Author: BooMan

This piece in The Hill does a good job of describing how difficult it will be for Paul Ryan’s House of Representatives to achieve all their legislative goals this year. It doesn’t mention the effort to confirm a new...

Politico has a new piece up on low morale in the White House. It’s based on interviews with “nearly two dozen people who’ve spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration.” It’s kind of...

By constitutional design, only a third of the Senate is up for reelection at any given time. This is supposed to stiffen the body’s ability to rebuff populist passions that will inevitably arise from time to time and...

Personally, I think Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is on the wrong track. He may do an excellent job of figuring out what House Democrats did wrong in 2016, but by all indications he’s making a miscalculation about how to...

This morning, our president woke up and decided to trash Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut because Blumenthal revealed that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee told him privately that he found the president’s attacks...