Author: BooMan

Blue Dog Corporate Whoring

I hear all kinds of excuses for why we need to maintain employer-based health care and the for-profit corporate health insurance industry, but other than a few Republicans I don’t hear people making these arguments on the...

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In Defense of Ron Wyden

I understand digby’s point. It can be quite annoying to hear Democrats talk about the value of bipartisanship ‘because it can bring the country together.’ The country is together on a public option for the new...

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The Signing Statement on the World Bank

Well, this is very interesting: The House rebuked President Obama for trying to ignore restrictions to international aid payments, voting overwhelmingly for an amendment forcing the administration to abide by its constraints....

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Casual Observation

I’m wondering what it feels like when a Republican activist finds out that their family values senator is an adulterous crook. Isn’t it somewhat like how a Democratic activist would feel upon learning that his...

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Serious Questions

What do you think the CIA was up to, and why hasn’t anyone mentioned Dick Cheney’s name, yet?

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