Author: BooMan

Trump Still Doesn’t Understand the Filibuster

The president is not a very bright man. President Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to end the legislative filibuster after the collapse of the Republican healthcare plan. “The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of...

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Republicans Are Trolling Themselves Now

Nancy has already covered Mitch McConnell’s latest gambit, to repeal Obamacare (with a delay) without replacing it. It is, in effect, a way of punishing his own members for not submitting to his leadership. They will be...

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We Need to Stop Arguing About Neoliberalism

When Charles Peters wrote his neoliberal manifesto in 1982, it wasn’t easy to see where the Reagan Revolution was leading the country. When I look back on the manifesto with the benefit of hindsight, what strikes me more...

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McCain Has a Lot of Decisions to Make

I’m not a doctor, but I’d be surprised if John McCain’s recent confused public behavior wasn’t in some way related to the five centimeter blood clot that was found above his left eye. At a minimum, I...

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