Senate Republicans Divided.. Immigration Debate Begins.. Obama Resembles Bush

June 7, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Senate Republicans Divided On Moving Obama's Judicial Nominees WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been signaling he may pick a fight on filibuster reform this summer, and a major litmus test will be whether Republicans block a handful of President Barack Obama's key nominees in the coming weeks. But for now, Republicans can't even agree on how to proceed.  Continue reading... Senate Immigration Bill Debate Begins Obama National Security Policies Resemble Bush's Presented by HuffPost Politics Poll Shows What Some Think Obama Knew About Tea Party Targeting WATCH: First Lady Confronts Heckler White House Defends Collection Of Phone Records NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Stunning Extent Of Spying Operation NSA Is All Up In Ur Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple WATCH: Romney Admits Regrets Over Infamous '47 Percent' Remarks NSA Is All Up In Ur Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple GOP Politician: Yoga May Leave You Vulnerable To Satanic Possession Monsanto Protection Act May Be In Trouble MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN The Policy Absurdity of the Monthly Jobs Report There is one thing worse than addressing a problem with imperfect solutions. It is not addressing the problem when better solutions are available. Yet this is what seems to happen every month in reaction to the highly-watched employment report. Continue reading... JENNIFER HOELZER What You Should Know About the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Seriously, do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have your boss ask you to get reporters to write about something he can't tell you about? I did it for years and let's just say, it stretches you as a communicator. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN Jobs Day: First Impressions -- High Stakes Musical Chairs What we have here is a high stakes game of musical chairs, as payrolls grow at a steady, if not-that-impressive, clip, essentially adding chairs to the game. Meanwhile, more players are coming off the sidelines, looking for places to sit. Continue reading... DAVID BROMWICH Total Protection Government The security policy of the U.S. government from Cheney to Obama has passed from secret surveillance of communications abroad to secret surveillance of all communications at home. In what stages did it happen? Some day the history will be written; for now, it is instructive to rehearse the facts. Five years ago, Barack Obama was a candidate for president who pledged to filibuster a congressional bill that offered amnesty to telecoms that illegally gave information on American customers to the government. When Obama backed down from that promise, he pledged, if elected, to have his attorney general investigate the surveillance of Americans and bring the laws of the land back within the limits of the fourth amendment. As it turned out, he made Eric Holder his attorney general, and the security policy of the Obama administration came to be defined by harsh prosecution of whistleblowers who revealed the facts of illegal searches and seizures. Continue reading... RICHARD (RJ) ESKOW Trash Talking Economists The economics profession has been injected with enormous sums of money -- in the form of chairs, endowments, think tanks, advisory roles, consulting gigs, and God knows what else -- to push it further to the right. 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