Author: BooMan

What the Senate Must Do Now

The following three Republicans joined Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Norm Coleman, and Gordon Smith in voting for cloture in yesterday’s Senate debate about Bush’s escalation plan for Iraq. Chuck Hagel:...

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Biden and the Bankruptcy Bill

I wonder if Joe Biden’s advisers are as stunned as Hillary’s about how one vote is haunting his campaign? For Hillary, it is her vote authorizing military force in Iraq and her refusal to call it a mistake. For Joe...

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Toensing Wants Fitz Indicted

Wow. Victoria Toensing has an endless article in the Washington Post that not only excuses Scooter Libby of any wrongdoing for lying to the FBI and grand jury, but actually draws up indictments from her very own imaginary grand...

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Meta Jesus

Blogging is full of surprises. One thing I never expected when I started blogging was that there would be a paparazzi. It didn’t occur to me that there would be some kind of disaffected fan club that would go around...

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No Cloture in the Senate

The Senate only garnered 56 votes to invoke cloture and have a vote on the non-binding resolution that opposes the escalation of the war in Iraq. Tim Johnson (D-SD) was unable to vote due to illness (nine others didn’t...

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