Archive for September 19th, 2009
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Romney defends record as Huckabee wins straw poll
A day after former Baptist minister and likely presidential rival Mike Huckabee offered a withering critique of Mitt Romney’s record, the former Massachusetts governor made his pitch to the same group of religious conservatives.
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Obama to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed negotiations on Mideast peace. -
U.S. conservative Christians target 16 Democrats (Reuters)
Reuters – Conservative Christians, a key base for the Republican Party, said on Saturday they were targeting 16 Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in the 2010 congressional elections. -
GOP lawmaker warns of dangers in health overhaul (AP)
AP – A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment. -
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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Obama adviser blasts big business ads
A top White House adviser said Friday that business opponents of President Obama’s plan to create an agency to protect financial consumers are trying to “scare people.”
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Boehner: Protests result of political rebellion (AP)
AP – House Republican leader John Boehner says nationwide protests known as “tea parties” are the result of pushback against Democrats’ spending.
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Did ACORN get too big for its own good? (AP)
AP – Activist group ACORN started in 1970 to help the poor in Arkansas and quickly went national, growing into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with a mission so far-flung that schools now bear its name, two radio stations are affiliates and a man it backed is the president. Oh yeah, it’s also the unwilling star of a hot Internet video featuring a couple dressed as a hooker and her pimp.
