Author: BooMan

Learning Lessons from Procedural Votes

The Senate is currently debating the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2010, which should be self-explanatory. Yesterday, Cheatin’ John Ensign introduced an amendment...

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U.S. Abandons Eastern Europe Missile Shield

The Obama administration has informed the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic that we will not be pursuing Bush’s stupid plan to deploy anti-long range missile defenses in their countries. It turns out (surprise,...

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Getting It Wrong on Purpose?

Writing about health care policy is a really daunting challenge. To be really good at it, you have to really get down in the weeds. You have to understand a lot about the budget. You need to understand the insurance industry....

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Oh, So You Noticed the Racism?

I find it sad yet still amusing to see how the bigfoot Washington press corp tries to pussyfoot around the stunning outbreak of virulent open racism in our country. ‘Do you think maybe that these teabag people might harbor...

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Guns on Trains

The vote of the day is definitely the one on Sen. Wicker’s (R-MS) amendment to the Transportation & HUD Appropriations bill that allows all Amtrak travelers to carry weapons and ammo in their checked baggage. It passed...

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