Outside the Beltway

Being a public servant, especially serving as President or in the White House in general, means you are going to be criticized, lampooned, ridiculed, and even “attacked.”

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care plan this morning, but it could already be doomed.

Congress is running out of time in its effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

The Great Wall of Trump™ is almost surely going to be a disaster, the question remains how big of a disaster will it be.

A tepid December jobs report tops off a tepid year.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Good riddance.

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

And the winner is……

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Some musings on the RCP average and such.

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.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

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

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

A new study debunks an old idea.

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

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.