Author: BooMan

Maybe Some Lemonade?

In the making-lemonade-out-of-lemons category, the S&P downgrade of our credit rating and the subsequent massive sell-off of stocks might actually weaken the Republicans’ resolve to make no revenue concessions on the...

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The Administration Should Copy the CBC

The president, and probably the vice-president, too, need to take a page from the Congressional Black Caucus’s playbook and start doing combination townhall meetings/job fairs in some of the most economically distressed...

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Misunderstanding Cokie

If you think that Cokie Roberts is a liberal, you might be a moron. The first clue is that her daddy was Hale Boggs. Hale Boggs got his start in politics fighting against Huey Long’s Louisiana machine. Huey Long was a...

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Voting for a Mormon

It occurs to me that a matchup between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would mean that quite a few wingnuts would be convinced that there was no Christian candidate in the race. Obama’s father was an atheist, but he was born...

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