Author: BooMan

Some Context for Zimmerman

Reuters did their research on George Zimmerman and they paint a highly sympathetic portrait of his life and motivations for confronting Trayvon Martin. In seeking out people who have known him over the years, they get a lot of...

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No One Will Miss the Blue Dogs

Don’t cry for the Blue Dogs: Compared to the 2006 and 2008 cycles, when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sought a cadre of Blue Dog Democrats to re-take the House, there aren’t nearly as many self-identified...

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What Happened to Campaign Finance Reform?

Do a Google News search for “John McCain” and “campaign finance reform” and you won’t find much. John McCain doesn’t talk about campaign finance reform anymore. After the Supreme Court issued...

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Wanker of the Day: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter isn’t helping: “I’d rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable — I think Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive… that he was fairly...

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But How Would He Transform Us?

When I saw that Ezra Klein had written a piece about how Mitt Romney would be a transformational president, I got kind of excited. I was thinking that Ezra had gamed out the likely avenue of New Deal destruction that would...

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