Author: BooMan

If Harry Reid isn’t reelected, the person most likely to replace him as Majority Leader is Minority Leader Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois. Senator Durbin is pretty close to being the most progressive/liberal member...

Remember when I pretended to have second-hand access to a transcript of the Whitey Tape and totally punk’d former Booman Tribune front-pager (turned lunatic) Larry Johnson? Yeah, those were good times. But I am laughing my...

I gotta call b.s. on this one: [Sen. Chris] Dodd also said he thinks it would be a “travesty” not to confirm Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s nomination, and that in the absence of taxpayer money, the...

Readers know that I am not a big fan of Paul Krugman, but he is revered beyond all reason by a lot of my compatriots. No attuned observer would accuse Krugman of being an Obama acolyte or apologist. He went hard against Obama...

E.J. Dionne says that the Democrats will succeed in passing a health care bill that includes a number of positive compromises because the alternative is catastrophe. But that assumes that people like Bart Stupak (D-The Family)...