Outside the Beltway

The mid-week edition of our free-for-all.

It’s that time again.

The mid-week edition.

If it’s Sunday night . . .

The mid-week edition.

Our new bi-weekly tradition continues.

It’s that time again.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

So, what do you want to talk about?

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

The HUD Secretary’s practice of treating Friday as a light-duty day is just fine by me.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

It was only a matter of time before Trump’s rhetoric against the press would lead to something violent. Last night in El Paso, it happened.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

Two years into his Presidency, Donald Trump continues to set the wrong kind of records.

A new report raises an old question that’s now irrelevant.

In a rare public statement, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is disputing reports that the President directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

Once again, Rudy Giuliani is contradicting his client.

Federal employees deemed “essential” missed a paycheck yesterday in violation of US labor law.

Not surprisingly, President Trump significantly accelerated the pace of his lies in 2018.

The fact that this President is a congenital liar is well-known. The actual number of lies less than two years into his Presidency, though, is astounding.

President Trump tried to get into the Christmas spirit last night. He failed.

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

The scandal-plagued Secretary of the Interior is leaving office at the end of the year.

Trump has selected current Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff, but that’s unlikely to change how the West Wing operates.

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

Now that’s a lot of beef.

Apparently, this is a thing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Donald Trump is engaging in another round of baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

A new report says that the Trump Administration lobbied the National Park Service to edit photos of the crowd at President Trump’s Inauguration.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

There was a time when Mike Pence believed that a President’s personality morality and trustworthiness mattered. He clearly doesn’t believe that anymore.

The frequency and ease with which this President lies is, to say the least, alarming.

The man who knows all of Donald Trump’s financial secrets has been called to testify before the Grand Jury investigating Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

After months of allegations regarding improper use of taxpayer dollars and the use of agency resources and personnel for personal needs, he is finally out.

In a new interview, former Trump attorney and ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen gives the strongest signal yet that he’s ready to cooperate with investigators.

Pending the mere formality of approval by the Governor-General, Canada will soon become the largest nation in the world where recreational use of marijuana is legal.

John Kelly is nearing the end of his first year as White House Chief of Staff, and it’s becoming apparent that his mission to bring order to a disordered White House has failed.

Both President Trump and Ivanka Trump are profiting handsomely from their time in the White House.