Outside the Beltway

It’s not the time away from the White House that matters, it’s the hypocrisy.

The President is being fed “news” from questionable news sources, and that’s a problem.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

Lt. General Michael Flynn wants immunity before he agrees to testify before Congress. This could be significant, or it could mean nothing at all.

The tu quoque presidency rocks on.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

So what’s wrong with the Whitelash Backlash thesis?  Not everything, actually.  But plenty.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

For Donald Trump at least, the start of the General Election campaign is the perfect time to dredge up decades old conspiracy theories.

The coming political battle over President Obama’s effort to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia will likely be unlike anything we’ve seen before.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but come on.

Instead of eliminating the Department of Education, Ben Carson wants to give it a new, bizarre, and dangerous mission.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

A new poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a wide variety of social issues.

Marco Rubio seems to be in lockstep with the extreme social conservatives when it comes to same-sex marriage.

A minimum wage for thee, but not for me.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

Now that they control all of Congress, some Republicans are suddenly deciding that the filibuster should be repealed.

With three days to go, there are signs the GOP is ready to give up on its showdown over DHS funding.

Daniel Larison is far less ambivalent about our war on ISIL than me.

Explaining my ambivalence around the latest escalation in our intervention.

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.

Because no one, ever, has ever questioned the intelligence of American voters in extemporaneous discussions of politics.

The nastiest campaign ad of the 2014 cycle is here, and Wendy Davis should be ashamed of it.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

How long should we expect people to work?

Fears about convention goers taking advantage of Colorado’s marijuana laws could harm Denver’s chances of getting the GOP Convention.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

Good intentions aren’t an excuse for failure to follow the law.

Republicans attack an attorney for doing his job. So much for that whole “constitutional conservative” thing, I guess.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

Unlike David Vitter, he didn’t break the law.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

When worlds collide.

Ted Cruz becomes a little more honest about his plan to “defund” Obamacare.

The French were indignant about reports of the NSA’s surveillance programs. Now we know they have own of their own.

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.