Author: BooMan

John McCain and Sarah Palin ran for office with a Cap and Trade plan in their platform. But, since 2008, the Republican Party, perhaps at the behest of the Koch Brothers, has decided to pretend that climate change is not...

Joke candidates tend to give joke answers to easy questions. I guess there are some people who think it’s easy to be president of the United States and that anyone can do it. Do you remember when candidate George W. Bush...

The only really half-sane alternative to Mitt Romney couldn’t convince his wife and kids to take on the burden of the limelight in exchange for seeing their father get an ass-whupping from the Obama-Biden 2012 campaign....

If the Republicans are all going to run Willie Horton ads against each other throughout primary season, the whole sad spectacle might actually have a touch of entertainment value. Maybe they can call each other socialists and...

Here’s a question: Ezra Klein: “In 2008, Republicans nominated a candidate who’d fought the 2003 Bush tax cuts, opposed torture, sponsored the first cap-and-trade bill introduced in the Senate, flirted with...