Author: BooMan

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Don’t feel any obligation to read it. It’s not interesting. Perhaps the only thing about the piece worth...

There was a weird roll call on the bill to raise the debt limit with no strings attached. The bill failed 97-318, with seven voting ‘present’ in protest. Most progressives, but by no means all, voted in the...

Sometime today, the House Republicans will hold a vote on whether or not to raise the debt limit with no strings attached, as the Obama administration has requested. The idea is to prove to the administration that the health of...

Last week, Sarah Palin announced a bus tour of America and managed to get her name splashed all across the nation’s headlines…again. But, if the Republicans are despondent about their presidential candidates,...

One of the burdens of being a very serious Beltway journalist is that you want to maintain access (relationships, really) to people on both sides of the aisle. That makes it hard to simply report, for example, that you talked to...