Author: BooMan

Trade Agreement Day

The House and Senate are debating and will vote on three free trade agreements today. The three agreements probably should not be treated the same. It might make sense to pass the South Korea agreement. The United Auto Workers,...

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One Reason to Watch GOP Debates

Here is something for Matt Yglesias to think about when he complains about having to sit through “a lot of nonsense from [a] pizza salesmen and Newt Gingrich” to get to the real meat, which is the choice between Rick...

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Wanker of the Day: Dana Milbank

Dana Milbank grew up in Merrick, New York, a Long Island hamlet that is still over 95% white and which has a median household income of $93,000. He went to a magnet high school, and then to Yale University, where he joined the...

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GOP to Unemployed: Drop Dead

Talking to White House aides today, I basically knew that the president was going to announce the following strategy using the following rhetoric. What I didn’t know was whether he’d be able to say a majority of...

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