Author: BooMan

As David Waldman notes at Daily Kos, the Democrats decided to deny Arlen Specter his seniority for the remainder of this Congress. If he gets reelected in 2010, his seniority will be restored, making him eligible to chair...

If you hold a hearing on health care and none of the witnesses support single-payer health care, you won’t have anyone explain the benefits of single-payer health care. Need more police. Ha ha ha.

It’s a legitimate question to ask whether there is any possibility that the Republican Party will crack-up and go the way of the Whig Party. I think it is possible, but not very likely. The Whig Party fell apart in 1854...

Byron York observed recently that due to President Obama’s very high approval numbers among African-Americans he appears to be more popular in opinion polls than he really is. When various people responded to that...

I know ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ crashed and burned, but is it really necessary for the GOP to explicitly come out as being against empathy?