Author: BooMan

It’s Silly Season

With the release of the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the Senate Finance Committee’s health-care bill, it is now officially silly season. Speculation is running rampant, including some truly goofy theories....

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Serious Question

If Rush Limbaugh buys the St. Louis Rams, do you think he’ll be able to field an all-white team?

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U.S. Midwest: Open Discussion

Minnesota: Sen. Al Franken has already earned this year’s pay with his successful amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill making it illegal to for the government to pay any contractor who makes their employees...

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GOP Looking to Run Moderates

Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE-At Large) announced yesterday that he will retire from the House to seek the remaining four years in vice-president Joe Biden’s Senate term. If you look at Castle’s Progressive Punch numbers,...

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Dimensional Chess on the SFC

The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) has twenty-three members: 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans. If the Republicans remain united in opposition to the health care bill, the Democrats can afford no more than one vote against it. If...

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