Author: BooMan

Anatomy of a Game Lost By the Manager

Joe Girardi did about the worst job I’ve ever seen of managing a playoff baseball game tonight, and I’m angry. His first error came in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Angels had two outs with a runner on first...

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Serious Question

Support for the Republican Party remains stuck below support for chlamydia and is trending toward the public approval rating for gonorrhea. However, with a seven percent approval rating from women, John Boehner is in a heated...

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Obstacles to Reform

I don’t know if it would be good policy to, as the Treasury Department recommends, merge the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). But I find it depressing that such...

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How Close Are We?

Roll Call reports: Unable to mount a filibuster on their own and calculating that Democrats are on track to send a health care bill to Obama by year’s end, Senate Republicans figure the only way to stop or reshape the measure is...

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Reading the Tea Leaves

Joe Sudbay at AMERICAblog thinks that the White House sent Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel out on the Sunday morning talk shows to demonstrate their lack of support for a public option. I think his reaction to...

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