Author: BooMan

Less of a bang than a whimper. Yawn.

Let’s take a look at the power of the Progressive Caucus in the House, and let’s make an assessment of how they might fare in an Obama administration. The first thing that pops to light is the high percentage of...

Maybe some of you don’t know this, but the chief of staff to the president is, in some ways, a more powerful figure than the president himself. The chief of staff has control over what the president knows and who he sees....

McCain’s done some pretty nutty things in this campaign. Okay, he’s done a lot of nutty things. But this idea that people don’t want to spread the wealth around is probably the nuttiest. We just appropriated...

Things are getting weird when Joe Klein starts making sense.