Author: BooMan

We Won’t Have Ensign to Kick Around

Sen. John Ensign has finally, finally, finally decided to resign in disgrace. It took him so long that Eliot Spitzer practically rehabilitated his career in the interim. Ensign strikes me as a near-perfect politician. He looks...

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A Small Measure of Hope

The fact that the Republican Party was basically evil dawned on me very slowly. I mean, I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life. Wait. No, that’s not true. The first time I voted, I cast a ballot for a friend of...

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A Sickening Class War Assault

You know? I’m basically ready for a sickening class war assault against Republicans. Where can I sign up for that? I wonder if the Republicans really understand what a class war would look like. Maybe we could have them...

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It’s Not a Bug…

David Frum tries to pass for reasonable, but he’s got no solutions either. The question he should be trying to answer is not how to defeat Donald Trump, but why any of the other candidates are less crazy, or why their...

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Negotiation Strategies

Maybe someone can translate these two negotiating positions into NFL terms. Republicans are floating a wide range of major structural reforms that could be attached to the debt limit vote, including statutory spending caps, a...

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