Author: BooMan

Romney Has it in the Bag

Even if Gingrich and Paul remain obstinately opposed to Romney and refuse to drop out, and even if Gingrich carries most of the South, I still see Romney as the nominee. The following is almost a worst case scenario for Romney....

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New Hampshire Thread

The networks called it for Romney as soon as the polls closed. As I predicted, New Hampshire chose Jon Huntsman as their not-Mitt candidate. It appears that he will finish third. Santorum was regurgitated and will finish dead...

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Starve, You Bastards

How do you squeeze the last dime out of a staving person? Elect a Republican: Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has announced a major assault on the food stamp program that feeds 1.8 million Pennsylvanians, including 439,245 in...

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The Party is Just Broken

Ryan Lizza is right that Bush’s crappy presidency contributed to the weak field of candidates that we see today: “A successful Presidency can produce a new crop of future Presidential candidates for the party that...

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Progressive Defeatism

Matt Stoller recently penned a piece that got a lot of attention, including a favorable recommendation from Glenn Greenwald. Personally, I found Stoller’s piece a little hard to follow. I had to read it more than once to...

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