Author: BooMan

Speaker Boehner and the Sequester

If you’ve been following the debate over the impending “sequester,” you have probably seen liberals quoting Speaker Boehner saying that he got 98 percent of what he wanted in the deal that created it. What you...

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No Lasting Power for Senate Conservatives

National Journal has ranked all the members of Congress on a conservative-to-liberal scale. They aren’t releasing their full results until tomorrow, but they have presented, as a teaser, a list of the 15 most conservative...

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Still More Popular Than Gonorrhea

Congress continues to poll only slightly ahead of gonorrhea, just a tad above its historic low. On the up side, self-identified Republicans doubled their approval of Congress from 6% in January to 12% this month. Amazingly,...

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Crazier With Every Year

John McCain held a townhall meeting near Phoenix today and was berated by his own constituents, many of whom completely disagree with ever letting undocumented workers become citizens, and some of whom would prefer to shoot...

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Serious Question

I wonder who is more exasperated, Paul Krugman, who has to read David Brooks, or David Brooks who has to put up with Krugman constantly humiliating him? Whatever the answer, at some point the editors should put Brooks and their...

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