en-us http://www.newsique.com/politics/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/politics/conviction_thrown_out_in_abramof/ The Justice Department overreached in prosecuting a former Bush administration official in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it dismissed some charges and ordered a new trial on others. The decision overturns t news politics 2008-06-18 08:13:51 http://www.newsique.com/politics/conviction_thrown_out_in_abramof/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/313896294/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [13] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/conviction_thrown_out_in_abramof/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/dems_to_try_again_to_extend_unem/ House Democrats came so close to a veto-proof margin for their proposal to give the unemployed an extra three months of benefits. Taking another shot on the same measure, the goal for Thursday was to pass it by just a majority, not the two-thirds it wo news politics 2008-06-12 08:12:04 http://www.newsique.com/politics/dems_to_try_again_to_extend_unem/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/309914020/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/dems_to_try_again_to_extend_unem/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/senate_republicans_block_windfal/ Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming. GOP senators shoved news politics 2008-06-11 08:19:43 http://www.newsique.com/politics/senate_republicans_block_windfal/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/309099966/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Shocking [19] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/senate_republicans_block_windfal/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_will_quit_and_back_obama/ Hillary Clinton will withdraw from the race to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, and back her rival Barack Obama, her campaign says. On Tuesday, Mr Obama gained enough delegates to win the nomination, after the final votes of the p news politics 2008-06-05 08:13:48 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_will_quit_and_back_obama/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7436989.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_will_quit_and_back_obama/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_as_a_running_mate_pros_a/ Pro: She has enough experience and political heft to convince voters she could be president at a moment's notice, the "threshold question" for a vice president. Con: You two don't seem to like each other very much. When you were closing in on the nomin news politics 2008-06-05 08:13:46 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_as_a_running_mate_pros_a/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24980375/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Insightful [11] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_as_a_running_mate_pros_a/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_expects_gop_to_attack_his_/ A day after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that he expected an organized Republican attack on his integrity and patriotism because “it’s very hard for them to talk about where they want to take the news politics 2008-06-05 08:13:45 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_expects_gop_to_attack_his_/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24973823/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_expects_gop_to_attack_his_/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_breaks_from_bush_takes_on/ McCain sought to distance himself from Bush by delivering the speech in New Orleans, a city whose ravages from Hurricane Katrina became a glaring symbol of Bush administration incompetence. The Arizona senator campaigned here six weeks ago, vowing that su news politics 2008-06-04 08:14:12 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_breaks_from_bush_takes_on/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24955630/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [13] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_breaks_from_bush_takes_on/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_triumphant_end_to_long_pri/ Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the 46-year-old freshman senator from Illinois, ended a 16-month political marathon Tuesday, clinching enough delegates to become the first African American presidential nominee of a major political party. It was a momento news politics 2008-06-04 08:12:13 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_triumphant_end_to_long_pri/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/304259541/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_triumphant_end_to_long_pri/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_plays_rocky_balboa_to_th/ Somewhere between Iowa and Ohio, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York mutated from regal president-in-waiting to Rocky Balboa, heroine of the working class. "Let me tell you something," she told union workers in Pennsylvania in April. "When it comes news politics 2008-06-04 08:12:11 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_plays_rocky_balboa_to_th/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/304259542/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_plays_rocky_balboa_to_th/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_pushes_to_claim_victory_tu/ Mrs. Clinton’s decision to return to her home state to deliver her speech was made at the last minute, and thus she picked an unusual site for a major political event: the Baruch College athletics and recreation center on the East Side of Manhattan. news politics 2008-06-03 08:14:52 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_pushes_to_claim_victory_tu/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24940808/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [12] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/obama_pushes_to_claim_victory_tu/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/huge_relief_nears_for_superdeleg/ Buffeted from all sides Many of the superdelegates agreed that waiting, not deciding, has proved their greatest challenge. As the primary season extended through the spring, they found themselves at the center of the whirlwind, with their neutrality co news politics 2008-06-03 08:14:50 http://www.newsique.com/politics/huge_relief_nears_for_superdeleg/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24940061/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [11] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/huge_relief_nears_for_superdeleg/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_easily_wins_puerto_rico/ Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary by a substantial margin Sunday, NBC News projected. But Clinton’s newly defiant campaign against her own party leaders may have been blunted by low turnout in the island ter news politics 2008-06-02 08:16:29 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_easily_wins_puerto_rico/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24915524/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_easily_wins_puerto_rico/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/mcclellan_bush_should_have_fired/ President Bush broke his promise to the country by refusing to fire aide Karl Rove for leaking a CIA agent's identity, said Scott McClellan, the president's chief spokesman for almost three years. "I think the president should have stood by his word an news politics 2008-06-02 08:13:24 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mcclellan_bush_should_have_fired/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/302444238/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mcclellan_bush_should_have_fired/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccains_path_from_navy_to_dc/ Smitten with the celebrity of power’ Mr. McCain has often said he decided to run for office because he felt his war injuries would make attaining the same rank as his father and grandfather “impossible.” But Mr. Lehman, now an adviser to the McCa news politics 2008-05-30 08:10:07 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccains_path_from_navy_to_dc/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24883802/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccains_path_from_navy_to_dc/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/ex-aide_criticises_bush_over_ira/ Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan has said US President George W Bush was not "open and forthright" on Iraq and rushed to an unnecessary war. In a book to be published on Monday, Mr McClellan says Mr Bush "veered terribly off course". He als news politics 2008-05-28 08:17:32 http://www.newsique.com/politics/ex-aide_criticises_bush_over_ira/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/7423099.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [15] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/ex-aide_criticises_bush_over_ira/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_could_face_uneasy_senate/ When Hillary Rodham Clinton made a rare stop in the Senate last week, she spoke from a lonely outpost at the end of the Armed Services Committee dais, eight empty chairs emphasizing the gulf between her and real Senate power at the chairman’s spot. I news politics 2008-05-26 08:16:38 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_could_face_uneasy_senate/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24823868/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/clinton_could_face_uneasy_senate/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/nyt_talk_of_clinton_as_vp_grows/ While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers insist that she is determined to win the Democratic nomination, friends of the couple say that former President Bill Clinton , for one, has begun privately contemplating a different outcome for her: As news politics 2008-05-23 08:18:23 http://www.newsique.com/politics/nyt_talk_of_clinton_as_vp_grows/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24785209/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/nyt_talk_of_clinton_as_vp_grows/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/republicans_shift_a_little_on_su/ A months-long logjam over a new government surveillance bill may be coming to an end, with Republicans offering a compromise that would let people who think they were illegally spied on by the government have their day in court — albeit a secret one. news politics 2008-05-23 08:14:24 http://www.newsique.com/politics/republicans_shift_a_little_on_su/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/296288904/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [8] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/republicans_shift_a_little_on_su/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/gay_marriage_opponents_file_lega/ Groups that fought San Francisco's lawsuit seeking marriage for same-sex couples have asked the California Supreme Court to delay its decision to allow the marriages. The organizations, including the Proposition 22 Legal Defense Fund and the Alliance D news politics 2008-05-23 08:14:09 http://www.newsique.com/politics/gay_marriage_opponents_file_lega/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/296189223/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/gay_marriage_opponents_file_lega/#comments http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_adviser_rebuked_for_work_/ Client list under fierce attack from Dems That client list is now the subject of a fierce attack from Democrats who are clamoring for Black, 60, to be fired as McCain's top political strategist. And the candidate's decision this month to impose a stric news politics 2008-05-22 08:19:28 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_adviser_rebuked_for_work_/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24769387/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [9] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/politics/mccain_adviser_rebuked_for_work_/#comments