Outside the Beltway

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

The usual suspects are blocking any action at all on the border crisis.

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

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

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.

There are legitimate issues regarding Presidential overreach and separation of powers that President Obama’s actions while in office have raised. But none of that will be discussed in our hyperpartisan political culture.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

House Republicans go to war against marijuana in the District of Columbia

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

The House leadership elections turned out about as expected, but we may be doing this all over again in five months.

GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy of California won the vote to replace Eric Cantor as the new GOP House Majority Leader. The question is who replaces McCarthy.

All of a sudden, the IRS announced it doesn’t have communications records it once claimed it did have.

Get ready for a big GOP Leadership fight in the House.

Rumors are circulating again that the House GOP may make an immigration reform pitch before the midterm elections.

If conservatives actually believed what they said they do, they would be much more open to immigrants, and immigration reform.

The junior Senator from Florida drops some hints.

Congressman Walter Jones beat back a primary challenge from a former Bush aide who attacked him over his foreign policy views.

Good news for Republicans.

The current Congress is on pace to pass fewer laws and bills than any since the end of World War II. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Despite the fact that she asserted her right against self-incrimination, a House Committee has voted to hold Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify.

Once again, the Tea Party wing of the GOP is talking about taking out John Boehner.

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.

Don’t expect much out of Congress for the rest of 2014, or for the two years after that either.

John Boehner explains quite succinctly why nothing big is getting done in Congress.

Has Speaker Boehner breathed new life into immigration reform in the House? Maybe.

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

The GOP seems to be shifting strategy on the Affordable Care Act.

Are we headed for another Federal Government shutdown, or will Congress actually do its job this time?

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

As expected, the enrollment numbers for Obamacare are far below where they were expected to be.

Could Congress actually pass some form of immigration reform before the midterms? Don’t bet on it just yet.

There is far less overlap between the two parties in the House–and the shift has been empirically rightward.

The prospect of Congressional action on immigration before the midterms just got a whole lot less likely.

Chris Christie’s decision to take a tactical retreat on the issue of same-sex marriage raises some interesting questions for 2016.

Polling looks bleak for the GOP right now, but it’s unclear what that will mean a year from now.