Author: BooMan

Michael Gerson on McCain’s epic fail: The intensity of these Republican attitudes is evident not just from what activists say but also from what Republican leaders are being forced to say. Sen. John McCain, a long-term...

Almost alone among progressives, I supported the original TARP bailout and told people that it was working in its primary purpose which was to prevent an epic depression-like collapse of the American and global economies. A lot...

For the most part the House of Representatives has finished its work for the year. They passed health care, and they’ve passed their versions of the financial and climate reforms. They don’t have anything to do with...

Adding to the always insightful Steve Benen, there is almost no ideological range in the Republican Party. Name me a Republican who is willing to filibuster a judge because the judge wants to overturn Roe v. Wade or a Republican...

Okay, so the Democrats are looking to eliminate Blanche Lincoln’s measure “to force financial firms to spin off their derivative-trading desks into separate entities.” But they don’t want the voters in...