Outside the Beltway

John Boehner let loose on the “false prophets” on the right yesterday, and he’s absolutely right.

One week after the second Republican debate, Donald Trump is still at the top of the GOP field, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon.

When did “politics” become a dirty word?

More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.

At a town hall last night in New Hampshire, it became clear just what kind of supporters Donald Trump’s demagoguery is attracting.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around anymore.

Donald Trump is back to hurling insults at his opponents, but it’s unlikely his supporters are going to care.

In an interview, Donald Trump reveals that when it comes to foreign policy he has no idea what he’s talking about.

CNN has revised its criteria for the main September 16th debate such that Carly Fiorina will now most likely make the cut.

Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.

There have been some changes in the race for the Republican nomination.

Like many Republicans, Jeb Bush continues to be willfully blind to the truth about the Iraq War.

Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

Last night reinforced what I thought about some candidates and changed what I think about others.

It’s a Donald Trump debate, where the facts are made up and the truth doesn’t matter.

The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.

Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.

The last three polls to be released before Thursday’s debate show Donald Trump continuing to solidify his lead.

Another poll, another Donald Trump lead

Donald Trump leads in the first of the final polls to be released before Thursday’s debate.

Donald Trump’s campaign seems to be making a play for whatever portion of the GOP it may be that still likes Sarah Palin.

The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.

The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.

As expected, former Virginia Governor and Republican National Committee chairman Jim Gilmore has tossed his hat into the ring:

With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

A big win in Court for the former Texas Governor, but it’s unclear what this means politically.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

As much as I wish it were otherwise, Iowa and New Hampshire are not losing their influence over the Presidential primary process.

Republicans are finally starting to react to what Donald Trump has been saying.

He’s second in national polls!

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Matthew Dickinson takes a stab at explaining “Why So Many Republicans Are Running in 2016.”

It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.

A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.