Author: BooMan

In early October, CQ Politics laid out three scenarios for the how the midterms might turn out. All of them were painful to contemplate. Essentially the scenarios were ‘catastrophically bad,’ ‘unthinkably bad,...

The talking heads on Morning Joe told me that Rand Paul won his debate with Jack Conway last night because he came off as ‘professorial.’ But I don’t think you can win a debate if all the news coverage coming...

The Republicans are really being quite open about their intention to grind Washington DC to a halt. The best we could hope for is that perhaps they’re lying. After all, they’re only telling their base what they want...

Don’t worry about jinxing anyone. Which politicians who you think are likely to lose on November 2nd are you going to be the happiest to see out of public life? You can pick a Democrat and a Republican if you like.

He was indicted five years ago. His trial begins tomorrow: [Tom] DeLay and two associates — Jim Ellis and John Colyandro — are accused by prosecutors of taking $190,000 in corporate money collected by a state political action...