Author: BooMan

Kagan: Getting Ready to Rumble

So, the Kagan confirmation hearings won’t really be about Elena Kagan. According to Sheryl Gal Stolberg of the New York Times, the hearings will be the launch of the midterm elections. With an eye on the midterm elections,...

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What If There Were No Senate?

It’s true that Gail Collins laid a very sloppy kiss on Nancy Pelosi, but I can’t say it wasn’t well deserved. Pelosi seems to be able to work her will on the House of Representatives and get her priorities...

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Travel Day

I’m headed for NYC today to meet up with friends and eat cupcakes and pastrami and poached eggs and whatever else crosses my path. So, it will be a light posting day for me. Maybe we can have some fun by telling our...

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Stupid Republicans

Lindsey Graham is such a dick: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he won’t negotiate an energy bill between now and November because the politics of the oil spill does not “favor what [he] wants.”...

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Open Thread

Still no power. I guess it wasn’t a tornado. Just hurricane force winds. What are you doing this weekend?

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