Author: BooMan

Evil Bastard of the Day: James Baker

Here’s a galling quote from a New York Times article on the Republicans’ plans to hold the government hostage again in May over the federal borrowing limit. “If I were still Treasury secretary, it would worry the...

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For GOP, Deficits Still Don’t Matter

If you know any wingnuts in your personal life, please tell them that all John Boehner’s threats and posturing only resulted in saving less than a third of the money it cost to extend the Bush tax cuts. In both cases,...

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All Spending is Not Good Spending

It’s funny. I guess Duncan wasn’t in the mood to listen to my request that progressives engage in less all spending is good spending analysis, since he retorted with exactly that rhetoric. I understand his point and...

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The Aftermath

I have to rescind my assessment last night that John Boehner got nothing out of the late negotiations on the 2011 budget. Apparently, he won the restoration of a ban on the District of Columbia spending its own money to help...

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Now They Try to Soften Boehner’s Landing

It looks like the far right of the Republican Party (as represented by Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee) is creating some room for John Boehner to cave and make a deal with the president. Their rationale is identical to the...

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