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May 21, 2013 Subscribe · Forward White House Stumbles Making This Scandal Worse WASHINGTON -- So far, voters don't seem to be abandoning President Barack Obama over controversies gripping the Beltway world. But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny. Continue reading... Obama Weighs In On Devastating Tornado Damage Tea Partiers Protest IRS In Scandal's Wake Presented by HuffPost Politics GOP Rep Doubles Down On Obama Impeachment Top White House Staffers Were Briefed On IRS Investigation's Conclusions, Didn't Tell Obama Mark Penn Unlikely To Rejoin Hillary Clinton 2016 FBI Now Involved In Michele Bachmann Investigation Sarah Palin: 'Global Warming My Gluteus Maximus' FBI Now Involved In Michele Bachmann Investigation Sarah Palin: 'Global Warming My Gluteus Maximus' FBI Now Involved In Michele Bachmann Investigation Va. GOP Attorney General Candidate On Controversial Miscarriage Bill BILL MOYERS Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick All too often, instead of acting as a brake on runaway corporate power and greed, government becomes their enabler, undermining the very rules and regulations intended to keep us safe. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN Immigration Reform: Stand Down IT, Lobbyists! For all the numbers bouncing around the immigration reform debate, the most relevant number is 27 percent. That's the share of Gov Romney's Latino vote and that's the reason this much needed advance in public policy might just make it over the legislative goal line. Continue reading... CHARLES MOORE Margaret Thatcher's First Visit to Washington of the Reagan Presidency Mrs Thatcher came to realize that Reagan's strengths and mental abilities were very different from her own, but she never lost her underlying admiration for him. Continue reading... ETHAN CHORIN 8 Things the US Should Be Doing in Libya: Effective Immediately Many in Washington now dismiss further assistance to Libya as useless: the Libyans themselves are fractious and have limited 'absorbtive capacity.' At the same time, it is wrong to say we have no influence in Libya, or that we have no means of increasing that capacity. Continue reading... LORI WALLACH One More Scandal? What do a zombie, handcuffs, a steamroller and a legislative luge run for job-killing trade agreements all have in common? They're all apt metaphors of an expired, scandalously anti-democratic procedure called Fast Track. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003