Author: BooMan

The Lane Hudson Effect

Is this the only area where Republicans learn from their mistakes? Unlike House Republican leaders last year during the Mark Foley sex-related scandal, their Senate counterparts this week showed that they know exactly when to...

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Warner to Retire?

It’s a simple truth that Democrats can’t get much done if they can’t convince at least 9 Republican senators to agree with what they intend to do. And that won’t change just because we suddenly have a...

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$9 Gas, Keep ‘Em Fighting

[I see Zandar1 had this first] It’s kind of a running joke among progressives that the American people will tolerate almost any level or crime, corruption, or stupidity in their public officials, but if gas prices get too...

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Weak-Kneed Democrats

I might be taking the following quote somewhat out of context, but I’m using it to demonstrate the problem with Democrats. “If you just say you’re standing up for civil liberties, the American people are with...

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Open Thread

Strangely appropriate if you are familiar with Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Mandrake is marched out of Ripper’s office at gunpoint by the gung-ho Guano to the main gate....

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