Author: BooMan

Inherent Contempt or Bust

Pelosi? Conyers? You listening? “In circumstances like this, the constitutional prerogatives of the president make it futile and purely political for Congress to refer to a U.S. attorney a contempt citation,” White...

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The Politics of Withdrawal

Even though I disagree with a good deal of his analysis I am grateful to Michael Duffy for examining what a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would look like and some of the risks. Reading his lengthy piece in Time I am reminded of the...

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A Dunce Cap for Hiatt

Fred Hiatt should be chained to a pole in Lafayette Park and a dunce cap should be placed on his head. Hiatt thinks that there is a consensus in Congress about what to do in Iraq, and that they Bush administration agrees with...

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Cheney Will Be Prez Tomorrow

Scary: President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday, and will transfer power to Vice President Dick Cheney during the procedure, expected to take about two and a half hours, the chief White House spokesman said....

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Open Thread

I kind of would like to see someone discussing a withdrawal plan from Iraq but someone on my teevee tells me that that makes me a traitor…just like Hillary Clinton. No word on what someone is who refuses to comply with...

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