Author: BooMan

Greg Sargent: Can we please bag this idea that it’s somehow a “compromise” in any meaningful sense if we temporarily extend all the Bush tax cuts, including the ones for the rich? Come on. It’s really...

What are the Republicans’ top priorities? Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) will say Thursday that defeating President Obama is Republicans’ “only way” to truly halt his agenda....

I wonder how the Wall Street Journal defines the public mood: John Boehner is no Newt Gingrich, which suits the current public mood. Americans have had their fill of triumphalism and revolution in a House Speaker. But Barack...

I like Bob Johnson’s take on why we had our asses handed to us last night, but one thing most liberals won’t admit is that the Republicans deserve a lot of credit. I know that it’s hard to give credit to a...

As Meteor Blades explains, more than half of the Blue Dogs lost their seats or were not replaced (if they retired) last night. Meanwhile, only four Progressives lost their seats and one of them was replaced by a Democrat who...