Outside the Beltway

Some on the right are suggesting that Congress retaliate against the President’s executive action on immigration by refusing to invite him to give the State Of The Union Address.

Public Relations 101: When you have a job in public relations, don’t say stupid things.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans support the President’s changes to deportation policy, but don’t like that he acted unilaterally.

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Sen. Charles Schumer says Democrats made a mistake by concentrating on getting health care reform passed instead of on fixing the economy.

Regardless of the outcome of the Michael Brown investigation, there are legitimate problems that need to be addressed.

The House of Representatives has filed its lawsuit against the President. As expected, it doesn’t amount to much.

A surprising change at the top of the military’s civilian chain of command.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

The SNL cold open updates a Schoolhouse Rock classic

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.

You thought the American combat role in Afghanistan would end on December 31st? Think again.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.

On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.

In the end, there appears to be very little, if anything, the GOP can do to stop or roll back the executive actions the President will announce Thursday evening.

Former Senator Jim Webb is the first Democrat to kinda, sorta, throw his hat into the ring for 2016.

A new poll provides some interesting context to the political context to the President’s expected executive action on immigration.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

If the President now believes he can act unilaterally on immigration reform, why did he spend the last five years saying that he couldn’t?

A new poll shows that Americans would prefer President Obama to wait to act on immigration until after the new Congress has had a chance to act on the issue.

As things stand right now, there is no legitimate legal authorization for the President’s war against ISIS, and that’s largely because Congress has failed to act.

Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.

The White House is now leaking out details of what seems like an inevitable decision by the President. How it plays out politically, though, is the big question.

There’s not much good news in the initial review of September’s fence jumping incident at the White House.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

After the 2010 elections, several newly Republican state legislatures flirted with the idea of changing the way their state allocates Electoral Votes. The outcome of last weeks elections raises the possibility that this could happen again.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

President Obama’s threat to take action on immigration if Congress doesn’t act by the end of the year ignores political reality,

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

Scott Walker argues that Governors tend to make the best Presidents. He’s largely correct, but he’s not the only Republican who fits that bill.

Despite the conciliatory language after Tuesday, it’s unlikely that much will change in Washington in the next two years.

Mission creep.

States may not add to Federal requirements for voter registration, the Court rules. Which makes perfect sense.

Trying to explain one of the biggest surprises of Election Night 2014.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.