Outside the Beltway

The party’s 2012 nominee is an indicator of how fall it has fallen.

Wherein I finally reveal my answer (spoiler: it is hardly surprising). And, also, wherein despite the goal of brevity, I fail at that goal.

Some thoughts on polling and the news since 2016.

Spoiler alert: the GOP has already failed this test multiple times.

You know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

This will just reinforce minority rule in the US.

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

Empowering authoritarians.

One of these really isn’t like the other.

Because sometimes a comment starts to become a post.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump during the campaign and in the White House, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

President Trump’s obsequious effort to please Russian President Vladimir Putin continues.

Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.

More evidence that President Trump was an active participant in the scheme to silence Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

Federal prosecutors are investigating the Trump Inaugural Committee, adding to the long list of the President’s legal troubles.

The publisher of the National Enquirer admits that it made payments to a Playboy model for the purpose of protecting Donald Trump’s campaign for President.

The economy may be doing well, but that didn’t help Republicans in the midterms.

New reports indicate that Donald Trump was closely involved in the efforts to buy the silence of a Playboy model and a former adult film star.

Is it too much to ask for truth about basic facts from the White House Press Secretary?

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Another day, another plea agreement in the Mueller investigation. This one could prove to be problematic for the President.

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

Three new polls show that Republicans basically agree with the leader of their party when it comes to the issue of Russian interference in American elections.

The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

The offer was made to Roger Stone.

Democrats have adopted a new rule requiring future candidates for President to certify that they are Democrats, but it seems largely unenforceable.

A new book reveals President Obama’s initial reaction to Donald Trump’s election, and provides some detail about their first meeting.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

President Trump’s latest financial disclosure finally acknowledges that he reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payoff to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released a treasure trove of documents related to the June 2016 meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and they raise far more questions than they answer.

New documents reveal that the Limited Liability Company that paid off Stormy Daniels also received payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

Rudy Giuliani tried to clean up the mess he created for his client earlier this week. He failed miserably.

Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. As a legal document, it appears to be little more than a political stunt.

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

Given a choice between Robert Mueller and Donald Trump, most Americans are siding with Mueller. Unless they’re Republicans that is.

Stormy Daniels spoke to 60 Minutes last night about her relationship with Donald Trump and the agreement that was made on the eve of the 2016 election to keep her quiet.

A report in The Washington Post says that White House Staff under President Trump have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Anderson Cooper has interviewed adult film star Stormy Daniels for 60 Minutes, but lawyers for President Trump are apparently considering legal action to stop the report from airing.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against the President, handing the already beleaguered White House yet another headache.

The Russia probe is focusing on the sequence of events surrounding hacked Clinton campaign and DNC emails.

Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty in response to clear evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election is a staggering and flagrant dereliction of the duties he agreed to take on when he took the Oath Of Office more than a year ago.