Outside the Beltway

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abruptly canceled a long-scheduled speech to the Wharton Business School after school officials changed the guest list.

Pondering Tea Party comparisons as well as the “does it matter?” question.

Some on the right are giving Occupy Wall Street and The 99%’ers a second look.

The “how to pay for it” part of the President’s jobs plan seems destined to be rejected by the GOP. Which may be exactly what the President wants.

Not surprisingly, there was very little about the President’s jobs speech to write home about.

With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the House Majority Leader is engaged in an accounting exercise.

Somebody has an odd idea of “inspirational.”

By choosing to go it alone on a debt ceiling plan, the GOP is taking a big risk.

The debt talks in Congress are moribund now, and both sides are working on their own versions of a plan, again.

The idea that the GOP can block a debt ceiling vote and benefit politically is, quite simply, absurd.

President Obama has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with an agreement is nowhere in sight.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

It was a largely fruitless weekend in the debt negotiations.

It’s still politics as usual in Washington.

There’s apparently a new proposal on the table at the debt negotiations, and it looks very interesting.

House and Senate Republicans are pushing a Balanced Budget Amendment. It sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t.

If the U.S. defaults, Eric Cantor will make some money.

Talks about a deal to raise the debt ceiling seem pretty close to collapse now that there are no Republicans involved.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

President Obama’s budget speech was light on specifics, but that’s because it was really the opening salvo of the 2012 campaign.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

For the past day or so, America’s fighting men have been pawns in a cynical political game.

There are still three days left, but it’s looking less and less likely that a budget deal will be reached in time to avoid a government shutdown.

Thanks to the help of a group of Tea Party Freshman in the House. Congress has finally cut off funding for a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that the Pentagon never wanted.

President Obama’s new budget involves nothing less than a thumb in the eye of anyone who hoped he would seriously address federal spending in his first term.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

In a move that surprises nobody, the House voted today to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Now it goes to the Senate where it will die.

Incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is speaking positively about an Amendment that would drastically alter the relationship between the Federal Government and the states, and a method of ratifying it that could do serious damage to the Constitution as a whole.

Is President Obama’s Federal pay freeze a sign that he’s moving to the right, or just pointless symbolism?