.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - The Senate's No. 2 Republican on Sunday refused to rule out a filibuster if President Barack Obama seeks a Supreme Court justice who decides cases based on "emotions or feelings or preconceived ideas."


Congress to Obama: Gitmo plan before Gitmo money (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:28 PM PDT

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 21, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Pakistan and Afganistan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Members of Congress from both parties clamored Sunday for President Barack Obama to develop a plan for dealing with the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay if he intends to fulfill his promise to close its prison by early 2010. The top U.S. military officer also awaited a decision from the commander in chief.


Powell to Republicans: Listen to moderates, too (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:57 AM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS News, former Secretary of State General Colin Powell appears on the CBS talk show 'Face the Nation,' Sunday, May 24, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/CBS News, Karin Cooper)AP - The conservative vs. moderate split threatening to rupture the Republican Party played out across the airwaves Sunday, with Colin Powell and Tom Ridge denouncing shrill and judgmental voices they say are steering the GOP too far right. Karl Rove challenged Powell to lay out his vision and "back it up" by helping elect Republicans.


Mullen: Military to comply if gay ban law changes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:21 PM PDT

This photo provided by ABC News shows Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen during his appearance on the ABC Television show 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos', Sunday, May 24, 2009, at the Newseum in Washington. (AP Photo/ABC News, Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - President Barack Obama's top military adviser said Sunday the Pentagon has enough challenges — including two wars — without rushing to overturn a decade-old policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military and incites political and social factions on both sides.


Powell fires back (Politico)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:56 AM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS News, former Secretary of State General Colin Powell appears on the CBS talk show 'Face the Nation,' Sunday, May 24, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/CBS News, Karin Cooper)Politico - In the latest round of the increasingly heated intra-GOP feud, former Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday defended his Republican credentials and fired back at radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney, saying the party had to expand beyond its conservative base.


Military chief: Iran wants nuclear weapons (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:54 AM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's top military adviser says Iran's objective is to obtain nuclear weapons — and that threatens the region.

Don't call ex-Vice President Cheney a has-been (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:22 PM PDT

FILE -- In this May 21, 2009 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)AP - Dick Cheney refuses to be a has-been.


Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 07:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. There is no easy fix. Medicare and Social Security will go broke sooner rather than later because of the recession. With millions of baby boomers beginning to leave the work force, the cost of these popular benefit programs threatens to swamp the government in debt in the coming years if nothing is done.  (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, FILE)AP - There is no easy fix.


Afghanistan's rebuilding looms as sequel to Iraq's (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:09 PM PDT

Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, speaks with The Associated Press during an interview at the Pentagon, in this photo taken Thursday, March 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The job of rebuilding Afghanistan is shaping up as an ominous sequel to the massive, mistake-riddled U.S. effort to get Iraq back on its feet.


Liberals ask how they lost gun, Guantanamo votes (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 02:45 PM PDT

FILE -- In this March 17, 2009 file photo, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., talks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y. is in the background at right.  Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, FILE)AP - Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing.


A-list: The best email lists in politics (Politico)

Posted: 24 May 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Politico - Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign ended roughly a year ago but it lives on in spirit on the Internet, where the list of email addresses she assembled continues to be one of the most envied instruments in American politics.

Former, current military chiefs back Obama on Guantanamo (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 01:39 PM PDT

The sun sets over Camp Justice and its adjacent tent city, the legal complex of the US Military Commissions, at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, in 2008. President Barack Obama gained support for closing Guantanamo from a current and a former military leader Sunday despite opposition in Congress to moving AFP - President Barack Obama gained support for closing Guantanamo from a current and a former military leader Sunday despite opposition in Congress to moving "war on terror" suspects to the United States.


THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health lobbyist has great sway (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:47 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, America's Health Insurance Plans President and Chief Executive Officer Karen Ignagni, speaks to reporters at the National Press Club in Washington.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - If anyone could make or break President Barack Obama's health care agenda, it might be Karen Ignagni.


Durbin: 'supermax' Gitmo inmates (Politico)

Posted: 24 May 2009 08:06 AM PDT

Politico - Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant majority leader, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he would accept Guantanamo detainees in his home state as long as they were held in super-maximum prisons, where inmates are held 23 hours a day in small cells with slits for windows.

Military chief: Guantanamo closing still goal (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 07:49 AM PDT

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 21, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Pakistan and Afganistan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The top U.S. military official says the Pentagon is working to meet President Barack Obama's one-year deadline to close the Guantanamo prison for suspected terrorists.


Powell: In GOP, says party must be more inclusive (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT

AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's still a Republican, but the party needs to change and be more inclusive.

GOP Recruits Challenger as DeFazio Eyes Governor's Race (CQPolitics.com)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:32 AM PDT

CQPolitics.com - The possibility of a Republican takeover in Oregon's 4th District next year depends on whether Democratic Rep. Peter A. DeFazio runs for re-election, but the GOP isn't waiting for the 12-term lawmaker to declare his intentions.

Ridge noncommittal on White House run in 2012 (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:24 AM PDT

AP - Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge has ruled out running against Republican-turned Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter next year.

Ridge offers advice for GOP to rebound nationally (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:08 AM PDT

AP - A prominent Republican has some sobering advice about how the GOP can restore itself as a national party, rather than a regional one.

Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 05:22 AM PDT

Mike Belmessieri, of South San Francisco, salutes in front of the grave of U.S. Marine Michael Bianchini at the Golden Gate National Cemetery, where over 100,000 U.S. war veterans are buried, in San Bruno, Calif., Friday, May 22, 2009. Binachini died serving in Vietnam. Belmessieri, himself a former Marine, is active in promoting causes for veterans. His son Dominic Belmessieri is a U.S. Marine about to be deployed to Afghanistan after two tours in Iraq.  (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.


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