Author: BooMan

Will Paul Ryan Go Down Like John Boehner?

It’s painful to read the two posts I wrote last October explaining why I believed that Paul Ryan’s career as Speaker of the House was coming to an end. The analysis was solid, but it was premised on Hillary Clinton...

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What is the White House Plan for Tax Reform?

There’s probably a chapter by Sun Tzu that addresses the dangers of dealing with an adversary that is so transparently stupid that their actions are impossible to predict. I may need to go hunt that down, because I’m...

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On Jeff Flake, Goldwater and Trump

Reading that Arizona Senator Jeff Flake has penned a reprise, of sorts, of his predecessor Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative got me thinking about a variety of things and sent me off on a little Googling...

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Can Anyone Persuade Trump Not to Fire Sessions?

There are two very significant things you can observe when reading this Washington Post piece by Sari Horwitz and Robert Costa on the broken relationship between the president and his attorney general. The first is that...

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We Need to Audit Presidential Elections

I’m not positing a conspiracy theory that the vote that happened last November was hacked. Smarter people than me with better access to information have looked at this question and haven’t found evidence of it. But I...

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