Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha dead at 77
Rep. John Murtha, the 77-year-old Pennsylvania Congressman who spoke out for veterans but opposed the Iraq war, died Monday of complications from gall bladder surgery.
Elected to Congress in 1974, Murtha was the first Vietnam war veteran elected to Congress and was known as a rare Democratic hawk when it came to military issues.
He also skated around ethical issues through much of his Congressional career, escaping indictment in the Abscam scandal and was recently under srutiny for intervening in the defense department contract process on behalf of campaign contributors, a role he could play as the ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that overseas Pentagon spending.
Obama to Republicans: 'Can we talk?'
President Barack Obama wants to sit down and talk to Republicans and Democrats about health care.
And he wants to do it publicly.
Obama said Sunday he will meet with Democratic and Republican members of Congress to try and find a bipartisan solution to health care reform.
Obama adviser: GOP playing politics with terrorism
The top counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama struck back at Republican members of Congress Sunday, saying they use national security issues as a "political football" for their own agenda.
Republicans have pounded the White House for mistakes in the arrest of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, accused of the failed Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.
"Quite frankly I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as political football. They're going out there, they're unknowing of the facts, and they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality," White House counterrorism adviser John Brennan told David Gregory on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Palin admits considering a Presidential run
Yes, Sarah Palin is considering a Presidential run.
Yes, she would do it is she thought the country needed her and if she thought it was "right" for America and her family.
No, we're not making this up.