Outside the Beltway

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.

Iowa Congressman Steve King is causing controversy yet again with his comments in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

Team of Rivals?

Future Supreme Court Justice?

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

The GOP civil war continues…..

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely

Marco Rubio changes his mind, and drops the first hint that he’s already thinking about the Presidential race in 2020 or 2024.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Republican insiders are apparently still looking at ways to stop Donald Trump at a convention. It’s far too late for that, guys.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

With Republicans in Trump-induced disarray, Libertarians are meeting to pick their nominee and the hope that 2016 could be the year their party finally gets the attention it has craved for four decades.

Donald Trump would be a horrible president. That doesn’t justify Hillary Clinton’s bad acts.