Author: BooMan

This is why I am kind of afraid to flap my butterfly wings and say anything critical of Newt Gingrich or to even mention the following: Conservative Republicans are going to vote for Mitt in the end in the general whether they...

The Senate held a vote tonight. The Republicans acted like assholes again. The Senate clerk will post[ed] the roll call here sometime soon. The president issued a statement in reaction. Statement by the President Tonight, Senate...

Here’s a Quote of the Day: “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death,” said Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and one of the nation’s foremost experts on...

After reading this Washington Post article, which is admittedly a bit of a fluff piece, I had a little fantasy. I imagined a meeting of senior foreign policy officials where Gary Locke received his instructions for his mission...

We all know the story to one degree or another. The financial sector set up a system that encouraged mortgage initiators to prefer subprime loans to prime loans. They stopped asking for any documentation proving an ability to...