Author: BooMan

Rove’s Legacy: Unmitigated Disaster

In 2000, George W. Bush lost the popular vote and the Republicans lost two seats in the House of Representatives and four seats in the Senate. The Bush administration quickly alienated Sen. Jim Jeffords (R-VT) so thoroughly that...

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Why is Rove Leaving?

The funny thing about Rove’s resignation is that he is so up to his neck in criminality that it is hard to decide which scandal took him out. Obviously, in l’affair Plame, he survived lying to the FBI and grand...

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Noam Scheiber, Give Us the Names

Noam Scheiber updated his blog in response to my request that he name names of the reporters that celebrated wingnut Mike Huckabee’s second place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll. Update: A couple of commenters have asked...

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Open Thread

The significant segment of our government that actually wields power is…insane.

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Noam Scheiber on Reporters and Huckabee

You may not have heard of Mike Huckabee, but he is running for president of the United States of America. Huckabee served as the Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He’s a social conservative that served as chairman of...

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