Author: BooMan

It’s Not Always Good News for Republicans

The headline is misleading, but I get what Reid Wilson is saying. For Republican governors who are thinking of running for president, the government shutdown offers them an opportunity to be a little above the fray. They can...

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Does Michelle Nunn Know What She’s Doing?

Maybe it is because I grew up as the son of an advertising executive, next door to a senior partner at a major Manhattan law firm, with classmates whose parents worked at places like Cantor Fitzgerald or the Institute for...

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Just a Little Haywire

From Friday, October 27, 2005, John and Tyrone discuss the crazification factor. This is required reading. John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his...

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Dustbin of History

It’s kind of predictable that the Republican Party’s major donors are pissed off at the party right now. One top party fundraiser said the Wall Street financiers and corporate executives he counts on for support are...

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Wanker of the Day Has a Point

Richard Cohen is an astoundingly bad writer for someone who has been in the business for decades. Yet, I am amused to see him ask John Boehner to submit to the guillotine. And then call it a bullet.

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