Author: BooMan

Last Thursday, the Republicans filibustered Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Among other things, the bill would prevent a 10% cut in Medicare payments to...

There’s an acronym ‘IOKIYAR’ which means ‘it’s okay if you’re a Republican’. And I think Dick Cheney is a case in point. Dick Cheney was close to the most conservative member of the...

It must be the most derivative argument ever. Larry Johnson makes up…flat out makes up…an incident where Michelle Obama appeared with Louis Farrakhan and said something nasty about white people. In his telling,...

You know it’s trouble when it’s Brendan Calling.

You may have noticed that Obama announced a lot of staffing positions today for the general election. Among his choices is former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, who has been hired to be chief of staff to the...