Author: BooMan

Comeuppance for Loudmouth CEO’s

It turns out that people hate rich assholes who threaten to cut back employees’ hours so they can avoid taking responsibility for their health insurance. Who could have guessed that publicly ripping on ObamaCare would...

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McConnell Makes Case for Filibuster Reform

If Mitch McConnell wants to be taken seriously when he complains about proposed changes to the filibuster rule, he probably shouldn’t go out and do ridiculous things like filibustering himself. He seriously asked Harry...

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Jim DeMint to Resign, Run Heritage

Well, this is just weird. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina is resigning from the Senate in January to take the top spot at the Heritage Foundation. Governor Nikki Haley will select his replacement and there will be a special...

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Unified House Republicans?

I am not sure that I am sharing the same universe with Jennifer Steinhauer of the New York Times. She says that Speaker Boehner has never enjoyed stronger or more unified support from his caucus than he has now. How can that be?...

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It Can’t Be This Bad for GOP, Can It?

The Democrats seem oddly confident that they will succeed in killing off the debt ceiling. Obama doesn’t seem like he even wants to discuss the debt ceiling: “I will not play that game,” Obama told the Business...

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