Outside the Beltway

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now appealing to the worst aspects of economic populism on the right.

In the end, the Tea Party challenge to John Boehner was a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.

Republicans don’t really have many options if the President pulls the trigger on immigration reform via executive action.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

This year was an especially acute case of no competition in Alabama.

Time to look into the crystal ball.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

We have a deal in Washington. Now, the leadership just has to make sure it can pass Congress.

Congress has (after many years of debate) narrowed the gap between sentencing for crack cocaine and powder cocaine.

The testiest exchange during today’s hearings in the Senate came when Jeff Sessions tried to confront Elena Kagan over military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and failed miserably.

Miss yesterday’s opening round of the Kagan hearings ? You didn’t miss much.