Author: BooMan

Open Thread

If you haven’t ever read transcripts of Brendan’s phone calls to public officials, you are really missing out. Today’s isn’t funny. It won’t make you laugh like most of his phone calls. But it is...

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Things Are Not Improving

Oops: Iraqi tribal leader Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a key figure in U.S. efforts to turn local residents against al-Qaeda in the restive Anbar province, was killed today by a roadside bomb, U.S. military and Iraqi sources...

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Running Primaries Against Bad Dems

Lynn Woolsey is co-chair of the Progressive Caucus. She has some advice for anti-war activists. We should find people to run in primaries against the pro-war Democrats. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is encouraging anti-war...

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Senate Forecast

Charlie Cook is probably the most influential political prognosticator in the business, and he has identified nine Senate seats that are in real jeopardy for the Republicans. It’s actually likely to get worse than that....

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