Author: BooMan

Silly Ezra

I don’t know the internal politics at the Washington Post, so I don’t know if Ezra Klein will pay any price for contradicting Fred Hiatt. But I do know that Ezra is kind of silly to attempt to take Hiatt’s...

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HCR is Getting Dicey

It’s encouraging that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs threatened to use the budget reconciliation process if the health care bill stalls in the Senate. Other than a brief burst of optimism I had after Senator Paul Kirk was...

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Bill Clinton to Give Senate Pep Talk

TPMDC reports that the Senate Democratic Caucus is having lunch with former president Bill Clinton today to discuss health care reform. It could be like asking Bob Shrum to run your presidential campaign, or it could be a...

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Open Thread

It’s like Michael Steele thinks the white people can’t hear him because he’s on black radio. No word on whether he brought his fried chicken and potato salad.

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Violating People’s Grief

One thing gets lost when we focus only on the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy. And that is that pregnancies terminate themselves all the time. And, when they do, there is frequently a problem that the remnants of...

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