Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/politics/politico politics Politics - Politico en-us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/politics/politico http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100208/pl_politico/32691 politico/20100208/32691 Politico politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:00 GMT Politico - Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania powerhouse in Congress for 36 years and an early ally for Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her rise to the top of the House, died Monday afternoon as a result of complications from recent surgery. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100208/pl_politico/32661 politico/20100208/32661 Politico politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:46:00 GMT Politico - For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100207/pl_politico/32651 politico/20100207/32651 Politico politics Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:41:00 GMT Politico - NASHVILLE – This weekend’s Tea Party convention did little to unite or advance the fractious populist movement, but it did mark the debut of Sarah Palin as the movement’s spokeswoman, if not leader, and perhaps the beginning of a new phase in her political career. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100207/pl_politico/32629 politico/20100207/32629 Politico politics Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:01:00 GMT Politico - LANCASTER, Pa. — Even as he accepted the resounding backing of the Pennsylvania Democratic state committee here Saturday, party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter’s vulnerability was on vivid display as he botched the name of a key Democratic officeholder in his acceptance speech. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100206/pl_politico/32613 politico/20100206/32613 Politico politics Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:41:00 GMT Politico - As the Democratic National Committee convened in Washington on Friday for its winter meeting, the chill in the air was due to more than the snowstorm howling through the D.C. streets. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100206/pl_politico/32619 politico/20100206/32619 Politico politics Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:40:00 GMT Politico - President Barack Obama has left Democrats as confused as ever about how the White House plans to deliver a health care reform bill this year, after two weeks of inconsistent statements, negligible hands-on involvement and a sudden shift to a jobs-first message. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100206/pl_politico/32610 politico/20100206/32610 Politico politics Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:12:00 GMT Politico - NASHVILLE — After flirting coyly for months, Sarah Palin this weekend launches an aggressive play to become the leader of the tea party movement, a move with major political upside for the former Alaska governor but also one rife with risk. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100205/pl_politico/32607 politico/20100205/32607 Politico politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:40:00 GMT Politico - NASHVILLE — The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention on Friday unveiled plans for a July conference and a political group that they ambitiously predict will raise $10 million to help conservative candidates around the country dedicated to the small-government ideals of the tea party movement. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100205/pl_politico/32567 politico/20100205/32567 Politico politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:47:00 GMT Politico - Moderate Democrats, coping with the electoral fallout of President Barack Obama’s grand and ground-down legislative ambitions, have a message for their leaders: Stop supersizing us. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100205/pl_politico/32569 politico/20100205/32569 Politico politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:47:00 GMT Politico - President Barack Obama is running into resistance from congressional Democrats over several key economic proposals — blunting the party’s ability to send a clear message to middle-class voters that Democrats feel their pain. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100205/pl_politico/32561 politico/20100205/32561 Politico politics Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:47:00 GMT Politico - Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100204/pl_politico/32495 politico/20100204/32495 Politico politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:38:00 GMT Politico - The battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination quietly began last year — maybe not for the candidates, but for their political groups. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100204/pl_politico/32499 politico/20100204/32499 Politico politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:38:00 GMT Politico - The health care bill is in trouble, but a series of narrow deals — each designed to win over a wavering senator or key interest group — is alive and well, despite voter anger over the parochial horse-trading that marked the rush toward passage before Christmas. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100204/pl_politico/32502 politico/20100204/32502 Politico politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:38:00 GMT Politico - The widely anticipated civil war within the Republican Party is off to a decidedly dull start. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100204/pl_politico/32503 politico/20100204/32503 Politico politics Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:00 GMT Politico - Even if House Republicans regain the majority this year, they’ll have to live with an old rule from their 1994 revolution: term limits atop key committees. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100203/pl_politico/32454 politico/20100203/32454 Politico politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:38:00 GMT Politico - Republicans suddenly have a conceivable path to winning back the Senate in November, after locking in top-flight candidates overnight in Illinois and Indiana. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100203/pl_politico/32428 politico/20100203/32428 Politico politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:47:00 GMT Politico - Sarah Palin’s political action committee has been selective and strategic in its donations to candidates over the past six months, but if money is any indication of where her heart lies, her political loyalties can be traced to Ohio. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100203/pl_politico/32427 politico/20100203/32427 Politico politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:04:00 GMT Politico - With the broader health care bill still perilously close to collapse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to take a shot at the health insurance industry next week by scheduling a vote on a smaller bill to revoke its half-century-old exemption from antitrust laws. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100203/pl_politico/32429 politico/20100203/32429 Politico politics Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:04:00 GMT Politico - When President Barack Obama last week proposed a freeze on some federal spending, Sen. George LeMieux dismissed it as too little, too late. “Our nation is more than $12 trillion in debt,” he said. “Shame on us if we don’t address the problem head on.” http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politico/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100202/pl_politico/32412 politico/20100202/32412 Politico politics Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:42:00 GMT Politico - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chided President Barack Obama Tuesday for making Las Vegas a “poster child” for excessive spending.