The latest Crossroads GPS attack on Obama

“Obama started spending like our credit cards have no limit … his health-care law made health insurance even more expensive.”

— Voiceover of new Crossroads GPS television ad

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Secret Service hearing ‘an important day’ for Director Mark Sullivan, lawmaker says

U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan is slated to make his first public appearance Wednesday before lawmakers to discuss his agency’s response to a scandal that earned the storied institution embarrassing headlines around the world.
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Obama takes break from Bain in two new ads

Two new ads from President Obama focus on benefits for veterans and senior citizens, a marked shift from the campaign’s recent ads attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Obama says he is not dropping its campaign against Romney’s private equity experience, a line of attack that has led to blowback from some Democrats. “This is not a distraction,” Obama said Monday afternoon. “This is what this campaign is going to be about.”
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What the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries tell us (and what they don’t)

President Obama lost roughly 40 percent of the vote in Democratic presidential primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas on Tuesday night — results sure to be pored over in the hours and days to come.
Republicans quickly seized on the results to suggest there is significant unhappiness with Obama inside his own party — noting that the incumbent lost four in 10 votes to “uncommitted” in Kentucky and an unknown lawyer (from Tennessee!) in Arkansas.
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Ryan Crocker to leave job as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan

Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said Tuesday that he will leave his job this summer, just one year after President Obama called him out of retirement to manage the crucial embassy in Kabul.
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