Author: BooMan

Kerosene Blanche

We’ll have a day of annoying speeches in the Senate and then sometime around 8pm we’ll have a vote on cloture/motion to proceed to debate on the health care bill. The only remaining questions are whether Max Baucus...

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Be Classy, Chuck Grassley

You know what would be classy? Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is in Montana caring for his ailing mother. That seems important to me. I think Max should stay in Montana for as long as he feels it is...

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Are You Ready for the Health Care Debate?

I generally agree with Jay Cost’s analysis on where the health care bill stands right now. His analysis also supports what I’ve been saying about the general strategy of maintaining momentum by postponing the...

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Wingnut of the Day

You might be a wingnut if you vote against a bill to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to baby because HIV-positive babies are a good way to teach mothers about the dangers of promiscuity. Making the...

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Something to Remember

The Republican governors got together in some god-forsaken place called Lost Pines, Texas, to discuss their collective futures and the prospects for winning more state houses in the November 2010 elections. Adam Nagourney was...

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