Author: BooMan

The AUMF-Iraq Vote Never Gets Dated

If former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is going to challenge Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, he is going to have to attack her record. Now, there are a lot of areas to attack because...

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A Brilliant Move

Nominating Max Baucus to be the next Ambassador to China is a brilliant move on several levels, although not all of them will he happy for progressives. Baucus has already announced that he will not seek reelection, so taking...

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Playing By Their Rules

I was in meetings and then my car all day as I drove home from Pittsburgh, so I don’t know what the hell happened today. The first thing I did after getting home and reading my email was to look to see what the Senate did...

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Secrets of Success

David Brooks explains how to make it in journalism: Well, you start out being a coddled little genius nurtured by the think tanks and vanity publications and fanzines of the American right. Then you make a career out of whatever...

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Casualties of the Conservative Movement

Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Tom Latham (R-IA) both serve on the House Appropriations Committee, and both of them announced their retirement today. Maybe this shouldn’t be surprising, but the deal that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)...

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