Author: BooMan

Serious Question

Do you think they are actually going to fail to pass any health care reform? For the first time, I am beginning to think that that might be the case. What I am hearing about using the reconciliation process is that they...

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Clarifying the Dispute

I’m glad that Jane Hamsher clarified her odd timeline because I couldn’t figure out why she was attributing a July article about events in January to February 2009. But she doesn’t quite address my point....

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Lieberman Serves a Cold Dish

It was actually William Congreve, not William Shakespeare, who wrote, “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.” But perhaps more appropriate to Joe...

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Reconciliation

If Joe Lieberman won’t vote for a reasonable health care bill, it really makes more sense to just use the budget reconciliation process, even though that will mean that we can’t move on to other things like jobs and...

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Blackmail

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC says they will cancel all their contracts to do charitable work with the city if the City Council legalizes gay marriage as they are expected to do. The proposed D.C. law, expected to go...

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