Author: BooMan

Administration Over a Barrel

I’m sure that Labor knows it, but they’re now in a position of maximum leverage, with the White House desperate to take another pound of flesh out of the the so-called Cadlillac health care plans in order to pay for...

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Drones

They really are drones. There are dozens of articles available from various right-wing media outlets (yes, that now applies to the Washington Post) that all make the same basic argument that the House procedural move (deem and...

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Cyclical Craziness

I thought there was something about the Clintons that made people on the right crazy. At the time, the press reported this as some kind of generational thing. Clinton was the first president too young to have served during World...

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Kucinich Reluctantly Endorses Health Bill

Dennis Kucinich called a press conference this morning and announced that despite really pretty much hating the health care bill that he will vote for it both because it moves the ball forward and because the president needs...

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Casual Observation

I’m very pleased that there are Democratic senators who are raising awareness of the Republican abuse of the filibuster rule, but it will only make the Democrats look more useless if they don’t, you know, do...

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