Author: BooMan

When Harry Reid made a motion to proceed to the Default Prevention Act of 2013 this afternoon, he got the support of 54 senators out of the 98 who voted. For procedural reasons, Sen. Reid changed his vote to ‘nay’ so...

In this morning’s weekly address, the president was to the point: It’s not supposed to be this way. Manufacturing crises to extract massive concessions isn’t how our democracy works, and we have to stop it....

Back in September 2000, David Schippers, who had prosecuted the impeachment case against Bill Clinton during the Senate trial, went on CNN and complained that he had not been allowed to present all his evidence because the...

Good morning, folks. The Washington Monthly has retained me as one of their weekend bloggers, so please head over there and show some support. Something I want to discuss this morning are the comments from Republican pollster...

Jonathan Cohn highlights two quotes. The first is from Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who recounted his recent conversation with the president at the White House. Graham says at one point he told Obama that he can’t...