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BooMan wrote a new post, Charlottesville Did Not Impact Tax Reform’s Prospects, on the site Progress Pond 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

On the surface, Stan Collender of Forbes is on solid ground when he argues that the Republicans will not succeed in enacting a comprehensive tax reform because the president is too weak. Collender presents some […]
BooMan wrote a new post, Will Charlottesville Matter in Six Months?, on the site Progress Pond 1 day, 2 hours ago

I’ve mentioned many times that I really respect Dan Balz as a bigfoot political print reporter. I think he does his job about as well as anyone can within the strictures of the genre. I believe he has respect from […]
BooMan wrote a new post, Back to the Fear and Loathing, on the site Progress Pond 2 days ago

I’m back home at my log cabin in the woods. Having been locked up for ten days, it smells like some combination of a gym locker room, a swamp, and a pine forest. Hopefully, we can get it aired out before long. My […]
BooMan wrote a new post, Trump Will Rally His Supporters. So What?, on the site Progress Pond 1 week, 6 days ago

Greg Sargent poses a hypothetical that isn’t really hypothetical at all:

Because Trump is undermining our democratic norms and processes in so many ways, it is often easy to focus on each of them in […]
BooMan wrote a new post, The Dems Need to Take a Hard Line on the Debt Ceiling, on the site Progress Pond 2 weeks ago

As early as last December, I was raising the alarm bells about the debt ceiling. In a piece called Will Trump’s OMB Director Blow Up the World?, I noted that Mick Mulvaney is a debt-ceiling truther who […]

Here’s What I Promised

by BooMan • June 1, 2017

This post has 0 votes. Log in now to vote As promised, my big feature went live tonight on the Washington Monthly website. As a special bonus, there’s also an interview I conducted with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello. They…

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Trump’s Goldman Sachs-Style Economic Populism

by BooMan • February 3, 2017

This post has 0 votes. Log in now to vote I know that we live in a post-factual political environment, but optics still matter. That’s why it didn’t make a ton of sense for the Trump administration to send out…

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