Author: BooMan

You know, if Michele Bachmann accused Obama of wanting to do this, I’d think she was nuts. But, it turns out, it was done under Harry Truman, so who knows? This is a part of history we just ignore. It doesn’t fit...

Rahm is now officially gone. In his place, is Pete Rouse. Intensely private, Mr. Rouse is unmarried and lives alone in northwest Washington with his two cats. (He is a big cat person, friends say.) He is not given to...

No program to bail out big banks was ever going to be popular. And, with a $700 billion price tag, TARP came with some serious sticker shock. The right hated it, the left hated it. It basically transformed Ron Paul’s Tea...

I’m pretty happy about this: Sen. Ted Kaufman, the outgoing Delaware senator who battled to break up major banks the past year, will replace Elizabeth Warren as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, an aide to Senate...

The Republicans know how to play hardball. The managed to get the Democrats to agree to hold pro forma sessions during the recess so that the president cannot make any recess appointments. As part of the deal, the Democrats did...