Author: BooMan

Wanker of the Day: Dorothy Rabinowitz

Add the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz to the growing list of conservatives obsessed with having stuff jammed down their throat. Why must everything that happens that you don’t like be equated with forcible...

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Quotes of the Day

Someone asked Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) if he planned on switching parties or becoming an independent like Joe Lieberman. Nelson rejected such a move, saying he still feels very comfortable within the Senate Democratic Caucus....

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The Perils of Confrontation For Its Own Sake

I almost never have anything nice to say about Republicans or conservatives, and I don’t sugarcoat my distaste and fear of them. I don’t shy away from confrontation with the opposite side. But I don’t expect my...

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Remember ‘Deficits Don’t Matter’?

Dick Cheney famously told Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that Ronald Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter, which helps explain why the Bush administration cut taxes on the rich even more than the president...

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The Senate Shouldn’t Recess

What’s the opposite of a government shutdown? I guess it is a government that never recesses (i.e., takes a vacation). Now, of course, like anyone else, congressmembers have to take some time off. If nothing else, they...

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