Author: BooMan

The Obama Derangement Syndrome has reached Stage Four when Jane Hamsher blames the president for not supporting Blanche Lincoln sufficiently. …Lincoln’s vote for his health care bill cost her dearly, and without Specter’s...

Howard Dean joins the whinefest: Addressing a telling moment in the health care debate, when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (a frequent Dean critic) called out progressive activists for running ads against conservative...

It ought to be considered extraordinary that the Republicans’ response to the budget concerns of the Tea Partiers is to increase the public debt. Republican leaders have heard the public’s anger at Washington, and...

Let’s talk about this: ROLLING STONE: You’ve passed more progressive legislation than any president since Lyndon Johnson. Yet your base does not seem nearly as fired up as the opposition, and you don’t seem to...

Jane Hamsher and John Cole are in a shouting match, and that’s fine. I don’t care. One bone of contention between them is rather important, though. Hamsher claims that 53 Democratic senators were on the record at one...