Author: BooMan

Paying the Piper

Beyond all the sturm und drang, the basic reality is that pretty much everything the Republicans have been doing all year has been bullshit. They don’t know how to get their party unified enough to make a deal with the...

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The Anatomy of a Capitulation

Robert Costa has his fingers on the pulse of the House Republicans. His twitter feed is a good place to look for the latest thinking on the Republican side of the aisle. What we can see is that the leadership is now exercising...

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A Big Tall Glass of Schadenfreude

Oh boy: Key GOP figures on Wednesday sent their clearest signals that they are abandoning their bid to immediately stop the federal health-care law — the issue that forced the government to shut down — and are scrambling for a...

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The Final Act

We’ve reached the stage of the game where senior House Republican sources will admit that they are terrified of breaching the debt ceiling and that they need Democratic votes to avoid it. They are still badly in denial...

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Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

When Erick Erickson wrote two days ago that the Republicans were winning the fight over ObamaCare, I chalked it up to him reading little more than The Drudge Report and some Breitbart rags. Likewise, his selective reading of...

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