Author: BooMan

I can’t stop laughing in John Boehner’s face: With a budget deal still elusive and a deadline approaching on raising the debt ceiling, Speaker John A. Boehner has told colleagues that he is determined to prevent a...

Montana Lieutenant Governor John Walsh is going to run for Max Baucus’s Senate seat. He’s the former adjutant general of the state, meaning that he was the highest-ranking member of the military in Montana. He served...

It’s nice of Denny Hastert to shoot out both of John Boehner’s knees. Without the Hastert Rule, there are already well in excess of the seventeen Republican votes that are needed to pass a clean continuing resolution...

Butch Matthews may still be a staunch Republican but at least he is no longer a participant in the Mass Hallucination. I wish Think Progress had asked him what he thinks of closing down the government to protest a law that he is...

Jonathan Chait has the right idea, but he is making it needlessly complicated. Defecting Republican lawmakers don’t need to actually leave the party. They don’t need to rebrand themselves as independents. They...