Author: BooMan

Tooting My Own Horn

Here’s a reminder of why you read this blog. From today’s Washington Post: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has decided against succeeding his close friend and mentor, the late Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) as chairman...

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The Lay of the Land

Obama is going to give his health care speech tomorrow and a lot of focus is going to be on whether or not the speech changes any of the basic dynamics of the health care debate. My guess is that Obama could give the best speech...

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Open Thread

All I want sports-wise is to see a Yanks-Phils World Series and the Giants in the Super Bowl. Can I have that please? What’s on your wish list?

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Cornyn Doing Well at NRSC

One thing that is helping NRSC Chairman John Cornyn outperform his predecessors Liddy Dole and John Ensign is the fact that he doesn’t have to defend any dead-duck incumbents. Dole had to deal with mortally crippled...

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Learning from 1995

August has a tendency to cause problems for whatever party happens to control Congress. You might not remember the summer of 1995. The freshman class of the Gingrich Revolution was busy stripping funding out of the federal...

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