Author: BooMan

Broken, Not Broken

Now that she’s retiring, Olympia Snowe suddenly realizes that her Republican colleagues are behaving like two year-olds? Snowe is now looking at ways that Senate procedure could be reformed to help alleviate partisan...

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Again, Marco Rubio is a Scoundrel

Loyal readers will know that I’ve been calling Marco Rubio a crook ever since he announced himself as a candidate for the Senate. He’s a thief who stole quite a bit of money from the Florida GOP, which is why I...

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Make Them Debate the Issues

Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman have a long piece in Politico about why this presidential campaign seems so lame. I have a simple answer for that. Our politics have been broken by a combination of Republican strategy and...

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A Little Election Forecast

It’s difficult to explain how Nate Silver calculates his “tipping point state” formula, so if you are really interested in the details, go read his article. The basic idea, however, is fairly simple. In any...

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Your Party Don’t Like Brown People

John Boehner’s problem can be summed up this way: 56% of Republicans think we should deport children who were brought here illegally by their parents many years ago, who attended our schools, who graduated, who have no...

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