Author: BooMan

Serious Question

Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that we fulfilled the conservative fantasy of erecting a twenty-foot wall on the entirety of our 2,000 mile border with Mexico. And let’s stipulate that we’d create a...

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Gov. Christie Says ‘No We Can’t’

When it comes to creating alternative and renewable fuels, Governor Chris Christie is part of the Hell No We Can’t contingent. New Jersey trails only California in its leadership on climate change, but a Republican...

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Let Mitt Romney Go Broke

As I have said, and will continue to say, Michigan should be so grateful to the president for saving the automotive industry that they ought to name all their schools after him, name roads for him, and put statues of him up in...

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It’s Just a Stupid, Cynical Game

One way of looking at the cynicism of the Republican Party is to think about what would happen to them if they got what they say they want. They want a balanced budget amendment; they want to cut the budget by at least as much...

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Unhappy Thoughts on Evan Bayh

The least hard thing to predict in politics over the last year has been that Evan Bayh would move from the Senate to corporate America’s lobbyist brothel. Let’s see, after telling Ezra Klein that he was quitting the...

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