Author: BooMan

Why Elect a Do-Nothing President?

I really don’t pay much attention to polls about issues. I only trust polls where there is some accountability moment, like actual election numbers. And I only trust pollsters who have a good track record and don’t...

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Individual Mandate and ACA in Trouble

I don’t know if I am more surprised to learn that there is a woman named Frank or that a Clinton-nominated judge just ruled the individual mandate to be unconstitutional. The ruling is here (go to page 205 for summary). It...

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So Radical

This is why Standard & Poor downgraded our nation’s credit rating. In last night’s debate, each of the eight GOP presidential candidates on stage broke a land-speed record for rejecting a hypothetical, massive,...

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Reminder for the President

A lot of people in the progressive blogosphere are frustrated that the president seems perfectly willing to castigate Congress but totally unwilling to specify that it is the Republicans and not the Democrats who are the...

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Frustration

I feel like the Google is broken. I spent 45 minutes this morning searching for a transcript of last night’s GOP debate and I didn’t find a link. Fox News hosted the debate and, yet, they don’t appear to have a...

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