Author: BooMan

The Republicans are going to crack

Via Think Progress, we learn that General Petraeus met privately with the Republican caucus and told them he will deliver ‘real progress’ by August. According to Andrea Mitchell, who was bandying about this scoop,...

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Bush’s Irresponsible Rhetoric

The President does a radio address: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. In recent days, the House and Senate each passed emergency war spending bills that undercut our troops in the field. Each of the Democrats’ bills would...

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More Oversight Please

I think I’ve said this a couple of dozen times over the last fifteen months: Thirty years ago, a Senate committee headed by the late Sen. Frank Church exposed widespread abuses by law enforcement and intelligence agencies...

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America…Right or Wrong

If you want to know why so many people voted for George W. Bush, and why we didn’t immediately order him shipped to the Hague after he tried to legalize torture…watch this. And the Congressional Black Causus wants to...

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Gingrich: Xenophobic Racist

Can we can any more disrespect? “The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering...

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