Author: BooMan

What some people miss when they’re bemoaning the new tendency of opposition parties to vote against Supreme Court nominees is that the Supreme Court has become another branch of Congress. What can’t be done in...

CNN’s idea of incisive reporting is to count how many times a week Obama mentions his predecessor’s name in public. Last week’s count? Two. The Republicans have so far refrained from offering any kind of...

We have a new member of the Supreme Court. Congratulations to Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to ever serve as Supreme Court Justice, and the second to be nominated by Barack Obama. The vote was 63-37, with Democrat Ben Nelson...

Mitch McConnell is talking like a man who is certain his party will pick up seats in the fall. But I think he’s counting his chickens before they hatch. As things look now, it’s almost certain that the Dems will lose...

I finally set aside the time required to read George Packer’s long New Yorker piece on the broken state of the U.S. Senate. If you have a half an hour of free time, I suggest you do the same. I know most of the history...