Author: BooMan

Jonathan Chait is basically correct, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Bernie Sanders has gotten us zero percent closer to a single-payer system for health care. Convincing almost all Democrats who have...

In the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, Republicans are now confronting healthcare. It’s going something like this: SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER of TENNESSEE: Um…Patty? I didn’t want to...

I wrote a piece yesterday entitled Tax Reform and the Politics of Tennessee that highlighted the roles of Sen. Bob Corker and Rep. Diane Black in the next big battle in Washington DC. It was the latest in a series of posts...

Consistency isn’t the Republican Party’s strong suit, so I don’t want to make too much of this. But there’s something I discussed yesterday that could have a big impact on the effort to pass the DREAM Act...

Nancy already wrote about the president’s plan to advance his tax reform effort by inviting Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota to eat dinner tonight at...