Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

Did we not already know this?

He was clearly willing to subvert the election.

A vague but inflammatory report sheds little light on the situation.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

Outliers are bad places to look for solid support of your argument.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.

Ted Cruz and Steve King think the Court should be prevented from hearing any case involving same-sex marriage. Because they know they’re losing.

One Missouri legislator is going on a crusade against a “problem” that may not actually exist.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Several Tea Party backed Members of Congress claim to be challenging John Boehner in tomorrow’s vote for Speaker. They are, of course, delusional.

Remember the border crisis? Yea, it’s not much of a crisis these days.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

Republicans appear to be uniting behind a short-term plan to deal with the debt ceiling, but seem okay with keeping the government shutdown going forward.

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

Silly things members of Congress say (plus musings on authoritarianism).

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

Once again, the usual suspects are exploiting tragedy for political purposes.

Michele Bachmann and several other Members of Congress are engaging in the despicable tactics of Joe McCarthy.

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

The GOP seems to be backing away from a position on same-sex marriage that was a prominent part of its message only a short time ago.

One provision of the President’s jobs bill would give an ill-advised right to the unemployed.

John Boehner’s debt ceiling plan is being amended. And not in a good way.

House Republicans engaged in a publicity stunt on Friday that displayed a profound misunderstanding of how government actually works in the United States.

Why would returning to the system of allowing state legislatures to choose Senators improve representation?