Author: BooMan

It’s easy to overlook the many accomplishments of the Obama administration in their first year because so many of them were relatively low profile, or were little more than course corrections. But it will be very hard to...

I occasionally run into nice white men who think George Will makes an inordinate amount of sense. It’s a strange malady, but it can mostly be explained by their conventional success and isolated existence. They did what...

I hear several reports that the Republicans will cave on their Wall Street reform obstruction. There is some talk that a concession was made by the Democrats, but it’s not really clear WTF the Republicans are talking...

For the third straight day, the Republicans have refused to allow the Senate to debate the Wall Street reforms bill. In fact, things are getting worse. On Monday and Tuesday, we got 57 votes for cloture (58, really, because Reid...

Here’s an interesting factoid about Harry Reid’s decision to hold cloture votes for the Wall Street reforms on four successive days: Steven Smith, a political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis,...