Epic What BooMan Said Win

Here's why BooMan Tribune should be on your core list of daily reading:

Why do you read this blog? Here's why. From tonight's The Hill:

CBC could see its spending clout increase in the next Congress If House Democrats keep their majority in the next Congress, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) is likely to become chairman of the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations subcommittee. The only members ahead of Fattah in seniority are panel's chairman, Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), who lost a primary race this week, and retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.)

Here's me, three days ago:

Don't get me wrong, like most long-time appropriators of both parties, Mollohan had long ago compromised himself and become corrupt. I'm kind of glad to see that he's gone. I'd be more enthusiastic about it if his replacement gave me hope for improvement. But, hey, West Virginia's loss will probably be Philadelphia's gain. Mollohan was the chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies. Now that he's been defeated and Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island is retiring, the chair should go (by seniority) to my old congressman, Rep. Chaka Fattah. Of course, Fattah recently announced that he will compete in the next Congress for the chair of the entire Appropriations Committee. That doesn't surprise me. When he was running for mayor of Philadelphia, we were talking at the upstairs bar at The Khyber when he explained to me that he wasn't going anywhere in Congress. I had asked him whether he couldn't better serve Philadelphia as a member of the House Appropriations Committee. And he explained that he had no seniority and no prospects of even chairing a subcommittee anytime soon. So, he was bolting to be mayor. Except, he got crushed in the primary, so he went back to his dead-end job in DC. And now he's ready to become the first black man to be in charge of the Justice Department's budget. Amen.

I have to toot my own horn because no one else will. 

Hell, I will.  BooMan's been doing this dirty hippie blogger thing for years now and is better than 99.9% of the professional Village pundits out there when it comes to the workings of Capitol Hill, and equal to their best.  He absolutely called Chaka Fattah's expected rise, and did it before the pros did.

If you want to know what's going on in the Beltway, BooMan's got the gritty reality of Washington's Three Branch Circus down better than the big boys, and he's done it time and time again.

EPIC WIN.