Author: BooMan

The CQ/Roll Call Guide to the Next Congress is out, and it makes for depressing reading.

Here’s what I don’t get. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Sunday that Democrats “just didn’t get the message from the voters this election” if they make Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)...

How’s that Reagan Revolution working out for you? The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on...

From reporting I’ve read, Rahm Emanuel did not want to tackle health care at all. He wanted to focus on jobs. That was a recomendation that didn’t sit well with progressives, and they criticized Emaunel for it...

It’s nice of Andrew Ferguson to admit that conservatives like to prattle on about ‘American Exceptionalism,’ at least in part, because it irritates liberals and it polls well. But he still doesn’t really...