Author: BooMan

It’s good to see the administration fighting back against Tom Carper’s amendment to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. Tom Carper and few other Corporacrats (Mark Warner, Tim Johnson, and Evan...

In general, and in the context of editorial board members at major U.S. newspapers, I am pretty pleased with the job that Gail Collins does, and has done, at the New York Times. But her take on the Specter/Sestak race is...

Shit you think will never happen to you.

You know a party is in trouble when their incumbent senators are looking vulnerable. That is not the case for the Republicans. Of the eleven incumbents they have facing reelection, only three are showing any vulnerability at...

I believe that Congress will pass the Wall Street Reform bill, possibly with a lot of Republican support. That will represent two giant wins for the Obama administration in a row. But I don’t know if they can keep it...