Author: BooMan

Earmarks as an Issue

Earmark spending is one of those idiotic subjects that no one really understands because it’s largely a manufactured outrage. But there are consequences to earmarks. Senators and congresspeople that are successful in...

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A Culture that Stretches the Truth

I agree with Little Ricky: SANTORUM: Sarah Palin is the Clarence Thomas for feminists. I even wrote about it: Sarah Palin is Clarence Thomas. That’s rather explicit, isn’t it? I don’t know if Anita Hill was...

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Fighting in the Home Stretch

The campaign has reached the non-reality based stage: John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming...

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My Advice

I firmly believe that Barack Obama is going to turn out his base without a lot of additional effort. I mean that Obama will get huge urban turnout, he’ll crush in college towns, he’ll get the Jewish vote in places...

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Sad Thought

Georgia Republicans like to use the word ‘uppity’ when referring to black people.

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