Author: BooMan

The folks over at Red State certainly are feeling rather triumphant about the death of health care reform. They are taunting the Democrats, asking them to attempt reconciliation: Senator DeMint has made it clear — and...

Do you know what a coward looks like? “I’m not for using reconciliation for healthcare — I’m just not.” said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). “If we couldn’t get a bill through the Congress that had broad support, I said we shouldn’t...

I’d like to add to Ezra Klein’s fine piece on the primacy of process that despite people thinking they understand process better than policy, they absolutely do not. In fact, even the most studious political junkie...

I found a transcript of the proceedings at the Democratic Senate Conference today. I wanted to read it because Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh both used their opportunity to ask the president a question to bash their own party and...

Steve Benen is right when he points out that the Republicans used to show some deference to military leaders. But now that the military has more progressive views on homosexuality and torture than the Republican’s rabid...