Author: BooMan

The House Republican leadership announced the committee heads for next year’s Congress yesterday and somewhat unsurprisingly there were no women or racial minorities in the group. Let’s compare this to the Democrats....

It’s in the Constitution. You can’t ratify a treaty without the consent of two-thirds of the Senate. Presently, that means that you need 67 votes. It also means that you can’t have more than 33 senators opposed...

Jeb Bush has certain vulnerabilities as a potential presidential candidate that are particular to him. Collectively, they could be as damaging as Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. It could be that he just isn’t a...

I don’t get the Republican sense of humor. It’s not just that I am not amused by their jokes. It’s that I can’t really determine where the snark begins and the sarcasm ends. Victor Davis Hanson’s...

There is something almost epically pathetic about Bruce Bartlett’s long column about how he slowly learned that the Republican Party is full of shit. It is basically an admission that he’s not very bright. How could...