Author: BooMan

Heinrich Running for Senate?

We’re going to have a difficult time with our Senate races on election night in 2012 even if Obama wins reelection in a massive blowout. One potential bright spot is in New Mexico. If it’s true that Rep. Martin...

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Trust Only Goes So Far

I feel very similarly to Kevin Drum. I’m not sure that I’d go so far as to say that I trust Obama’s judgment over my own, though. On political matters, yes. On whether to intervene in Libya? Not so much....

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Stupid Morons

Burning books is stupid. Getting mad about burned books is stupid. Killing people who had nothing to do with burning any books because you’re mad that a book got burned? That’s World Champion Stupid. It’s...

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Marco Rubio Will Be Veep Candidate

There’s a simple reason why the Republicans will probably put Florida Senator Marco Rubio on their ticket as the vice-presidential candidate. It’s not because he’s well-qualified, because he isn’t, or...

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Multi-Dimensional Chess

This raises an obvious question: Senate Republicans are growing impatient with the stalemate over 2011 funding levels and want to save their political capital for a debate on the debt limit and entitlement reform. But they must...

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