Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Baucus: Girlfriend merited U.S. attorney nomination (AP)
• Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate (AP)
• At war, honored for peace: Obama's tricky moment (AP)
• Baucus: 'No sense' in ethics inquiry (Politico)
• CAPITAL CULTURE: When folks swarmed People's House (AP)
• FACT CHECK: Unprovable claims stoke health debate (AP)
• Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years (AP)
• Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan (AP)
• New jobs plan may be more of old one (Politico)
• In revitalized Allentown, many still seeking work (AP)
• Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP)
• Dems defeat GOP on restoring $40B in Medicare cuts (AP)
• Obama to rally Democratic troops on health care (AFP)
• Obama administration seeks to kill Gitmo lawsuit (AP)
• 'Not a step is heard ... The President sleeps' (AP)
• Obama plans to talk health care with Dem senators (AP)
• Dems weigh new public option deal (Politico)
• Right-wing talkers go for the gold (Politico)

Baucus: Girlfriend merited U.S. attorney nomination (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.

Medicare cuts focus of Senate health care debate (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 06:17 PM PST AP - Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

At war, honored for peace: Obama's tricky moment (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:28 PM PST AP - He's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He's the laureate who says he doesn't deserve the award. He's not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.

Baucus: 'No sense' in ethics inquiry (Politico) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:41 PM PST Politico - Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Saturday dismissed calls for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate his recommendation that the White House consider his girlfriend for a top federal prosecutor's position in Montana.

CAPITAL CULTURE: When folks swarmed People's House (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:32 PM PST AP - The folks who sneaked into the president's state dinner are part of a long tradition of people showing up as they please at the People's House. It's just that the tradition vanished ages ago.

FACT CHECK: Unprovable claims stoke health debate (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:41 PM PST AP - When Republican Sen. Tom Coburn warned seniors, "you're going to die sooner" if Democrats pass health care legislation, it stood out as an memorable, unprovable moment in an opening-week debate over President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative.

Gates: No good intel on Osama bin Laden in years (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:48 PM PST AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.

Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST AP - The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.

New jobs plan may be more of old one (Politico) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:10 PM PST Politico - To hear the talk at the White House jobs summit, President Barack Obama has dozens of job-creating ideas to pick from when he sketches out his plan in a speech Tuesday.

In revitalized Allentown, many still seeking work (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:34 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama talked about his ideas for job creation in a city whose very name conjures Rust Belt images of shuttered factories, high unemployment and persistent hopelessness.

Election board certifies Atlanta mayor vote (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:18 PM PST AP - A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect.

Dems defeat GOP on restoring $40B in Medicare cuts (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:30 PM PST AP - Senate Democrats have defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill.

Obama to rally Democratic troops on health care (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:09 PM PST AFP - President Barack Obama heads to Congress Sunday to encourage his fellow Democrats to overcome their divisions and pass sweeping health care reform legislation.

Obama administration seeks to kill Gitmo lawsuit (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:52 AM PST AP - A 2008 Supreme Court ruling giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their indefinite detention does not apply in the case of two detainees who committed suicide, the Obama administration says in newly filed court papers.

'Not a step is heard ... The President sleeps' (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:51 AM PST AP - The residence floor of the White House was heavy with sleep and "quiet as death." Through open windows the listener could hear the splash of a fountain, a distant barking dog.

Obama plans to talk health care with Dem senators (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:16 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama plans to go to Capitol Hill on Sunday to rally Democratic senators at a crucial time in the health care debate.

Dems weigh new public option deal (Politico) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:15 AM PST Politico - President Barack Obama will meet Sunday with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill, as a group of moderate and liberal senators weighed a new public option compromise in hopes of striking a deal by early in the week.

Right-wing talkers go for the gold (Politico) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 03:42 AM PST Politico - For years a certain strain of conservative thought has held that there was one sure hedge against economic depression, civil disorder and liberal rule – gold. Now that belief has led to a kind of harmonic convergence between ideology and commerce.

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