Yahoo! News: Elections

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• Pa. suit: 2 fired for sending Obama 'tar' e-mail (AP)
• White House scrambles to regain message on Egypt (AP)
• Clash looms over extending surveillance methods (Reuters)
• In first tea party town hall, Hatch offers support (AP)
• Employers could face higher taxes for jobless aid (AP)
• First lady says obesity campaign is about balance (AP)
• Obama has kicked smoking habit, first lady says (AP)
• Biden unveils 53 billion dollar rail plan (AFP)
• Obama seeks extension of anti-terrorism spy powers (AFP)
• O'Donnell claims she was Obama's top opponent (AP)
• Obama to host House GOP leaders for lunch (AP)
• Obama to call for $53B for high-speed rail (AP)
• GOP leader expects House to block health spending (AP)
• Government: No electronic flaws in Toyotas (AP)
• Bipartisan support for modified line-item veto (AP)
• In NH, tea party mixes a strange political brew (AP)
• Analysis: Politics works against Canadian telecom reforms (Reuters)
• Bipartisan support for weak line-item veto power (AP)
• Keith Olbermann joins ‘recovering politician’ Al Gore’s Current Media (Daily Caller)

Pa. suit: 2 fired for sending Obama 'tar' e-mail (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 05:12 PM PST AP - Two people say a western Pennsylvania company violated their constitutional free speech rights by firing them after they forwarded an e-mail likening President Barack Obama to the "tar balls" washed ashore after the Gulf oil spill.

White House scrambles to regain message on Egypt (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:50 PM PST AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — Struggling to clear up conflicting messages that frustrated even President Barack Obama, the White House worked aggressively on Tuesday to dispel any notion it was easing pressure on President Hosni Mubarak or abandoning those protesting for freedoms.

Clash looms over extending surveillance methods (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:42 PM PST Reuters - The Obama administration on Tuesday urged the Congress to extend for nearly three years key powers to track terrorism suspects, setting up a possible clash with Senate Republicans who have urged making them permanent.

In first tea party town hall, Hatch offers support (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:39 PM PST AP - Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah says he supports the tea party and salutes the energy he says the movement has injected into the political scene.

Employers could face higher taxes for jobless aid (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST AP - Employers could face higher taxes in 2014 under an Obama administration budget proposal designed to help states hard hit by the recession and the weak recovery to refill their unemployment insurance funds and repay money borrowed from the federal government.

First lady says obesity campaign is about balance (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:29 PM PST AP - Michelle Obama says she talks about her love of french fries so people won't get the idea that her anti-obesity and healthier eating campaign is all about "complete, utter deprivation."

Obama has kicked smoking habit, first lady says (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:28 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama has finally done what millions of fellow Americans are still struggling to achieve — he's given up smoking.

Biden unveils 53 billion dollar rail plan (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 04:24 PM PST AFP - The Obama administration on Tuesday called on Congress to back a six-year, 53-billion-dollar investment in high-speed, intercity rail, saying it was "dreaming big" on reinventing US infrastructure.

Obama seeks extension of anti-terrorism spy powers (AFP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:58 PM PST AFP - The White House, wading into a congressional battle, pressed lawmakers on Tuesday to extend through 2013 key provisions of a controversial surveillance law designed to help thwart terrorist plots.

O'Donnell claims she was Obama's top opponent (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:16 PM PST AP - Former Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell of Delaware is claiming in a fundraising letter that she was the White House's top opponent in the 2010 election.

Obama to host House GOP leaders for lunch (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 02:00 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is hosting House Republican leaders for lunch at the White House on Wednesday. It's a step toward better outreach to the GOP, something Obama acknowledged he needed to do after Republican gains in the November midterm elections.

Obama to call for $53B for high-speed rail (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:39 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is calling for a six-year, $53 billion spending plan for high-speed rail, as he seeks to use infrastructure spending to jump-start job creation.

GOP leader expects House to block health spending (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 01:15 PM PST AP - One of the House's top Republicans says he believes the chamber will soon vote to block spending for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.

Government: No electronic flaws in Toyotas (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 03:12 PM PST AP - Electronic flaws weren't to blame for the reports of sudden, unintended acceleration that led to the recall of thousands of Toyota vehicles, the government said Tuesday.

Bipartisan support for modified line-item veto (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 12:53 PM PST AP - A plan to make Congress vote on spending cuts for projects or programs that President Barack Obama says are wasteful is gaining momentum in the Senate.

In NH, tea party mixes a strange political brew (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:39 AM PST AP - The tea party movement is mixing a strange political brew in famously independent New Hampshire, complicating the first-in-the-nation primary strategy for the growing number of potential Republican presidential hopefuls.

Analysis: Politics works against Canadian telecom reforms (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:14 AM PST Reuters - Foreign investors face a long wait before Canada opens up its telecommunications sector as Ottawa eyes a possible election this year and battles the industry's regulator.

Bipartisan support for weak line-item veto power (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:20 AM PST AP - A plan to make Congress vote on spending cuts for projects or programs that President Barack Obama says are wasteful is gaining momentum in the Senate.

Keith Olbermann joins ‘recovering politician’ Al Gore’s Current Media (Daily Caller) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 09:43 AM PST Daily Caller - Former primetime MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Tuesday that he will join former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore’s Current TV network. Olbermann will be the “chief news officer” at Current Media, and will attempt to provide “authentic, thought-provoking” programming. He’ll have his own television show in primetime starting later this spring. No details regarding the timeslot, surrounding lineup, name or format for the program have been released.

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