Author: BooMan

Governing with a GOP Gun to Your Head

So, Chuck Grassley wants to eviscerate the Estate Tax as the price for his cooperation with a jobs bill. Because you and I and everyone else just knows that the way to get the unemployment rate down is to let the Trustifarians...

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Why the Nutters?

Here’s the thing, E.J….even if roughly a quarter of the people in this country are instinctively anti-government and opposed categorically to anything Washington does or proposes to do…they still tend to stay...

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Palin Would Never Make It

Nate Silver is awesome. I love him for doing first-rate progressive analysis. His piece on Palin’s chances of winning the Republican nomination is very impressive and convincing on the merits. But I just don’t think...

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The Record for Stupid

To me, the term ‘climate change’ should mean things like ‘we just broke the frigging record for snowfall,’ not ‘gee, it’s snowing outside, the Earth must be cooling.’ I guess...

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Serious Question

If I cry uncle, will it stop snowing? I mean, WTF? And this ain’t the fluffy stuff we got last week.

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