Author: BooMan

The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have reduced the revenues taken in by the treasury by slightly more than the cost of the ten-year war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. In other words, if we hadn’t cut taxes early in...

It would be nice if I could treat the new species of Republican like a scientist would treat a newly discovered species. Rather than fighting some variation on the badger or the weasel or the tasmanian devil, I’d just like...

I’m thinking that unexplained deaths of News Corporation whistleblowers aren’t going to help make the story go away. It’s pretty rare for someone in their mid-forties to drop dead. And the timing couldn’t...

Even Politico is now writing in panic-stricken tones about how unhinged the House Republicans have become.

Washington Post reporter Dan Balz was on Chuck Todd’s MSNBC show this morning and, among other things, he said that we have already had a default in Washington DC. We’ve had a default of politics. I think...