Author: BooMan

Anyone else feel like Sen. Max Baucus has way too much power?

The Senate just passed the FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012 with 23 (mostly Democratic) senators opposed. Before passage of the overall bill, the Senate held votes on three amendments. An amendment offered by Ron...

As Politico correctly points out, there is a logic behind the Republicans’ intransigent behavior. What’s missing from their analysis, however, is any mention of the fact that the Republicans’ created this logic...

I wish I could tell you that I have some idea about what is going to happen with the Fiscal Cliff, but I’m finding the whole subject impenetrable. None of the reporting is very helpful and it’s hard to read beyond...

I agree with Ed Kilgore that we cannot cover politics well if we simply ignore polls, and there’s a good debate to be had about how best to aggregate polls. But Kilgore ignored the subject that most interests me. And that...