Author: BooMan

Do you find this frustrating? With a vote coming up Monday to begin debate on a jobs bill, Democrats are hoping they can get a few Republican votes for cloture. But the Republicans are looking to block the bill, even though they...

E.J. Dionne hit a home-run with his latest column. Here’s the part I liked best. Economists agree that the stimulus worked to create jobs, but Senate moderates made it less effective by shrinking its size and including...

Sorry that I haven’t been around much. Real life has intervened over the last couple of days. I don’t know what’s going on in the blogosphere or political world, except that it appears that Obama is still weak...

Fifty-two percent of Americans say they would vote for someone other than Obama for president if given the choice. Only 34% think most members of Congress deserve to be reelected. Remember that 60% of those incumbents in both...

I wonder if Evan Bayh is stunned at how much ill-will he has produced on the left. There’s hardly anyone to the left of Joe Lieberman who has a good thing to say about his career. But I don’t think he is alone. In...