Author: BooMan

GOP Moderates Not Sold on Health Care Bill

Mitch McConnell had some time to try to rework his health care bill and a version of his revisions has leaked out. It looks like he made the calculation that he needed to keep the Medicaid cuts to hold conservatives in line....

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Donald Trump Jr. Was So Far Out of His League

If, as seems likely, Julia Ioffe is correct that Yury Chaika, the prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation, is the “Crown Prosecutor” referred to in Donald Trump Jr.’s email chain, everyone involved should...

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Will Partially Cancelled August Recess Help?

I went over this last week when I wrote The House Freedom Caucus Approaches a Reckoning, so I don’t want to reinvent the wheel here. But I’m beginning to see analysis similar to my own in the reporting of the major...

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Whole Trump Team Has Been Subject to Blackmail

The official story is that Michael Flynn had to resign as President Trump’s National Security Advisor because he lied to Vice-President Pence about what he discussed with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In truth,...

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Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Be Deplorable

It has been a while since I wrote about Alabama politics, but the primaries for the special election to replace Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III in the Senate are scheduled for August 15th, and the candidates are out on the...

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