Author: BooMan

Troubling Night

The message from Republican voters is getting louder and it’s basically a giant ‘I don’t give a shit.’ They don’t care about actually winning elections, although they are bound to win plenty of...

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I’m Ambivalent on Castle

I’m not rooting for Mike Castle to lose. I’m not rooting for him to win, either. But I’m definitely wary of some of these teabaggers actually joining the Senate next January. The common wisdom is that the...

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Haley Barbour is an Idiot

Ya know? I thought there was something wrong with Haley Barbour’s memory when he suggested that his generation attended integrated schools in Mississippi and didn’t think twice about it. It’s hard to believe...

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Not So Casual Observation

Here’s your morning buffoonery: “Republicans have chosen extremists to be their nominees, and this has changed the political map of the cycle,” said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic...

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Idiot Wind

You think we got it bad now? A comprehensive Wonk Room survey of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate finds that nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming...

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