Author: BooMan

State of the Union Thread

What do you want to hear about tonight? It’s a weird situation with the administration resigned to the fact that they won’t achieve anything legislatively this year. Here are some excerpts from the speech: “Think...

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Good For Benen

No one in the blogosphere deserves a higher profile, more money, and something more interesting to do than Steve Benen. I like his (soon to be former) boss, too. Paul Glastris gave me a guided tour of the West Wing of the White...

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I Got Your Panic, Right Here

This is choice: “The only spectacle in American politics more off-putting than Newt Gingrich in self-righteous defense mode is Mitt Romney in self-righteous attack mode.” – William Kristol, January 23rd, 2012...

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Romney’s Layabout America

The Christian Science Monitor reports on Mitt Romney’s tax returns and it paints an interesting picture of what it’s like to be unemployed in contemporary America: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid...

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Limbaugh’s Half-Right

All of the GOP bigwigs who took a pass on challenging the president had reasonable reasons. Jeb Bush probably concluded that not enough time had elapsed since his brother’s disastrous terms in office. Mitch Daniels...

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