Outside the Beltway

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

President Obama hits new job approval lows, while the GOP seems poised for success in November,

So much for the President’s promise about ‘no ground troops.’

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

For purely political reasons, the Administration is delaying the announcement of new executive action on immigration.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

Cowardice, or politically prudent?

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

In what would be a classic bit of political irony, polling indicates that the House lawsuit against the President could make Democrats more likely to vote in November.

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

Dispelling a rising myth,

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

Trouble in paradise for two of Hawaii’s top Democrats?

Victoria Jackson has thus far been less successful in politics than her fellow SNL alum Al Franken.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

Ugh.

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

Rick Perry is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the border to do nothing.

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Another incident involving a Malaysia Airlines 777, but this one could be far more serious.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?