Outside the Beltway

The Biden administration has a point.

Some stories worth noting but not at great length.

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

A second stash has led to a special counsel and political embarrassment.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Castrating their party’s Speaker is not smart politics.

Could it be that he was untruthful?

It would be an abuse of power.

Can moderate Republicans take back their party?

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

A low bar has been cleared.

A revealing comparison of Republican districts that deny and don’t deny the 2020 outcome.

The Trumper consolidation of their control of the GOP continues.

She’ll almost certainly be out of a job in January. Then what?

Hardball politics or dirty pool?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

As Democrats gain college-educated voters, they’re losing Hispanics and men.

It’s not all about Trump.

The laying out of the case begins.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

We can only hope.

Greatest democracy in the world, right?

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

Some pundits have high standards.

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.

They shall not submit to blackmail!

A new story archetype is all too common.

Another GOP member is added to the investigation.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

And general considerations on mid-term elections.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

A quick lesson about American parties.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

The disgraced loser remains as popular as ever with his base.

Details of a heated phone discussion with the top House Republican have emerged.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

Mitch McConnell is testing out his spine again.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

The #3 Republican in the House will vote to impeach.

The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.