Author: BooMan

Can you say ‘Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York’? Good, because now you’ll have to. Governor Paterson selected the upstate, gun-loving Blue Dog Clinton protégé, and will formally announce her DLC-ass at a...

I watched the confirmation hearing for incoming Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dennis Blair, tonight. Diane Feinstein is now the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It appears that new members of the committee...

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 passed in the Senate this afternoon by a healthy 61-36 vote. The law corrects a lousy Supreme Court decision and strengthens women’s rights to sue when they face discrimination in...

Here is something I don’t understand. David Sirota is happy that the House voted today not to release the second half of the TARP money to the Obama administration. Sirota isn’t happy about the vote because it will...

Here is more change we can believe in. From a White House press statement: Executive Order regarding Guantanamo Bay detainees Executive Order requires closure of the Guantanamo detention center no later than one year from the...