Author: BooMan

I agree with Matt Yglesias, but I’d put it in slightly different terms. The Bush administration was a colossal failure on every front, but especially from the point of view of a Tea Party Republican. When you look at a...

The Democrats talk too much about their strategy. If you tell the Republicans what you are doing and why it makes it a lot less likely that they’ll fall for your traps. This article in The Hill has way too much stuff in it...

The U.S. Senate had a vote tonight on “a bill to reduce the Federal budget deficit by closing big oil tax loopholes.” Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins actually voted for it. But no other Republicans did. And three...

Do you remember when Mike Lux had the good fortune to have a seat on Amtrak in front of Rick Santorum while Santorum made an endless string of phone calls trashing John McCain? Yeah, those were good times. Here’s a little...

I’m not surprised that Rep. Paul Ryan has declined to run for the Senate. He’s brought a little too much heat on himself already with his plan to voucherize Medicare, and he’ll be lucky to get reelected to the...