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BooMan wrote a new post, A Terrifying Meeting in Helsinki, on the site Progress Pond 1 month ago

Maryland just announced that they’ve unwittingly allowed a Russian oligarch to gain control of important elements of their voting machinery, but the White House and Republican-controlled Congress aren’t […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Mood, on the site Progress Pond 1 month, 1 week ago

BooMan wrote a new post, Read It and Weep, on the site Progress Pond 1 month, 1 week ago

Reading stuff like this in the paper makes me want to go to the country, eat a lot of peaches and try to find Jesus, on my own. It’s hard to identify all the ways in which it is appalling.
A resolution to […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Don’t Worry About the Trumpistas, on the site Progress Pond 1 month, 4 weeks ago

If you’re like me, you encounter Trump supporters less in real life than on social media, but their behavior is by now quite familiar.
Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Let’s Have Some Music, on the site Progress Pond 2 months ago

BooMan wrote a new post, How Russia Sunk the West, on the site Progress Pond 2 months, 1 week ago

Let’s look at how the Russians went about recruiting Carter Page in 2013. We know about this for a couple of reasons. One is that the details were contained in an indictment that was filed in the Southern District […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Only Congress Can Make the President Accountable, on the site Progress Pond 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Matt Iglesias has a typical response to the 20-page legal document President Trump’s former legal team sent to Robert Mueller on January 29, 2018. Which is to say that his response is a reaction primarily to […]

BooMan wrote a new post, On Stefan Halper and Carter Page, on the site Progress Pond 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller has been the point man in the conservative media for exposing former Washington Monthly book reviewer Stefan Halper as a confidential FBI source. He has collected or received the i […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Why the Congressional Midterms Will Be Hugely Consequential, on the site Progress Pond 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Charlie Cook makes a rather obvious point that under any reasonably likely midterm elections scenario, the next Congress is going to be weak, fractured, and legislatively ineffectual. But I think he underplays how […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Mad King, on the site Progress Pond 3 months ago

Our president is mad.

Crazy. Toys in the attic crazy. Truly gone fishing.

They must have taken his marbles away.

I’m not mad, you’re mad. pic.twitter.com/vdLqElh5C3

— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) May 20, 2018

BooMan wrote a new post, Bob Mueller Has Some Questions for Donald Trump, on the site Progress Pond 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The people who work closely with Donald Trump not only think he’s an idiot but they come right and say it in meetings and crowded hallways where there’s a better than zero chance that word of it will get back to […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The DCCC’s Finger on the Scales, on the site Progress Pond 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Jason Crow is a candidate for the sixth congressional seat in Colorado. According to his campaign website he is “the grandson of a bricklayer and son of small business owners” who payed for college by […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Casual Observation, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

You know, I think there should be a big penalty and more shame involved for those responsible for enacting legislation that is subsequently ruled to be unconstitutional:

A federal appeals court has ruled that […]

BooMan wrote a new post, I’m a Peeliever, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

BooMan wrote a new post, How Donald Trump Conned His Way to a Reputation for Great Wealth, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

Part of me thinks that if this had come out prior to the 2016 presidential election, it would have been devastating to Donald Trump, and part of me thinks that there’s simply no evidence that anything could […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Inside the Dirty Tricks of Roger Stone, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

[The excerpt below is from a much longer article I wrote on the 2016 election which is not yet published. This segment is about the relationship between Roger Stone, Randy Credico and Donald Trump. Randy Credico […]

BooMan wrote a new post, It Might Not Matter if Michael Cohen Flips on Trump, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

Anywhere you look this morning, you can find an article speculating on the likelihood that Michael Cohen will cooperate with federal prosecutors and implicate the president of the United States in serious crimes […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Sometimes Things Break and They Don’t Get Fixed, on the site Progress Pond 4 months ago

Sometimes things break and they don’t get fixed, and that’s what has had me worried of late. We have an incredibly resilient system of government, and my admiration has grown as I’ve seen it […]

BooMan wrote a new post, If Cohen Was in Prague, Trump Will Be Removed from Office, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 1 week ago

If Michael Cohen went to Prague, then Donald Trump will be impeached, convicted, and removed from office, assuming he doesn’t resign. Digby says it is the whole enchilada, and she’s right. But Adam Davidson may be […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Senate and Governor Approval Numbers are Bad News for Democrats, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 1 week ago

If you’re a Democrat, there is almost no good news in the latest Morning Consult governor and senator Approval Rankings. They can take comfort that it looks like they’ll be taking back the governor’s office in […]