Outside the Beltway

Are Marco Rubio, Haley Barbour, and Mike Huckabee the favorites to win the White House?

Gerard Van der Leun passes on a professorial rant entitled “Why You Got A ‘C'” that’s likely to be amusing primarily to those who have taught undergraduates.

Joe Biden: “Obama: On the way to a failed presidency?”

With Democrats set to maintain their majority in the Senate, some on the left are pushing for filibuster reform. However, it seems unlikely that Harry Reid has the votes to change a long-standing Senate rule.

Vice-President Joe Biden’s motorcade has been involved in at least five crashes.

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

Joe Biden’s statement last year that the Republicans taking back the House would be “the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do” proved to be an inducement, not a deterrent.

Republicans are promising two years of gridlock and obstructionism if they take control of Congress, but is that really what the people who are likely to vote for them next week really want?

Thanks mostly to Virginia Thomas’s decision to place an early Saturday morning phone call to Anita Hill, a woman who had remained silent since 1986 appears in the press to claim she can corroborate the charges that Anita Hill made nineteen years ago.

Virginia’s answer to Joe Biden has put his foot in his mouth once again. It won’t prevent him from getting an 11th term.

Last night’s Delaware Senate debate was entertaining, but it’s unlikely to move the polls very much.

Once again, Washington is abuzz with rumors that Hillary Clinton will be replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee in 2012.

Vice-President Biden has a message for the Democratic base — stop complaining and just support us already.

Dan Drezner asks, “Has Bob Woodward jumped the shark?” My snarky response is that he did that in Bob Casey’s hospital room.

Conservatives have latched on to a few words in a decade-old article by Democrat Chris Coons in their efforts to boost the candidacy of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.

The Delaware GOP now has, according to Nate Silver, a 17% chance of winning the Senate seat.

The Delaware GOP primary continues to get more intertesting.

With Rahm Emanuel apparently set to leave the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, speculation is turning to who may replace him in what some have called the nation’s de facto Prime Minister-ship.

Christine O’Donnell has become the latest star of the Tea Party movement, and her primary battle with Mike Castle the latest battleground over the future of the Republican Party.

Party labels are just names, as such all Republicans are Republicans in name only.

The nation’s 2nd smallest state is becoming the biggest battleground between the Establishment GOP and Tea Party insurgents.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

Biden got hammered by the FEC for violating campaign finance rules. A big fining deal?

Joe Biden got a free custard and some unsolicited political advice.

Are we making too much of Stanley McChrystal’s remarks?

General Stanley McChrystal has not only likely ended his career but seriously damaged the already dimming chances of success in Afghanistan.

General Stanley McChrystal is opening his mouth again and, this time, it could cost him his job.