Outside the Beltway

Once again, Harry Reid is pursuing a far less ambitious filibuster reform package than originally threatened.

Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.

Fitch is out this morning with a warning on the nation’s credit rating that both Republicans and Democrats need to listen to.

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

Once again, the House GOP is risking sending the economy into the tank to prove a political point.

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

Welcome to the latest crazy scheme to avoid reality.

Minting a Platinum Coin would be a really bad idea.

Resurrecting and old, and bad, idea.

The House GOP is moving in an ever more dangerous direction.

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

Could a coin like this solve the looming debt ceiling crisis?

The next six weeks or so will see Congress once again fighting over a self-created crisis.

It’s time to start thinking outside the box when it comes to disaster relief.

Hell hath no fury like a Christie scorned.

You can’t always get what you want.

The Tea Party guys had a bad year.

There are very rational reasons behind the current gridlock on Capitol Hill.

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

With less than a week left, the odds of a deal to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” seem longer than ever.

Norm Ornstein may have written the sillest op-ed of 2012.

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

Last night’s defeat of “Plan B” demonstrated yet again that John Boehner does not really control his caucus.

The Republican leadership in the House suffered a big loss tonight:.

Bob Dole isn’t in the best of health but he nonetheless treked to the Capitol to pay his final respects to an old friend.