Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Wanna have some fun? This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-7 (with Specter and Grassley joining the majority) to find Karl Rove and Josh Bolten in criminal contempt of Congress. Now the vote will go to the full...

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Reforming Intelligence Oversight

David Ignatius makes some valuable observations in his column about congressional oversight of the intelligence community. Here’s one. The intelligence committees were meant to be bipartisan. And to avoid the usual...

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Democratic Infighting

Democrats fight among themselves: “I can’t control Speaker Pelosi,” [Sen. Reid] said on the chamber floor. “I hope everybody understands that. She is a strong, independent woman. She runs the House with...

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Don’t Inhale

Team Clinton in action: Billy Shaheen, the co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in New Hampshire, raised the issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s past admissions of drug use in discussing the relative electability of...

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