Author: BooMan

Back in July, Hendrik Hertzberg did an excellent piece in The New Yorker about what Alexander Hamilton thought about parliamentary rules that require more than a simple majority to come to a decision. Simply put, Hamilton...

While it was necessary to change the rules of the Senate to allow the administration to appoint its staff and put judges on the courts, it still required the Democrats to change the rules with a mere majority. And that precedent...

It took all morning and part of the afternoon, but the U.S. Senate has officially changed the rules so that nominations (not including to the Supreme Court) can get cloture with the support of 50 senators (with the...

Let the tyranny begin: Senate Republican leadership is calling the standoff over federal appeals court judges a distraction from the troubled rollout of the health care law, though it seems some Republicans have reached the...

I am enjoying Erik Wemple’s ownership of Mike Allen’s ass for a news cycle or two, but I am near-certain that Allen will prevail in the end. Being a paid shill is lucrative, which is why I am so poor.